Media coverage 2018/19

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Don Howe said:
Jonathan Northcroft usually fairer than most, but still plenty of guff in this. Whataboutery works two ways - it allows journalists to deflect criticism and hard truths - yet it is never discussed. Northcroft calls it valid, then moves on to more criticism of City, its "weaponised" fans and owners.
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I'm not quite sure what reaction individuals like Northcroft expect from the club and its fans to the relentless barrage of abuse both are subject to from him and his cronies.

It's another manifestation of journalistic hubris that the opinion of a blogger who happens to have been given a job on a newspaper is inviolate, that their opinion is as valid as fact and that no opinion of theirs should be questioned, let alone be publicly dismantled.

I see that Northcroft claims to be an Aberdeen supporter. Good job his allegiance to Ferguson ended when the latter got the Man United gig otherwise you'd think he was another one with an axe to grind.
 
Don Howe said:
Jonathan Northcroft usually fairer than most, but still plenty of guff in this. Whataboutery works two ways - it allows journalists to deflect criticism and hard truths - yet it is never discussed. Northcroft calls it valid, then moves on to more criticism of City, its "weaponised" fans and owners.
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Why has he not put it on twitter ? Coward
 
Don Howe said:
Jonathan Northcroft usually fairer than most, but still plenty of guff in this. Whataboutery works two ways - it allows journalists to deflect criticism and hard truths - yet it is never discussed. Northcroft calls it valid, then moves on to more criticism of City, its "weaponised" fans and owners.
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Another example of a snowflake journalist who can't even take valid disputes to his claims let alone criticism of himself and his objectivity on this issue. It's not the first time he's criticised the City fans, now he's calling us "weapons", is he?

He's also consistently displaying double standards. On top of his own whataboutery while levelling that criticism at the City fans, wasn't he the one who said "whether you think the rules are unfair or not, if you've broken them you should be punished because everyone should respect the rules" and then seemed to display sympathy for the person breaking two common laws(not something UEFA and the cartel made up) in hacking and blackmailing as if he should be exonerated.

Alot of these journos seem to be acting the same way, it's like they are telling us to stop seeing this trial by media as an attack: "it's just criticism" yet when we criticise or disagree with them... it's an attack.
 
thelongbowman said:
I see we're getting dragged into the Newcastle takeover debate.

On sky news, just, some Geordie twat from the Mag fanzine thinks Newcastle will lose their identity just like CITY have if they get taken over.
Wtf?

Fuck off twat.

We know who we are, the fucking best team ever, twat.
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I'd want to lose my identity if we had fans like this.
 
I note that there is not one story regarding us in today's Daily Mail. There has been a change, for certain.
 
Newman Noggs said:
I'm also enjoying the proliferation of the word "whataboutery". It's a word invented by humbuggers and hypocrites to deflect from questionning about their own actions and motives.
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Oh it's a perfectly fair objection when that's what people are doing. Not when trying to dismiss the actual subject at hand. I propose we coin "witterboutery" for trying to cheat in this way.
 
Don Howe said:
Jonathan Northcroft usually fairer than most, but still plenty of guff in this. Whataboutery works two ways - it allows journalists to deflect criticism and hard truths - yet it is never discussed. Northcroft calls it valid, then moves on to more criticism of City, its "weaponised" fans and owners.
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He didn't say anything about human rights and foreign policy let alone justify it you ****
 
"And it is ruthless sophistry to imply those who criticise City are anti the Arab world, or anti Muslim, or whatever he is trying to suggest."
Did Khaldoon make the ethnicity comment about any critics, or just against Tebas?

If the first, Northcroft has a point - it is patently ridiculous to claim that about all criticism, as he points out; if the second, then Northcroft himself appears to have expanded it.
 
Fucking hell i've just read the whole thing
2 things stand out to me the most,even now he is pushing we are owned by a country and the fact that we are wrong to finally hit back after 10yrs of sucking the vile stuff up


"But most telling is their ownership. Even if you don’t have reservations about the human rights and foreign policy of Abu Dhabi (and plenty fans do not), the fact City are funded by an entire, petro-rich country, giving them wealth unparalleled in football’s history, is a dynamic romantics cannot ignore. Abu Dhabi have lavished so much on City as to make Liverpool, with the world’s most expensive defender and briefly goalkeeper, look to neutrals like underdogs."

