BBCs Dan Roan banned by City for latest Vieira Interview

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

The only reason it's still on the BBC is that it starts with the words 'Man United'. It's all about hits but please tell me why I pay my licence?

Yer pay yer licence and 261 others of us so that tit Hansen can sit on sofa every Saturday night spouting garbage!

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I have never understood why anyone regards Daniel Taylor as anti-City. I think he's probably one of the best sports writers in the country. He may have sources who give him bits and bobs, but I generally find him to be someone who speaks his mind with no agenda. I also like the fact that he is one of a few football writers who do not look slimy (e.g. Dunn, S Custis, P Smith etc..)or like an eastend spiv (that twit fromThe Daily Express).

Ever since teh takeover, Neil Ashton has been consistent with his barbs aimed at City. I could understand why people think he is anti-City.

Daniel Taylor has a degree of less pressure at The Guardian. He can afford to sit 'in-house' at City and let certain stories slide, and be briefed on others.

He's also a decent operator.

Ashton may write stories that City/fans might not like, but the club have never taken him to task because they are generally ones they would prefer to keep 'in-house' and are 'accurate'

Told his family are all blues, believe it or not!

Bates, Ogden, they are rabid reds and work accordingly.

Neil Custis gets it in the neck from City fans but he is firmly in the blue camp. Ferguson hates him with a passion.

He was on a United plane the other year and that twat Gary Neville embarrassed both himself and Custis by shouting he was a fat bastard and blocking the aisle.

His brother Sean hates City simply because they don't dance with his mates Joorabachian, Rio and Wrighty.

Plenty of decent blues in the press, though!

Interesting stuff.

I have always thought that Steve Bates is a sichophant who doesn't want to offend people. Maybe I have got the wrong idea. However, his love for Ferguson is blatantly unquestionable.

Mark Ogden vehmently denies he has any bias against City. I remember him stating this in an interview with MCFCFORUM. Then virtually the next day he produced a short article about us where he mentioned the word 'massive' on three or four occasions and he made one or two other digs. I'd be amazed if he is not a regular poster on Red Issue.

Steve Bates is actually the son-in-law of David Meek, former United reporter for the MEN and press officer.

Ogden posts on all the United forums, he is as Red as they come and guess who did the interview with Vieira last week?

Hates City.

 

[Pigeonho]

I was a Guardian reader, and now just read it online. Over the years I formed the opinion that DT is very anti-City. He is a Forest fan

I can't remember any specific articles, but I know that one or two have annoyed me. There's so much to annoy that it all merges into one

Struggling to see the link there...
If he is a Forest fan, why would he be anti-City?

Why wouldn't he? People can hate certain teams for whatever reason.

I fucking hate Preston.

Why do you hate Preston? Out of interest like....

 

[Zabbasbeard]

Totally disagree with you about Neil Custis, Ashton and Daniel Taylor. I've read a lot of their stuff and it is consistently anti-City.

Really? Please point us to the last article by Daniel Taylor that suggests he has an anti-City bias.

I look forward to your response.

If you cared to read through his City match reports this season when we have on the game he spent much of reports talking about the then absent Carlos Tevez rather than giving City the credit the club deserves. Tevez was irrelevant to the games concerned but Taylor attempted to put a negative angle on it. You take your pick from the Guardian site.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Daniel Taylor has been a snide little twat with us in the past.

Yes I remember the munich chant allegations he had online before the game had finished, total utter bollox it was.

Yes it was and I was one of the ones who bombarded The Guardian over it. But I've since spoken to DT about that story and while I still think it was ill-advised in the way it was put over, I believe it was actually the club who asked him to write it. You have to remember that Paul Tyrrell was the Communications Officer at the time and he wasn't terribly subtle, to put it mildly. I can only assume he thought a story with a high 'shock value' would do the trick prior to the 50th anniversary game. Tyrrell would no doubt have been congratulating himself that the means justified the end after the way the silence was observed on the day, despite the damage the story did to City fans.

The club (particularly since the takeover) are very, very sensitive to munich chants and have had the media play the issue up in the press a few times as part of the campaign to eradicate it. This certainly happened again just a year ago Link when the club presumably asked them to do it again but many on here were up in arms, little suspecting the hand of the club in it.

 

[Pigeonho]

Daniel Taylor has been a snide little twat with us in the past.

Yes I remember the munich chant allegations he had online before the game had finished, total utter bollox it was.

