Manchester Evening News

[andyhinch]

I've told this story a few times on here and Im in danger of being a one-trick pony regarding it but it's pertinent to this so...

When I started writing for a fairly big website (bigger than MEN) I was asked to write an opinion piece on why a player should join City and not United. My remit was to 'wind a few United fans up' because their ire translates to hits.

So I did and it was my pleasure.

The response was incredible, the most extreme being a couple of death threats (plus all manner of 'I know where you live and Im going to chop your fucking hands off' rants) and me gaining a genuinely creepy online stalker who would comment wherever I was subsequently published with a plea to the publication not to hire me in future. This weirdo pieced together various info about me from my articles and would mention them in his rants beneath something else Id write in another publication entirely. Was unnerving.

Anyway I digress. When I got the threats I was elated. Bring it on. Its incredibly difficult to make a name for yourself in the modern media full of blogs and to stand out so it was all grist to the mill for me.

In this instance though - although I suspect the circumstances are similar in that the lad's boss has obviously told him to write an inflammatory piece to wind a set of supporters up - it is noticably different.

Firstly what he has written is a pack of lies. Pathetic, wumming untruths. Whereas mine was entirely opinion so I could stand by that.

Secondly, the response from most blues here isnt trolling abuse but rather a genuine anger.

And its an anger that has prompted the paper - who I suspect initially wanted this degree of response - to bottle it and backtrack furiously.

I may have read this all wrong but my feeling is that the lad will be thrown to the wolves after being asked to do something by an employer. I have little sympathy for him but that doesnt detract from who the real villains are here.

Well put LT, it's the paper that let it run at the end of the day, the buck doesn't stop at some little kid.

 

[Lucky Toma]

Bwhahaha nice one Skash. Honestly, it lies ;)

 

[Clevers]

Other than the article.

It would be interesting if City's legal team were to look at some of the comments on his Twitter account about cheating etc.

 

[Bluemanc100]

David Lynch ‏@david_lynch88 10s
@bluemanc100 The Emptihad line was saying "I'm not using that contrived, United fan nonsense"


He is still shouting his mouth off come on MEN sack this child right now !!

That was me saying that this was not an opinion as his colleagues had suggested but Bullshit.....

He responded with the above

His colleague also mentioned keyboard warriors and that they wouldn't say it to his face....

I suggested he appear in City Sq at the next home game..... Silence

 

[jrb]

I'll whisper this quietly.

AS A PUISHMENT THE CLUB SHOULD BAN THE MEN FROM THE BARCELONA GAME.(etc)

Bump it please.

 

[yeseye]

And here's me thinking it was 20,000 empty seats!

 

[jrb]

Will this feature on City Today, tomorrow?

 

[Wilf Wild 1937]

Lynch goes or his hamster fucking gets it,no fucking about,it's dead,you've got til midnight

Not looking good for the hamster or the MUEN.
Time to boycott the paper in all forms.

 

[nobody can eat fifty eggs]

Has anyone seen the new response on the MEN website by Stuart Brennan saying the game WAS sold out and we DO need expansion? Well done to him if it is genuine from Stuart, but I hope its not just to redress the failings of the newspaper.

Maybe Stuart Brennan will come back on here and further explain what's happened?

 

[Puppet Master Silva]

Stuart Brennan did ok with his damage limitation piece, but as has already been pointed out the damage has already been done. A shameful article. Stuart's done a good job on here putting across his point and proving the MEN to be impartial but then a rookie goes and posts this shit and it's all crumbled again.

Who the hell allowed for it to actually be put in the paper?