Media coverage 2018/19

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Thanks Bilboblue!!...and thanks to all the blues for your support...I assure you I'm not a group of people nor that intelligent (ask my wife). I've been in finance and specifically lending for over 20 years, a profession that makes one quite cynical and often nosey. The "research" that I've done is basically googling stuff on my phone, figuring out anamolies and raising questions. I'm nowhere in the class of someone like PrestwichBlue.

I am a little overwhelmed at the support, (I used to have 150+ followers till Sunday morning!!). I am also surprised at how rattled these tough reporters have gotten, I thought they would have swatted my questions easily. These aren't necessarily bad actors, they are youngsters (mostly) who are caught in a tough business of generating excitement and clicks for their survival. But what they see as fair game is extremely unfair, on the club, the players, the management team and importantly fans. It undermines the result of years of obsessive hard work and passion. And mostly their work seems to be basis lazy copying of themes, zero evidence (MacKenna especially), loose association of facts and very little research or understanding.

Anyhow I don't intend to make it a habit of targeting anyone, but when I see obvious hypocrisy, I hope to raise my voice in defence of the club . If anything over the last 4 days, I've made some good friends and very thankful for that. I am on a break for a few days to mentally regroup and focus on a few personal projects but hope to be back on twitter soon. Thank you once again!!
I know it must be a lot of hard work to maintain, but I genuinely see you as my leader and this is a revolution.
 
Dont know seen the interview from sky looked like it was a live audience as well put him right on the spot dont know who the interviewer was.

Cheers. It looks like it's a Wall Street Journal conference thing where he was a guest for a Q&A about racism.

Someone throwing a FFP question does seem a bit off topic.
 
Theres an article in the mirror (not going to quote the link) by Stan Collymore that is beyond laughable..

Gave the Utd treble winner 9.9/10
Gave the Arsenal invincible's 'just short of that'.. though no number given

City treble winners 5/10. (He said us winning the prem was 2 or 3 out of 10 this season)

Haha he evens says Utd and Liverpool spending in the past way more than their rivals at the time has no bearing on his decision...

"I know there’ll be plenty of people saying, ‘But Stan, United have the highest-paid player in the league’, or, ‘Liverpool and United both spent more money than their rivals when they were dominating and nobody said anything about that’.

But Manchester United got to be Manchester United by making very good decisions regularly over a long period of time. The same goes for Liverpool and the other historically big clubs around the world".

So everyone, it's fine for Utd to spend what they had done in the past and get a near perfect score for their treble cos "they made good decisions".

Liverpool spending away.. that's fiiiiiiine.

City winning 1st UK treble? Easy mate we've got money. It's all down to history now obviously.

God hes an odious ****.
This is something that really annoys me. Even if you believe every other club has earned their money and we haven't, that's a separate conversation. What has it got to do with the achievements of the players and managers?
 
Cheers. It looks like it's a Wall Street Journal conference thing where he was a guest for a Q&A about racism.

Someone throwing a FFP question does seem a bit off topic.
Now the FFP question and answer will be the main focus of the day, it will get the most air time on SSN etc, and the gathering to discuss and raise more awareness about racism in football has effectively been sabotaged. They are scum these hacks.
 
As I see it, the claims are:
UAE are involved in what is going on in Yemen - yes, obvious.
Some of what is going on in Yemen is dreadful- yes, obvious.
Some important UAE people are connected with City- yes, obvious.
Some City board members have had input to [persons unknown in UAE government] regarding the Yemen situation - almost certainly, given their positions; nothing much public.
Some City fans are annoyed at the club's name (and fans) being smeared over this connection - yes, obvious, but "City board are mass murdering war criminals" seems more than a little of a stretch!
City fans are defending UAE actions in Yemen - a small minority might, but this is the link that is getting people's backs up.

I think many of us can write MacKenna's articles for him, given that his themes hardly change (the level of vitriol too)..who knows we may produce something he can sell to a rag and not self publish.
 
Now the FFP question and answer will be the main focus of the day, it will get the most air time on SSN etc, and the gathering to discuss and raise more awareness about racism in football has effectively been sabotaged. They are scum these hacks.

At least the BBC are reporting what it was actually about, not a single mention in the article of FFP. SSN are just tabloid level.
 
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