Media coverage 2018/19

[waspish]

I’m not having a pop mate, I know that’s how it was reported. But as I understand it, the reporting was wrong

Fair enough.

 

[West Gorton Blue]

think you need to watch the documentary on sky mate re the 99 season dickov and weaver confirm they did this, it was a local school gym not a park, it was willie donachie's idea to do this.
i don't remember booing the players during any warm up though. think it was more to clear players minds in a neutral enviroment

I’m not disputing we warmed up elsewhere - we did - we all cheered them off in the white mini bus - it was the motivation for doing som- it was superstition and defiantly not the fans booing the players as that prick tried to make out yesterday.

Yes we did cheer them off the mini bus whilst they were going into St Edwards school, just across the Kippax car park. Got a few pics as well!

 

[its grim up north]

Sheik Khaled's representatives claim he is close to buying Newcastle https://mol.im/a/7073375 via http://dailym.ai/android

Good, although I would be more pleased had he gone for Sunderland, if he puts in the required funds and puts pressure on the top of the league it may take some of the pressure off us.

 

[Postman Pep]

Delaney has put his head above the parapet questioning Khaldoons claims of racism calling it 'a very strange line in deflection defence'. People in homes of glass eh

 

[BlueMojito]

Good, although I would be more pleased had he gone for Sunderland, if he puts in the required funds and puts pressure on the top of the league it may take some of the pressure off us.

It'll be a really interesting watch how the media approach this.

 

[bobmcfc]

Delaney has put his head above the parapet questioning Khaldoons claims of racism calling it 'a very strange line in deflection defence'. People in homes of glass eh

Yes I also asked for his reaction to a Mansour takeover at Newcastle United

He did respond with sportswashing is bad McKay

 

[Newman Noggs]

Delaney has put his head above the parapet questioning Khaldoons claims of racism calling it 'a very strange line in deflection defence'. People in homes of glass eh

Ah, Miguel Delaney, the legendary crusading investigative journalists whose contributions to political and sporting literature include such classics as (contributions to) "Deepest Red" "a unique collection of writing about the myth, madness and glory of Manchester United" and...er...a book about the Irish World cup team (no reviews on Amazon) and...er... not much else.

Unless, of course, we include such visionary articles as "can Manchester United's deadly attacking duo end Liverpool's title charge" (Jan 17) or "How in-form Ibra evolved his game to United's gain" (Dec 17) or "Can Tottenham end Manchester City's title hopes on Saturday" (Dec 17) (Spoiler alert- he concludes that they can).

I've looked in vain for anything that evinces even the remotest interest in middle-east politics though. Odd considering that it's now his all-consuming passion.

 

[cookster]

Delaney has put his head above the parapet questioning Khaldoons claims of racism calling it 'a very strange line in deflection defence'. People in homes of glass eh

Not only @City_rabin that can give out a thrashing. Fake Tebas can as well ;)

 

[jitsubluedan]

Delaney has put his head above the parapet questioning Khaldoons claims of racism calling it 'a very strange line in deflection defence'. People in homes of glass eh

Khaldoon never used the word racism - he specifically said ethnicity, which just highlights how these c#nts like to twist things. The term ‘Arab oil money’ has been bandied about in their articles/tweets all too often to the point where it is synonymous with Manchester City and the inference is that it’s tainted.

As for a deflection defence - is that the only thing the tw#t could come up with given the other points raised by Khaldoon. I would have thought the inference that the attacks by Tebas aren’t just against City and are in fact against the very lucrative PL would have been more important.

On the contrary, he is the one deflecting the many points raised by Khaldoon by using the “they raised the race card” in a thinly veiled attempt to nullify its impact with other football fans.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

think you need to watch the documentary on sky mate re the 99 season dickov and weaver confirm they did this, it was a local school gym not a park, it was willie donachie's idea to do this.
i don't remember booing the players during any warm up though. think it was more to clear players minds in a neutral enviroment

This is how I remember it. I attended virtually every game that season home and away and don't recall the players being booed in any warm-ups. Perhaps Dickov and Weaver's perception is different. What impressed me most in this programme was David Bernstein's contribution. As far as I am concerned he is a giant in City's history. He was right about the Stoke match as well..that was the start of it all.

 

[homerdog]

Delaney is skating on thin ice, hopefully he'll live to regret some of his comments.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Khaldoon never used the word racism - he specifically said ethnicity, which just highlights how these c#nts like to twist things. The term ‘Arab oil money’ has been bandied about in their articles/tweets all too often to the point where it is synonymous with Manchester City and the inference is that it’s tainted.

As for a deflection defence - is that the only thing the tw#t could come up with given the other points raised by Khaldoon. I would have thought the inference that the attacks by Tebas aren’t just against City and are in fact against the very lucrative PL would have been more important.

