Media coverage 2018/19

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laserblue said:
Rob Harris, an absolute bitter bell end. When he once asked a question GPC didn't like he was banned from the swamp. GPC's order to fuck him off was picked up on a Sky microhone. City should ban him as well.
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Cheers. So the same guy who asked pep about his views on human rights issues in the middle east after he got fined for wearing a yellow ribbon in support of democracy.

Yet he doesn't seem to ask questions to Klopp about standard charters murky dealings or the glazers way of running up debt, or abramovic and his russian connections.
 
Proy said:
Delaney is pushing the sportwashing now.

Man is a prize nob
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Just ask him why he is happy to be employed by a paper whose two biggest shareholders are a Russian and Saudi.

And of course, ask him when he will be taking a selfie on a Saudi militia armed pick up truck involved directly in the Yemen conflict like his Russian owners son has.

Must be decent blood pay at the Independent...
 
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waspish said:
My post about fergie spending one an a half times there turnover was my memory of when Michael Knighton was offering 20m for united and they were saying it was over double there turnover and then them spending around 14m that summer it was actually what I remember at the time not what I read. So thats some great research.
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@JASR My mate dug out the accounts but I can’t post as I’m out. Turnover was £9,555,883. The transfer spend is pretty easy to find on Transfermarket website, shows spend of £10.1m.

This was the most expensive team in history that we finished on level points with and beat 5-1 with a team of youth players.

Funny how history seems to have forgotten that...
 
Some of these articles are very damaging and I hope they have the facts to back it up!

I think it’s Going to be a messy summer either way
 
Ray of Man City Fan TV is currently having a twitter spat with Little Miggy and Barry Glendenning. You remember him (via 'The 100 Worst People On Twitter'):

'Barry Glendenning is a man who writes for the Guardian on Sport. He’s mostly known for his appearances on Football Weekly, however, where he’s selected as the comedy counterweight to the European Football Experts and Enganche Enthusiasts that make up the rest of the panel. In theory, a fine idea, but the truth is that his presence has ruined what was once football’s only acceptable podcast (as one Twitter user noted, “Richardson, Steinberg, Auclair and Glendenning. It’s like having a back four of Maldini, Moore, Desailly and Gary Doherty.”)

That’s one side of Baz, but as we keep reminding you, this is the 100 Worst People On Twitter, and Barry likes to relax of an evening with some casual Twitter beef. This is occasionally justified - football writing is different to other writing, because the writers tend to be slightly less privileged, the subject matter is entirely unimportant, and a lot of commenters are blinkered fans - but often not. So we get tedious exchanges of “no, YOU’RE a ****” back and forth with people with 16 followers, partly because Negative Comments On Articles Are The Worst Crime Against Humanity Imaginable, and partly because Glendenning imagines himself as Bill Hicks slapping down the hecklers.

Yes, Glendenning fancies himself as a comedian. We’re all well aware by now that only the most fuck-awful human beings ever consider that as a career choice, and he even gave it a go once. He was pretty awful by all accounts, and while I didn’t see it, I’m surprised the sense of humour that had him cracking along with a “black men have big penises, ha ha ha” riff at a recent football awards show didn’t stand him in good stead with his target audience.

The real issue here, though, is that none of Glendenning’s material has any sort of consistency or logic to it whatsoever. Athletic Bilbao are beating Manchester United? Ha, shows what a two-team league La Liga is! Real Madrid are 18 points clear of the team in 3rd? Ha, shows what an open and competetive league La Liga is! (Irony is one of the foremost subtle literary techniques among the Glendenning oeuvre.)

And if you’re gonna make negativity your schtick (and before you start, we’ve dished out plenty of praise, and you should’ve seen the messages we got after giving a nod to Seth Macfarlane), it’s probably best to ensure you actually do it full-time and to all targets. In reality, every night on Twitter is punctuated with Comedy Baz’s ham-fisted flails in the direction of any woman regardless of age or availability. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen an overweight, ageing football journalist try to flirt, but it has all the grim horror and can’t-look-away amazement as an M25 pile-up.

We’ll finish, as we probably always should, with a short anecdote which perfectly encapsulates the man. A while back, as compliant with Twitter Dickhead Law, yer man posted a photo of some booze on Twitter. What he didn’t realise was that it linked to his flickr account, the previous photo being him, standing, walloper in hand, presumably sent to one of the many girls he talks to. How did he react to the only funny thing he’s ever done? He denied it, deleted the picture, refused to discuss it, and blocked anyone who dared mention it. There’s your sense of humour. He’s like a fat Irish version of Graham Linehan.'
 
