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It's the fact that even when there is an innocent error, it is used as "proof" of an anti-City agenda, with no thought that the explanation could be far simpler. I'm not going back over the empty seats stuff, as I made my position clear, and it has been dealt with internally. There will always...

That's the problem with instant news - people rush to get stuff up, and errors can occur - they are usually small, harmless ones like this. The problem is that, with the level of paranoia amongst some people on here, every little error becomes interpreted as a major slight, all part of a...

Do you think it is more likely that this picture was used by accident - the sub-editor accidentally attached the pic of Aguero already used in this article: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/manchester-city-player-wages-fans-6753659"...

I am aiming to quit this thread after this post, as we are acting on concerns - all will become evident in due course. But one final point, in answer to several posters - City were made aware of this article yesterday, as I called to check if there were any particular concerns about empty seats...

This is the kind of crap I am talking about. No, we won't run it, because we already did, at the time, on April 13, 2013. Here is the link to our article: <a class="postlink"...

Absolutely I can see the irony. That is why I responded to the article with one of my own, and why I have, in the past, written stuff defending City on FFP and other issues., and will continue to do so, when I feel they are being unfairly treated.

The private jet was correct. We were told by a contact within air traffic control at Manchester that, unusually, a private jet had been scheduled to land at the airport at 3.23pm on Friday. I wrongly presumed this to mean the flight had already taken off and tweeted as such (the dangers of...

While I appreciate your thoughtful approach, and those of wireblue and Tolmie, your argument is still flawed. The fact is that good news and bad news story, for both United and City, make commercial sense - that is why we run good and bad news stories on both clubs. To suggest anything else...

I understand some of the upset here, but the suggestions that this is one-sided and that we never do stuff like this about United should take note of these: <a class="postlink"...

No. The editor couldn't possibly get involved in going over every thing that gets published. It will have got the once-over from someone else on the web team, who operate semi-independently to the newspaper staff.<br /><br />-- Wed Feb 05, 2014 7:19 pm --<br /><br /> No. The editor couldn't...

Can I just point out that Pete Marshall is nothing to do with the MEN - I don't know where one or two of you got that idea. He seems to be a former colleague/friend of David

I am as staggered at this article as the rest of you, and have made my views known to David and to our online operation, as have one or two other journalists. In fact, I have just written a reply to David's article which is due to go online shortly - apologies in advance if it is misses any...

Nah, no-one was interested. What do you think? Of course, if you know of a way to get either party to disclose something which was, no doubt, hedged by confidentiality, please let me know, and I will pursue it post-haste

Not at all. In fact, the MEN stood by me, and what I wrote about the takeover, in defiance of what United, and Fergie were saying. I remained number two on United for three years afterwards, and the reasons I left that job were unrelated to any pressure from United. I was named the FSF Football...

That's fair point, even if it does digress from the thrust of the thread. But I feel that if I had been watching heart surgery, three or four times a week for the past 40 years, and talking on a regular basis to some of the best heart surgeons in the world about their work, studying the subject...

There you go again, with the ignorance. The reason the same stories, with same wording, appear on several different outlets, is usually because they come from the Press Association, a news organisation to which all major media subscribe. PA are there to cover just about everything, and are used...

I think they may have accidentally made it a red dot. Awww shit, here we go again .....

Perhaps I didn't clarify myself on this. It was a reaction to Dr Mick's inane comments about the process of an article going into a newspaper. I wasn't saying that people have no right to have an opinion about newspaper articles, or even the way newspapers operate. I have not once challenged...

The Boateng picture has been addressed. Thanks for pointing it out to me <a class="postlink" href="http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/manchester-city-manchester-uniteds-german-6316347" onclick="window.open(this.href);return...

I don't recall you saying anything that would get me annoyed enough to say that - Dr Mick is the one I had in mind when I used the word "simpletons". If you want me to tell you that to my face, come along on Sunday, I have no problem with that. But I'm not wearing a carnation, for anyone!