On the contrary, he is the one deflecting the many points raised by Khaldoon by using the “they raised the race card” in a thinly veiled attempt to nullify its impact with other football fans.

Khaldoon was clear in what he said. He said Tebas was playing to his political audience. Tebas is a prominent supporter of Vox, the far right political party in Spain which has campaigned to close mosques and deport muslims. I am glad that the elephant in the room in terms of the way some regard our owners (including some so-called journalists) is now out in the open.

 

[91:23]

This is how I remember it. I attended virtually every game that season home and away and don't recall the players being booed in any warm-ups. Perhaps Dickov and Weaver's perception is different. What impressed me most in this programme was David Bernstein's contribution. As far as I am concerned he is a giant in City's history. He was right about the Stoke match as well..that was the start of it all.

That Stoke game was the start of our season, and we only had half a season to make up what we had lost. We seem to have a history (did I say history?!) Of performing from January onwards.

 

[Withnail]

In response to Khaldoon's interview Nick Harris has managed to tweet "After watching Khaldoon Al-Mubarak's end of season interview: he would have been ace in the Sopranos". The other members of the cabal (Ronay, Delaney, McKenna and the other Harris) are untypically quiet this morning.

I would imagine Ronay will write an article about Khaldoon's interview shortly with the snidey digs about human rights abuse, FFP and City cooking the books. The usual clickbait article for the Dippers and Rags fans.

 

[Postman Pep]

Khaldoon never used the word racism - he specifically said ethnicity, which just highlights how these c#nts like to twist things. The term ‘Arab oil money’ has been bandied about in their articles/tweets all too often to the point where it is synonymous with Manchester City and the inference is that it’s tainted.

As for a deflection defence - is that the only thing the tw#t could come up with given the other points raised by Khaldoon. I would have thought the inference that the attacks by Tebas aren’t just against City and are in fact against the very lucrative PL would have been more important.

On the contrary, he is the one deflecting the many points raised by Khaldoon by using the “they raised the race card” in a thinly veiled attempt to nullify its impact with other football fans.

Correct Khaldoon eloquently exposed Tebas's accusations for what they were and merely used the term 'ethnicity' as you rightly point out as a possible further motive. They raise the deflection card every time they are challenged.

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

I do not remember any booing of the City team in our time in the third division. Quite the opposite. I remember a very complex attitude on the part of our supporters. There was the collective disbelief that City were in division 3 and an attempt to understand how it could possibly have come to this. At the same time there was a determination to get behind the lads and help them out of this hole - supporters kept coming and even some who hadn't been for years came back. The atmosphere at the ground was supportive and encouraging. I remember particularly when Shaun Goater had not yet attained legendary status and was going through a lean spell everyone around us greeted some quite glaring misses with nothing but encouragement.

Looking back I think it's perhaps a time that fans remember better than players because when the club was at its lowest ebb the fans rose to the challenge, attendances were phenomenal and in the end the club was able to climb out of the hole, the culmination of which was the scarcely believable resurrection at Wembley. Players may well marvel at the change in the club's fortunes since then and in particular the transformation since Sheikh Mansour bought the club and because those times were hard everything must have been bad, especially in the first half of the season.

The attitude of much of the media is somewhat different. City's downward spiral in the 90's was "typical City" especially as United were presented as a virtuous giant showing that releasing the power of the stock exchange and ending the dead hand of lower league clubs on the "elite", developments which were all unmitigated good news for English football. "The City (of London!) loves Manchester United" was a mantra repeated often. The FA emerged as more a commercial partner to United (and Liverpool and Arsenal) and the CL allowed UEFA to emerge as such as well. There was a common interest linking what is now the European cartel before long.

Then City were bought by Sheikh Mansour, whose open letter was a statement of exactly how he intended to turn City into a self sustaining member of this self agrandising elite. This was greeted with a mixture of disbelief, contempt but also fear by a football world which didn't bother to read the letter and the attack on "dirty oil money" which was "ruining football" began the very morning news of the takeover was reported. Ever since the football world has looked on ever more angry as Sheikh Mansour has made good every single word of his open letter. And Sheikh Mansour is not a sophisticated, American capitalist but a .... His success, therefore, can only result from cheating even if his club hasn't actually broken those inspirational anti-investment regulatios so nobly enacted by UEFA. How can someone like the Sheikh have so easily bested those two noble paragons from Munich? The glorious anti-corruption campaigners from Milan (now ex-owners!)? And the philanthropic might of football in Stretford, Murkyside and north Landan? But what we have done also is to leave Gradgrind behind. We do not need, don't use and don't want facts.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

I do not remember any booing of the City team in our time in the third division. Quite the opposite. I remember a very complex attitude on the part of our supporters. There was the collective disbelief that City were in division 3 and an attempt to understand how it could possibly have come to this. At the same time there was a determination to get behind the lads and help them out of this hole - supporters kept coming and even some who hadn't been for years came back. The atmosphere at the ground was supportive and encouraging. I remember particularly when Shaun Goater had not yet attained legendary status and was going through a lean spell everyone around us greeted some quite glaring misses with nothing but encouragement.

