Media bias against City

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MadchesterCity said:
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Well that hurt me fooking eyes,but as far as I could tell only big dick Dublin had us outside of the top four.
 
Robbie Savage hasn't got Chelsea in the top 4!

Although he does have Arsenal finishing 2nd and 3rd, clearly a KFA!
 
fiddlesticksblue said:
Robbie Savage has Arsenal to finish second and third in that listing!
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that's a good point - an error on my part! But to be fair even he doesn't know which position the top 4 will be if you read conflicting reports ;)

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/robbie-savage-predicts-premier-league-6213328

5th - Manchester City

Too many people in Manuel Pellegrini’s team want to run forwards, not backwards – and they haven’t solved the problem.

I’m not sure Raheem Sterling is worth £49m based on eight goals and seven assists last season.
And if Sergio Aguero is injured, Wilfried Bony will not fire them to the title.

4th - Liverpool

Christian Benteke, Firmino, James Milner and Nathaniel Clyne will go straight into the first team, and when Daniel Sturridge is fit again they could force their way back into the top four. But manager Brendan Rodgers desperately needs a good start.

3rd - Chelsea

Never, ever write off Jose Mourinho, and the Special One will grind out enough wins to stay in contention for back-to-back titles.
But I would fear for them if Diego Costa is injured – because Radamel Falcao looks off the pace and Loic Remy won’t make them champions again.

2nd - Arsenal
This is their best chance of winning the title since the Invincibles season.

The Gunners have pace to burn up front, Alexis Sanchez is world class, they have a glittering array of midfield talent and new goalkeeper Petr Cech’s safe hands will be worth five to 10 points alone.

1st - Manchester United
I'm not going to back down now - United remain my tip for the title, but they must resolve the goalkeeping situation.

If David De Gea is not going to play against Tottenham because his mind is elsewhere, perhaps it's best for all concerned if they let him go to Real Madrid and bring in a world-class replacement.

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/...tions-for-bpl-season-bt-sport-sky-sports.html

Robbie Savage (BT Sport)
Who do you think will be the champions and why?
Manchester United. They have bought well. It should be one of the tightest races for the title we have seen. I would go for United, Arsenal, Chelsea and then Manchester City.

United have resolved the central midfield problem with Morgan Schneiderlin and Bastian Schweinsteiger. Add to that Carrick, Herrera and Fellaini, who did well last year.”

Top four prediction
1. Manchester United, 2. Arsenal, 3. Chelsea, 4. Manchester City.
 
Best thing to do is use all this 'disrespect' by the media as fuel to perform at a top level and return to the top of the EPL. Media personnel have their own biases and agendas and are hardly ever right. This Man City squad is talented and strong and should do very well this year.
 
The Northern Baptist said:
I must admit I thought the same when I heard Murphy's comment at first. Richards had his best season, imo, at centre back next to Dunne. Is there no way we could have nurtured him into a quality centre back? We decided to spend huge amounts of money on so called ready made versions in Lescott, Kolo Toure and Mangala. I think Murphy has a point.
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Nah he doesn't, he's Mark Lawrenson Jnr in so many ways.

I couldn't believe what I was hearing on MOTD, ill informed shite.

Our defense, Mangala aside, has been assembled in an economic fashion by recent standards if I recall correctly.

What did we pay for Boateng, Lescott, Kolo Zaba, VK, Kolarov, Clichy, MDM, Sagna, Mangala altogether? I don't think it's that much over 150 million for the lot. Certainly not hundreds of millions, unless of course we're including their entire contracts in this analysis, which of course Murphy didn't allude to - just stirred up more 'city ruining players careers' nonsense.
 
MadchesterCity said:
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I think the thick bastards have misinterpreted the question, it's not "Who do you want to win the league" it's "Who will win the league", that list however just shows how tribal football can be and how few pro-city pundits there are in the media.
Last nights superb performance will have them running for their comfort blankets and hiding in cupboards.
 
yorknomore said:
I think the thick bastards have misinterpreted the question, it's not "Who do you want to win the league" it's "Who will win the league", that list however just shows how tribal football can be and how few pro-city pundits there are in the media.
Last nights superb performance will have them running for their comfort blankets and hiding in cupboards.
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Very good point
 
willipp said:
To be fair to him, he didn't say anything that hasn't been said on here over the last few weeks. We had a very poor pre season and we were all worried about how the defense was looking. Last night we looked superb and VK and EM looked much more solid and even Sagna and Kolarov looked good and Carragher said as much but with the caveat that there will be a lot bigger tests to come.
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I guess the main difference is that the people on here are not paid thousands of pounds a week to be a football 'expert'

That was such a poor strawman defence
 
MCFCFanTX said:
Best thing to do is use all this 'disrespect' by the media as fuel to perform at a top level and return to the top of the EPL. Media personnel have their own biases and agendas and are hardly ever right. This Man City squad is talented and strong and should do very well this year.
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I think that is exactly what Vinny is saying to the players
 
Sergio Picasso Aguero said:
I think that is exactly what Vinny is saying to the players
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We as supporters can do very little about media bias because we as fans are a media minority at the moment.

