Tim of the Oak said:
johnnytapia said:
Conn and Schindler - bastions of journalism. One brought a book out bemoaning the money we've spent; the other several books about how ace it all used to be when City were laughed at, lampooned etc. If you ever want to see just how utterly shite Schindler is/was, read a copy of the utter bollocks he produced about Mercer/Allison - so blatantly ripped from the David Peace genre it was laughable.
As for Paddy Barclay - once lauded and lorded for being a (self-penned) broadsheet behemoth of the sporting world - now little more than a parody of himself. Would struggle to lace Hugh McLLvaney's laces.
They had been praising Vicky K on how helpful she was to journalists, who had let them know in confidence, before the FA Cup Final, that Bobby wouldn't be here at the end of the season.
It was the end of the season before they shared this on Talkshite so hardly the behaviour of people wanting to damage the club in this instance. Schindler's writing does nothing for me either but Conn and Barclay say it as they see it.
And Mancini knew in March that the likelihood was he wouldn't be here after the end of the season because he'd put Sheikh Mansour & Khaldoon in a position where they had little choice but to sack him.
To be fair to him though, it's fairly clear from the interview he gave at the time (after the Cup Final) that he thought that it was City leaking the stories when they were actually coming from Spain.
He challenged Vicky to say he wasn't going to be sacked but she could hardly say that could she?
