Media bias against City

[Exeter Blue I am here]

I see the EDS team lost last night. Always deemed newsworthy by the Fail. Never a mention when they win though

 

[Deleted member 58678]

QED.

Or rather, "quod non erat demonstandum"
Who Man City could face was the lead story at 7p.m (look at newsnow). Obviously not enough 'clicks' so they have, in that lazy journalistic way they do, substituted Liverpool for Man City.
They are also running a story titled, "Arsenal, Man Utd and Man City handed tough Champions League draw". No mention of Liverpool (although they do say "whoever qualifies").
" It's strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then". (Phillip K Dick).

Look Elwood, the fact that you are not paranoid does not mean you are not being followed

The blues brothers and sisters that show evidence of the press roaches attempts against City are not paranoid, just that they do not have their heads buried in the sand nor up fleet street hacks arses.

Or they're just moulding their evidence to suit their argument and always ignore the positives and tell people who use them that they're burying their head in the sand.

 

[Bill]

not satisfied with platini cheating the media join in whenever they can.

 

[blueinsa]

We have more enemies on here than in the media!

 

[pudge]

They must not have had enough time to cover Aguero getting pulled down for a stonewall penalty or Silva getting emptied with a scissor tackle as well as Benteke being offside for Villa's first.

Five talking points from Manchester City's 3-2 win over Aston Villa

1. Benteke offside call

Tim Sherwood cut a frustrated figure in his post-match interview as he reflected on the incorrect offside call against Christian Benteke just moments before City’s late winner. The Belgian striker was through on goal and tripped by Joe Hart, only for the linesman to raise his flag against the Villans.

“We showed a lot of character, bounced back and got the goals, but one of the decisions has cost us,” said Sherwood. “You don’t need me to tell you. It’s blatant. It’s a red card and a penalty.”

Sky Sports pundit Jamie Redknapp agreed. “I think the linesman makes a really poor call,” he said. “We want to see the benefit [of doubt] given to the forwards. These are big moments in games.”

City midfielder Fernandinho was celebrating his winning goal just 60 seconds later, but it could have been a very different outcome.

2. Guzan blunder costs Villa… and Hart also struggles

It wasn’t a good day for goalkeepers at the Etihad. Villa got off to the worst possible start as Brad Guzan’s disastrous error gifted Sergio Aguero the opening goal after just three minutes, while Joe Hart also endured a torrid afternoon.

Redknapp was baffled by Guzan’s error and felt Villa paid the price for continuously losing possession in their own half and failing to clear their lines in the opening minutes.

“I think it’s a scandalous goal to concede from Aston Villa’s point of view,” said Redknapp. “They became obsessed with giving the ball back to Brad Guzan.

“The amount of times they put themselves under pressure was just incredible. Why he tried to pass that ball across his goal, I’ll never know.”

This was Guzan’s 108th consecutive Premier League appearance, but it is not the first time a mistake of his has been punished. The early blunder was his fourth error leading to a goal this season.

At the other end, Hart fared little better. The England goalkeeper flapped at aerial balls for both of Villa’s strikes and is now equal to Guzan for errors leading to goals in 2014/15.

3. Unlucky Villa

“They have dominated this game. They don’t deserve what they’ve got.” That was Stylian Petrov’s assessment of his former club’s performance in the Sky Sports studio, and it was hard to disagree.

After a nightmare start, Villa responded with another bold, adventurous performance under new boss Tim Sherwood. City have averaged 60.5 per cent possession in the Premier League this season, but they were outpassed by the visitors, who became the first team in six-and-a-half years to have the majority of the possession at the Etihad.

Fernandinho’s late winner keeps Villa just two points clear of the drop zone with four games remaining, but Sherwood is confident of survival.

“You’ve got to look for positives and the positive is that we have come here and we weren’t fazed,” he said. “If we play like we did there and we tighten up defensively, it’s going to be a relegation battle we’re not a part of.”

With three of their remaining four games taking place at Villa Park, it is easy to understand why Sherwood feels so optimistic.

4. Defensive lapses

Despite the pivotal offside call, Villa were ultimately the architects of their own downfall. The first goal was bad, but the second wasn’t much better as Kolarov fired his free kick straight through a gaping gap in the wall.

Petrov blamed Richardson for failing to get closer to Leandro Bacuna on the end of the wall. “Even if Richardson is thinking they are going to play it short, his starting position could be from the wall. He doesn’t need to leave that gap, especially for Kolarov,” he said.

Redknapp, meanwhile, grimaced at the sight of Bacuna jumping out of the way of Kolarov’s strike. “I can’t believe that he would do this,” he said, “You’ve let your team down here. You’ve got to take it, no matter what happens, even if it’s in the face. It’s horrible.”

The third goal was also a consequence of poor defending, but Petrov is confident Sherwood will tighten them up at the back.

“He’s been working on the defensive side of the game since day one,” said Petrov. “He knows where they are weak and he will definitely try to sort them out.”

5. City struggles

Pellegrini talked up City’s spirit after the defeat, but he also accepted that they were a long way from their best.

“It was one of our worst games of the season in possession,” he said in his post-match interview. “We lost so many balls during the game so it was easy for Aston Villa to have possession of the ball. We didn’t play so well but we have spirit to try to fight, including in the last five minutes.”

“I was not satisfied with the way we played but I think sometimes you have other things that make you win important games.”

The win moved City into second place above Manchester United and Arsenal, and Redknapp felt the three points was more important than the performance.

“It wasn’t a vintage performance but this is a difficult time of the year. It’s about grinding out results. It was just a matter of getting the three points.”

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[I am Irrefutable]

MotD showing the minutes silence from all the grounds today, yet turn up the volume so there was noise (which came from the concourse) and not the stands.

No need for that.

 

[scotty123]

MOTD LOL

 

[Don Karleone]

Had to turn it off. Whoever that commentator was for our game,needs his fucking head testing!

 

[daztrueblue91]

I've never been one to claim that there is an agenda and have always though it was individual bias but the coverage from sky today was appalling.

Not one mention of the two stone wall penalties we should have had. Not one mention of Benteke being offside in the build up to the first goal as he was clearly interfering with play by challenging for the header. Not one mention of Benteke being gifted a one-on-one opportunity by being at least 5 yards offside.

It's funny because we have been on the receiving end of some poor offside decisions recently. There was the one against Palace and a few against United and we get people like Carragher saying "you can't call it offside because its so tight", despite it actually being offside. Then we get idiots blaming the high line from the defence. There was actually a commentator who said that we had ourselves to blame for playing the offside trap. Nothing to do with the fact the player WAS offside and it was a perfectly executed offside trap.

So there was me expecting for the pundits to have a sympathetic view of the linesman's call. How wrong could I be?

 

[Balti]

I've never been one to claim that there is an agenda and have always though it was individual bias but the coverage from sky today was appalling.

Not one mention of the two stone wall penalties we should have had. Not one mention of Benteke being offside in the build up to the first goal as he was clearly interfering with play by challenging for the header. Not one mention of Benteke being gifted a one-on-one opportunity by being at least 5 yards offside.

It's funny because we have been on the receiving end of some poor offside decisions recently. There was the one against Palace and a few against United and we get people like Carragher saying "you can't call it offside because its so tight", despite it actually being offside. Then we get idiots blaming the high line from the defence. There was actually a commentator who said that we had ourselves to blame for playing the offside trap. Nothing to do with the fact the player WAS offside and it was a perfectly executed offside trap.

So there was me expecting for the pundits to have a sympathetic view of the linesman's call. How wrong could I be?

$ky-mutv in rag loving city hating shocker!