An idea as to why we might not be fighting the press

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unlikelyfan19

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I have become so frustrated with the continuous press just opening fire on City. It's hard for someone who can't be in close proximity to the club to read this stuff day in and day out. But I go back and watch these videos and pray that in a few years, all the journos and creeps saying things about "ruining football", and "hoping that we fail" will sit down to a five-course dinner of there own words. When we are doing things OFF the pitch that no other club has even dreamed of, building academy's for under-privileged kids in Africa, or making fields on rooftops in urban cities. These could be the ways that City set themselves apart from the rest of the clubs in the footballing world. A peoples club, one that actually serves the people, not just the people of Manchester, but the world. It would make sense as to why we don't say anything currently about the press. Because in a few years journos will be begging to write the New York Times Bestselling novel of the Team from Manchester that changed that face of the sporting landscape. How though so much money was spent in the beginning, they were able to give back in the future.

Just an idea. I could hope for this right?
 
If there was anything like a level playing field you would be right but 95%of journo/pundits are cockney/scouse/salford loving muppets who hate the thought of change
 
I would have thought the answer was obvious.

We have a free press and they're entitled to write whatever they want. Within reason and within the law of defamation. All the nonsense City fans have been getting upset abut is just that: nonsense. And not worth getting upset about.

City have been the biggest single football story all summer (well, apart from the World Cup). not just here, but abroad as well. Everyone has got an opinion about us. Everyone's suddenly a City expert. Equally, assuming that everyone isn't a City fan, most people have therefore got a negative opinion about us. The press are no different.

The press don't like to be told what to write and not to write about. Even contemplating anything similar without good reason would be a PR disaster. They would only exact their revenge.

There is an old adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity. This is true.

if you don't want to read/hear about us every time you buy a paper/magazine or turn the TV/radio on, then don't. Or support someone else.

But the way things are going, one thing you won't have to worry about fairly soon is going abroad and, on being asked where you are from, hearing those two horrendous and truly contradictory words: "Manchester United?"

And that will do for me.
 
BTH said:
I would have thought the answer was obvious.

We have a free press and they're entitled to write whatever they want. Within reason and within the law of defamation. All the nonsense City fans have been getting upset abut is just that: nonsense. And not worth getting upset about.

City have been the biggest single football story all summer (well, apart from the World Cup). not just here, but abroad as well. Everyone has got an opinion about us. Everyone's suddenly a City expert. Equally, assuming that everyone isn't a City fan, most people have therefore got a negative opinion about us. The press are no different.

The press don't like to be told what to write and not to write about. Even contemplating anything similar without good reason would be a PR disaster. They would only exact their revenge.

There is an old adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity. This is true.

if you don't want to read/hear about us every time you buy a paper/magazine or turn the TV/radio on, then don't. Or support someone else.

But the way things are going, one thing you won't have to worry about fairly soon is going abroad and, on being asked where you are from, hearing those two horrendous and truly contradictory words: "Manchester United?"

And that will do for me.
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Good post.
 
Kinky by name said:
BTH said:
I would have thought the answer was obvious.

We have a free press and they're entitled to write whatever they want. Within reason and within the law of defamation. All the nonsense City fans have been getting upset abut is just that: nonsense. And not worth getting upset about.

City have been the biggest single football story all summer (well, apart from the World Cup). not just here, but abroad as well. Everyone has got an opinion about us. Everyone's suddenly a City expert. Equally, assuming that everyone isn't a City fan, most people have therefore got a negative opinion about us. The press are no different.

The press don't like to be told what to write and not to write about. Even contemplating anything similar without good reason would be a PR disaster. They would only exact their revenge.

There is an old adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity. This is true.

if you don't want to read/hear about us every time you buy a paper/magazine or turn the TV/radio on, then don't. Or support someone else.

But the way things are going, one thing you won't have to worry about fairly soon is going abroad and, on being asked where you are from, hearing those two horrendous and truly contradictory words: "Manchester United?"

And that will do for me.
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Good post.
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Why, thank you.
 
Soulboy said:
BTH said:
Why, thank you.
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Yeah, I'm sure when people criticised your fanzine you just rose above it and didn't react to it...

;)
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Thanks for your input, but I don't think the likes of Rupert Murdoch or Richard Desmond have to argue the toss in the street very often, do you? Even if Desmond did try to sue me once.
 
blue saturday said:
If there was anything like a level playing field you would be right but 95%of journo/pundits are cockney/scouse/salford loving muppets who hate the thought of change
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wtf?
 
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