The Saudi’s have form when it comes to dealing with Journalists, there’s very little outrage directed at Newcastle.
Media Discussion - 2023/24
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jaseisblue
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It’s bollocks isn’t it. The rags have been one of the worst teams in living memory for giving shit to officials but now City have done it, the media twunts make it look (once again) like we are the first to do it.Surprise surprise the Daily United making an example of City and Erling following his reaction to the most blatantly and wilfully corrupt decision you'll see all season.
Funnily enough City can easily claim the same title from last season with the OT "not interfering with play" offside goal.
I see a pattern emerging here.
"Institutionalised thuggery"
Erling Haaland is the poster boy for tantrums by entitled millionaires
OLIVER HOLT: Apart from in football, in what other walk of life would we look at the way Erling Haaland behaved towards referee Simon Hooper and think it was in any way acceptable.www.dailymail.co.uk
They know where their (red) clicks come from.
It's easy to understand the media hatred and vilification.
United are a cash cow for the media, they generate a huge amount of ad revenue from all the clicks, subs and likes on any united related article and the broadcasters make even more money, all largely due to their millions of armchair fans throughout South East Asia.
City got an easy ride from the media in the early days of the takeover, it's only once we became successful and then dominant coinciding with the decline of united that the media hate campaign really got going.
As ever, It's all about the money.
Prophet of Doom
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I would give the Mail a wide berth until the sale of the Telegraph is sorted one way or another.
It’s clear their reporting is now being influenced by the people running the operation so expect it to get much worse in the coming weeks
It’s clear their reporting is now being influenced by the people running the operation so expect it to get much worse in the coming weeks
My biggest frustration with and criticism of City, both as a club and with the players on the pitch, is that they're far too compliant and respectful of the authorities and officials.
We are catching them up and they are shitting their short trousers. We didn’t get that much of an easy ride, I remember when we were struggling in the early days many of them were gloating over our poor form under Hughes and I definitely read one journalist writing a piece filled with vitriol about us getting relegated would be celebrated by fans of all other clubs.
Mancini certainly didn’t get an easy ride, more or less from the day Sergio was signed there were constant rumours about him leaving and when the first Premier League was won in 2012 it was all about Yaya and the birthday cake.
They do have historical world wide support but that is on the wane big time, their fan base is made up of generally middle age to older fans. Ours is a more vibrant upcoming brand, it’s the real reason the history clubs are trying to use their influence to bury us, if we’d spent fortunes and been unsuccessful we “might as well be Celtic”
jaseisblue
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Premier league just sold record viewing rights worth 6.7 billion. Seems like despite winning multiple titles we are not harming their product at all. So now is it just they are red full kit wankers and hate us because they are fan boys of the shite.
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Just for your own info, to stop you having to click on the link, within the article there are two paragraphs on the Incident where United players chased the ref with an accompanying picture. But I take your overall point, Holt could have used many moments this year, to highlight his point.
jaseisblue
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Thank you sir, I fear of clicking anything these days.
feedmpenzaandhewillscore
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The clear and organised mantra definitely springs to mind. If it isn’t the corrupt refereeing it’s the reaction from our players to how bad the officials are. If it isn’t that it’s how loud the fans are, if it isn’t that it’s why aren’t we paying Benjamin Mendy when the media spent most of the 18 months before he was exonerated wanking themselves silly that a rapist had turned out for City. If it isn’t that it’s the small matter of the Premier League trying to drag us to a kangaroo court. Negative stories about City are very much good for business and attracting the type of readership they want.
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