Media bias against City

[Prestwich_Blue]

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

Quite right. I watched the whole game again on TV and we actually weren't quite as bad in that first half as we looked in real time at the ground. There was Aguero's header and shot that went wide, Fernandinho's shot that wasn't far off, the goal line scramble with Fernando and a killer ball across the six yard box (similar to KDB's in the second half that led to Aguero's 5th) that Aguero really should have been on the end of but was nowhere near. Could easily have been 3-1 to Newcastle, 3-1 to us or 3-3.

The other factor is that we attack with 7 or 8 men most of the time so our defence is always likely to be exposed against a team that played 4-4-2. Have to say, I'm not a fan of McClaren but he came with the idea of putting pressure on the back two and it paid off for 40 minutes.

 

[Aytoun]

Cheeless Charlie trying not to describe Citys goals was like " And what have the Romans done for us "

 

[waspish]

Well we had 1 minute this morning and Newcastle were unlucky first half at 0-1 up could gone 0-2 up but for dubious ofside decision but they did say we blew them away second half and we have are the best team in the league! Oh never showed the goals!!

 

[BillyShears]

Probably the best example of the different ways in which different clubs/personalities are treated is the current situation at Chelsea. Imagine for one moment if Arsene Wenger was in the position Mourinho is in, or Pellegrini. They would already have been sacked, ridiculed, and humiliated by the British press. But because it's Jose, we hear not a peep of negativity.

Conversely when Chelsea put 5 past Swansea back in January you couldn't pick a newspaper that didn't write that that Chelsea side was potentially the "greatest Premier League team ever". Yet i've little doubt the characterisation of our victory against Newcastle on Saturday was very different (I don't know for sure because I gave up reading what the media has to say about City a while back).

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Hmmmmmm.....not sure if serious??

David Silva may be the best player to ever put on a sky blue shirt. I hope KDB can be even close to that, but if he ever gets better than David Silva, then there will be a room full of new silverware at The Etihad!!!

Serious on the matter, the guy has time to develop but is a lot more quicker and direct than Silva. He can see passes that are not supposed to be there. At the moment the conundrum is how we accommodate the pair? When you push one out wide you lose something but from what I've seen so far De Bruyne covers the full back better when it comes to defending.

 

[coleridge]

I don't bother with the media either, save for a bit of basic info from the BBC.

So I genuinely don't know how Kun's amazing feat of scoring 5 has been treated in the press. I have a depressing feeling that it has just been ignored. Imagine if one of that lot had scored 5? There'd be a special programme on BBC1 direct from the captain's kitchen table...

 

[Felicity Walsh]

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

Lordy me!!

This is the same chap who earned the nick name Champagne Charlie after turning down the Bin-dippers and the rags to sign for Arsenal in 1983 (Just for the record Arsenal were fuck all then, going nowhere, we were getting bigger crowds than them in the 2nd division) Spent most of the time pissed behind the wheel of a car

Absolutely squandered his career as a footballer and since joining SKY has thieved a living spouting utter crap

A total and utter gobshite

 

[acquiesce]

Football365 are very complimentary to us in their Weekend Winners & Losers. Gushing you could say.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

The rags humiliation was about 9 pages from the back in the Mail. Not a mention anywhere else.

 

[squirtyflower]

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

clueless twat acting like clueless twat

 

[Centurions]

clueless twat acting like clueless twat

I don't think he's acting...

 

[squirtyflower]

I don't think he's acting...

point, well made
although i hadn't meant in the sense of putting on an act but rather being a clueless twat

 

[Centurions]

point, well made
although i hadn't meant in the sense of putting on an act but rather being a clueless twat

Whoosh, I did get that bit :)

 

[squirtyflower]

@ColinLee i've been on at Ric for years about an irony font

 

[Centurions]

@ColinLee i've been on at Ric for years about an irony font

There's got to be a joke in there somewhere but I can't come up with one :(

 

[stonerblue]

Sorry but you are talking complete and utter bollocks there, Shearer was a fantastic striker, deadly, prolific, I would have LOVED him to have played for City.

Spot on BB.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

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

Amazing report really. Not even a vague attempt at balance. City had 23 goal attempts to their six. These pundits are so thick. Pellegrini has made it clear time and time again that we will attack at every opportunity. Going forward there is no one better than us but we will always give chances to our opponents. It is the way we play and we are the most entertaining team in Europe..if not the world. They just don't get it do they?

 

[Blue Tooth]

There's got to be a joke in there somewhere but I can't come up with one :(

I tried an irony font but I just melted my screen...Ba Dum Tish...I'll get me coat.

 

[TCIB]

As a quick test the other day i said the names of the soccer saturday guys to the two lads who live next door (12 and 9yo) and asked them if they thought they were good.
They had no fucking clue who they were and cared less, they did care that Kun scored 5 and Arsenal beat Utd and that is soccer saturdays problem.
It is antiquated, jobs for the boys shite, reminds me of bookies years ago, old men with roll ups slapping each others back. Ultimately though it smelled bad and they had yellow fingers, just unhealthy in every sense.

Leave them to it, and do what i did, stop watching it and unsubscribe, use streams.

Do you really care what some stocking filler player from the early 80's view is now considering they are so mentally underdeveloped they act like petty children ?
I would rather swim in cow shit tbh.

 

[Chris in London]

Thompson, Merson et al have to be see for what they really are. The pretence is that these guys offer great insight and expertise but in fact what they offer is only opinion.

In some cases the opinion of ex players is well worth listening to - Neville and Souness for instance. But too often the opinions we hear not just on Soccer Saturday but Talksport, 5 live and many more are too easily formed and swayed by club and personal allegiances - their own personal biases and agendas - and is based on an inadequate knowledge base.

Bluntly, I value the opinion of the bloke that sits next to me at the stadium more than Charlie Nicholas's, because he has seen every single minute that City have played in the league this season, and Nicholas hasn't.

As for Merson, I must say it does amuse me that somebody somewhere actually pays good money for the benefit of his 'expert' opinion.