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So how does that headline cover both clubs, which is what the article was meant to do?

I'm not arguing what you suggest. But I don't let myself get upset by the "inane drivel", I see it for what it is. Obviously there is a place for inane drivel in newspapers, otherwise it wouldn't be in there. People buy newspapers to read inane drivel, unfortunately. I am sure you are very...

I don't think it's a great headline, but the website people need to get stuff up quickly. If you had to write a short headline which covered the main Manchester football events of that day, what would it be, out of interest?

No, no, no ,no. Where does it say "ten-goal thriller"? The urban myth I am referring to you was the story that City beat United heavily, and the MEN headline was "United in ten-goal thriller". That article does not use the phrase "ten-goal thriller" at all - it says ten-goal bonanza, and it was...

At a guess, I would suggest Dianne wrote the story because she was at the awards ceremony. Only a guess, like. That might also make a mockery your rather self-congratulatory idea that it was you who forced the MEN into writing something, by some bizarre mechanism using Oakie who, I believe, does...

Any evidence? Or is this just a product of your blinkered eyesight and fevered imagination? And how do you account for the Reds who say the exact opposite? Are they also right, or are they suffering from the same inability to reason as you?

Anyone who knows me will tell you i don't dance to anyone's tune. I'd expand on it, but as you are a known WUM, and Wummery is the preserve of people who were damaged as children, or have unusually shallow lives, I shan't bother.

Just had a quick look at that story online. It was written by Dianne Bourne who, as far as I am aware, is not really interested in football at all. She, no doubt, just saw it as a story given the rivalry between the clubs. You view it as a City fan and get annoyed, and I am sure there are Utd...

I still have no idea what you mean. What "big award" and what "minor one"?

I have no problem with your opinion at all. But those on here who claim we have an anti-City agenda, or the equally blinkered Reds who call us the Manchester Evening Blues, really need to stop seeing only what they want to see, and hearing only what they want to hear.

If you had even the slightest clue, I would reply, but you are wrong on just about every point. My job is to write the articles, I am not responsible for picture captions in any way - I don't see them until they appear in the paper. There is no "kid on £6 per hour" doing picture captions - your...

Just for your information, I wrote the article not the picture captions. I have already made my feelings on the shoddy caption known to the sports editor

I didn't tweet anything of the kind - this is the first I've seen of this. Where do people get these ideas from?

So when did I c/p someone else's work? That's a ridiculous statement, and I ask you to back it up or retract it The relationship between MEN and City changed the day the club vamped up the website. We are still their closest allies in the media - City still advertise with us, and help us out...

You needn't have worried, because this "story" did not go in the MEN - and it never would have done.

For a start, this didn't go in the newspaper at all - it was up on the website overnight, piut there by someone temporarily standing in for the sports website fella (we have a skeleton staff on a Sunday), and was taken down as soon as I and the regular sports website lad became fully aware of...

Don't really want to get into this whole debate too much, as it is a can of worms. But I work pretty closely with the national boys who cover the Manchester beat, and they are just looking for the best stories - if they get a good story, it doesn't matter which club it relates to, it gets...

I didn't deny that mistakes occurred. This was a sloppy use of the "Gossip" genre of article, made by one individual without reference to anyone else (the lad who did it is a Blue, by the way). The "Gossip" articles are meant to reflect stories in other papers, usually transfer rumours. The way...

Saying FACT at the end of a statement, even in capital letters, doesn't make something true, you know. There have been many, many positive City stories in the press, especially in the MEN. But you choose not to see them, as they don't fit your prejudice.

Can I just say I was unaware of this article until someone tweeted me about it, and even then I did not read it. Now I have read it, I agree that it is a nonsense re-hash of a poor Mail story, and does us no credit. It is clearly marked "Gossip", a tool we use to indicate stories that are in...