Media bias against City

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Ex-pros carry more baggage onto MotD than yer can fit in the hold of a 747. Most of it is pretty worthless, unfit for purpose, snide, and would convince even the diehard Shearerites, Murphyites, et al that they know as much about football and football management that we don't know already as you could effectively fit on the sharp end of a pin. They might have been club and international stalwarts but as far as the grey matter between their ears goes, 'stalwart' is the last word to use.

 

[SilverFox2]

Ex-pros carry more baggage onto MotD than yer can fit in the hold of a 747. Most of it is pretty worthless, unfit for purpose, snide, and would convince even the diehard Shearerites, Murphyites, et al that they know as much about football and football management that we don't know already as you could effectively fit on the sharp end of a pin. They might have been club and international stalwarts but as far as the grey matter between their ears goes, 'stalwart' is the last word to use.

I agree, one thing to pander to BBC majority viewers but another to allow Mr Shearers skewed opinions on a 6-1 rout to be broadcast as balanced opinion to that same majority.

 

[EddieR]

I agree, one thing to pander to BBC majority viewers but another to allow Mr Shearers skewed opinions on a 6-1 rout to be broadcast as balanced opinion to that same majority.

Ok, but we all know that he's as Newcastle-centric as Ian Wright is Arsenal-biased. Take it with a pinch of salt, he's probably a very a disappointed man atm.

 

[jockblue]

Interesting contrast between Shearer on MOTD and Wright on MOTD2. Shearer dresses himself up as an impartial pundit on MOTD and pretends to give reasoned feedback on both sides, which of course turns into drivel. Wright on the other hand, makes no bones about his support, and therefore sets a scene for his comments on Arsenal. Equally moronic analysis but we could forgive Wright as he's a fan as well.

 

[Goater=Legend]

This is just disgusting analysis. No credit whatsoever from the same prick that thought Aguero would be a flop.

 

[pete1970]

Yep
Thats what i said about charlie too

 

[SilverFox2]

Ok, but we all know that he's as Newcastle-centric as Ian Wright is Arsenal-biased. Take it with a pinch of salt, he's probably a very a disappointed man atm.

My point was regards how it looks from BBC point of view. Presumably their non City supporting majority of viewers would also not agree with Mr Shearers views which does little for their attempt to pander to the masses.

Even Garth Crooks sees this and tries at least to redeem some semblance of fairness for BBC pundits.

 

[Helmet Cole]

This is just disgusting analysis. No credit whatsoever from the same prick that thought Aguero would be a flop.

Lol. Hurting a bit aren't they!

 

[Marvin]

This is just disgusting analysis. No credit whatsoever from the same prick that thought Aguero would be a flop.

That's bad even by the general standards of City reporting

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Sick of MOTD. Even that great win they managed to focus on Newcastle.

 

[Helmet Cole]

I wouldn't be surprised of some of the papers have 'city concede at home' as backpage headline today

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

This is just disgusting analysis. No credit whatsoever from the same prick that thought Aguero would be a flop.

hmmm a lot of what he said was actually correct. We were in a mess before they scored, Hart did make a save to stop it being 0-2. A lot of what else he said just smelled of the usual man city envy though

 

[nellyonthewing]

Did we play this Saturday? Surely not there's nothing in the news about it...?

 

[tonea2003]

This is just disgusting analysis. No credit whatsoever from the same prick that thought Aguero would be a flop.

wow just wow, he is trying so hard to be negative about us but even then some superlatives slip out

 

[LeKoa]

This is just disgusting analysis. No credit whatsoever from the same prick that thought Aguero would be a flop.

It is pointless to criticise Charlie Nicholas. He is parodies himself sufficiently enough in this clip to render our contempt for him redundant.

It leaves only one question: if the result was, in Nicholas' own words, a "remarkable turnaround", why does he seem so depressed about it?

The question is rhetorical. It provides its own answer.

Top of the table. We say nothing. Our silence is deafening.

 

[A Blue]

BBC last week. CAN UNITED WIN THE TITLE ? This week. CAN ARSENAL WIN THE TITLE ?
In 91 weeks. CAN ROCHDALE WIN THE TITLE ?

 

[jaiguruKun]

It is pointless to criticise Charlie Nicholas. He is parodies himself sufficiently enough in this clip to render our contempt for him redundant.

It leaves only one question: if the result was, in Nicholas' own words, a "remarkable turnaround", why does he seem so depressed about it?

The question is rhetorical. It provides its own answer.

Top of the table. We say nothing. Our silence is deafening.

"Some nice touches.." Wow some praise there from him

 

[supercity88]

As good as we were in the second half, the first half defensive performance was worrying. They carved us open with ease and could easily have been 2-0 up at one stage.

We blew them apart second half and rightly should earn praise for that. I think MOTD got it spot on though. As good as the scoreline was, it wasn't a faultless City performance and I still want to see a more cohesive defensive display in the future. Hopefully Kompany is ready to return post Internationals and we can kick on from there.

 

[Utter bobbins]

As good as we were in the second half, the first half defensive performance was worrying. They carved us open with ease and could easily have been 2-0 up at one stage.

We blew them apart second half and rightly should earn praise for that. I think MOTD got it spot on though. As good as the scoreline was, it wasn't a faultless City performance and I still want to see a more cohesive defensive display in the future. Hopefully Kompany is ready to return post Internationals and we can kick on from there.

We missed chances before they scored so we could have been 1-0 up which seems to get ignored by the so called experts

 

[Chris in London]

We missed chances before they scored so we could have been 1-0 up which seems to get ignored by the so called experts

This.

My take FWIW is that City bossed the first 20 minutes or so, and when Newcastle scored it came against the run of play. Then they had a spell where they were on top (as often happens - you don't get many games where one team isn't on top at some point for 10-15 minutes or so) and carved out some decent chances. But we had come back into the game and were creating chances ourselves for a fair few minutes before the equaliser, and between the equaliser and the half we looked more likely to score than they did.

Somehow a half in which the score genuinely reflected the way the game had gone got turned into 'Newcastle should have been out of sight by half time'.