Media bias against City

[pellers_tastic]

It has to be something to do with segragation/stewarding and also the capacity changed during the season.

United 45358
Liverpool 45471
Chelsea 45602

Yet:

Stoke 45,608
Southampton 45919

I think you are right, Stoke and Southampton returned their top tier tickets so no need for segregation on that tier

 

[Mikejl]

James Lawton's writing style is so dreary and pretentious, it hurts. He seems compelled to use three words when one will suffice. Doubtless, following his parting of the ways from the UK Independent he's now greatly enjoying the spoils of writing once every six months for the similarly named Irish publication.

The cream always rises to the top in the end.

Lawton hates City with a passion, his love of everything ManUre oozes from every word. Seem to recall equally unpleasant articles demeaning us that this cretin wrote

 

[moomba]

Is Lawton the one that wrote about the worst title defence in history?

 

[blueinsa]

Well the next snipe is off the production line at Sky

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...re-closest-to-capacity-in-england-last-season

Except capacity wasn't 48000 was it Sly?

Lazy twats.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Is Lawton the one that wrote about the worst title defence in history?

Yes, mate. He was somewhat reticent about the subject the following season, strangely enough.

 

[Mikejl]

Is Lawton the one that wrote about the worst title defence in history?

That's the knob, bitter pathetic excuse for a journalist

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Lawton hates City with a passion, his love of everything ManUre oozes from every word. Seem to recall equally unpleasant articles demeaning us that this cretin wrote

He's got serious form for slagging City off - and being a lickspittle to united, and Ferguson in particular.

 

[IH8MUFC]

Sterling moves to a club positioned to win trophies from a club that wasn't. With a pay rise. Plus champions league football.

Verdict: Money grabbing kid

Milner moves to a club positioned to battle for 5th place from a club positioned to win trophies. With a pay rise. With no champions league football.

Verdict: Great move, wants to play football.

As balanced as ever.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Our PR team obviously have their orders from high, I would imagine they are told not to rock the boat and to conduct the clubs affairs in a dignified manner.

What would you have them do? Kick journalists out of the Etihad? write them a sternly worded letter? Get our legal team to start libel proceedings against them?

How childish would we look if we did any of that?

They do indeed operate under orders. The club is effectively a high profile public face of Abu Dhabi and that's reflected in the way we deal with the press. The Sheikh and his advisers want everything low key.

That doesn't mean they don't get extremely irritated by some of the crap that passes for "journalism" and they do react where they think it's necessary. But the vast majority of that reaction is done without fanfare. I think we've sued The Sun once but I've been told that others have backed down under the threat of action and paid substantial sums to charity. So we don't sit back and soak up the shit.

They've also done a good job of getting some influential journalists onside, such as Martin Samuel, Henry Winter, Olly Holt, Danny Taylor and even David Conn to a large degree. They'll all have their digs every now and again but by and large they understand what the project is about.

The club also know it's a waste of time trying to change the way some journalists write about us but eventually those people will need to butter us up, in the same way they do with the rags. And even the rags have negative stories written about them these days. At the end of the day, no one can force people to write nice things about them.

We have a role to play in all of this. Whenever we see stories like that fucking muppet Lawton's, we should firmly but intelligently challenge them where we can. That story of Powell's for example. People have commented on it and the likes for the comments challenging him far outweigh the dislikes. Even something as simple as that might convince editors that there's more benefit being positive about us than being negative. We should make official complaints to the outlets and to OFCOM if necessary, where justified.

Perhaps we should set up our own Media Monitoring Unit on Bluemoon where we coordinate our response to negative stories.

 

[The Count Of Monte Cristo]

They do indeed operate under orders. The club is effectively a high profile public face of Abu Dhabi and that's reflected in the way we deal with the press. The Sheikh and his advisers want everything low key.

That doesn't mean they don't get extremely irritated by some of the crap that passes for "journalism" and they do react where they think it's necessary. But the vast majority of that reaction is done without fanfare. I think we've sued The Sun once but I've been told that others have backed down under the threat of action and paid substantial sums to charity. So we don't sit back and soak up the shit.

They've also done a good job of getting some influential journalists onside, such as Martin Samuel, Henry Winter, Olly Holt, Danny Taylor and even David Conn to a large degree. They'll all have their digs every now and again but by and large they understand what the project is about.

The club also know it's a waste of time trying to change the way some journalists write about us but eventually those people will need to butter us up, in the same way they do with the rags. And even the rags have negative stories written about them these days. At the end of the day, no one can force people to write nice things about them.

We have a role to play in all of this. Whenever we see stories like that fucking muppet Lawton's, we should firmly but intelligently challenge them where we can. That story of Powell's for example. People have commented on it and the likes for the comments challenging him far outweigh the dislikes. Even something as simple as that might convince editors that there's more benefit being positive about us than being negative. We should make official complaints to the outlets and to OFCOM if necessary, where justified.

Perhaps we should set up our own Media Monitoring Unit on Bluemoon where we coordinate our response to negative stories.

That sounds like a great idea, there's enough posters on this thread to facilitate it. I think it'd be more palatable than highlighting obvious click bait.