Hughes calls for clarity over Tevez row, MuEN block comments

[Rammy Blue]

Re: Ex MCFC boss Mark Hughes calls for clarity over Tevez row

Right. I was in contact with Kia Joorabchian's people on the Tevez thing, because - for legal and moral reasons - you HAVE to attempt to put both sides of the story. Or are you only interested in hearing what City say about it?
To suggest that means I am on Tevez/Joorabchian's side is pathetic.
No matter what sbm suspects, I have not been getting anything from Joorabchian - I have never spoken to him - but I have contacted his PR people on this matter - it's called doing yopur job.
Neither Joorabchian nor his people have ever given me a City story.

On Edin and Tevez, what I said last season was that City needed to find a way to get the two playing together, as it wasn't working when Dzeko first joined. Quite a few City fans were saying similar things (no doubt because they were actually Reds with an anti-City agenda).
What sbm didn't mention about the Mario "confrontation with fans" was that it was said to be Dynamo Kiev fans who had surrounded his car - what is the harm in reporting that?


On the comments section in the MEN - a few years ago I used to moderate them, and the only time we kept comments off were if they were defamatory, abusive or otherwise offensive. Or if they were just nonsense, or plain lies.
The lad who does perhaps 90 per cent of the moderating these days is a Blue. He does not have an agenda to promote United and do City down, he does not have any bias towards Utd posters.
Utd fans moan that we block THEIR comments and allow City ones, as well.
To suggest the MEN has a Red bias because CP Scott was involved with newton heath is just laughable. I can honestly say CP Scott's ghost has NEVER tried to get me to write anything.
Again, as I've said before, the MEN Media sports staff is roughly half and half Utd and City.
City's press office does not believe we have a United bias - I speak to them regularly.
We would have to be insane to do so - what possible purpose would it serve, other than to try to lose sales?
I'm quite happy to take honest criticism, and admit I have made mistakes. The conspiracy theories make me laugh. But the lies piss me off - on BM I have been outed as owning an OT season ticket, something I have never had, and never wanted to have.
It was also invited on Talksport to talk about City and ended up going on about United, another utter lie.
Some of the stuff in this thread is speculative crap, some is plain lies.
Keep it civil, eh, folks?

rag.

 

[stuart brennan]

What do all the conspiracy theorists out there make of my honest opinion of the Tevez affair? Here:

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[Sky Blue]

What do all the conspiracy theorists out there make of my honest opinion of the Tevez affair? Here:

<a class="postlink" href="http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/sport/football/manchester_city/s/1461093_tantrums-turmoil-and-tevez-manchester-city-special" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... ty-special</a>

To be fair you are much better on Talkshite than your cretinous boss Spencer.

 

[stuart brennan]

One last thing.
I can't pin down the Independent match report to which one poster referred, saying it had the same last six paragraphs as the MEN report.
But if that did happen, the explanation is a simple one. The first match report put up on the MEN website straight after Saturday games is provided by the Press Association, which also supplies the same stories and match reports to all the national newspapers.
It often happens that more than one website and/or newspaper use the PA report, as their reporters are usually off doing other things - in my case trying to get a word with Mancini or a player.
To suggest there is something sinister about it is rubbish.

 

[Nelly's Left Foot]

"I have never spoken to him - but I have contacted his PR people on this matter - it's called doing yopur job.
Neither Joorabchian nor his people have ever given me a City story."

I must be missing something as those two comments seem contradictory.

 

[stuart brennan]

"I have never spoken to him - but I have contacted his PR people on this matter - it's called doing yopur job.
Neither Joorabchian nor his people have ever given me a City story."

I must be missing something as those two comments seem contradictory.

Not at all contradictory. I have rung up Joorabchian's PR to ask for their comment and input on the Tevez story, as is my duty.
They have never contacted me to give me a story on anything, and I have never rung them to fish for a story.

 

[oakiecokie]

"I have never spoken to him - but I have contacted his PR people on this matter - it's called doing yopur job.
Neither Joorabchian nor his people have ever given me a City story."

I must be missing something as those two comments seem contradictory.

Only if someone is deliberatley looking for excuses to slate SB !
He has the balls on more than one occasion to express his views on Blue Moon and to try and give an insite as to the fuckwhittery of some comments from both sets of supporters.
I have yet to see any negative remarks from SB,on either his match day reports or his day to day reports on what is happening within City and I have read his views on what he thinks of OT and to me he is very fair and balanced.
That doesn`t mean he agrees on everything thats happened or happening at City,just like us on Blue Moon.
And why should he any different ??
He still needs City and needs to be in their confidence,for getting either little snippets of news or a major headline.
Pity some of our supporters don`t cut him slome slack.
The guy has openly admitted he hasn`t got a ST for OT,nor does he want one !!
Fair does in my opinion.

 

[Dave S]

What do all the conspiracy theorists out there make of my honest opinion of the Tevez affair? Here:

<a class="postlink" href="http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/sport/football/manchester_city/s/1461093_tantrums-turmoil-and-tevez-manchester-city-special" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... ty-special</a>

Excellent article.

 

[bluemanc]

Nothing whatsoever to do with Stu this.
Police to bill Manchester City for guarding Carlos Tevez on return to airport after Bayern Munich storm
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Police chiefs are set to bill Manchester City after officers from seven divisions were rushed to the airport to protect Carlos Tevez from fuming fans.
The £283,000-a-week striker sparked fury when he apparently refused to come on as a substitute during the Blues’ Champions League defeat at Bayern Munich

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What police chief says this?

Cash-strapped GMP bosses now plan to write to City asking them to ‘contribute’ towards the cost of the operation, which is believed to have cost thousands of pounds

Which bosses?

Supt Bob Lomas said: "We received intelligence suggesting fans travelling back from Munich were planning to stage a protest on their arrival at Manchester Airport. A small number of officers attended for less than an hour and assisted our airport staff in ensuring that the safety of the public as well as that of airport staff and general security was not compromised.
It is the job of GMP to prepare for any potential threat to public order and our response was appropriate and proportionate.

That's that cleared up then,not really though is it.
To find out who has actually asked for the money to be paid to the police you need to go to page 8 & you find out it's actually the bloke/women who writes the comments section who's asking & Tevez is now on £286.000 a week.
A full front page & a fair bit on page 2 plus the full column on page 8 of this "Exclusive" by Neal Keeling and Alice McKeegan and not one single shred of proof, these 2 are an absolute disgrace and without proof we can only assume they lied.


Near word for word this was in the mail & the sun

 

[Challenger1978]

The reason they shag em on the edge of a cliff is so they push back harder.

PMSL that is a good one, I was expecting the Velcro gloves one though ;-)