Media bias against City

[blue b4 the moon]

Nah, it's one hundred percent down to being brainwashed.

If the media ran a campaign for several weeks saying Aguero was past it and couldn't finish, City fans would slowly begin to say the same thing whenever he didn't play well.

Case in point, it makes me laugh whenever Sterling misses a chance City fans say he can't finish (the media favourite line), this is despite him having a decent amount of goals for his position and one of the best shots to goals ratios in the team.

I can promise you in my case it's frustration but I can accept that may not be the case with all fans.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

I wouldn't worry about it! It will be all the more funny when we are picking up trophies and breaking records every season! To be fair there have been a fare few positives articles in the past few days after the Chinese deal. Read the proper papers by the proper journalists. I.e martin Samuel sombody who does his homework and is not biased 1 way or the other.

 

[moenchengladbach blau]

Every single goal of Tuesday described in the blandest terms by Sam Wallace in the Trollograph eg 'De Bruyne scored with a right footed free kick'.

No article, no mention even in the same paper on last night's Capital Cup draw involving four PL clubs but no fewer than 11 unctuous articles in 20 hours about Neville being given a job for just a few months by the less than salubrious Peter Lim.

City get the biggest crowd of all four quarterfinals and Sky and the Mirror do an article on empty seats.

You have to wonder why these 'professionals' do this repeatedly. It's just not normal.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Sky/Mirror business as usual then!

Wallace can be terribly bland. In this case, there will be an element of the filing deadline issue - they write the majority of the article and have to file by about 9:15 (for some reason). They then bolt on a few amendments, and as 3 City goals were late on, there'd have been little time/space. This isn't to excuse the space wasted on not reporting the match, or in some cases the length given to the Hull goal, neat though it was.

 

[moomba]

Every single goal of Tuesday described in the blandest terms by Sam Wallace in the Trollograph eg 'De Bruyne scored with a right footed free kick'.

No article, no mention even in the same paper on last night's Capital Cup draw involving four PL clubs but no fewer than 11 unctuous articles in 20 hours about Neville being given a job for just a few months by the less than salubrious Peter Lim.

City get the biggest crowd of all four quarterfinals and Sky and the Mirror do an article on empty seats.

You have to wonder why these 'professionals' do this repeatedly. It's just not normal.

It's most of them get their entire football knowledge from supporters forums where one or two sets of supporters seem obsessed about our crowd sizes.

 

[LadislavMplmx]

Nah, it's one hundred percent down to being brainwashed.

If the media ran a campaign for several weeks saying Aguero was past it and couldn't finish, City fans would slowly begin to say the same thing whenever he didn't play well.

Case in point, it makes me laugh whenever Sterling misses a chance City fans say he can't finish (the media favourite line), this is despite him having a decent amount of goals for his position and one of the best shots to goals ratios in the team.

this....people actually listen to this shit & don't think for themselves...Kompany was finished last season....ageing squad...etc...all bollocks but some nob like Jamie Redknapp said it so it must be true,the 'cliche's' are the best...you get people copying daft terms these 'experts' use like 'number 10' & 'false number 9'...its funny as fuck...

 

[moenchengladbach blau]

I prefer Wallace's blandness to the gloating nastiness of Mark Ogden.

I know what you mean about deadlines and late goals but it doesn't take long to include a qualifying adjective like 'superb' instead of just 'right footed'. I cannot log into look at the highlights for reasons that always escape me but relying on a memory which vividly remembers Alan Oakes scoring in the lowest every league crowd but not where I put my keys last night, I seem to recall:

Goal One - KVB cut in and hit the post with a good Left foot shot, Wilf scoring from quite a narrow angle on the rebound.
Goal Two - Nacho took cross from left (Silva or Sterling?) very well and with great anticipation.
Goal Three -KVB nipped in quickly and persistently to get the ball.
Gaol Four. A cracking free kick after the goalie had insisted a defender stood on the line to help.

OK I am biased but in a positive way but if United has scored similar goals they would have been really 'bigged up'.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I prefer Wallace's blandness to the gloating nastiness of Mark Ogden.

I know what you mean about deadlines and late goals but it doesn't take long to include a qualifying adjective like 'superb' instead of just 'right footed'. I cannot log into look at the highlights for reasons that always escape me but relying on a memory which vividly remembers Alan Oakes scoring in the lowest every league crowd but not where I put my keys last night, I seem to recall:

Goal One - KVB cut in and hit the post with a good Left foot shot, Wilf scoring from quite a narrow angle on the rebound.
Goal Two - Nacho took cross from left (Silva or Sterling?) very well and with great anticipation.
Goal Three -KVB nipped in quickly and persistently to get the ball.
Gaol Four. A cracking free kick after the goalie had insisted a defender stood on the line to help.

OK I am biased but in a positive way but if United has scored similar goals they would have been really 'bigged up'.

Oh, I know what you mean, it's lazy or at best, uncaring. I agree it would likely have been different if it had been Martial. It just looks as though he's copied the one-line online descriptions at times. He managed to get more out of Hull's goal than all of City's put together.

Wallace sometimes comes over as bored out of his mind by the banality of it all (in his eyes, I hasten to add). Worse, I read the Independent, and Wallace is being replaced by Ogden!! Ogden and Herbert - it'll be unreadable. I think a HackWatch page on Bluemoon would be really quite angry.

I made it as follows:
1. Not sure KdB cut in that much, and Bony's angle wasn't too bad. The covering defender was doing his best.
2. Yes, really good cross from Sterling, really good poach from Iheanacho.
3. Awful backpass I think, chased down (I can see many other players being lauded for this)
4. Very odd. I think if the defender wasn't there or had stayed on his post, the keeper might have saved it or at least got close - the ball was nowhere near the corner. As it was, they both watched motionless.

 

[1961_vintage]

Enjoyed Tricky as co-commentator on R5LE on Tuesday. Hopefully a replacement for Danny (sigh) Mills in the not too distant future.

 

[Bentheblue]

Enjoyed Tricky as co-commentator on R5LE on Tuesday. Hopefully a replacement for Danny (sigh) Mills in the not too distant future.

Me too, thought he was excellent and very positive about us. Hard to believe it was a BBC Station!