Media bias against City

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

If we did the quadruple we'd struggle to get four players in the team of the year.

2 quadruples ! Now that's just being greedy ;-)

 

[HelloCity]

Mike Keegan & co of the Daily Mail have been on fire today. Their timelines are like a United match day programme.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Was watching BBC Breakfast the other morning and they were interviewing some Yank, haven't got a clue what they were talking about but the yank just happened to make a comment about ''people coming over and watching a Manchester City soccaar match''... the host, Bill wotisname, couldn't wait to jump in and say 'or utd, or utd'

I wonder if the yank had used utd as his example in the first place if Bill would have been just as keen to get a mention of City in?

Haha yeah I saw that.....dear old Bill 'in the interest of fairness'

 

[Blue Hefner]

Valiant effort mate, but if you thought the IPSO was ever going to do anything other than cover the arses of their chums in the press then you were always going to be disappointed.

I may have mis-read but, they wrote 'sheik and vac...' in the reply - did they not feel that it could have caused offence?

I'm not the sensitivite type but putting that in a national newspaper, albeit The Star, is out of order

 

[acquiesce]

I might be completly wrong but when I look at ESPN for example, it seems like we're pretty big in the states? Is it because of NY City or because their general interest in football has been growing a lot since we became one of the top clubs? Any yank on here who knows better?

I would say that the US sports media is fairly new to the game of football. Highlights on Sportcenter only really began probably around the 2010 World Cup, so with us being there or thereabouts since then we are on fairly equal footing. Winning the league in 2012 the way we did, did us no harm and was the lead story for the day haha. In general the sports media is a lot more balanced over here. The sly digs that the English media get away with are shocking to most American fans I believe, it's a sight to behold because that just doesn't happen over here.

Add to the fact that NYCFC has been a big coup for the owners/club. It's pretty amazing the amount of City shirts you see walking the streets of NYC these days. Not just NYCFC, but MCFC kit. I'd go so far as to say we are dominating the NYC market compared to all other football clubs with possibly the exception of Barcelona.

 

[YaYa's Left Peg]

your post is something that i could've written... in my case i live in America (Ann Arbor, MI) and i am not able to get most of these shows live... what i've noticed also is that very rarely do City supporters call/facebook/tweet the shows... the pundits always spend time on the teams that most listeners call about... so far this year on 606 both Saturday and Sunday regardless of how City does we might get a couple of callers.. even on days that 5live comments on a City game they still don't get enough callers from our supporters in the post match analyses... so they mention us for 2 seconds and on to United to address their audience... (from here the live show is blocked, i can only download the podcast or listen after the match)
also, there is no need for the a media bias against City thread... the post match threads do a fabulous job at that or better yet the Yaya thread... it is as if people listen to the same pundits they love to hate only to regurgitate the same shit they complain about on these forums...
just my little grain of salt for this thread....

I'm with you my friend ...... Shows how powerful the press and media are.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

your post is something that i could've written... in my case i live in America (Ann Arbor, MI) and i am not able to get most of these shows live... what i've noticed also is that very rarely do City supporters call/facebook/tweet the shows... the pundits always spend time on the teams that most listeners call about... so far this year on 606 both Saturday and Sunday regardless of how City does we might get a couple of callers.. even on days that 5live comments on a City game they still don't get enough callers from our supporters in the post match analyses... so they mention us for 2 seconds and on to United to address their audience... (from here the live show is blocked, i can only download the podcast or listen after the match)
also, there is no need for the a media bias against City thread... the post match threads do a fabulous job at that or better yet the Yaya thread... it is as if people listen to the same pundits they love to hate only to regurgitate the same shit they complain about on these forums...
just my little grain of salt for this thread....

Top post mate. Especially the post match thread reference.

 

[Silva2021]

Guardian Team of the Season

Ha ha ha

Interesting team but not sure it shows any bias against City.

The injuries have stopped our best players being in there (Vinny, Sergio, Silva), KDB probably joined to late and Otamendi did not start to begin with.

Who do you feel should be in??

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Mike Keegan & co of the Daily Mail have been on fire today. Their timelines are like a United match day programme.

What you're doing here is taking a "pro United" story, of which there are many, and conflating it into meaning it's anti City. This is one of the more fundamental nonsenses of this thread. It's surely time for City fans to stop playing the victims and embrace the fact that we're the relatively new kids on the block (in terms of the Premier League) and the lazy journalists, who've been on easy street for years, don't like it. They've cultivated their relationships for years, with no sustained challenge to the status quo, and they're on the defensive. Most of them don't have either the wit or imagination to embrace change (and, to be fair to them, change is not a concept that plays easily to many people) so they spout what they know and what is received wisdom about what the proper order of things is. People can either rail against the media or do what I, and lots of others, do and not give a shit about what 'they' say. This has always worked for me.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

I like the fact the press are so anti City, all we need to do is keep winning, it's like twisting the knife on them.

Exactly. Let them squirm as we succeed.