Media bias against City

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Exactly. Let them squirm as we succeed.

I love it when you use the word 'squirm', BTP.

 

[Clercqs]

Guardian Team of the Season

Ha ha ha

One of the best and most correct TOTS so far imo. Could argue for Sagna and Kompany but Bellerin and Van Dijk/Smalling have been excellent too.

 

[HelloCity]

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.

Wrong. You're trying too hard to be a smart arse I'm afraid.

No where did I say it was anti City. I'm just providing a example of how positive certain journalists can be to another club.

The main City headlines are about us changing manager, despite Pellegrini being one of the longest serving in the league and having just signed a new contract. Now, I can see why Pep would be linked but it's pushing it with Ancelotti.

Also, it can be sometimes difficult to completely accept the media when they often come out with complete lies about the club. Maybe you just don't have the same attachment so it doesn't bother you as much.

 

[HelloCity]

One of the best and most correct TOTS so far imo. Could argue for Sagna and Kompany but Bellerin and Van Dijk/Smalling have been excellent too.

More United players than City. Most goals scored, best goal difference, top of the league and top of the Champions League's 'hardest' group but only one City player?

Just to confirm, not one City player has won a football writers or players player of the year award despite us having the best record over 5 years.

No City manager has won the best manager award. Brendan Fucking Rodgers won it over double winning Pellegrini, with the award then going to 'genius' Mourinho for doing the same thing a year later.

Oh and Aguero has never made the PL team of the season.

This team rarely ever gets the credit it deserves.

 

[Phil1]

The ones who close their eyes and cover their ears are worse than the blues who rightly point out the disparities in reporting.

 

[Clercqs]

More United players than City. Most goals scored, best goal difference, top of the league and top of the Champions League's 'hardest' group but only one City player?

Just to confirm, not one City player has won a football writers or players player of the year award despite us having the best record over 5 years.

No City manager has won the best manager award. Brendan Fucking Rodgers won it over double winning Pellegrini, with the award then going to 'genius' Mourinho for doing the same thing a year later.

Oh and Aguero has never made the PL team of the season.

This team rarely ever gets the credit it deserves.

Yes I do agree that we're often being overlooked by the media but this time I don't think that we're being treated unfair. Which City player(s) do you think deserves to be in this team?

Edit: Didn't Kompany win POTS 2011/12?

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Wrong. You're trying too hard to be a smart arse I'm afraid.

No where did I say it was anti City. I'm just providing a example of how positive certain journalists can be to another club.

The main City headlines are about us changing manager, despite Pellegrini being one of the longest serving in the league and having just signed a new contract. Now, I can see why Pep would be linked but it's pushing it with Ancelotti.

Also, it can be sometimes difficult to completely accept the media when they often come out with complete lies about the club. Maybe you just don't have the same attachment so it doesn't bother you as much.

But the thread is called Media Bias against City. If we turn it into media bias pro United the server will crash....
Maybe I don't have the same attachment to the club as you? That must be it, well done. What I do know, is that if I see an article about the rags in a paper or online, I wouldn't even read it, let alone copy it and paste into a City forum.

 

[Phil1]

Yes I do agree that we're often being overlooked by the media but this time I don't think that we're being treated unfair. Which City player(s) do you think deserves to be in this team?

Edit: Didn't Kompany win POTS 2011/12?

Kompany, Sagna, Kolorov and at a push KDB.

 

[Clercqs]

Kompany, Sagna, Kolorov and at a push KDB.

No way Kolarov has been better than Monreal. Monreal has been suberb this season.

 

[Phil1]

No way Kolarov has been better than Monreal. Monreal has been suberb this season.

As has Kolorov. He's actually been in a couple of teams of the year I've seen so far from various journalists/media.

I might be biased though...