Media bias against City

[hertsblue]

Daily Fail season review, team by team.

Managers.

So there you have it. Van Gall get's given a £160mill war chest, get's united to 4th, and only makes the CL play off.

Pellers and the club had their spending restricted by Platini and UEFA, but the team still finished 2nd, 9 points in front of United.

Tbh that's some rating he's given pellegrini
4 or a 5 tops.

Wasn't Woodward quoted in the press that United always budget for a top three finish? It seems TT has been marked up as a success even though he's missed his expected target.

Mail and BBC, the 2 biggest biased piles of crap around.
The BBC report is even worse than the mails and is laughable:

Ours (they predicted 2nd we came 2nd, note that):
MANCHESTER CITY 2nd (prediction 2nd)
Manager: Manuel Pellegrini 5 Players: 5 Season: 5

Manchester City made a lame attempt at defending the title - especially after the turn of the year when Chelsea moved into the distance and manager Manuel Pellegrini seemed unable to inspire his side - and there was even a worry at one stage that they would not make the top four.

Eventually finished second but a poor season by their standards and by the standards of the players in their squad. Yaya Toure, usually City's key performer, was pedestrian so expect City's driven and ambitious Abu Dhabi-based owners to put matters right this summer.

So 5's all round despite us doing as well as they thought.

Now, Utds, remember the most expensive team and squad ever in the PL who won it the season before last. Spending that much money they should be expected to make a title bid, not limp in 4th place.

MANCHESTER UNITED 4th (prediction 3rd)
Manager: Louis van Gaal 7 Players: 7 Season: 7

The idea of United finishing in the top four was greeted by scorn before the start of the season, but with a proven manager of Louis van Gaal's ilk in place and quality still in the squad it was always a realistic possibility.

Van Gaal shuffled his resources, £59.7m signing Angel Di Maria and on-loan striker Falcao were big disappointments, but he got it right during a golden spell that brought big wins against Spurs, Liverpool and Manchester City. No trophies but a season that will have satisfied Old Trafford's powerbrokers.

So 7's all round despite them finishing lower where BBC thought they would and only being in 2 competitions most of the season.

As I said, so predictable and laughable really

 

[Wilf Wild 1937]

Not agenda as such, or at least I bloody hope not (!) but not one site has yet updated their honours list to show
that we have been runners up in the league 5 times. All still show 4: Wiki, the OS and er this one.

 

[lazza]

I'm on a downward spiral now.....!

So, somehow the four football journalists of 'i' newspaper, in their season review 'Moments of the Season', only mention City twice. Oddly enough, of the six categories ('best goal', 'best match', 'best quote' (wtf?), 'unsung hero', 'biggest flop' and 'lesson learnt') City's two mentions come under 'biggest flop', meaning half the paper's football experts believe the biggest failure this year was a City player! (Mangala and Fernando, for the record).

 

[dom]

I'm on a downward spiral now.....!

So, somehow the four football journalists of 'i' newspaper, in their season review 'Moments of the Season', only mention City twice. Oddly enough, of the six categories ('best goal', 'best match', 'best quote' (wtf?), 'unsung hero', 'biggest flop' and 'lesson learnt') City's two mentions come under 'biggest flop', meaning half the paper's football experts believe the biggest failure this year was a City player! (Mangala and Fernando, for the record).

Pathetic... they seem to be a needy bunch....

The sad thing is that I know many journalists, and yes, they are having to operate under cynical editorial policies ; certainly, in the arena of football, ( but , perhaps, more worryingly in other arenas)

 

[City1974]

I'm on a downward spiral now.....!

So, somehow the four football journalists of 'i' newspaper, in their season review 'Moments of the Season', only mention City twice. Oddly enough, of the six categories ('best goal', 'best match', 'best quote' (wtf?), 'unsung hero', 'biggest flop' and 'lesson learnt') City's two mentions come under 'biggest flop', meaning half the paper's football experts believe the biggest failure this year was a City player! (Mangala and Fernando, for the record).

Whereas Falcao , Shaw and Di Maria at Utd have been fantastic as has Balotelli and Lovren at Liverpool and Wellbeck at Arsenal of course

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Not agenda as such, or at least I bloody hope not (!) but not one site has yet updated their honours list to show
that we have been runners up in the league 5 times. All still show 4: Wiki, the OS and er this one.

All definitely part of it, We are part of the agenda against ourselves!

 

[mat]

Ian Darke last on ESPN couldn't help but mention money every 5 seconds during his commentary last night.

 

[blue_sonic176]

Ian Darke last on ESPN couldn't help but mention money every 5 seconds during his commentary last night.

To be fair he also did mention it was ridiculous that Sergio wasn't in the PFA team of the year.

 

[city2]

They are all hurting so let's enjoy there pain, it's out there for all city fans to breathe in and soak up the hatred we are here to stay, I'm loving it.

 

[franksinatra]

To be fair he also did mention it was ridiculous that Sergio wasn't in the PFA team of the year.

That's the problem with this thread. People cherry pick information from articles and never highlight the positives which suggests an alternative opinion rather than a bias against the club.