"But the people spinning for the Abu Dhabi regime are extremely good at what they do. They don't miss a trick. Attacking the critic is their Trumpian way and one of the issues with Tebas is that, outside football, he appears a pretty questionable individual who is a high profile supporter of a Spanish far right party...so the "ethnicity" card by Khaldoon is a knowing play."

Since when have we attacked our critics? it's been 10yrs ffs

Don't even get me going on the rest of it,city bingo at it's finest

****
 
MillionMilesAway said:
"And it is ruthless sophistry to imply those who criticise City are anti the Arab world, or anti Muslim, or whatever he is trying to suggest."
Did Khaldoon make the ethnicity comment about any critics, or just against Tebas?

If the first, Northcroft has a point - it is patently ridiculous to claim that about all criticism, as he points out; if the second, then Northcroft himself appears to have expanded it.
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Just Tebas,he said him bringing ethnicity into it was ugly
 
There's me thinking we were football fans sick of 10 years of negativity towards our club yet we are a 'weaponised fan base' who are 'spinning things for the Abu Dhabi regime'
 
karen7 said:
Fucking hell i've just read the whole thing
2 things stand out to me the most,even now he is pushing we are owned by a country and the fact that we are wrong to finally hit back after 10yrs of sucking the vile stuff up


"But most telling is their ownership. Even if you don’t have reservations about the human rights and foreign policy of Abu Dhabi (and plenty fans do not), the fact City are funded by an entire, petro-rich country, giving them wealth unparalleled in football’s history, is a dynamic romantics cannot ignore. Abu Dhabi have lavished so much on City as to make Liverpool, with the world’s most expensive defender and briefly goalkeeper, look to neutrals like underdogs."

"But the people spinning for the Abu Dhabi regime are extremely good at what they do. They don't miss a trick. Attacking the critic is their Trumpian way and one of the issues with Tebas is that, outside football, he appears a pretty questionable individual who is a high profile supporter of a Spanish far right party...so the "ethnicity" card by Khaldoon is a knowing play."

Since when have we attacked our critics? it's been 10yrs ffs

Don't even get me going on the rest of it,city bingo at it's finest

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I can see why this might annoy other fans but his anger should be at the door of the teams that turned the "Premier League" and "Champions to 4th placed League" into the money-spinning competitions they are today. Our silent neighbours are valued at 100 to 150 times more than they were in 1989 and it is they and similar teams that have shown how to generate cash from kicking a football round a field. If they'd been a bit more generous with their wealth and not been so greedy, maybe it wouldn't have caught the eye of richer people around the world but they weren't. They're annoyed because they had it so good and now they're not. Simple.
 
karen7 said:
Fucking hell i've just read the whole thing
2 things stand out to me the most,even now he is pushing we are owned by a country and the fact that we are wrong to finally hit back after 10yrs of sucking the vile stuff up


"But most telling is their ownership. Even if you don’t have reservations about the human rights and foreign policy of Abu Dhabi (and plenty fans do not), the fact City are funded by an entire, petro-rich country, giving them wealth unparalleled in football’s history, is a dynamic romantics cannot ignore. Abu Dhabi have lavished so much on City as to make Liverpool, with the world’s most expensive defender and briefly goalkeeper, look to neutrals like underdogs."

"But the people spinning for the Abu Dhabi regime are extremely good at what they do. They don't miss a trick. Attacking the critic is their Trumpian way and one of the issues with Tebas is that, outside football, he appears a pretty questionable individual who is a high profile supporter of a Spanish far right party...so the "ethnicity" card by Khaldoon is a knowing play."

Since when have we attacked our critics? it's been 10yrs ffs

Don't even get me going on the rest of it,city bingo at it's finest

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And there we go yet again
It’s a country, it’s petro-dollars, human rights abuses, unparalleled wealth and so we make lavish Liverpool look poor.
And he’s bringing up ethnicity without realising it.

Ffs Northcroft that is a steaming pile of horseshit
 
squirtyflower said:
And there we go yet again
It’s a country, it’s petro-dollars, human rights abuses, unparalleled wealth and so we make lavish Liverpool look poor.
And he’s bringing up ethnicity without realising it.

Ffs Northcroft that is a steaming pile of horseshit
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If you haven't read his whole piece then don't if you value your blood pressure
 
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