Media bias against City

[mat]

Fuck me were only referred to as the champions when we lose.

 

[Musampa 209]

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They love it

 

[ancoats]

question about city on tv

don't know what games we had been on tv this season but it must be down from other seasons
BT sport and SKYsports have been showing a lot of united games in the past months

its it a plan to hit Manchester city in the FFP with the amount of turn over money from the tv games
the deal is based on amount shown each season so the amount of money is not a equal for all teams

would like some input on what games been shown this season

 

[malg]

Re: question about city on tv

They're a bigger draw than us, and we're boring to watch.

 

[dronefromsector7g]

Re: question about city on tv

They're a bigger draw than us, and we're boring to watch.

Rag.

 

[ancoats]

Re: question about city on tv

They're a bigger draw than us, and we're boring to watch.

CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND

to what part of we're boring to watch are we to them scum over the road with a long ball game

 

[kaz7]

Re: question about city on tv

3 games this week, all on tv

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Re: question about city on tv

Apart from Leicester game, i think all our March games are on TV.
Good start to April aswell. As long as we are in touch with Chelsea
we will see most of our games from now till the end of the season.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Re: question about city on tv

Makes very little difference overall. Half the dosh is split equally, half the rest goes on where you finish and the remaining quarter is distributed based on TV appearances but every team is guaranteed at least £7.5m, which is equivalent to ten televised games.

 

[waspish]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/premier-league-manuel-pellegrini-holism-5343251

They love it

You won't be reading this anywhere else this Monday, but Manuel Pellegrini is a genius. Famously, the Chilean was hired as a replacement for chippy scarf-model Roberto Mancini, in the hope that he could bring a more "holistic" management style to Manchester City. On Saturday we learned just how far he is willing to take this mission.

City lost to Burnley. This might be considered something of a shock, seeing as one side carries a price tag that wouldn't shame an aircraft carrier while the other was actually assembled in exchange for a couple of badly-painted Airfix, but Pellegrini's never cared for the odds. George Boyd scored a really rather cute winner, and while City should probably have had a penalty later in the game, the way things were going Sergio Aguero would almost certainly have passed it square.

In itself, and in terms of their ailing title defence, this was an appalling result. City are now six points behind Chelsea – who have a game in hand – and, more amusingly just one point ahead of Arsenal and two ahead of Manchester United. But that's not the holistic picture.

Vincent Kompany looks dejected after losing the match
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In essence, it became clear that City weren't going to be winning the league again this season after they caught Chelsea, then allowed them to get away. Fine. Now, a less holistic manager than Pellegrini might have happily accepted the comfortable second place that he was being handed; keep things ticking over, coast home, make lots of apologetic shrugging gestures in the direction of Chelsea, and maybe keep his job. But not our Manuel! Oh no.


See, Pellegrini knows what holisticity means. Holisticism, despite the strange disappearance of the 'w', is about the whole picture, about the interconnectedness of all things, and the whole picture looks far more entertaining this morning. His loss – his team's loss – is everybody else's gain: the fans of United and Arsenal, the neutrals who just want to see interesting things happen, and the sponsors and television companies and everybody else who has a stake in the ongoing fiction that the Premier League is the Best in the World. It isn't. But it can sometimes be exciting.

Joe Hart looks dejected after the match
Take Hart, Joe: City are being holistic
He's not doing it on purpose, of course. That would be an allegation of throwing football matches, and that sort of thing gets lawyers very excited and Diarists very spiked. No, this isn't deliberate; it's more fundamental than that. The powers that be at City might well have thought that holisticality might just be a cheap, fancy-sounding word slogan, a handy euphemism for suits who can't quite bring themselves to admit 'we sacked the last bloke because he was, frankly, an [redacted]'.

They should have paid more attention. They accidentally ended up with somebody who was so damn holistical that he couldn't help but take the needs of the wider country to heart. We can't have a race for first, he realised. Let's have one for second, third and fourth. Hell, if Southampton's squad can hold out, if Tottenham can avoid turning into Spurs, and if Liverpool don't vanish up Brendan's inverted commas again, then let's get fifth, sixth and seventh involved as well.


The important thing to note here is the complete lack of scarf
They wanted a man who didn't irritate the majority of his squad, didn't wear a scarf like it was some kind of weapon, and didn't wear a scarf like some kind of weapon. They wanted a man who would work amiably with those above and below him, who would keep things ticking over pleasantly off the field and pleasingly on. Instead, they got a man who can do most of that, sometimes, but is fundamentally a servant to the mysterious forces of holisticience. Here to make the world a better place, for everybody. It might cost him his job. But it's perked the Premier League up no end, and for that, Manuel, we salute you.

***

Down at the other end, Tim Sherwood's been having fun at Gus Poyet's expense. While we at the Diary have little love for the hapless Uruguayan -- never trust a man with a personalised snood, as a wise fortune cookie once said -- the spectacle of Sherwood clearing the dust from Villa's corridors is strangely compelling. Look at those footballers, previously the most miserable in the land, running around and smiling. Who knew that management could, in essence, amount to charging into a football club, clapping a lot, and insisting everybody start having fun immediately?

Tim Sherwood manager of Aston Villa shakes hands with Gus Poyet manager of Sunderland before kick off
Mr Fun meets Mr Miserable
Okay, so it's probably a bit more complicated than that. But not by much.

Still, everything moves in cycles, and a forcible insistence on everybody having fun only lasts as long as everybody can remember the miserable bloke who came before. So here's what we suggest. Tim Sherwood and Paul Lambert both sign five-year contracts to manage Aston Villa, but do so on the understanding that they take it in turns, on rotation, switching jobs just after Christmas when the other bloke's powers wear off. From giddy chirpmeister to dour tactician and back again, never allowing the other time to get stale, always keeping things fresh. If you're interested, Randy, and would like further details, do feel free to get in touch. Our rates are reasonable. Invoice via Mirror Towers.

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