Chinese State Visit to CFA (23/10/2015)

Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
"China social media users are abuzz over why he visited Manchester City and not the more internationally famous Manchester United"

"Many were angry over what was described as an inexplicably embarrassing decision"
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I don't suppose they pointed out that his country and our club's owners in Abu Dhabi do £16bn of business together? Or that they've spent hundreds of millions regenerating a run-down area whereas the rags' owners have taken hundreds of millions out of their club? Or that no one whose opinion counts gives a shit about the owners of near-bankrupt shopping malls in the USA?
 
The BBC Radio coverage on Radio 5 this morning was completely moronic. They tried to blame the Chinese for closing down our steel industry..ignoring the fact that plenty of factories have also shut in China. The next angle was the human rights one. For God sake can't we just get some sensible coverage somewhere. Surely the fact that the Chinese and our owners have invested billions in Greater Manchester creating thousands of jobs is a story worth telling. Why is it that this country is incapable of just celebrating success?
Meanwhile down the road in Trafford no one is talking about the American owners who have not invested a penny in our local community, who have avoided paying hardly any tax in the UK and have treated their own fans with contempt. Also no mention of the USA's abuse of human rights in the Middle East.
 
http://m.premierleague.com/en-gb/ne...a-president-and-david-cameron-goes-viral.html

Aguero selfie with Chinese and British leaders goes viral....

A selfie taken by Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero with the President of China, Xi Jinping, and David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, has become a social media sensation in China.

The Chinese premier marked the final day of his official visit to the UK with a visit to the home of the Barclays Premier League champions on Friday.

As he looked around Man City's academy, President Xi joined in a selfie with the winner of last season's Barclays Golden Boot, Aguero, and Cameron.

The photo was published on Man City's official Weibo feed, China's social media Twitter equivalent, and quickly began to trend.

The update on Weibo, which was published at 7.34pm local Chinese time, said: "Sergio Aguero and China and Britain's leaders take a selfie. Aguero says: 'Thanks a lot for taking a selfie with me Chairman Xi!'"

Within the first five hours the update had received more than 15,000 retweets, and more than 23,000 likes, quickly becoming the most talked-about topic on Weibo.

The Premier League's official Weibo feed has more than 2m followers, but the topic had a reach of more than 600m on the social media platform, with all the country's media outlets also reporting the photo on their social channels.

Indeed it became so popular that Weibo embedded a related hashtag into its publishing platform to save thousands of fans from having to type it when they published a related update.

It is believed to be the first time that Xi has been in a selfie with a world-famous star such as Aguero.

The photo also went viral on China's other leading social media platform, WeChat, with thousands of users posting it in their personal timelines.

One WeChat user posted: "Wow, what an amazing selfie. Two world leaders and a great striker. A high-level selfie!"

Another wrote: "Amazing photo. But I hope this doesn’t bring Manchester City good luck as I’m a Manchester United fan and it’s the derby this weekend."

"Great photo," posted another. "Brilliant to have a Chinese leader who loves football too."

As well as visiting the City Football Academy and watching the youth and senior City teams train, President Xi also met former Manchester United players Denis Law and Gary Neville and attended the induction into the National Football Museum’s Hall of Fame by former City player and Chinese international, Sun Jihai.
 
TFC said:
lol, I was thinking the same - loved by their people is pushing it a bit when it comes to Cameron.
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No he is loved by his people.

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It's just the rest of us who can't stand the ****.
 