Yes it was and I was one of the ones who bombarded The Guardian over it. But I've since spoken to DT about that story and while I still think it was ill-advised in the way it was put over, I believe it was actually the club who asked him to write it. You have to remember that Paul Tyrrell was the Communications Officer at the time and he wasn't terribly subtle, to put it mildly. I can only assume he thought a story with a high 'shock value' would do the trick prior to the 50th anniversary game. Tyrrell would no doubt have been congratulating himself that the means justified the end after the way the silence was observed on the day, despite the damage the story did to City fans.

The club (particularly since the takeover) are very, very sensitive to munich chants and have had the media play the issue up in the press a few times as part of the campaign to eradicate it. This certainly happened again just a year ago Link when the club presumably asked them to do it again but many on here were up in arms, little suspecting the hand of the club in it.

So what you're saying is that a story that Mr Taylor put out in his paper, a story which people think he did as part of some agenda against the club was actually the work of the club itself?
What good would that have done City mate?

 

[SWP's back]

Struggling to see the link there...
If he is a Forest fan, why would he be anti-City?

Why wouldn't he? People can hate certain teams for whatever reason.

I fucking hate Preston.

Why do you hate Preston? Out of interest like....

Couple of fans I went to school with were cunts so always liked it when they lost.

Very innocuous I know, but loads of people hate teams for personal reasons.<br /><br />-- Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:56 pm --<br /><br />

Daniel Taylor has been a snide little twat with us in the past.

Yes I remember the munich chant allegations he had online before the game had finished, total utter bollox it was.

Yes it was and I was one of the ones who bombarded The Guardian over it. But I've since spoken to DT about that story and while I still think it was ill-advised in the way it was put over, I believe it was actually the club who asked him to write it. You have to remember that Paul Tyrrell was the Communications Officer at the time and he wasn't terribly subtle, to put it mildly. I can only assume he thought a story with a high 'shock value' would do the trick prior to the 50th anniversary game. Tyrrell would no doubt have been congratulating himself that the means justified the end after the way the silence was observed on the day, despite the damage the story did to City fans.

The club (particularly since the takeover) are very, very sensitive to munich chants and have had the media play the issue up in the press a few times as part of the campaign to eradicate it. This certainly happened again just a year ago Link when the club presumably asked them to do it again but many on here were up in arms, little suspecting the hand of the club in it.

Taylor was already up in arms about that game whilst the match was still being played on twitter. He also urged all his journo mates to condemn it. It was very much the only thing he cared about that night.

 

[Red_fan]

Mark Ogden is a truly terrible journalist IMO. As a red I can say that he's embarrassingly anti City. But not only he that, he's just a shite journalist anyway. His articles are cack and lack any decent insight, and he never has an inside track. But on the rare occasion he claims to have, he almost always comes out of it looking like a complete tool as he's usually totally fucking wrong.

 

[yayas trusty right foot]

Daniel Taylor has a degree of less pressure at The Guardian. He can afford to sit 'in-house' at City and let certain stories slide, and be briefed on others.

He's also a decent operator.

Ashton may write stories that City/fans might not like, but the club have never taken him to task because they are generally ones they would prefer to keep 'in-house' and are 'accurate'

Told his family are all blues, believe it or not!

Bates, Ogden, they are rabid reds and work accordingly.

Neil Custis gets it in the neck from City fans but he is firmly in the blue camp. Ferguson hates him with a passion.

He was on a United plane the other year and that twat Gary Neville embarrassed both himself and Custis by shouting he was a fat bastard and blocking the aisle.

His brother Sean hates City simply because they don't dance with his mates Joorabachian, Rio and Wrighty.

Plenty of decent blues in the press, though!

Interesting stuff.

I have always thought that Steve Bates is a sichophant who doesn't want to offend people. Maybe I have got the wrong idea. However, his love for Ferguson is blatantly unquestionable.

Mark Ogden vehmently denies he has any bias against City. I remember him stating this in an interview with MCFCFORUM. Then virtually the next day he produced a short article about us where he mentioned the word 'massive' on three or four occasions and he made one or two other digs. I'd be amazed if he is not a regular poster on Red Issue.

Steve Bates is actually the son-in-law of David Meek, former United reporter for the MEN and press officer.

Ogden posts on all the United forums, he is as Red as they come and guess who did the interview with Vieira last week?

Hates City.

Hello Tolm,

It would not surprise me if all that fuss in Fergies press conference last week was actually engineered by Fergie himself..

Brief a trusted journo to cause a bit of huff and puff and then play the victim to the media..

Quite clever, if that is was happened..

 

[samharris]

Fuck the press/media...bunch of cunts who make things up to make money.. Instead of just banning this leech ban his fucking paper/organisation from City full stop..Until a full retraction is published and money donated to a charity of patricks naming..