A question

[Phelan's Pace]

There's a thread in which posters are slating the kid Sterling. Earlier a thread was created, the author of which incorrectly thought the Evening News was slagging Sterling off and bigging up Tony Marshall of Salford. That thread got pulled, whereas the rather Negative Sterling one remains.

Is there a general purge to be negative on here? It seems any article that actually is positive about City is nit-picked to within an inch of its life for anything negative, and players and the manager have threads which are full of criticism by our own fans.

Why wasn't that thread allowed to stay? It was sarcastically comparing the two players, and at the same time praising the young lad Sterling.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

hows the job going at the m.e.n.

 

[squirtyflower]

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[Phelan's Pace]

The thread isn't called 'where is my thread' and I didn't create it...

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I moved the thread and I did it for three reasons:

1) As you correctly identified, the OP had got it wrong about the content of the article. The thread was therefore a bit embarrassing for him.
2) There's already a thread about Sterling in which the article had been discussed, as it was a few days old.
3) It broke forum rules about copying and pasting articles.

There's no "editorial line" on Bluemoon but we reserve the right to move and merge threads when we feel we need to.