Lucky13 said:
Two World leaders , loved by their people , with our greatest player , I'm having that picture framed.
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Or two people who lead a country and forward line and a pig fucking **** who is killing this country I'm having that picture wiped from my memory
 
Burtonblue said:
This is a massive coup for City.
It's what global success is made of.
Have had yernited fans texting me to mock us all day. Truth is the bastards are shitting themselves.
Brilliant propaganda!
Well done City. Number 1 premiership club in China any minute now....
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I totally agree.This is enormous for Manchester as a city let alone City as a club. The first current foreign head of state of a major country (the Pope doesn't count!) to visit Manchester since US President Wilson just after the First World War. We've had a few ex heads of state visit. I think the last was ex King Juan Carlos of Spain ... he came over to watch City last season! The rags were right all along ... we are massive and we're getting bigger every year.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
The rag loving BBC have managed to put a negative slant on it which believe it or not, when I just googled BBC on my iPhone and clicked on the first link (BBC.com) the headline, yes that's right the headline is

"Chinese fans divided over Man City Visit"

With a sub heading of "Chinese less than United over Man City visit"

Snippets as follows.

"China social media users are abuzz over why he visited Manchester City and not the more internationally famous Manchester United"

"Many were angry over what was described as an inexplicably embarrassing decision"

"one post said his dream of a visit to Man Utd was broken"

These three posts were then followed by a bit of defending why from social media users however that didn't last long.....

"David Beckham and Other football stars from Manchester United have many fans in China"

Now the reporter is dressing this up
as social media and so nothing to do with the BBC but fuck me is this 1. Headline news 2. A fair reflection of what the billions of Chinese people think.

After that twat Christ Bevans blatant in game text commentary comment about empty seats (with obligatory picture) on Wednesday despite this being one of our best CL attendances given the poor Sevilla turnout and now this pile of shite, you have to wonder who is pulling the strings at this organisation.
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The article shows this image stating the left article was from Sina Weibo's 'breaking news', but in fact it is an article from the Daily Mirror from 5 days ago. Poor journalism! (Image linked from BBC)
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Hollywood Blue said:
Very disappointed to see that **** Cameron at the Etihad.
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The only plus, and it's a small one, is the rat might be a complete shit but he knows how to position himself standing next to success, in the hope that some of it might be reflected on him. He has a nose for a winner and we're it.
 
I live in HouJie (Dongguan) and have never seen anyone in a City shirt whilst on this town... until last night!!! President Xi has influenced so many to wear sky blue. Knock on effect!!! This is exciting!
 
My daughter was one of the ones playing on the pitch at the academy yesterday. Club have her a full kit with Mcfc written in Chinese on the back. She was on news at ten and is on the official site.

Brilliant day for our club and city
 
worsleyweb said:
Brilliant day for our club and city
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Too right, far too many are underestimating the importance of this visit to our club.

Whatever you think of Cameron, he and the Chinese leader visiting is world news, not just because of them, but also because of Manchester City, and our current owner and leaders. I read something earlier last night that said that the Aguero selfie had been viewed by 600m people on social media, Aguero is already well known, as are both leaders, so its appeal is more widespread than just football fans.

Ignore the self righteous crap from our media, they're simply not relevant in this.
 
kramer said:
The UK manufacturing industry contributed £6.7Tr, the Aerospace industry is in second place globally, the car industry is growing, the Nissan Sunderland plant is the most efficient in Europe and alone produces more vehicles than the whole of Italy's car industry. In the UK 1.5 million vehicles and 2.5 million engines are manufactured each year, and is on course to break all time records by 2017. The chemical and pharmaceutical industries add £20M per day to the UK balance of trade. In world terms we are the 11th largest manufacturing nation contributing 54% of UK exports and 11% of GVA the 10 countries above us all have larger populations and home markets.
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I know this is supposed to be a football forum but since we have strayed into global macroeconomics and the influence of the industrial military financial complex its worth pointing out that although Nissan, Toyota, BMW and all the other manufacturers that use the UK do so because we work harder for less. all the profit in the plants goes back to the parent countries, all the real design work work is done abroad, we just get the tax receipts from the workers - the companies pay little, or no real tax. it will be the same with the Chinese.
 
worsleyweb said:
My daughter was one of the ones playing on the pitch at the academy yesterday. Club have her a full kit with Mcfc written in Chinese on the back. She was on news at ten and is on the official site.

Brilliant day for our club and city
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Nice one Worsley, it must have been a special day for you and your daughter.
 
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