Media bias against City

[birchwoodgingerste]

itv news shown the prem results all by citys anyway definately an agenda!

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Aguero and Toure would be prem legends if they played elsewhere. I'm not even sure the bias is deliberate, it's just decades of covering certain clubs in a different way.

add silva and vinny too. but your right, they would be legends..

witness the way phillpe couthinhio is wanked over..this season silva has done just as much pretty attacking football,scored many more goals and made quite a few decisive defensive contributions.
all over looked.
its like we dont exist. If thats the way they are gonna play it, fine..but you dont fool me.
CTID.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Aguero and Toure would be prem legends if they played elsewhere. I'm not even sure the bias is deliberate, it's just decades of covering certain clubs in a different way.

If they turned out for Chelsea or United they would be lauded as the greatest striker and midfielder in the Premier League era.

in a nutshell.
i,m sick of it.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Agreed mate

Not sure I recall a single season where they've ever made a big deal about golden gloves or boot on MOTD.

true but they have made a bigger deal over Costa Kane and De_gea this year than Aquero or Hart who did actually win those titles, No?

correct.

 

[Yaya_Tony]

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.


MANCHESTER CITY LATEST
- Mooney: Toure to leave a legend
- Sources: Milner to be offered new deal
- Transfers: Sterling wants out of Liverpool
- Macintosh: Toure leads City to victory
- FFP: City receive a boost
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.

Glad you posted it so I didn't click and the author gets paid. That article is one of the biggest piles of crap I've ever been unfotunate enough to read, and I'm not exaggerating. Incorrect facts and blatant lies, outright untruths and utter slander, and he even claims to have "researched" (googled it) to gain credibility. Hard to imagine it even being allowed to be published.

Oh shit. Agenda. Never mind.

Why we put up with it I don't know.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Those bastards just knew Hart was going to make a world class save today and deliberately started their poll early, eh.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit
Why not wait until the season ended, for every goalkeeper?

Indeed, I agree wholeheartedly. It should be the same for save of the season, goal of the season, player of the season etc. It's absurd to do it before the season has ended.

Evidence of an agenda against Manchester City it quite clearly is not though, and I thought that was the subject of this thread.

This unable to include Hart's save was news to me as I was abroad last week but I note they managed to say they'd delayed goal of the season to include Wilshire's goal today.

No sign of any of our goals in the list either.

On another note BBC national news gave mention to Gerrard and Drogba but not Lampard, the local round up just Gerrard, guilt by association for Frank.

 

[kiam06]

No PFA award for Aguero is like La Liga ignoring Messi

No award for Manuel last year yet Jose wins the same and gets it.

United EDS beat ours it's all over the TV yet we beat them and I don't hear anything about it.

Mangala is classed as a flop yet Di Maria is hardly mentioned and will now be sold for £50m. Due to media shite we'd be lucky to get £15m for Mangala. Falcao again massive flop yet he's had no bad press.

The media is red they want us to fail which will make it sweeter when we wipe the floor with the lot of them.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

No PFA award for Aguero is like La Liga ignoring Messi

No award for Manuel last year yet Jose wins the same and gets it.

United EDS beat ours it's all over the TV yet we beat them and I don't hear anything about it.

Mangala is classed as a flop yet Di Maria is hardly mentioned and will now be sold for £50m. Due to media shite we'd be lucky to get £15m for Mangala. Falcao again massive flop yet he's had no bad press.

The media is red they want us to fail which will make it sweeter when we wipe the floor with the lot of them.

Amen to that. Couldn't put it better myself

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

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.


MANCHESTER CITY LATEST
- Mooney: Toure to leave a legend
- Sources: Milner to be offered new deal
- Transfers: Sterling wants out of Liverpool
- Macintosh: Toure leads City to victory
- FFP: City receive a boost
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.

Glad you posted it so I didn't click and the author gets paid. That article is one of the biggest piles of crap I've ever been unfotunate enough to read, and I'm not exaggerating. Incorrect facts and blatant lies, outright untruths and utter slander, and he even claims to have "researched" (googled it) to gain credibility. Hard to imagine it even being allowed to be published.

Oh shit. Agenda. Never mind.

Why we put up with it I don't know.

If sarcasm is to be the order of the day, then one might say that a one off piece written by a City fan, stuffed away on an independent website and seen by a couple thousand people, is exactly the same as one of any number of bitter and biased articles appearing over a long period of time in a national newspaper, and seen by a global audience of millions.......

 

[chesterguy]

I really do think that people are arguing about different things on this thread and its just about terminology and the use of the word "agenda"

There is definitely an agenda e.g. a planned and discussed approach by a number of disparate parties to slow down City and this is serious as it involves national and international organisations and rivals and involves FFP we have beaten them they know it hence there revision of the rules

To suggest that there is not a media bias and that all the examples of bias in this thread are "perceived injustices" against City is delusional IMHO. It is not an agenda e.g. a planned and discussed approach by a number of disparate parties to slow down City but it is the approach that a number of different outlets have taken for their own individual agenda's. Some have done it for revenue online outlets and Talksport and some journalists have done it for personal bias but until writing postive articles about us generates as many clicks as writing a negative one then it is likely to continue

It pays the media to criticise City. Do that and fans from our rivals will click write a positive article and only we will click. Talksport constantly talk about United, Liverpool and Arsenal why because they know who are likely to phone in and so generate income.

Look at the MEN website on the left there is a section with most read articles to day it states

Most Read in Sport

Manchester United FC
Van Gaal: Manchester United transfer plans are in place
Louis van Gaal
Manchester United confirm Radamel Falcao has left the club
Manchester United FC
Van Gaal: Manchester United need midfielder in summer transfer window
Manchester United FC
Manchester United transfer rumours: Reds ARE after Cristiano Ronaldo and updates on De Gea
Manchester United FC
Hull 0 Manchester United 0: Player ratings

Now if any of us were in charge of that paper whose customer base would you want to keep happy City or United

It doesn't make it right but it does make it understandable and as City fans who like me use News Now to get articles to read about my club it is frustrating. It is frustrating because the media do not know what our club is doing or more likely don't care and to read the tired old cliches such as the Talksport article about our season and it immediately states our "expensively assembled side" you know they have no understanding about the club and what it has done over the past 2 years

So lets just use the right terminology there is an agenda at the top level, there is a bias within the media