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the old "i have blue mates" reply i feel victimised and isolated by that post as a minority Good. That was my sole intention, as a majority.

I already know what Blues are like, I've always had Blue mates and grown up with Blues.

That pretty much rules me out. It's hip to be square.

I've only just found out what The Cellar is, after seeing your post. Is that bad?

As long he's fair and unbiased i don't care who he supports . I applaud your rationality! There are both Reds and Blues on the MEN sports desk, as well as other allegiances, but I don't think anyone let's it get in the way of their work. Chris Brierley certainly didn't when he was deputy...

Valencia one of our top players says it all for me. I missed that first time round. Knowing Pete, I can only think he meant "our" in terms of the MEN. He absolutely, definitely, seriously is not a United fan. The chap who is a pal of Chris Brierley, our much-missed former deputy sports editor...

Thanks for your sympathy, de Niro. That rabbit was like one of the family.

Criticism I don't mind, but lies like this just annoy me. Here's Spencer on Talksport - you flag up for me where he refers to United as "we". <a class="postlink"...

You touch on some good points Tolmie. The club took the decision to put more stuff on their own website, which meant moving away from their close relationship with the MEN. As a result, we have had to move to more middle ground, positioned between the propaganda of the official site and the...

I would add to that - staff cuts, especially at the MEN, have curbed how much you can do. A chief like Martin Samuel is afforded time to write such articles. Most of the rest of us are too busy filling the wide open spaces of the following day's paper

Andy Mitten is UWS editor, but he is also a freelance journalist in his own right, writing articles regularly for 442, World Soccer and others. He is based in Barcelona, has an insight into Barcelona matters, as well as very good contacts throughout European and world football. You have...

The Giggs story was avoided as we don't do those kind of stories - we have also ignored kiss and tell stuff on City players. When did we ever stalk Balotelli? On Keegan's stories, what is the problem with the kit story, whether it had been on BM or not? The conman story was a good one...

Where did I question what Vincent had said? On the contrary, I fully accepted what Vincent had said. And in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, I have to accept what Fergie said (I think I may have accidentally somehow PM'd you with this as well, Bob, just ignore my cack-handedness)

But it transpired that Fergie had not communicated to his players what he had said to the press, and so had to back-track on saying he would punish Rio. It was a communication breakdown rather than disobedience, he said, and we have no reason to disbelieve that. I am not a fan of either man, but...

I know it was puerile, playground stuff, but it was in response to some of the same. You still haven't said what was wrong with what I wrote about Balotelli and Dzeko, or addressed the fact that many City fans held the same view at that time.

You're right, I should have chosen my words more carefully. What I meant was that nothing I wrote would ever destabilise those players, or any players for that matter. And that was never the intention, but rather to talk honestly about the situation as it was. Would you prefer: "Edin Dzeko is...

To deal with the Dzeko/Balotelli story - how is it an attempt to de-stabilise them? They don't give a toss what people write. And the fact is that City WERE definitely prepared to sell Dzeko if the right offer came in, and a big-money offer for Balotelli would also have been seriously...

I'm not banned from reporting on United - but I am now the City reporter, so it wouldn't be a great idea! I last did United stuff in about 2007 or 2008, then had a spell as a sub-editor and got the City job in 2009. United were not happy with me from 2005 onwards, when I strongly criticised the...

I'm not lumping you all together as having prejudices. There are many City fans who don't think we have some kind of agenda (our editor is one of them!). Can you tell me when the MEN has sought a negative angle, and not treated a story objectively? Just give me an example or two.<br /><br />--...

To say we find the negative angle far more often is just not true. It's just that the negative angle gets blown up, and the positive ignored. When Chris Bailey did the job, the same accusations were being levelled at him and the MEN, and the same for his predecessors, going back years and years...