Media bias against City

[Hamann Pineapple]

Total bullshit story. With tickets costing £50 - two months' wages for the average Vietnamese - who the fuck is going to buy them just to burn them? If this incident actually ever happened some media twat has bought them and paid a local to publicly burn them.

Precisely, almost as if they want to dent our appeal in Vietnam. I notice they didn't run with all the community projects the players attended in Vietnam.

 

[cookster]

Precisely, almost as if they want to dent our appeal in Vietnam. I notice they didn't run with all the community projects the players attended in Vietnam.

Looking at the c@nt. He's clearly a RAG.

 

[Blueknows]

Looking at the c@nt. He's clearly a RAG.

And that prick filming on his mobile in the hotel
"Silva say hi "
Silva obliges with a thumbs up
"Silva , SIlva say hi"
"Silva say hi , Silva , Silva say hi"
"Silva say hi , SIlva say hi"
Its a wonder someone from the club didnt spark the fecker out

 

[Pokes28]

This will not change for at least a generation. Why does Liverpool get more positive spin? A lot of the pundits and journalists are old enough that in their formative years, Liverpool was the class of the league. Same can be said with the Rags and to a lesser extent, Arse. After 10-20 more years of City being a top notch club year in and year out with cabinets full of trophies, things will turn. Start getting a few former players sitting in the studio on game day and it can happen even faster. The only guy I think that would be likely to be in that role on the current team is Hart.

 

[grasybaby]

Total nothing story mate, but because it's City, they will try and make out it's an absolute disgrace. Any other team did this, fuck all would be mentioned, and even if it was another team, who gives a fuck.

MUEN appear to have been the first to publish this bullshit story

 

[waspish]

MUEN appear to have been the first to publish this bullshit story

some loop head from that comic read it on here and thought hey that's worth a few clicks! bottom dwellers piece of shit paper

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

This will not change for at least a generation. Why does Liverpool get more positive spin? A lot of the pundits and journalists are old enough that in their formative years, Liverpool was the class of the league. Same can be said with the Rags and to a lesser extent, Arse. After 10-20 more years of City being a top notch club year in and year out with cabinets full of trophies, things will turn. Start getting a few former players sitting in the studio on game day and it can happen even faster. The only guy I think that would be likely to be in that role on the current team is Hart.

A job for dead pan Kolarov, me thinks ;-)

 

[The_Maverick]

Not directly related but how the Steve Smith interview ahead of the next Ashes test was reported is interesting.

He did the Q&A saying the usual generic things then at the end, out of nowhere he threw out the lines about Bayliss and Cook which he'd not even been asked about. Apparently he even said "there you go, you can use that"

He knew how to play the meeja and today there are headlines about how "Steve Smith mocks England"

 

[hutton who blue]

Why are you quoting yourself ya weirdo?

Good point. I will ask myself coming in on my way out.

 

[hutton who blue]

Many years ago a very wise and well minted gentleman once told me all publicity is good publicity, the only difference is perception. He told me he judged his successes in life by the amount of enemies and haters he'd collected along the way to making his fortune. He went on to say the time one should worry is when people stop talking about you because that means you're no longer a threat.

So in essence, pre 2008 City were everybody's lovable loser, many people's 2nd team out of pity and a club with delusions of grandeur who were the butt of every football fans jokes. Lee Sharpe (ex ManUre) turned us down as he thought his career would be better served at Bradford City. Steve Sidwell, Geoff Thomas, Matt Holland (I could go on all day) all turned us down for clubs who we as City fans considered below our stature because these players thought City were a step down from Reading, Charlton and Wolverhapton Wanderers.

Then comes 2008 and the esteemed Sheikh Mansour bought Manchester City, the ridicule we'd suffered quickly became bemused curiosity, but still no-one quite took us seriously. We start to spend huge amounts on average players on massive wages as the only way to start the process of moving us from perennial relegation strugglers to Europa League hopefuls and still they mocked 'Loads-a-money' Manchester City. We bid more than ManUre for Tevez and the Dark Lord coined the phrase 'Noisey Neighbours' who posed no serious threat and would never finish ahead of his beloved club in his lifetime.

A change of manager for us brings about a change of fortunes and for the first time in our recent history genuine world class stars start to take City seriously. We'd already acquired Robinho & Tevez, but now City were going after the elite in the form of Yaya, Silva, Aguero, Nasri, Dzeko, Balotelli etc. All of a sudden, the media narrative changed from lovable losers to reckless spenders ruining football where FFP couldn't come quickly enough to halt us!

It was at this point, and only at this point I knew we'd really arrived because Europe's elite were now putting their collective might together to stop the Manchester City Bandwagon. The more they squirmed, the more they moaned, the more the media willingly fed their bullshit to the masses, the more I knew we were becoming more and more of a threat.

In my book the first milestone was beating ManUre in the FA Cup semi final as this was the first time I can recall since the 70's that we'd squared up to ManUre, looked them straight in the eye, took them on and soundly beat them and were better man for man and as a team. Our first bit of silverware quickly followed and was further proof of our growing presence.

Then came the season that changed it all. The 1-6 at Old Toilet and the Agueroooooo moment that will live on forever. The mocking banner had been ripped down at the swamp as promised and Liverpool were the losers as City now relplaced the media darlings in the all important top four.

Every mocking headline, every derogatory article only sought to give me a warm glow inside in the knowledge that the old guard were still hurting and the only things left for them after their failed FFP attempt was childish name calling and spurious tales pedalled by the former elite's media bum chums.

Am I bothered? Am I fuck, because every time I look at the pained expressions on their faces it reminds me where we've come from and where we now stand. They can have their glorious past as the future is all I'm interested in and that future is likely to contain more than a speck of sky blue.

Now back to the media bias: Would I prefer to be everyone's lovable loser, mocked and loved by other football fans and the media? Or would I perfer to be the media's loathed winner who's only crime was to invest in its team and infrastructure to bring about sustainable longterm success?

I'll leave you to choose for me shall I.................

A very good post. I enjoyed that.