gordondaviesmoustache
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It's just a few kids doing what many football fans do. Fairness doesn't enter into it. No point trying to rationalise it.
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Media bias against City
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citizens_1976
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As for Carragher, i thought he was quite fair in what he said really. I thought what he said about pre season games was rather odd, because who really judges off pre season? Chelsea had a poor pre season and even the Rags beat Barca 3-1 in a friendly... not like they will be anywhere near as good as Barca this season, means absolutely nothing at all.
As for what he said about some of our players, he was rather complimentary. He did state that Sterling will give our attack impetus which we sometimes lack and he was raving about how 70-80% of fans in the country would choose to watch David Silva over any player in the Premier League. Sometimes as a pundit you have to channel out your biased opinions away and tell it how it is, that's what they get paid to do. Sometimes Carragher can be biased, but other times he talks sense.
I think he has a man crush on Silva, always seems to rave about him and tbh, i don't blame him. Special little footballer.
As for what he said about some of our players, he was rather complimentary. He did state that Sterling will give our attack impetus which we sometimes lack and he was raving about how 70-80% of fans in the country would choose to watch David Silva over any player in the Premier League. Sometimes as a pundit you have to channel out your biased opinions away and tell it how it is, that's what they get paid to do. Sometimes Carragher can be biased, but other times he talks sense.
I think he has a man crush on Silva, always seems to rave about him and tbh, i don't blame him. Special little footballer.
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It's just a few kids doing what many football fans do. Fairness doesn't enter into it. No point trying to rationalise it.
Yeah true, but with all the media criticism i feel like it does turn many neutral fans heads and every other club in the league will jump on the bandwagon in booing him and criticising him. I hope not, because he is not exactly a racist, cheating thug like John Terry.
Not all fans, but some that haven't got a mind of their own.
prestonibbo_mcfc
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Fuck 'em all. What ever they say or print has no bearing on how our season will pan out.
They'll be even more bitter,when they find out they've backed the losers :))
They'll be even more bitter,when they find out they've backed the losers :))
squirtyflower
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The issue there is that those two particular forums are full of flappers, WUMs and loons.Maybe 'all' was a little over the top, but the way transfer forum and match day forums were flapping it felt like all.
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Yeah true, but with all the media criticism i feel like it does turn many neutral fans heads and every other club in the league will jump on the bandwagon in booing him and criticising him. I hope not, because he is not exactly a racist, cheating thug like John Terry.
Not all fans, but some that haven't got a mind of their own.
its a detailed media driven agenda to derail our season. in short they are fucking shitting it.
its a detailed media driven agenda to derail our season. in short they are fucking shitting it.
Absolutely, the Telegraph which is a daily special edition for the rags and dippers were running an article on how he is going to get booed before the season even kicked off.
lazza
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OK, please please, if someone can find me a report of the West Brom game in mainstream media that does not mention that he has cost us £49m, please provide a link. I'll gladly click it. Every single one of the on-line reports I've read makes the same mistake: he is not (and who knows, may never be) "£49m Sterling" but it just shows how media manipulation can take an exaggeration (or lie) and with enough repeating it magically becomes the whole truth. It's doing my f'ing head in, gets me cross every time I read it. I just want to see it reported truly somewhere, surely there must be someone not toeing the anti-City line.
OK, please please, if someone can find me a report of the West Brom game in mainstream media that does not mention that he has cost us £49m, please provide a link. I'll gladly click it. Every single one of the on-line reports I've read makes the same mistake: he is not (and who knows, may never be) "£49m Sterling" but it just shows how media manipulation can take an exaggeration (or lie) and with enough repeating it magically becomes the whole truth. It's doing my f'ing head in, gets me cross every time I read it. I just want to see it reported truly somewhere, surely there must be someone not toeing the anti-City line.
Neither the SkySports or Guardian one mention Sterling's fee, first two i clicked on.
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...-west-brom-3-0-in-their-premier-league-opener
http://www.theguardian.com/football...n-manchester-city-premier-league-match-report
You're quite right. I've enjoyed your many contributions to those forums.The issue there is that those two particular forums are full of flappers, WUMs and loons.
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