City_rabin

[Centurions]

Is it possible to make the site account only or make some threads private? Some of the stuff is being used as fuel for their agenda.

No, besides which they can just create an account if it was.

 

[Cobwebcat]

What you’re up against is a cohort of people who are paid to promote their nonsense which in turn will generate clicks, profile and income for their employers. Whereas as fans, we are not.
Hats off to those who are fighting for the City corner, unpaid and unprompted, as I don’t have the appetite or the intellect or time to do so.
In my opinion, it should be down to the club and their employees to defend the club and not necessarily the fans (who have lives to lead and bills to pay)

Feed the Elk is unfortunately correct. Football is very important to the fans but it’s money driven in all other aspects. I have nothing but admiration for guys like Rabin and PB or indeed anyone that is prepared to point out factual lies particularly when those that point the finger are are up to all sorts themselves...Spain being the latest that springs to mind.

However, City have huge resources to fight this nonsense and choose not to. It shouldn’t be up to City fans to do this for them.

Twitter is a horrible resource in my opinion and the best thing to do is come off it as it looks like Rabin has. A race to the bottom is a good way to describe it.

 

[lust overlord]

Feed the Elk is unfortunately correct. Football is very important to the fans but it’s money driven in all other aspects. I have nothing but admiration for guys like Rabin and PB or indeed anyone that is prepared to point out factual lies particularly when those that point the finger are are up to all sorts themselves...Spain being the latest that springs to mind.

However, City have huge resources to fight this nonsense and choose not to. It shouldn’t be up to City fans to do this for them.

Twitter is a horrible resource in my opinion and the best thing to do is come off it as it looks like Rabin has. A race to the bottom is a good way to describe it.

The club may have huge resources but have no real way to affect what lies morons parrot on social media.

I rarely use twitter nowadays,as like others have mentioned,it has become too toxic.
Especially when it comes to football and our club.

 

[Mike Cledford]

I've enjoyed this thread particularly the Stephen Tudor article and more about rabin and his efforts on social media. Less so with those who knock non local Blues.
Towards the end l was introduced to McGeehan a right weird one. Elsewhere was the bitter bias of Tony Evans.
So this morning l have had a taste of the Good the Bad and the Ugly. All on all is makes me feel so good to be Blue.

 

[manchester blue]

The club may have huge resources but have no real way to affect what lies morons parrot on social media.

I rarely use twitter nowadays,as like others have mentioned,it has become too toxic.
Especially when it comes to football and our club.

Is there a lack of usage all round? I've noticed I am getting notifications that people have posted who I neither care about or follow. Suggests numbers are down as they try to get you to open the app.

 

[lust overlord]

Is there a lack of usage all round? I've noticed I am getting notifications that people have posted who I neither care about or follow. Suggests numbers are down as they try to get you to open the app.

Dunno pal.
I don't have notifications turned on.
It wouldn't be a big surprise if there was an exodus though.

 

[give it to gordon]

Rabin, and a few others (me included) were targeted by a number of these people, including that fat scouse twat Corbett, the two Harrises, Delaney and others. They went after us on social media, via our employers and (in Rabin's case) his family. One person may even have lost some work because of their harassment.

It's quite possible that their conduct was criminal, under the terms of the 1997 Protection from Harassment Act. That's why I don't want to say too much. It was very stressful and we had nowhere to turn to other than City. But they certainly didn't throw a protective cordon around us.

That cowardly **** McGeehan is trying to suggest that Rabin and others were doing City's bidding, egged on by Vicky Kloss, and we ran back to hide behind her skirt (figuratively speaking). That's simply not the case. There is literally zero percent truth in that.

I get why some fans like Prestwich Blue, Rabin etc want to take on these scum, I really do get it. If I met them in a pub i would have trouble controlling myself i would want to slap them so to speak.( not Prestwich Blue or Rabin !! The press/media )
During waiting for the CAS results I was getting very depressed with the shit that was being written in the press/media, tweeter, Facebook etc.
If I had been on tweeter, Facebook or what every I would have been banned.
It was making me ill, so I stopped looking at the press/media, tweeter Facebook etc, and i now feel alot better.

The point i am trying to make in a long winded way, is why is it down to fans to defend City ? Why dont City defend themselves ?

I took the view that if City arent doing anything about it than why should I why should i get my self so wound up and ill when I cant change anything and City dont seem bothered by it.

If someone trys to bang on about oil money etc I just smile and walk away , I personally feel so much better for not confronting them.

Guys if you want to engage with the shit press/media in this country be careful and not let it effect your health.

 

[Eds]

Big difference between some random idiot tweeting lies about us. It’s another thing when so called professional journalists who should be held to account are doing the same without being pulled up. If they were made to retract their statements and apologise publicly then they might think about stopping tweeting / printing the lies they continue to perpetuate. A quiet word behind the scenes seems to work for about a day and then it continues. Why the muppet who asked Pep about taking backhanders after the had won the league is still allowed anywhere near the club is beyond me, same with whoever claimed Mancini was in the stands watching the game just before he was appointed. If they have I stand corrected but that is two in a long list.

 

[bobmcfc]

Rabin turned out not to be a true blue after all.

I'm sorry but I'm very bitter by this experience and I'm venting. I followed all protocol, I blocked, I ignored, I even laughed at the abuse. But it kept coming like a drip drip drip everyday. I stopped chatting with friends and threads involving my harassers, I found it hard because for me the banter was more important than anything else. But it didn't stop. When it came to a head and began to target my pal the Martian the mole...I couldn't remain quiet. So I spoke out..carefully not to name people. But the argument escalated when Ivor came out wanting to confront me..I showed him the proof of his racism laced harassment. Guess who was found to be wrong?

The very same thing happened with Miguel Delaney, the more racism/racism laced attacks the stronger his mates backed him up. Twitter didn't find an issue with it either.

I'm not angry with the racists of the world, they are who they are but I'm angry with those who want me to shake hands with a racist and pretend nothing happened. I'm angry with those who could not find anything racist in what he said and lined up to give him a certificate..when his words were there to see..visit his timeline. Blind faith on one side, suspicion on the other. How many ways can a man telegraph his bias?

When I confronted him he shrank but with every word of support he became bolder. That's a lesson if there was ever one.

How am I a blue? Of course I am not lucky/unlucky enough to follow the club for decades, I was attracted by its success (and Carlos Tevez). I'm not sure I'm a blue not without mates who accept you for who you are. Football without friends is just a program on TV...

I'm sorry this may sound bitter but I am just blown away.

That whole thing really wound me up, and no you shouldn't make up or be friendly with idiots like that.

 

[M18CTID]

Cheers. I hope City replied with something along the lines of, "Fuck off".

The cheek of that bald headed nonce tweeting City when all he’s ever done is slag us off for years and make spurious allegations about our ownership is as laughable as it gets. It’s downright fucking weird and maybe it shows Rabin got to him more than City ever did!