Media coverage 2018/19

[nmc]

Is this not the normal Wiki entry for him?

If it had been me I’d have included the fact he’s a human rights crusader working for the Saudi’s.

 

[nmc]

Interesting we are getting all the flack. No mention of 4 English teams in the European Finals - clearly linked to our Sky TV deal - giving English teams a financial advantage. Of course that doesn’t matter since one of the teams is the Dippers, so they are all happy.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Listening in the car yesterday just before I arrived at the train station and Waddle predicted a Watford win
Why?
Because they have a big man up front

It’s amazing these fuckwits are being paid for this crap

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

There was a right bust up when a journo asked....

"who ate all the pies?"

A near riot, when they found out we'd run out of chips ;-)

 

[super_city_si]

So much vitriol. I’m just going to steer clear of it for a while and enjoy my week. I’m relaxed and happy. Nothing those bitter ****s say can take that away.

 

[daztrueblue91]

I actually haven't got a problem with journalists questioning us about FFP and Abu Dhabi sports washing etc. What I detest though it their attitude and approach to doing so and I also can't shake off the feeling that some of the journalists are only concerned with human rights because it can be used to attack City, instead of the nature of it.

Let's just imagine that Sheikh Mansour had enough and sold City tomorrow. Would these journalists then carry on with their crusades and attack clubs for taking sponsorship money of companies with links to questionable human rights?

There are Chinese, Thai, American and Russian owners in English football who all have very close links to countries with poor human rights records. But I'm yet to see any other side receive the same level of vitriol as City has. I understand that City have much stronger links to the UAE Royal Family than say Man United do to Saudi Arabia. Yet both City and United are guilty of taking what the media call 'oil money' from countries with poor human rights records. You would think mentioning how 'blood money' being rife in PL football would also hammer the message home but somehow I'm yet to see this.

Another ****ish trick was that question directed to Pep yesterday. Forget the timing of the question, the fact that he has insinuated that Pep is taking illegal/dodgy payments from elsewhere is nonsense and without foundation. All of the charges we are being investigated for are from long before Pep's arrival. That question yesterday was about as relevant as someone asking Dan Roan if he touches kids because he works for the BBC.

Finally, and the point that pisses me off the most. I've read a lot about how us City fans are somehow complicit in what goes on in the Middle-East because we support our club. I've also heard accusations that we defend the UAE's human rights records because we call out the media and attend the Etihad. However, it is the media, and those alone, who have decided to band the UAE and City as a sole entity not us fans.

I can cheer KDB without laughing as some backwards law in Abu Dhabi. I can criticise the way woman are treated in countries in the Middle East without calling Pep a bald fraud. Yet the insinuation that all City fans are in the wrong for supporting their club is something that i will call the media out for. I supported City long before Sheikh Mansour came along and will support the club long after he doesn't.

I wear Nike footwear but it doesn't mean I support child labour. I had a Huawei phone, doesn't mean I support the death penalty and censorship. I eat meat but it doesn't mean that I support animal cruelty. Yet somehow supporting City means I support human right atrocities.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

My god that is a desperate bitter article. We are a self sustaining football club that happens to be the best in the world at what we do. Never mind the efforts of our coaching staff that has produced undoubtedly the finest football this country has ever seen. No, its greed and money that have achieved that. Christ, if the Guardian showed a tenth of the professional excellence shown by our club it would be a 100 times better than that cheap lazy article. Football broken? Well if it is its not Manchester City that have done it.

Surprised it wasn’t written by Conn

 

[SebastianBlue]

Surprised it wasn’t written by Conn

It did have the air of a Conn job.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

It did have the air of a Conn job.

Is he still wanking over the FC Scum model?

 

[SebastianBlue]

Is he still wanking over the FC Scum model?

There was a FC Scum model? ;-)