City vs chelsea pre match thread.

[Belfast_Blue]

Just do it City.

I hope we absolutely crush them....teach that gobshite Maureen a lesson in humility...

 

[r.soleofsalford]

His team will bring all the tricks, the cheating and the kicking to try and beat us tonight.


This isnt just a game we need to win for our players, for our fans or for our league title challenge.


We need to win this match against this despicable twat for the beautiful game of football itself.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

You basically have no idea how PR works, do you pidge?

Tell me who will believe it? Who is going to listen to Neil Warnock saying we are lucky and then believe it. Not only that though, what damage could that person believing Warnock's lies possibly do?

Well, they aren't Colin's lies, so he demonstrates the problem in itself. He is simply repeating what others have mentioned. has he watched every City game to enable him to make that judgment? Has he bollocks, he is repeating the same shite others have spouted already without any critical analysis of his own. No less a propagandist than Josef Goebbels said that it doesn't matter what is true, what matters is how often it is repeated. And the number of propagandists (and indeed PR consultants) who have disproved that theory since then is precisely zero.

This bollocks about City getting breaks is getting repeated and repeated, and every time we get a bad decision against us it will be ignored, and every time we get a bad decision in our favour it will be added to the growing body of 'evidence' that we are in fact getting decisions we shouldn't on a regular basis. And it is being repeated across the board in the media to the point where most people other than City fans accept it without a second thought.

So maybe few people would listen to an original thought of Warner and take it as gospel, but he is simply repeating a lie which is being repeated so often and in so many quarters that it is becoming received wisdom without any actual foundation.

Now, what damage does this do? For evidence of the impact that PR management can have, just look at the rags. Why have Sky suddenly started talking about a 'Top 7'? Why is the media silent about the 'worst ever defence of a premier league title' that was the only story in town this time last year? Answer, because the Rag publicity machine has ground into gear to do what it can to arrest their palpable slide. Why would they bother if they know that what gullible fools believe doesn't actually have any real world effect? Answer, they wouldn't, of course. But they know, because there is an army of analysts who can give them chapter and verse demonstrating that this is so, that the more negative publicity surrounds a club, the less likely people will watch their games, click on website/newspaper articles connected to the club etc etc. Brand management - protecting the tarnish-free perception of the rags - is a crucial part of protecting the rags' commercial income, which is a very substantial part of their overall income.

So ask yourself this - we have produced a brand of football that is entertaining and high scoring. Does a general perception that we actually get a shedload of decisions we shouldn't get that add to that, and promote our brand, or detract from it?

And you have your answer.

For gods sake, that couldn't be a more biased account. Unbelievable, in fact.

We are media darlings and Man United are getting hammered from every corner. Mainly because we are a brilliant,well run team on the up, and they are not. The opposite to last season when the coverage was different. The fact that 'we get every decision' was probably less than 1% of our coverage this weekend. the rest was gushing, from every corner of the media. Man united got exactly the same accusations for years when they were at the top.

Stop looking for shit that isn't there. Grow up.

 

[TCIB]

why is mourinho commenting so much on city, every footy site i look on its mourinho bad mouthing city wtf like

You know his style bud, he likes to do everything but focus on the match (outwardly anyway).
Ignore the fucker or know the more he talks shit the more worried he is about us.

 

[super_city_si]

I think the players and Pellers especially will be right up for this. I expect the desire to beat Chelsea is palpable from Pellegrini and it should flow through to the team. We're going to come out of the blocks like Ben Johnson on a roid rage.

 

[Bluemanc100]

I want them crushed, fuck mourinho back off to London mumbling about "unfair advantage" or whatever sudo physcological bullcrap he needs to believe to help him sleep.

I want this not only for us but for Pelle who is now on an even footing with Jose so now let us see who is the better tactician.

I can't help worry about his anti footy though, if they nick a goal then they will shut up shop, fuck what mourinho says, we know how he works.

To be fair, two seasons ago I'd say you were right about anti-football

He can park the bus tonight and I really don't think they will see out the game and get anything

Believe lads............. we are a fooking good team, ask Alan Hansen

PS I have done next to fuck all today, all I can think about is the game

 

[pavelsrnicek]

Going to be a very interesting game later on.

Jose is annoyed, we've got under his skin as Pellegrini is the toast of the press and it bothers him. Jose figured coming back after Ferguson's retirement he would be the big dog and the press would simply fall in line. Instead our football is grabbing the headlines.

Our win at Spurs seems to have changed a lot of the press in the last few days and as a result Jose will go all out to disrupt, frustrate and annoy. Silva will get kicked, repeatedly as will Navas.

He has set out his stall, City are the best side etc. so that a draw or a win will have the press hailing him as a manager. He won't be afraid to go full hypocrite and park the bus.

If we get things right tonight, like set the tempo and our passes are right and of course take our chances we will win. If we allow Chelsea to slow the game and sit deep and try and counter then it could be a long night

 

[andyhinch]

I want them crushed, fuck mourinho back off to London mumbling about "unfair advantage" or whatever sudo physcological bullcrap he needs to believe to help him sleep.

I want this not only for us but for Pelle who is now on an even footing with Jose so now let us see who is the better tactician.

I can't help worry about his anti footy though, if they nick a goal then they will shut up shop, fuck what mourinho says, we know how he works.

To be fair, two seasons ago I'd say you were right about anti-football

He can park the bus tonight and I really don't think they will see out the game and get anything

Believe lads............. we are a fooking good team, ask Alan Hansen

PS I have done next to fuck all today, all I can think about is the game

I've done less than that:)

 

[TCIB]

Just had a ganders at theshedend, they are shitting it as much as us at least.

 

[Sparkys-Army]

I have to work today, would they believe me if i took a selfie of my body collapsed at the bottom of the stairs?