Media Discussion - 2023/24

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jrb said:
You haven't seen anything yet, even after years of reading this thread. Somebody has gone to a lot of trouble to produce this

LACK OF CIVIC LEADERSHIP HAS ENABLED MANCHESTER AND NEWCASTLE SPORTSWASHING PROJECTS​


A new report published today finds that political leaders in Manchester and Newcastle have not only declined multiple opportunities to use their positions of influence to express criticism of serious and systematic human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, but have effectively assisted these two deeply abusive and profoundly anti-democratic states’ efforts to set up ‘soft power enclaves’ in cities with proud histories of protest and dissent.

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Lack of civic leadership has enabled Manchester and Newcastle sportswashing projects – FairSquare

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Wow! This really is a campaign of spite being led by some very bitter people and organisations. They seem to have aquired had a large tranch of dosh to run a vicious campaign this close season.
 
At least the Guardian has had a change of heart. A whole article on Stevie G taking up a manager job in Saudi Arabia. You’d expect outright condemnation of a former England captain taking money from a country with a record of such terrible human rights abuses for sportswashing purposes but no, the move is “intriguing”.

Now clearly they can no longer run articles criticising our club’s owners for those issues or it would display the most blatant double standards. And they wouldn’t want that would they?
 
kippaxwarrior said:
Englands U-21's beat Israel 3-0 last night with Cole Plamer man of the match scoring one and assisting the other two so England reach the final of the U-21's Euro Final.

So the BBC match report naturally focuses on Morgan Gibbs-White who scored one and missed a penalty. Cole gets a 2 line paragraph

Er okay
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I thought that Curtis Jones was Man of the Match ?
If you read the comments, at the bottom of the Guardian's match report, about 6 Dippers cream themselves about how great Jones was "running the game".
LFC fans (who I always thought were independent from England) cannot help themselves getting giddy over anything remotely positive about their club.
 
madloaf said:
ESPN have released a top 100 players/managers

www.espn.co.uk

The FC 100 for 2023: Haaland, Mbappe lead our list of best men's soccer players

After a brief hiatus thanks to the winter World Cup in Qatar, ESPN presents its seventh annual ranking of the best men's players and coaches in world soccer! Welcome to FC 100.
www.espn.co.uk www.espn.co.uk

Two things of particular note.

1. Bellingham is ranked above Rodri as best centre mid.

2. John Stones isn't in it. Lisandro Martinez is.
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Martinez was humiliated in the 6-3 derby defeat. The worst player on the field. I think he is the latest United myth. Someone who runs about a lot kicking opponents always goes down well with their fans. Stones is light years ahead of him. Come to think of it so are Akanji and Nathan Ake.
 
jrb said:
You haven't seen anything yet, even after years of reading this thread. Somebody has gone to a lot of trouble to produce this

LACK OF CIVIC LEADERSHIP HAS ENABLED MANCHESTER AND NEWCASTLE SPORTSWASHING PROJECTS​


A new report published today finds that political leaders in Manchester and Newcastle have not only declined multiple opportunities to use their positions of influence to express criticism of serious and systematic human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, but have effectively assisted these two deeply abusive and profoundly anti-democratic states’ efforts to set up ‘soft power enclaves’ in cities with proud histories of protest and dissent.

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Click on the PDF link via the below link to read the report.

Lack of civic leadership has enabled Manchester and Newcastle sportswashing projects – FairSquare

fairsq.org fairsq.org
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Billions of pounds, thousands of jobs (direct and indirect), world-leading urban regeneration, making Manchester one of the best cities in Europe. No one complains when external investment goes to London but when it comes up North it's apparently a catastrophe. Tells you a lot about this country. I say good luck to Newcastle. The North East is a fantastic region which has been criminally neglected by national politicians (Tory and Labour) for generations. I couldn't give a shit what the chattering classes think.
 
whipper said:
He was in the same hotel as me in Paphos last year, lives in Brighton now.
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Nice to hear he’s still knocking about. I know he’s had his problems.

Hopefully making a good life for himself well away from some of the dicks that were always knocking about around him in Chorlton and Didsbury.
 
blueinsa said:
They have a real hard on for the UAE it would appear.

I wonder where their funding comes from?
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Past clients include The Cult, McGeehan once tweeted boasting about it
He has made an entire business out of slagging City and pretty obvious that other bad faith actors are pulling his strings
He held a launch event for this report the other week in the city centre
Been told nobody turned up apart from a handful of united and tribute act fans, and a couple of Socialist Worker salesmen
Hasn’t landed how he hoped but he’ll continue flogging the life out of it. His pinned tweet for five years was a previous pile of shit slagging us off
 
LongsightM13 said:
Past clients include The Cult, McGeehan once tweeted boasting about it
He has made an entire business out of slagging City and pretty obvious that other bad faith actors are pulling his strings
He held a launch event for this report the other week in the city centre
Been told nobody turned up apart from a handful of united and tribute act fans, and a couple of Socialist Worker salesmen
Hasn’t landed how he hoped but he’ll continue flogging the life out of it. His pinned tweet for five years was a previous pile of shit slagging us off
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Sheffield University did a very biased report a few years ago slagging off Sheikh Mansour's investment in City and the city of Manchester. I seem to recall it was riddled with errors from start to finish. The biggest mistake was to overvalue the land in Beswick and Ancoats. They forgot to mention that it had been derelict for 50 years and was polluted with deadly chemicals. I can't recall who commissioned the study but it really was a pile of shite produced by people who knew nothing about Manchester.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Sheffield University did a very biased report a few years ago slagging off Sheikh Mansour's investment in City and the city of Manchester. I seem to recall it was riddled with errors from start to finish. The biggest mistake was to overvalue the land in Beswick and Ancoats. They forgot to mention that it had been derelict for 50 years and was polluted with deadly chemicals. I can't recall who commissioned the study but it really was a pile of shite produced by people who knew nothing about Manchester.
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Manchester Off-Shored

What a piece of work that was. No mention of funding in it .....
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Sheffield University did a very biased report a few years ago slagging off Sheikh Mansour's investment in City and the city of Manchester. I seem to recall it was riddled with errors from start to finish. The biggest mistake was to overvalue the land in Beswick and Ancoats. They forgot to mention that it had been derelict for 50 years and was polluted with deadly chemicals. I can't recall who commissioned the study but it really was a pile of shite produced by people who knew nothing about Manchester.
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It was last year
McGeehan and Delooney continually ‘log roll’ it to give a sheen of false academic rigour and credibility to their demented ravings
The fact it was riddled with errors and untruths, especially about the land values in East Manchester (which only started to increase from in many cases negative equity - due to the level of contamination- once City had funded remediation of the land)
One of the authors is a known ‘activist’ rag and tribute act enthusiast who was fairly transparently coming from a starting position of bad faith
 
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