City Women - Champions and Continental Cup Winners 2016.

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Mother of God!

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

A starstruck, photogenic female footballer, gets all girly, and has her photograph taken with a famous football manager.
Manchester City average 46,000, and 32 of them take offence. The rest, myself included, are just jealous of Van Gaal.
A keyboard war ensues (and why is the phrase “Vile abuse”, only ever used in the context of twitter). However, the real crude, sexist stuff is completely anonymous, and has nothing to do with football or indeed Manchester City.
Funnily enough, it gets even worse after her apology, most of it ironically coming from her defenders.

Manchester City ruining ladies football since 2008

 

[DelToro]

Mother of God!

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

A starstruck, photogenic female footballer, gets all girly, and has her photograph taken with a famous football manager.
Manchester City average 46,000, and 32 of them take offence. The rest, myself included, are just jealous of Van Gaal.
A keyboard war ensues (and why is the phrase “Vile abuse”, only ever used in the context of twitter). However, the real crude, sexist stuff is completely anonymous, and has nothing to do with football or indeed Manchester City.
Funnily enough, it gets even worse after her apology, most of it ironically coming from her defenders.

Manchester City ruining ladies football since 2008

And then posts it on social media in the aftermath of a derby defeat.

The timing of it caused the controversy.

If it had happened out of season nobody would have cared.

 

[Sigh]

The amount of blues defending her on social media just about sums up why our support has deteriorated to the state it is these days.

This is the bit I'm struggling with. Its the second time in the last 10 pages that someone has linked our 'deteriorating support' to the people who are defending a young girl who has been slaughtered on the internet for posting a picture of herself with a famous person. Its a ridiculous suggestion and the faux outrage shown by some is comparable to the old 'I'm a bigger blue than you' argument.

Can you try to be honest?

She isn't young, she isn't a girl, it wasn't "a famous person"...it wasn't @#!*% Megan Fox was it... it was the manager of the rags after beating us.

I think it's pretty clear that what you are actually about is stripping her of her nature as a rational actor cos, after all, we can't expect anything better from giggly just 17-reading girls, right? That's the defence?

 

[Stephenhakin]

Blown out of all proportion this. Leave the girl alone FFS. She made a mistake which she has since apologies for. How would we feel if it was our daughter getting all this over the top shit over a mistake or do we not make mistakes. Some need to take a long hard look.

 

[101toMR]

She deserves the stick she's getting.
Posters referring to her as a girl are just patronising her really.
She is footballer player and is in the public eye,her choice.

 

[Damocles]

She deserves the stick she's getting.
Posters referring to her as a girl are just patronising her really.
She is footballer player and is in the public eye,her choice.

She absolutely definitely does NOT 'deserve' the she is getting

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Mother of God!

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

A starstruck, photogenic female footballer, gets all girly, and has her photograph taken with a famous football manager.
Manchester City average 46,000, and 32 of them take offence. The rest, myself included, are just jealous of Van Gaal.
A keyboard war ensues (and why is the phrase “Vile abuse”, only ever used in the context of twitter). However, the real crude, sexist stuff is completely anonymous, and has nothing to do with football or indeed Manchester City.
Funnily enough, it gets even worse after her apology, most of it ironically coming from her defenders.

Manchester City ruining ladies football since 2008

And then posts it on social media in the aftermath of a derby defeat.

The timing of it caused the controversy.

If it had happened out of season nobody would have cared.

Sorry mate, but I was more annoyed with Yaya's performance than a starstruck female acting like as starstruck female.
The point I was making, is that in contrast to the overall media portrayal of the incident, the vast majority of City fans wouldn't even recognise Toni Duggan.
Of course the timing could have been better, but so could the timing of City's offside trap for the 4th goal.

 

[Ric]

As mentioned yesterday, it was an ill-advised picture to post as a Manchester City employee in the aftermath of a derby defeat, but it was blown out of all proportion. Some of the misogynistic abuse was disgraceful.

 

[101toMR]

She deserves the stick she's getting.
Posters referring to her as a girl are just patronising her really.
She is footballer player and is in the public eye,her choice.

She absolutely definitely does NOT 'deserve' the she is getting

She isn't getting that much stick.
And she isn't above criticism.
Dogs abuse on Myface and Twatter is par for the course for anyone and she isn't exempt.
Has anyone on a City forum abused her? All I have seen is criticism.

 

[Bill]

i'm not a lover of womens football, myself i wouldn't have a ladies team, its a joke. anyway all that said there is no way she should be subjected to some of the abuse on here. call her a fool, naive whatever but all this slut and stuff is unforgivable.