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Onholiday(somemightsay) said:
Alright maybe I'm being slightly harsh - he's not as bad as some.

I seem to remember him being overly harsh on us at a point on Sunday Supplement se years back...........
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Yes, I watched that interview. I remember thinking at the time that it seemed a bit out of character for him. Maybe it was his way to placate his editors, after all there doesn't appear to be a sympathetic broadsheet or tabloid between them.

I've seen him on Sunday Supplement, The Debate and a few other football related broadcasts and he has strongly defended us or he's been the voice of reason among a barrage of insults towards us.

Let's see? It's very difficult to swim against the tide of the media narrative and very few journalists have got the steel to go out on a limb.
 
Shaelumstash said:
@JASR My mate dug out the accounts but I can’t post as I’m out. Turnover was £9,555,883. The transfer spend is pretty easy to find on Transfermarket website, shows spend of £10.1m.

This was the most expensive team in history that we finished on level points with and beat 5-1 with a team of youth players.

Funny how history seems to have forgotten that...
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It would be interesting to put (as best as possible), United’s 89 accounts through the FFP rules (PL & uefa) and see how much percentage they failed by. (It can only be percentages, as the money growth in football has been insane since then).

Odd coincidence below

89 united start spending, 3 years later they start to win big.
Ruining football articles: 0
Organic money articles: infinite
Period of dominance: 20 years
Bad for football articles: 0
FFP rules introduced: 0

08 city start spending , 3 years later they start to win big.
Ruining football articles: infinite
Organic money articles: 0
Period of dominance: TBC
Bad for football articles: infinite
FFP rules introduced.... you get the idea
 
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Shaelumstash said:
@JASR My mate dug out the accounts but I can’t post as I’m out. Turnover was £9,555,883. The transfer spend is pretty easy to find on Transfermarket website, shows spend of £10.1m.

This was the most expensive team in history that we finished on level points with and beat 5-1 with a team of youth players.

Funny how history seems to have forgotten that...
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Yep I have pretty good memory but was wrong about fergies spend am sure it was 14m! Think year or 2 later the was on the stock exchange and club valued around 45m I think then thats when there domination started with another major cash investment that carried on till fergie said there was no value in the market about 15/17 years later.
 
The concerted attack (and the timing of it) by a significant minority of the print media shitterati is nothing short of disgraceful.

The faux outrage of the dipper and cockney fans is almost as bad. I never knew there was so much interest in and concern about alleged human rights abuses in the gulf states among the braying WKD Ladbrokes life brigade. I mean, it can’t be just because their poor ikkle cwubs didn’t win any twophies this season can it?
 
Just been thinking of a great song by The Stone Roses;

Kiss me where the Sun don't shine
The past was yours but the futures mine
You're all out of time
 
Tracking back said:
Yes, I watched that interview. I remember thinking at the time that it seemed a bit out of character for him. Maybe it was his way to placate his editors, after all there doesn't appear to be a sympathetic broadsheet or tabloid between them.

I've seen him on Sunday Supplement, The Debate and a few other football related broadcasts and he has strongly defended us or he's been the voice of reason among a barrage of insults towards us.

Let's see? It's very difficult to swim against the tide of the media narrative and very few journalists have got the steel to go out on a limb.
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Fair point - he won't flip flop again.

I think he is taking his position on usand won't shift if he is challenging the like of Miguel Whatshisface.,.......
 
blueinsa said:
Sportwashing?

More made up fucking twitter shite pmsl.
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I'm sure you are aware of the meaning of said terminology, basically hes suggesting that the football club is merely a carrier for the shieks business and the illegality of it and even helps expand it.

Its obviously bollocks and I do wonder where the fuck his view point has been for the last 10 years.

Weird it only surfaces after a fucking record breaking triple, the jealous ****
 
JASR said:
It would be interesting to put (as best as possible), United’s 89 accounts through the FFP rules (PL & uefa) and see how much percentage they failed by. (It can only be percentages, as the money growth in football has been insane since then).

Odd coincidence below

89 united start spending, 3 years later they start to win big.
Ruining football articles: 0
Organic money articles: infinite
Period of dominance: 20 years
Bad for football articles: 0
FFP rules introduced: 0

08 city start spending , 3 years later they start to win big.
Ruining football articles: infinite
Organic money articles: 0
Period of dominance: TBC
Bad for football articles: infinite
FFP rules introduced.... you get the idea
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I think that would need a lot more context to compare - comparative other team spending, the dramatic change in the income landscape in 30 years. Overall, I think you'd need a long time to produce something meaningful.
 
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