Media Discussion - 2023/24

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Norbiton said:
It isn’t really that negative, but it’s a bit odd, based on how he thinks his City-supporting father-in-law might be feeling after winning the treble and imagining his celebrations were a little subdued. Couldn’t he just ask him rather than making stuff up?
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Ric said:
It’s a strange, poorly written article. I don’t really understand what point (if any) he is trying to make.
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As an antidote to the modern game, with it's superleagues and multi-club ownership etc. we are constantly told by the football media that what defines a football club are the people, the fans, the community, the smile on a young lad's face as he walks up the concourse steps and sees the pitch for the first time etc. We hear it all the time about United and the glazers, Charlton and the Belgian owner, Mike Ashley and Newcastle, Bury, Notts County and all the others let down by poor owners.


For some reason though, when it comes to Manchester City, The Guardian et all seems to throw all of that out of the window and think it's perfectly acceptable to reduce the club to it's owner, and not look past that at all.

Would anyone ever write an article about if Brighton is really the same club the fans grew up supporting in the 4th tier in the 1990s?
 
domalino said:
For some reason though, when it comes to Manchester City, The Guardian et all seems to throw all of that out of the window and think it's perfectly acceptable to reduce the club to it's owner, and not look past that at all.
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Thry go further than that. They dishonestly misrepresent our club’s ownership and present it as fact.
 
Goodlove said:
I read half of it but switched off when he started talking pretentiously about Triggers Brush.
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You just took me back to trying to explain to chums at the boozer just after that episode of 'Only Fools..' was transmitted, the link between 'Trigger's Broom' and the philosophical conundrum that is 'Theseus's Ship' (which was modernised in my time as a student occasionally studying Philosophy as, 'You buy a new car and over time change every component; is it still the original car?') I think that in doing so I probably spoiled the joke for them!

Best bit of that brilliant episode was when Trigger was asked if the broom he'd used for 20 years as a council worker was the same one, despite having 17 new heads and 14 new handles, with him pulling out a photo of him holding it saying 'There's the proof..'

As for 'Jason Grimsby's' pontificating on our club, well let me tell him that I've been going to watch City ever since 1959 and in that time I've seen every iteration of the team/club I love.

I've despaired time and time again at some of the gormless things we've done on and off the pitch. And I've leapt wildly in celebration of each and every one of our successes, just I did recently in that unforgettable two weeks when I witnessed us lifting the PL trophy at our gaff, the FA Cup at Wembley and then the CL trophy at home watching on TV (btw, I gave my ticket for Istanbul to my nephew.. and am glad I did, given all the travel and stadium problems!)

So yes, Jason, I abso-f**king-lutely loved it!

And you know, Jason me old cocker, just as Rudyard Kipling advised, I've always treated those 'two imposters (success and failure) the same'..

Because, Jason, like each and every one of my fellow Blues, I love Manchester City and have done so with every iteration the club has been through.

That's the constant. Win or lose, succeed or fail, it really doesn't matter to me at all. I will always love my club, my tribe..
 
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