Media bias against City

[bluevengence]

Working in London so thought I'd check out what Janujaz fanboy, Paddy Barclay had to say about the relaxation of FFP regulations;

"Beware" he cautions those celebrating the reforms; FFP "has been broadly beneficial to the European game". How so ? You may ask."we've even had a new name etched on the Champions League trophy; that of Chelsea ...look at them now. Look at the transfer business they did last summer, so cleverly that the books were balanced as they assembled, by far the best team in the Premier League"

And what might be the consequences of relaxing the rules ?

"..if over the next couple of seasons, a suddenly liberated Manchester City, once again able to wield all the riches of Abu Dhabi, start plundering his squad again, he [Wenger] will be entitled to believe that football has turned its back for ever on the long-term thinking we all know, in our heart, is right"

Jesus may love him but I think he's a c*nt !

Of course dear old Arsene has never plundered other clubs has he !

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

This Agenda thing has never really bothered me nor have I given it much credence but today's Daily Star puts their hatred of City out there they don't rally hide it TBF
They state "City's Woeful season" this is the morning after our second place finish was assured which by the way they forgot to mention funny that!
They must also forgotten our last five seasons finishing positions as they were probably worth a mention imho

We must have a few Star readers amongst our fan base on here unfortunately.

I read the Sun , but when in public , i do hide it inside a copy of the Financial Times

 

[ccr]

This Agenda thing has never really bothered me nor have I given it much credence but today's Daily Star puts their hatred of City out there they don't rally hide it TBF
They state "City's Woeful season" this is the morning after our second place finish was assured which by the way they forgot to mention funny that!
They must also forgotten our last five seasons finishing positions as they were probably worth a mention imho

We must have a few Star readers amongst our fan base on here unfortunately.

I read the Sun , but when in public , i do hide it inside a copy of the Financial Times

I hide mine in my monthly copy of Naked Nuns on Roller Skates. Then I don't feel to embarrassed.

 

[Dave S]

I stopped buying newspapers many, many years ago. I wouldn't wipe my ar@e on any of them!

 

[@BluePhil8]

I stopped buying newspapers many, many years ago. I wouldn't wipe my ar@e on any of them!

Don't want to sound like a hipster but I bought a few copies of "i" a few weeks back. Slightly left leaning but no sensationalist speculative headlines like the Mail. Decent paper.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Working in London so thought I'd check out what Janujaz fanboy, Paddy Barclay had to say about the relaxation of FFP regulations;

"Beware" he cautions those celebrating the reforms; FFP "has been broadly beneficial to the European game". How so ? You may ask."we've even had a new name etched on the Champions League trophy; that of Chelsea ...look at them now. Look at the transfer business they did last summer, so cleverly that the books were balanced as they assembled, by far the best team in the Premier League"

And what might be the consequences of relaxing the rules ?

"..if over the next couple of seasons, a suddenly liberated Manchester City, once again able to wield all the riches of Abu Dhabi, start plundering his squad again, he [Wenger] will be entitled to believe that football has turned its back for ever on the long-term thinking we all know, in our heart, is right"

Jesus may love him but I think he's a c*nt !

Of course dear old Arsene has never plundered other clubs has he !

Isn't this the very same Patrick Barclay who made a mint out of a book eulogising Herbert Chapman, the man who went back to his old club Huddersfield and dismantled them lock, stock and barrel.

 

[tonea2003]

Working in London so thought I'd check out what Janujaz fanboy, Paddy Barclay had to say about the relaxation of FFP regulations;

"Beware" he cautions those celebrating the reforms; FFP "has been broadly beneficial to the European game". How so ? You may ask."we've even had a new name etched on the Champions League trophy; that of Chelsea ...look at them now. Look at the transfer business they did last summer, so cleverly that the books were balanced as they assembled, by far the best team in the Premier League"

And what might be the consequences of relaxing the rules ?

"..if over the next couple of seasons, a suddenly liberated Manchester City, once again able to wield all the riches of Abu Dhabi, start plundering his squad again, he [Wenger] will be entitled to believe that football has turned its back for ever on the long-term thinking we all know, in our heart, is right"

Jesus may love him but I think he's a c*nt !

Of course dear old Arsene has never plundered other clubs has he !

Isn't this the very same Patrick Barclay who made a mint out of a book eulogising Herbert Chapman, the man who went back to his old club Huddersfield and dismantled them lock, stock and barrel.

and more recently routinely taken soton players, walcott, ox, chambers spring to mind

anything barclay says about us you take with a pinch of salt since his "morally bankrupt" claptrap

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Of course dear old Arsene has never plundered other clubs has he !

Isn't this the very same Patrick Barclay who made a mint out of a book eulogising Herbert Chapman, the man who went back to his old club Huddersfield and dismantled them lock, stock and barrel.

and more recently routinely taken soton players, walcott, ox, chambers spring to mind


anything barclay says about us you take with a pinch of salt since his "morally bankrupt" claptrap

He also seems to think that our owners have no "long term thinking".
I suspect he knows otherwise , but any other view would not fit with the "City bad" narrative.

