Media coverage 2018/19

[MillionMilesAway]

I thought he was saying just the opposite. That the stick City were getting wasn't fair.

Exactly this.

 

[lonestay]

I wonder how the media will spin it once the dippers or scum get taken over by Arab money ? I guess they will be the good type of Arabic money .

 

[cookster]

Is Delaney a Dipper - he has gone into full on meltdown since last Sunday. Has made a complete fool of himself on social media - talking utter nonsense and ignoring the fact that The Independent is part owned by the Middle East!

Apparently doesn't support any English teams, I called it out as BS.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

I have not yet had a chance to vet all claims in this tweet thread, so read with skepticism (as is our nature), but some very interesting points are made.

Brilliant work from the Blue.

 

[kaz7]

Full city bingo being played today with an ectra box for the highly offensive song,i was mad last night but do you know what i think it pushed the boys on in this last few weeks,fuck 'em

 

[Henkeman]

Brilliant work from the Blue.

Oh it gets better.

 

[nmc]

Apparently doesn't support any English teams, I called it out as BS.

The timing and ferocity of his meltdown suggest he’s either:

A) a Dipper
B) had his life savings invested at Coral’s on a Dipper title win
C) both a and b.

 

[cookster]

Which one of you has edited that miguel delaney Wikipedia page lol

Been changed back unfortunately. The change log is funny.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

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.

Pretty much right on the nose in my view, especially about the human rights concern used only to bash City. Harris and Delaney among others have now effectively exposed themselves as exactly the frauds and hypocrites they themselves are. Their ability to cover City -- perhaps the most important club on their beat -- is now permanently compromised, which means they can't well cover City's competitors objectively either, and means that every other instance of immorality or illegality that creeps into or lays on top of another owner or club or fanbase or player set must be treated with exactly the same scorn or disdain and be subject to the same vitriol.

They've made themselves the story. They'll now be dogs chasing their own tails. They've destroyed their own careers. Pity.

 

[nmc]

Oh it gets better.

Delaney is now basically saying he wants to hold City to account for the human rights records of its owners but the same principles don’t apply to him or his employers - utter hypocrite.