Media Discussion - 2023/24

[MillionMilesAway]

Just watched a programme about Madagascar. There was a guy with a City shirt on. We are truly becoming a global football club with supporters all over the world.

Some years ago I was in central Africa. When crossing the border from Rwanda to Uganda, a bloke walked by in a long-sleeved City shirt.

Yaya is a huge name in African football and made the club name known. Kolo will doubtless have helped too, but I doubt to the same effect.

 

[Gingers Dad]

There are no rules against this and these idiots scratch their heads wondering where City get revenue from. It kinda flys in the face of how frugal Liverpool claim to be compared to City on their cringeworthy net spend argument. Think United managed to get £4 million for Elanga when he’s played and scored for the first team where City are getting £10 million for players who haven’t got near our bench. Instead of crying about it why don’t they do what City are doing?

Elanga is shit

 

[Gingers Dad]

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That book was so boring.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Simply Simon, the slimy rag, has been sniffing glue again....

Knowledgeable fans​

Arsenal v Man Utd (22:00 BST)

Simon Stone
BBC Sport at the MetLife Stadium
I have been fortunate enough to visit the United States on seven occasions for pre-season tours, dating back to 2003.
It is noticeable how the make-up of the crowd has changed in that time.
Twenty years ago, there was a novelty value to United turning up, there was applause at the wrong time in games and one of the stadium announcers even got Sir Bobby Charlton's name wrong.
Now, I have just been on a train packed with fans wearing replica shirts of all different years, with all different Arsenal and United names on the back.
These fans know everything about their clubs.
And over 80,000 will be here hoping to see their team win.

Off he goes again fanboy Stone travelling the world on tax payers money. He's even bragging about how many times he's done it now.

 

[mattcity5]

Elanga is shit

Yep. They probably would have got more money for him if nobody had seen him play. As it is, he's shown everyone that he isn't good enough.

 

[cheekybids]

I think it's a bit naughty of Sam Lee to imply even a small number of fans may be indifferent to Mahrez leaving due to him being a North African Muslim. It's fair to say that people can take more easily to people that are similar to them but the converse doesn't make someone racist. There are also plenty of City players who don't look like the City crowd who have been adored by us. I'd worry for the health of any City player who looked like most of the match day crowd.

This kind of article again reinforces the idea that City reporters don't write for City fans.

This paragraph:

"Of course, that will not be a factor for many, but it cannot be overlooked as one reason why he has maybe not been given the love that a player with his contributions would ordinarily receive and deserve."

Is particularly stupid. How many people would need to hold this view before it begins to determine how a fan base responds? 10 racists with this view wouldn't impact a fan base response. Would 100? Nope. If it can't be overlooked it must be a significant number or a particularly vocal minority - in which case it should be easy for Sam to name and shame those fans. Of course he can't.

There is absolutely no credibility to his suggestion in my opinion and therefore no justification to include it except to make mischief. Instead of writing "Perhaps his race and faith play into that" it would have been just as credible to write "Perhaps Mahrez smashes all the buttons whilst playing Super Smash Brawl instead of trying to do the moves play into that" - this would certainly be a reason why I would dislike Mahrez.

We have statues of a Spanish Canary Islander of Japanese descent, Argentinian of Lebanese & Belgian of Congolese, lay off the crack Sam! It would only take a little bit of balanced analysis of those worshipped to understand we embrace differences. In fact we are so blinkered we fell in love with a ex Nazi paratrooper.

Maybe he should start his pieces with a need to start with questions for City fans rather than his own prejudiced views passed off as facts.

I don’t know what’s worse, the shit he comes out with or the justification from his fan boys.

Sam Lee is a ****!

 

[halfcenturyup]

He’s not calling anyone racist here at all. He’s actually right about that, it’s a relatability factor. Could have put it in a much much better way, but then you’re asking for elevated journalistic standards, which is too much to expect from ‘The Athletic’

Naah. It's bollocks. The only relatability factor with any of the squad is that they play for City. Nothing else matters to 99.9% of real fans.

If Sam Lee thinks I relate to a 6 foot 4 monster of a footballer from a wealthy family in Norway more than a French Algerian who dragged himself out of the poverty of suburban Paris just because he is white and non-Muslim, then he can fuck right off.

And before someone tells me he wasn't referring to me specifically, or that one in every 300,000 people attending football last year was charged with racism, the quote was "that may not be a factor for many", not the vast majority, not 299,999 out of every 300,000 people. Oh no, just "many". He can fuck right off some more.

 

[tommybooth]

Off he goes again fanboy Stone travelling the world on tax payers money. He's even bragging about how many times he's done it now.

In his defence, he does have a small penis for a massive bell end.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Simply Simon, the slimy rag, has been sniffing glue again....

Knowledgeable fans​

Arsenal v Man Utd (22:00 BST)

Simon Stone
BBC Sport at the MetLife Stadium
I have been fortunate enough to visit the United States on seven occasions for pre-season tours, dating back to 2003.
It is noticeable how the make-up of the crowd has changed in that time.
Twenty years ago, there was a novelty value to United turning up, there was applause at the wrong time in games and one of the stadium announcers even got Sir Bobby Charlton's name wrong.
Now, I have just been on a train packed with fans wearing replica shirts of all different years, with all different Arsenal and United names on the back.
These fans know everything about their clubs.
And over 80,000 will be here hoping to see their team win.

Knobhead.

 

[tregyblue61]

Knobhead.

I've been called many things but never a knobhead until now.

I like it!