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From King of the Kippax yesterday.......
Sunday
Yesteday’s manumirror headline was “United to test Spurs with £40M Kane bid”. Bear in mind they’ve already spent about £25M on Depay, and there’s no ‘penniless united go further into debt ‘ type headline.
However, a bit lower down we’re back to Moneybags City (on a £150M spree).
Inside there’s a double page spread on Wilshire rejecting us, and further back there’s a double page spread titled : ‘Bish, Bash, Dosh, after last season’s failures, City’s moneybags owners have flexed their financial muscles and come out fighting for glory’.
No mention anywhere of United’s last two season’s failures.
The bloke next to me in the queue looked at the headline and said that City were disgusting. (I did put him right)
And this is the problem. This is how the uninitiated view such headlines, and what do players, new fans, or managers think that we’re trying to attract to the club? Is the relentless slagging off putting them off? Would a player or manager want to come if he knows that whatever he does there will be no recognition whatsoever. Mancini and Pellers not getting manager of the year, or the lack of recognition of Sergio’s season, are recent examples. Would a new fan choose City?
It’s baffling. You would think that a club who hadn’t won anything for years, whose fanbase have stood by them over this period, have the most despicable neighbours in world football, have pumped millions into football and the Manchester economy, would get a bit of praise now and then, and people would be pleased for us, like we were, say for Blackburn.
I asked Vicki Kloss a few years ago when she was press officer what she thought about this issue and she thought that the only way things would improve media wise would be to start winning things. Well we have won things and the criticism is getting worse if anything. Killing em with kindness hasn’t worked, so what will work?
Why do I continue to buy the Mirror? Well I doubt if you’d see a similar article to Paul Routledge’s on Orgreave in any other tabloid, but I am now being sorely tested.
Dave
Sunday
Yesteday’s manumirror headline was “United to test Spurs with £40M Kane bid”. Bear in mind they’ve already spent about £25M on Depay, and there’s no ‘penniless united go further into debt ‘ type headline.
However, a bit lower down we’re back to Moneybags City (on a £150M spree).
Inside there’s a double page spread on Wilshire rejecting us, and further back there’s a double page spread titled : ‘Bish, Bash, Dosh, after last season’s failures, City’s moneybags owners have flexed their financial muscles and come out fighting for glory’.
No mention anywhere of United’s last two season’s failures.
The bloke next to me in the queue looked at the headline and said that City were disgusting. (I did put him right)
And this is the problem. This is how the uninitiated view such headlines, and what do players, new fans, or managers think that we’re trying to attract to the club? Is the relentless slagging off putting them off? Would a player or manager want to come if he knows that whatever he does there will be no recognition whatsoever. Mancini and Pellers not getting manager of the year, or the lack of recognition of Sergio’s season, are recent examples. Would a new fan choose City?
It’s baffling. You would think that a club who hadn’t won anything for years, whose fanbase have stood by them over this period, have the most despicable neighbours in world football, have pumped millions into football and the Manchester economy, would get a bit of praise now and then, and people would be pleased for us, like we were, say for Blackburn.
I asked Vicki Kloss a few years ago when she was press officer what she thought about this issue and she thought that the only way things would improve media wise would be to start winning things. Well we have won things and the criticism is getting worse if anything. Killing em with kindness hasn’t worked, so what will work?
Why do I continue to buy the Mirror? Well I doubt if you’d see a similar article to Paul Routledge’s on Orgreave in any other tabloid, but I am now being sorely tested.
Dave