Great article in the Independent

[Anonymous]

Now we're slagging off journalists for writing positive articles about City because of their "previous".

This place becomes more like the bastard child of rag cafe and rawk every week...

 

[theboyfrombrazil]

As my dear old dad used to say "Never use ten bob words when two bob ones will do !!" I detest this kind of journalism.

More interested in showing his talents as a wordsmith than enlightening us with anything we didn't already know.

 

[Skashion]

This place becomes more like the bastard child of rag cafe and rawk every week...

If the price of not becoming sycophantic to journos who make rash u-turns on the spurious basis of beating a weakened Villareal side (and thus vanquishing all demons) is that BillyShears thinks we're becoming more like Rag Cafe and RAWK, then it's a price most definitely worth paying. No, it has all the hallmarks of someone trying to dig themselves out of a hole by pretending some demon has been slayed and so doing an about-face is now reasonable. It's been a long list (from posters on Bluemoon to journos at national broadsheets) and it's been embarrassing to watch, posters on here all furiously trying to scramble for some life jacket of reason in which they can remain right but acknowledge that things haven't transpired as they predicted. Why can't people admit when they were wrong. Is it so bad? Also, is it so bad to respect journalists on the power of their foresight rather than hindsight?

 

[SWP's back]

This place becomes more like the bastard child of rag cafe and rawk every week...

If the price of not becoming sycophantic to journos who make rash u-turns on the spurious basis of beating a weakened Villareal side (and thus vanquishing all demons) is that BillyShears thinks we're becoming more like Rag Cafe and RAWK, then it's a price most definitely worth paying. No, it has all the hallmarks of someone trying to dig themselves out of a hole by pretending some demon has been slayed and so doing an about-face is now reasonable. It's been a long list (from posters on Bluemoon to journos at national broadsheets) and it's been embarrassing to watch, posters on here all furiously trying to scramble for some life jacket of reason in which they can remain right but acknowledge that things haven't transpired as they predicted. Why can't people admit when they were wrong. Is it so bad? Also, is it so bad to respect journalists on the power of their foresight rather than hindsight?

Foresight is a rare quality Skash(baby) as demonstrated on here quite humourously in the past 2 years.

 

[Anonymous]

This place becomes more like the bastard child of rag cafe and rawk every week...

If the price of not becoming sycophantic to journos who make rash u-turns on the spurious basis of beating a weakened Villareal side (and thus vanquishing all demons) is that BillyShears thinks we're becoming more like Rag Cafe and RAWK, then it's a price most definitely worth paying. No, it has all the hallmarks of someone trying to dig themselves out of a hole by pretending some demon has been slayed and so doing an about-face is now reasonable. It's been a long list (from posters on Bluemoon to journos at national broadsheets) and it's been embarrassing to watch, posters on here all furiously trying to scramble for some life jacket of reason in which they can remain right but acknowledge that things haven't transpired as they predicted. Why can't people admit when they were wrong. Is it so bad? Also, is it so bad to respect journalists on the power of their foresight rather than hindsight?

To be quite honest it was a passing comment based more on the sheer weight of threads frothing at the mouth at the perceived injustices the media heep upon us.

There was a superb piece in the Times a few weeks back where a journalist did openly admit to being wrong about Mancini and heaped a ton of praise on him. I believe that thread didn't make it past a couple of pages.

 

[Skashion]

Foresight is a rare quality Skash(baby) as demonstrated on here quite humourously in the past 2 years.

I've always known you and GDM were the same person baby.

 

[Anonymous]

Foresight is a rare quality Skash(baby) as demonstrated on here quite humourously in the past 2 years.

Only the past two years? You newbie's don't know the half of it .... ;)

 

[LongLang]

Is it only me that kind of preferred it when everyone hated us and we didnt care.
If we turn into media luvvies now we will be turning into them rag tosspots across the street.
Jose mourinho has made all his teams feel like its them against the world. We should keep it the way we have it. Bob is doing the same. Seige mentality. "its us against the world boys" creates team unity.
I dont give a toss what the man in the mail/telegraph/mirror etc have to say.
Im pretty sure the team or bobby dont.
So fuck em.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

This place becomes more like the bastard child of rag cafe and rawk every week...

If the price of not becoming sycophantic to journos who make rash u-turns on the spurious basis of beating a weakened Villareal side (and thus vanquishing all demons) is that BillyShears thinks we're becoming more like Rag Cafe and RAWK, then it's a price most definitely worth paying. No, it has all the hallmarks of someone trying to dig themselves out of a hole by pretending some demon has been slayed and so doing an about-face is now reasonable. It's been a long list (from posters on Bluemoon to journos at national broadsheets) and it's been embarrassing to watch, posters on here all furiously trying to scramble for some life jacket of reason in which they can remain right but acknowledge that things haven't transpired as they predicted. Why can't people admit when they were wrong. Is it so bad? Also, is it so bad to respect journalists on the power of their foresight rather than hindsight?

To be quite honest it was a passing comment based more on the sheer weight of threads frothing at the mouth at the perceived injustices the media heep upon us.

There was a superb piece in the Times a few weeks back where a journalist did openly admit to being wrong about Mancini and heaped a ton of praise on him. I believe that thread didn't make it past a couple of pages.

I actually referred to that article earlier in this thread:

Around a week ago Patrick Barclay, a football writer who unlike Lawton doesn't feel compelled to use three words when one will do, admitted that he had been wrong about Mancini.

It says a great deal about Lawton that he has effortlessly changed positions on Roberto and our team more generally, without having the good grace to issue a similar mea culpa.

You seem unable to differentiate between an article which encompasses a change in a journalist's position from that which was previously held which acknowledges that fact, and one that tries to sweep a volte face under the carpet.