Mancini is a 'disgrace' - The Guardian

[toffee balls]

I was just reading through the Guardian's minute by minute commentary of last night's match and was suprised by the level of vitriol and bile aimed towards the club and Mancini. Anyone who regularly listens to Football Weekly will know that Glendenning is no fan of Mancio but this really took it to a new (and surely unprofessional) level.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jan/05/premier-league-arsenal-manchester-city-live

75 min: [Minute-by-minute reporter clambers on soapbox and clears throat] While I have no particular love for Arsenal, I really hope they win this match because Manchester City's negative tactics are appalling. I know football's a results business, but surely a team assembled at such huge expense has some sort of duty to entertain and try to score a goal at least, if not win. Roberto Mancini's going to have a pain in his shoulder from waving his arm to instruct his players to defy their natural instincts and hang back defending for 90 minutes. He's a disgrace.

89 min: Ha ha, you couldn't make this up. From the array of defensive midfielders and defenders on his bench (there are no strikers among City's subs), Mancini sends on Jerome Boateng in place of Carlos Tevez. "Boring, boring City! Boring, boring City!" sing the Emirates crowd, rounding off their sing-song with a chorus of "You're shit and you know you are!" Far be it from me to condone effing and jeffing, but I couldn't disagree with much of that.

90+5 min: Peep! Peep! Peep! It's all over. Arsenal's players walk off shaking their heads in disbelief, while some of City's trudge off to a chorus of boos from the home crowd. They look - dare I say it - embarrassed; Joe Hart certainly does. That was a disgracefully negative and cowardly effort by the world's richest football club. If their die-hard supporters can honestly say they're genuinely happy with that rubbish, they really need to reassess why it is they started going to watch football in the first place.

Remnents of the rag journo's who are still there 30 years after the closure of the original 'Manchester Guardian'
Do not get angry just ignore.

 

[reddishblue]

Just remind them all of the song 'the arsenal' used to sing and were proud of it. "1 nil to the aresenal, 1 nil to the arsenal' ad nauseum.

 

[Skashion]

Quite simply The Guardian is a disgrace in plentiful ways, mostly, they are enormous hypocrites.

 

[Sigh]

Quite simply The Guardian is a disgrace in plentiful ways, mostly, they are enormous hypocrites.

Oh dear. You didn't receive the memo? You're clearly not one of the 'umble, smarter, progressive, caring sort. I pity you.

 

[LongsightM13]

So like the travesty of a man that is Paul Merson, another "degenerate crackhead" is having a pop. A rag of many years with a belated soft spot for Sunderland since their Irish takeover. A twat considered a shambling drunken figure of fun by journos in his own country.
And if he has written that Zaba is a racist - and as he controls that blog, it can only have been that way, even if he cowardly pretends he was only posting what someone else said- then a link to this thread should be sent to Vicky Kloss and our lawyers. A scandalous and groundless allegation. We should take him and his joke of a paper for everything they own.
That is libel pure and simple, and hopefully enough to cost this substance-addled joker his job. Next stop cardboard city

 

[Plain Speaking]

I agree that the comments the Guardian match reporter made are unfair and unprofessional.
However normally the worst anti-city papers are The Sun, NOTW, Mirror, and Mail tabloids.
In my opinion we generally get a fairer more balanced press from the MEN, Independent and Guardian.

 

[gymshoe]

Results 1st.
Entertainment 2nd.

Why even watch a game then? Just check the results if that's all that counts.

I had to go check the results...+1 for City. Sweet.

 

[Plain Speaking]

What is a disgrace is that an Arsenal fan is allowed to post slanderous nonsense on his forum inferring that Zabaeta is a racist.

Pab has always been very kind and polite to my 'dual heritage' children.

Coincidentally, the most loyal Arsenal fan that I know is a friend of the wife and is a clever, beautiful blonde lady of dual heritage.

Some 'gooners' should get a life.

I am fairly new to the forums, is there a report procedure to complain about slanderous posts to get them removed?

 

[Sigh]

So like the travesty of a man that is Paul Merson, another "degenerate crackhead" is having a pop. A rag of many years with a belated soft spot for Sunderland since their Irish takeover. A twat considered a shambling drunken figure of fun by journos in his own country.
And if he has written that Zaba is a racist - and as he controls that blog, it can only have been that way, even if he cowardly pretends he was only posting what someone else said- then a link to this thread should be sent to Vicky Kloss and our lawyers. A scandalous and groundless allegation. We should take him and his joke of a paper for everything they own.
That is libel pure and simple, and hopefully enough to cost this substance-addled joker his job. Next stop cardboard city

An Arsenal fan threw that out here earlier on today, on another thread. A couple of us took him on about it. Outrageous if you ask me. Can't recall the thread though.

 

[Skashion]

Quite simply The Guardian is a disgrace in plentiful ways, mostly, they are enormous hypocrites.

Oh dear. You didn't receive the memo? You're clearly not one of the 'umble, smarter, progressive, caring sort. I pity you.

Indeed, I must accept that my yoghurt-knitting do-gooder credentials lay in tatters.