Looking back I think it's perhaps a time that fans remember better than players because when the club was at its lowest ebb the fans rose to the challenge, attendances were phenomenal and in the end the club was able to climb out of the hole, the culmination of which was the scarcely believable resurrection at Wembley. Players may well marvel at the change in the club's fortunes since then and in particular the transformation since Sheikh Mansour bought the club and because those times were hard everything must have been bad, especially in the first half of the season.

The attitude of much of the media is somewhat different. City's downward spiral in the 90's was "typical City" especially as United were presented as a virtuous giant showing that releasing the power of the stock exchange and ending the dead hand of lower league clubs on the "elite", developments which were all unmitigated good news for English football. "The City (of London!) loves Manchester United" was a mantra repeated often. The FA emerged as more a commercial partner to United (and Liverpool and Arsenal) and the CL allowed UEFA to emerge as such as well. There was a common interest linking what is now the European cartel before long.

Then City were bought by Sheikh Mansour, whose open letter was a statement of exactly how he intended to turn City into a self sustaining member of this self agrandising elite. This was greeted with a mixture of disbelief, contempt but also fear by a football world which didn't bother to read the letter and the attack on "dirty oil money" which was "ruining football" began the very morning news of the takeover was reported. Ever since the football world has looked on ever more angry as Sheikh Mansour has made good every single word of his open letter. And Sheikh Mansour is not a sophisticated, American capitalist but a .... His success, therefore, can only result from cheating even if his club hasn't actually broken those inspirational anti-investment regulatios so nobly enacted by UEFA. How can someone like the Sheikh have so easily bested those two noble paragons from Munich? The glorious anti-corruption campaigners from Milan (now ex-owners!)? And the philanthropic might of football in Stretford, Murkyside and north Landan? But what we have done also is to leave Gradgrind behind. We do not need, don't use and don't want facts.

Bravo!

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

That Stoke game was the start of our season, and we only had half a season to make up what we had lost. We seem to have a history (did I say history?!) Of performing from January onwards.

Something changed at half time that day. We had just scrambled a win at Wrexham without playing well. But in the second half against Stoke we played with purpose and confidence for the first time in years. Bar the relegation blip under Royle and one season under Pearce we have pretty much been on an upward curve ever since.

 

[petrusha]

Just on the 1998/9 season, there was a period in the run-up to Christmas where the crowd did start to get at the team. The backing was brilliant at the start of the season and from the Stoke match onwards, but there was a time when the fans threatened to lose it, referenced here: https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/when-manchester-city-were-rubbish-how-199899-season-changed-a-football-clubs-destiny?page=0,1

As for the media, I think you can see the bad faith with which we're reported when they cover Tebas's comments on us and also when Hoeness pipes up. Tebas is a card-carrying fascist with a Trumpian penchant for hyperbole, who says at least some things that are complete bollocks. Hoeness is a convicted tax fraudster who's served serious time and whose apparent view that he's morally entitled to offer lectures in financial propriety to others should be openly ridiculed.

Yet their comments are invariably quoted verbatim, and not once have I seen their views questioned (they may have been, but I've never seen it, as against countless examples where they weren't). And these journalists have the temerity to cast themselves as purveyors of honest reportage. This exemplifies exactly why we fucking despise so many of them.

 

[Nails]

Just on the 1998/9 season, there was a period in the run-up to Christmas where the crowd did start to get at the team. The backing was brilliant at the start of the season and from the Stoke match onwards, but there was a time when the fans threatened to lose it, referenced here: https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/when-manchester-city-were-rubbish-how-199899-season-changed-a-football-clubs-destiny?page=0,1

As for the media, I think you can see the bad faith with which we're reported when they cover Tebas's comments on us and also when Hoeness pipes up. Tebas is a card-carrying fascist with a Trumpian penchant for hyperbole, who says at least some things that are complete bollocks. Hoeness is a convicted tax fraudster who's served serious time and whose apparent view that he's morally entitled to offer lectures in financial propriety to others should be openly ridiculed.

Yet their comments are invariably quoted verbatim, and not once have I seen their views questioned (they may have been, but I've never seen it, as against countless examples where they weren't). And these journalists have the temerity to cast themselves as purveyors of honest reportage. This exemplifies exactly why we fucking despise so many of them.

Tebas is indeed a fascist. Loved Franco, supports Vox. This shouldn't be needed to be pointed out.