City - the most attacked football club in the country!

[Saddleworth2]

Tbf the dippers are top of the league and you'd expect positive coverage as things are going well ( especially if you ignore the hacking scandal). Look at the insane coverage of the rags last two games - hard to imagine this is a club flirting with relegation form and hanging onto mid table. There's more comment on mat busby than Ole!

So I can understand the BBC reporting on Bernie and Raz, CAS, because it has happened and is for the most part factual. The article on Dickson Etuhu for match fixing which mentions us as well as Sunderland, Blackburn could be construed as unfair, however the same article is also posted in those clubs sections. So is the BBC part of the agenda or simply reporting the bad things that happen to us because of the agenda?

 

[kaz7]

Superb, that Kaz, ...in the words of the great Charles Dickens "You're quite a powerful speaker, why, you don't go into Parliament?";)

Why thank you,if i went into parliament i'd be banging heads together,literally ha

 

[jrb]

It’s comforting to know Sheikh Mansour, Khaldoon, Soriano, Begiristain, Vicky Kloss, Danny Wilson and the other directors read this thread. They know what’s going on. And they know and feel what we as supporters know and feel. As a club we’ll get through this s*** eventually. Keep the faith.

 

[trevorriley]

It’s comforting to know Sheikh Mansour, Khaldoon, Soriano, Begiristain, Vicky Kloss, Danny Wilson and the other directors read this thread. They know what’s going on. And they know and feel what we as supporters know and feel. As a club we’ll get through this s*** eventually. Keep the faith.

agreed. And as fans we can voice what the above guys cant because we aren't liable. There has never been a better time where fans can voice their opinions of the shit we are getting, its time to get vocal from the terraces and get behind our club / team. With our owners, directors, manager, players & fans all behind this magnificent club we are unstoppable no matter how hard the FA / PL try.

ctid

 

[blue oli]

A lot of moaning on here when the reality is different.

The established clubs in Europe have had their way, working with the regulatory bodies for so long now that they got comfortable. It was easy for them to dominate domestically and to keep the euro competition (champs league mainly) income to themselves.

We came along and spoiled the party - we haven’t done anything illegal, have played the game with waffa and fifa and yes stretched the rules at time but that’s not what has got the back up of the old guard.

What really has got to them is our approach, globalisation of the business model, new fresh thinking which, in effect, has worked brilliantly.

It’s been said many times that our management team offered this model up at Barca but it was turned down - so it’s not new thinking, just the first time it’s been applied and had weight put behind it:

We are agents of change as CFG and City, and people resist change - this is why we are a constant target.

The press just roll with the stories, they want views, they want advertising revenue, so they pander to the masses. Give it 10 years and city fans will be the masses; this is the long term vision of our owners. Large scale support and audience - larger revenues across the globe.

Change is what the establishment hate, not city - we are just the current vehicle of expression of this in the game.

 

[trevorriley]

A lot of moaning on here when the reality is different.

The established clubs in Europe have had their way, working with the regulatory bodies for so long now that they got comfortable. It was easy for them to dominate domestically and to keep the euro competition (champs league mainly) income to themselves.

We came along and spoiled the party - we haven’t done anything illegal, have played the game with waffa and fifa and yes stretched the rules at time but that’s not what has got the back up of the old guard.

What really has got to them is our approach, globalisation of the business model, new fresh thinking which, in effect, has worked brilliantly.

It’s been said many times that our management team offered this model up at Barca but it was turned down - so it’s not new thinking, just the first time it’s been applied and had weight put behind it:

We are agents of change as CFG and City, and people resist change - this is why we are a constant target.

The press just roll with the stories, they want views, they want advertising revenue, so they pander to the masses. Give it 10 years and city fans will be the masses; this is the long term vision of our owners. Large scale support and audience - larger revenues across the globe.

Change is what the establishment hate, not city - we are just the current vehicle of expression of this in the game.

Absolute bang on that, apologise for not being as eloquent at wording with my reply.

Said all along when Europe had the "dominant few clubs" who could pick and choose first from the bunch of players up for sale, offer them a little bit more money and promise of trophies, it was fine by their standards. Brian Clough once said to his son Nigel "if Liverpool have approached you, dont ask what the wages are you just sign along the dotted line"

But then moving with times along came other established clubs seeing the opportunity to challenge for the players as well as trophies. The previous chosen few no longer had it their own way. Being the self named bigger clubs of Europe they also had the most plastic fans and big wigs at eufa / fifa & FA kissing their arses, so it was easy for them to publicly criticize the up and coming clubs for buying the league and not having history. When all be known they had done the same themselves.

With so much money in the game football has become more of a global business and the new owners ( sheik mansour being a fine example ) have shown the old hats how to run a successful business with highly educated business plans and investment.

Its simply jealousy

 

[KCblue]

Me, anytime I read an article where the author clearly has a bias against City

 

[Bill the Blue]

It’s comforting to know Sheikh Mansour, Khaldoon, Soriano, Begiristain, Vicky Kloss, Danny Wilson and the other directors read this thread.
They know what’s going on. And they know and feel what we as supporters know and feel. As a club we’ll get through this s*** eventually. Keep the faith.

Evening JRB, is that correct? I hope so...

I'm sure they know the feelings of the everyday City fan anyway, you would like to think so..

If this thread and many like it on Bluemoon goes some way to help our Football Club start to defend itself more robustly in all forms of the media, it will be a job well done by all who have contributed...

We are here to stay and you get the impression the establishment are resigned to this fact and are ramping up for one last hurrah to try and derail us...!