Media coverage 2018/19

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Press go on that to be a great team we have to dominate Europe, like utd. Well to me a manager of the same club for 25 yrs only won it twice I wouldn't call that dominating. In fact with that record most of the top European clubs would have sacked him !! Yet bristish press bang on about their dominance. Ok we haven't won it but unlike utd we don't get the help from refs etc unlike them ....
 
domalino said:
That's one of the crazy things - sportswashing isn't a genuine policy. It's never been reported as an actual strategy of the gulf states by anyone who would know about their policies. It's just guess work trying to find motivation for investing in sport, and it's mad because it's so after the fact. People talk about Sheikh Mohammed sportswashing, when actually he was just a bored 20 something billionaire who bought a horse because he rode them as a kid, it won, and he got addicted to winning.

There was no mention of sportwashing, it was just a billionaire enjoying his plaything.

The word doesn't even seem to have existed until 2015, 30+ years later.

Now I'm not denying the existence of soft power etc. but anyone who follows football can probably tell you that owning manchester city has done nothing but shine a light on the problems of the UAE. 11 years ago football fans only thoughts of the UAE was that footballers went to Dubai on holiday, now most followers of the most popular sport in the world talk about human rights abuses in qatar and the uae. If sportswashing was ever a deliberate tactic, it failed a long time ago.
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McKinsey can't always provide winning strategies...

I agree though - it's either an incredibly poorly thought out policy (increased visibility and odd choice of club for the project) or it's not the policy.

The argument of weaponising the fanbase would only be beneficial if it was the largest, most vocal & influential fanbase. Yet apparently we don't sing or attend games...
 
After an unprecedented treble and a 6-0 ass whooping in FA Cup, it seems like it has been erased from the BBC archive. I have just watched that bitter dipper loving woman through gritted teeth having to talk about us, but it was only to say about Vinny leaving!!!!! There was more on the comedy Scottish League.
FFS they really don’t like what we are doing with English football do they. CÜNTS.
 
jrb said:
You add Journalists to that as well. They are much worse.

Independent.

The partisan TV pundits are taking over football - but does it matter?
Today’s product takes elements of the short-lived FanZone option with ex-players failing to conceal their emotions


This column has heard about one pundit, an ex-Manchester City player, who is being pressured by the City hierarchy to argue the club’s case more forcefully in the media. And in recent years, City’s lack of media “advocates” has been a long-running bone of contention among the club’s fans, as well as perhaps the sole explanation for Michael Brown’s surprisingly buoyant television career.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...ary-lineker-sky-sports-bt-sport-a8918826.html
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Absolutely spot-on and well worth a read.
 
5 live more of the same......fantastic achievement in relation to treble.....but other premier league clubs have sticks to beat City with

Scum.....not a properly treble, because of chumps league
Spuds.....knocked us out of chumps league
Dippers.....in chumps league.

End of article.

Can't see any theme there.

Twats..
 
jrb said:
OK.

Get ready for the next attack. Roughly late Afternoon, onwards, and into the following Day.

Social Media comments from mostly Liverpool and United fans, along with picture’s of an empty parade route, with only 50,000 City fans being there. ;-)
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Whatever the turnout it will be nowhere near as bad as the pathetic 12,000 (GMP's official figure) for their 2011 parade to celebrate winning their 19th title and beating Liverpool's total. It was held on Bank Holiday Monday after work and there emerged side splitting scenes of a dozen or so ragamuffins running after the bus with just a few bemused onlookers on its way to Trafford Town Hall. I watched it on Sky Sports and even their reporter took the piss by saying the crowd was two deep in places.
 
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