Media Discussion - 2023/24

[lancs blue]

That vid brings back some memories of the escorts back to the station from Elland Road in the 70s. Noticed a coachload of rags on there from Telford, that well known suburb of Manchester.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Well, I thoroughly enjoyed the game last night on the match day centre. Phone seemed to be pinging every ten mins with a City goal - no sound of a grating Scouse Spitty accent and no piccies of that ugly mush Gary Nutter has been saddled with! Mind, I did think 0-3 at half time looked a bit thin with another 45mins to hang on!

Must admit I was getting a bit over confident on 85 minutes.

 

[Mike N]

It was funny listening to the sports bulletin on 5Live this morning. They went to great lengths to say how lucky we were with the free kick and the penalty appeals. They also actually listed the Brighton players who were out injured. It’s almost as if someone was upset at the result!

 

[At-Swim-Two-Birds]

It's interesting to think about the vocabulary the media on the whole uses about City even when they are (supposedly) praising us. "Relentless." "Ominous." "Machine." "Unstoppable."

They are all words with deeply negative connotations.

Actually, we play beautiful football. We innovate by bringing defenders into central midfield and inverting our full backs. We play our way through high presses with instant, one touch football. We play no-look passes because we know where our team mates are going to be. We cut through defences with team goals like a knife through butter (how many times have we seen a far-post tap in come at the end of a 20 pass move?). We score top corner thunderbastards from 20+ yards. Our wide players bring 40 yard cross-field balls under instant control. Our goalkeeper, no less, pings highly accurate 60 yard balls into spaces we can exploit behind high defensive lines. Oscar Bobb and Jeremy Doku excite crowds by taking on defenders one-on -one. Even our big, old-fashioned centre forward (Kevin de Bruyne) bangs his headers into the top corner from 12 yards out.

The vocabulary used to describe us invokes none of these things. There's a piss funny Jaws Paddy Power thing from last season where some grizzled old scouser tells a bunch of Arsenal fans in a bar what it's like being hunted down by City, and he talks about our black lifeless eyes. That's a parody - I think - but it's not actually a million miles away from the way the Telegraph and the Mail describe it.

Those words I've used above. "Ominous." "Machine." "Relentless." Even when they are complimenting us - through their gritted teeth - it's a long way from the way they used to describe Arse or the rags back in the day.

It's how they'd describe the fucking Terminator.

You have to laugh.

They also have a puff piece on Liverpool's new messiah Arne Slot. It contains this quote, "There are two people who have really enriched football in recent decades, who have never disappointed me,” he said two years ago. “Those are Lionel Messi and Pep Guardiola."

Don't tell Liverpool fans.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

How about forming a Sketcher Posse, it'd be easy to quietly limp up to potential targets before 'steamin' in.

The zebra striped cord pants would give you away.

 

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[bluemanchester]

The Jim jams will go well with my dark grey Sketchers, order completed.

Tena pads?

 

[hammocity]

Btw, it’s fucking Skechers not Sketchers, us FOC’s often go off at a tangent as we forget what is being discussed.

 

[Bozo]

I see we moved quickly from 'the best title race in years' to 'boring, predictable, the Premier League is in danger'.

 

[Always Ali]

It was funny listening to the sports bulletin on 5Live this morning. They went to great lengths to say how lucky were were with the free kick and the penalty appeals. They also actually listed the Brighton players who were out injured. It’s almost as if someone was upset at the result!

I heard that, and found myself shouting at the radio, followed by a Whatsapp asking WTF was that all about. Scouse/Rag stronghold at the BBC