Media coverage 2018/19

[schfc6]

I'm not denying the hypocrisy involved, just attempting to assess the likely damage

I know, I re-read and edited.
Agree, the blow back will be on us, or partially so.
I’m also assuming if the UAE release the guy, there won’t be a outpouring of love for the liberal UAE.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

I know, I re-read and edited.
Agree, the blow back will be on us, or partially so.
I’m also assuming if the UAE release the guy, there won’t be a outpouring of love for the liberal UAE.

Quite so. The narrative will be that the ‘corrupt’ UAE government folded in the face of sanctions from good old GB, or accepted a financial inducement to release him

 

[argyle]

Wonder if the BBC will cover this?

Just checked. Not a word about it.

 

[Scottyboi]

I don't disagree, but whereas the FIA are pretty much a stand-alone body, we are a direct competitor to the dozen or so most powerful clubs in the world's most popular sport, and one with the financial wherewithal to blow them all out of the water, and the opportunity to sabotage us permanently is one that they will inevitably fall over each other to seize [QED].

My own initial inclination was to raise an eyebrow at the suggestion that anyone would genuinely seek to "study" national defence systems in just about the most volatile region on the planet, and not be either horribly naive or put up to it by either our government or a foreign government, but whether Matthew Hedges is a bona fide student or not, you can bet that he ain't likely to receive a fair trial in the sense we would understand it. And coming straight on the back of Der Spiegel's focus on our owners, a life sentence for the lad, and Jeremy Hunt standing outside parliament denouncing the decision as a travesty and promising repercussions, is like painting a big fat bullseye on our back and handing our enemies a loaded gun. It isn't going to stop me going to watch a team that I've supported for 50 years, but quite honestly I wish we were owned by someone else. The constant attrition wears me down

O fuck off and stay in Exeter you soft shite, I bet you look like shit everyday and don't care about peoples opinions on that, but seem to be bothered about how your club is perceived.

 

[M18CTID]

I know, I re-read and edited.
Agree, the blow back will be on us, or partially so.
I’m also assuming if the UAE release the guy, there won’t be a outpouring of love for the liberal UAE.

Which is likely to be the ultimate outcome after the shitstorm dies down.

Let's also not forget that countries with less draconian laws than the UAE have arrested and wrongly convicted British civilians for spying in the recent past. Take those plane spotters in Greece for example - they were eventually exonerated but it took a fair few months:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/07/greece

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

O fuck off and stay in Exeter you soft shite, I bet you look like shit everyday and don't care about peoples opinions on that, but seem to be bothered about how your club is perceived.

In English please

 

[Scottyboi]

In English please

Whinging over some thick twat who went to the UAE studying their security, then coming out with lines like I wish we was owned by someone else. What a chutney ferret you are.

 

[M18CTID]

Whinging over some thick twat who went to the UAE studying their security, then coming out with lines like I wish we was owned by someone else. What a chutney ferret you are.

I'm nicking that!

 

[schfc6]

Which is likely to be the ultimate outcome after the shitstorm dies down.

Let's also not forget that countries with less draconian laws than the UAE have arrested and wrongly convicted British civilians for spying in the recent past. Take those plane spotters in Greece for example - they were eventually exonerated but it took a fair few months:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/07/greece

I remember the geeks in Greece, no government could believe grown ups would track & document planes.

 

[M18CTID]

I remember the geeks in Greece, no government could believe grown ups would track & document planes.

Good job they weren't trainspotters - I'd have jailed the ****s for life!

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Whinging over some thick twat who went to the UAE studying their security, then coming out with lines like I wish we was owned by someone else. What a chutney ferret you are.

Thank you for your intelligent contribution. And, yes, I care about how our club is perceived

 

[mat]

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

'Sportwashing' sounds like the sort of service provided at the recently departed Sandy's Superstars.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Fucking amazing how what one person says or writes then becomes the view of every supporter of our club. How they fucking gate us.

Edit there are a lot more united than City fans in the uae, so using that barometer.....

 

[Marvin]

Interesting analysis of when clubs including City score their goals. 2nd in a very interesting analysis of the season to date.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...hen-teams-score-their-goals#comment-122847258

 

[andyhinch]

'Sportwashing' sounds like the sort of service provided at the recently departed Sandy's Superstars.

A mate says you’d have to pay extra for that.

 

[Henkeman]

I'm not entirely sure I agree with the premise behind the concept of sportwashing. Far from disguising issues like human rights, it shines a light on them in a way that would never happen without that involvement in sport.

The idea that the UAE would be under the same level of scrutiny without the ownership of City seems to me completely misplaced.

 

[Rolee]

I'm not entirely sure I agree with the premise behind the concept of sportwashing. Far from disguising issues like human rights, it shines a light on them in a way that would never happen without that involvement in sport.

The idea that the UAE would be under the same level of scrutiny without the ownership of City seems to me completely misplaced.

Absolutely agree, I've been saying this for years to anyone that will listen.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

It is perhaps not surprising that 'academic investigation of a country's internal and external security systems' by a foreign national
and espionage, terrorism and subversion etc are likely to be associated by governments in that deeply troubled part of the world.

The guy lived in Dubai most of his life, I wonder what else he needed to know!

He'll be out for Christmas. As others have said, this is about people sending a message.

 

[big gaz]

'Sportwashing' sounds like the sort of service provided at the recently departed Sandy's Superstars.

Staying well clear of this comment Gordon ;-)