 

[franksinatra]

Quite an enjoyable article on the ESPN website

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.espnfc.co.uk/club/manchester-city/382/blog/post/2460353/manchester-city-now-a-consistent-premier-league-club" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.espnfc.co.uk/club/manchester ... eague-club</a>

 

[waspish]

Quite an enjoyable article on the ESPN website

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.espnfc.co.uk/club/manchester-city/382/blog/post/2460353/manchester-city-now-a-consistent-premier-league-club" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.espnfc.co.uk/club/manchester ... eague-club</a>

Manchester City anniversary a chance to reflect on club's rise

Joshua Parlby is not a name that comes up in Manchester conversations very regularly, but his part in Manchester City's history should be recognised here on this Thursday. For the club that has just sealed a second place finish in the Premier League was admitted to the Football League on this day in 1894. On a day of some excitement in Manchester, not only did the city gain a football league club for the first time, it welcomed the reigning monarch Queen Victoria to the city to open the newly completed Manchester Ship Canal.

Trade -- and indeed football -- in the city would never be quite the same again.

City took another 43 years to win their first title and were promptly relegated the following year, beginning a tale of slapstick inconsistency that gave birth to many a wicked title attached to the fumbling exploits of the sky blues. Relatively modern times have seen the club slide from one level to another, even scraping the barrel of the third-tier in English football in 1999. From that particularly turbulent episode, the club gained nicknames like Typical City that have stuck to the club over the years and which it is trying so hard to shed in the modern era.

Arsenal's failure to score against Sunderland in their penultimate league game this week marked not only salvation for the North East club but also made it impossible for the Londoners to pass City in second place. Thus the Blues have now secured third, first, second, first and second place finishes in the last five years, making them the Premier League's most consistent performers so far this decade.


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Just let that sink in for a moment -- the league's most consistent performers over the last five years.

To some this may smack of small beans, but to those who have supported a club well-schooled in not only surprising its supporters at every turn, but also managing to secure defeat from the jaws of victory more often than anyone cares to remember, this is quite a feat. The intrinsically quirky nature of this grand old club is thus beginning to change, more slowly maybe than the outer -- more obvious - visual effects, but nevertheless, changing.

Hardly surprising that this deep-rooted inconsistency is beginning to leave the scene, I hear you say. The club's massive investment in talent and infrastructure has catapulted it into a small, gilded European elite. Whether the powers that be like it or not, Manchester City have joined the greats of Germany, Italy, France, Portugal and Spain in a tiny group of elite clubs that will -- for the foreseeable future -- fight it out among themselves for the game's top prizes.

Unlike past decades, since 2010 Manchester City have been consistently finishing near or at the top of the Premier League.
Unlike past decades, since 2010 Manchester City have been consistently finishing near or at the top of the Premier League.
While UEFA president Michel Platini and his cronies in Zurich battle to find an acceptable FFP template that does not crucify the well-intentioned and give a leg-up to the tired old money of Europe, it cannot be denied that City have been fortunate to be one of the last to crawl under the spikes before the portcullis came crashing down. With a multi-million pound squad, gleaming stadium and regular Champions League participation, the Manchester City that gained entry to the football league exactly 121 years ago in an upstairs room of the Old Boar Inn on Withey Grove, now looks fit for modern purpose.

Without the incredible power of persuasion of Parlby, City, a club then with neither a full playing staff nor the finances to glean one, might not be where they are today.

The vagaries of history, the subtle touches of Mother Fate that have pushed and pulled the club from triumph to disaster and from delight to despair seem now to consider it the right moment to let the club drift gently into a new era. "Drift", however, is possibly a word that undervalues what has happened to City in the last ten years.

The club has grown spectacularly from the unstable initial investment of Thai tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra to the prime example of modern football finance that we see before us. The old elite may huff and puff at this newcomer to the top table, but it cannot be denied that Manchester City have been around in one shape or another for an extremely long time, have been winning trophies longer than most of today's rivals and have every right to now count themselves among the modern game's movers and shakers.

Proof of that comes from noted Manchester City author and historian, Gary James: "Manchester City won a trophy four years before Manchester United, 26 years before Arsenal and 51 years before Chelsea. They won the FA Cup 61 years before Liverpool and were the first English club to win a domestic and European trophy in the same season."

That City are at this point of evolution and can do so, is down to the weird and wonderful combination of the modern day largesse of club owner Sheikh Mansour, whose generosity has built a new kingdom in Manchester to rival the game's greatest names and to Mr Joshua Parlby, a moustachioed, round-faced businessman from a bygone time, whose perspicacity and powers of persuasion brought Ardwick Association Football Club to the attention of the Football League, thus beginning a long and eventful journey to where the club stands today.