City vs chelsea pre match thread.

[wayne71]

I've got a crate of beer a day off work and I'm staying awake all night for this (hopefully). Its games like these that make me wish I was still home.

 

[omcfc]

He'll have studied the Spurs game and noted that the best period for Spurs was when they resorted to kicking the shit out of Navas, Silva et al.

Expect lots of that tonight.

 

[mscenterh750]

Don't understand how City are favourites tonight.
Chelsea 4/1......unbelievable value, considering City haven't really faced a class team at home yet. ?????????????what
Lot of pressure on Pelligrini.
Do you think he can handle it ?

No we'll crash and burn like we did against the other top London sides at home.
Let me remind you:-

City 6 Spurs 0
City 6 Arsenal 3

Pellers isn't use to managing at this level ... he's only managed River Plate & Real Madrid in the past.

In tennis terms..................City 2 sets up against North London

Aye and 6-0 tonight, then it's game set and match Manchester (blue half).

 

[Didsbury Dave]

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.

Don't be a prick Dave, debate the issue (if you can) but don't just hand out insults unless that's all you can do.

BTW If you think the rag PR team have all given up, you really need to get your head out of the sand.

Chris, as you well know, I will debate a debate worth debating. But when you resort to the clichés of a 15 year old like 'the rag pr machine" you aren't worthy of more than the paragraph you got. You know, the one you haven't acknowledged.

This place is has always been full of baseless paranoia, but at the moment that lunacy is rendered utterly laughable by the reality of our media coverage.

 

[Damocles]

Why do you even post here? You don't seem to like it very much.

 

[km09]

Wouldnt it be fantastic if we smashed them, i could picture mourinho leaving the pitch for the dressing room early,

 

[Gundogan's Moustache]

Jose will bring his bus just a shame for him Pellers Will be driving his double decker
3-0 City

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Why do you even post here? You don't seem to like it very much.

Which one?

 

[Pigeonho]

Wouldnt it be fantastic if we smashed them, i could picture mourinho leaving the pitch for the dressing room early,

Was thinking about this earlier, and I think the opposite. I can actually see him standing there applauding each of our players as they go off, get the focus on how classy he is and away from him having just seen his team get destroyed.

 

[bobmcfc]

Is somebody arguing again ?