City fans are responding, they are going after hacks on Twitter. Fuck even one blue got in the press box at Wembley, the journalists now use the term that our Abu Dhabi slave masters have ‘weaponised’ our fan base. I wonder what the angle will be if this UEFA investigation is thrown out? It will kill the UK press having to back track on that one.
The first part is the bit that we can do something about.
Whether the City fans fighting back are getting their facts right is the important thing.
No point fighting back if the logic applied is wrong. It just allows them to claim that City fans don't understand and are defending at any cost, and the weaponising comment is obviously designed to be pejorative. It is the media that have done the weaponising, and currently it is very unfocussed.
For example, it's been claimed that City fans are now defending UAE policy in Yemen, It's probable that some posts on twitter sometimes can be interpreted that way. However, I have yet to see anyone who openly supports that policy, and really hope that no City fan is in favour of causing starvation anywhere.
The most I've seen are comments that the UAE policy is their own affair, that fans can't actually affect UAE policy (as we apparently have no fans, how many would be at a protest anyway!) and a lot of irritation at the claims that McKenna started (I think, and others followed) that the City board are war criminals, then mass-murdering war criminals, and then that we the fans are defending them.
As I see it, more of it is that the irritation is having mud thrown at the club due to having senior people on the board (the Sheikh obviously, and Pearce is a special advisor to I think the exec committee - he almost certainly has been asked for his opinions on many things).
City fans have been feeding the media fuel. Replying with emotion is what they want, and what they're getting. Ignore them, or reply calmly making sure any facts quoted are correct. It gets far more under their skin than venting at them.