Imagine if we were players and we had been seeing this frustratingly biased reporting during the last few months we would be livid. The difference is as players we could make them eat their words by performances on the field.
Our owners rarely give the media ammunition to misrepresent and get on with their commercial and team building plans. Our players adopt a similar culture and are all apparently ready to sort out the media and their insistence on using fantasy football to sell their wares.

I am quite impressed by the first game and am a little amused that Mr Pullis admits to choosing the wrong configuration to play against City. He should have worked to his teams strengths rather assuming City were a fading team ready to be taken by his new strike force.
Stop listening to the media is probably the advice MP gave him during a possible glass of wine interlude after the game.
 
SilverFox2 said:
We as supporters can do very little about media bias because we as fans are a media minority at the moment.

Imagine if we were players and we had been seeing this frustratingly biased reporting during the last few months we would be livid. The difference is as players we could make them eat their words by performances on the field.
Our owners rarely give the media ammunition to misrepresent and get on with their commercial and team building plans. Our players adopt a similar culture and are all apparently ready to sort out the media and their insistence on using fantasy football to sell their wares.

I am quite impressed by the first game and am a little amused that Mr Pullis admits to choosing the wrong configuration to play against City. He should have worked to his teams strengths rather assuming City were a fading team ready to be taken by his new strike force.
Stop listening to the media is probably the advice MP gave him during a possible glass of wine interlude after the game.
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I think the 1st game of the season was the perfect time to play West Brom because Pulis was clearly not aware of our change in formation this season so he played 4-4-2 thinking we would play the same whereas if this game was later on in the season he would have set up differently. Also the fact that playing too open has backfired means he will park the bus against the other big teams which the likes of Chelsea and Arsenal will find hard to break down and could drop points. What many of us thought would be a tricky opening away fixture turned out to be right team at the right time.
 
SilverFox2 said:
We as supporters can do very little about media bias because we as fans are a media minority at the moment.

Imagine if we were players and we had been seeing this frustratingly biased reporting during the last few months we would be livid. The difference is as players we could make them eat their words by performances on the field.
Our owners rarely give the media ammunition to misrepresent and get on with their commercial and team building plans. Our players adopt a similar culture and are all apparently ready to sort out the media and their insistence on using fantasy football to sell their wares.

I am quite impressed by the first game and am a little amused that Mr Pullis admits to choosing the wrong configuration to play against City. He should have worked to his teams strengths rather assuming City were a fading team ready to be taken by his new strike force.
Stop listening to the media is probably the advice MP gave him during a possible glass of wine interlude after the game.
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I thought that when the teams were announced, but I have to give Pulis credit he admitted his mistake.
 
I was stuck on the M56 for 5 hours yesterday along with thousands of others.

Gave me an "opportunity" to listen in detail on Radio 5 to Robbie Savage's "analysis" of City's season prospects, plus his hatred of Sterling and all things City generally.

I must admit though, by the end of the match he was asking for an opportunity to upgrade his 4th place prediction.
 
I still have no idea why when showing brief clips of the WBA game, Sky showed our player getting a caution but none of the 4 yellows they had. Since when has getting booked been worthy of including in a very brief clip
 
NeilYoungIsBack said:
I was stuck on the M56 for 5 hours yesterday along with thousands of others.

Gave me an "opportunity" to listen in detail on Radio 5 to Robbie Savage's "analysis" of City's season prospects, plus his hatred of Sterling and all things City generally.

I must admit though, by the end of the match he was asking for an opportunity to resubmit his 4th place prediction.
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They stop being pundits really when they display such a biased and nonsensical critique of teams they irrationally hate. I don't blame the shit ex footballers who are doing any footballing analysis, it's the companies that employ them that have got their heads up their arses.

If you were going to employ an expert in any other field be it stocks and shares or environmental issues you wouldn't go for a person/company who talks out of the side of its mouth, these may very well know how football works and inside they are screaming CITY but they don't want to upset their fans and just lazily and cowardly say Arsenal/Liverpool/Rags/ and Chelsea.
 
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