Media Discussion - 2023/24

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wolviedinho said:
Great innit!

Mansour couldn't have chosen a better fan base to cope with the barrage of lies. We have been through it all. The experience of football hardship has enabled most of us to develop a thick skin.

Dealing with the premier/uefa or any other **** is not a problem for city nor its fans.
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Every City fan preparing to go on Twitter to defend our great club
 
Bez said:
There used to be a webpage on the PL website that related to the Champions League. This page listed all the winners of the Champions League from England. There was a super picture of Salah etc in action. Strangely, not really, this page had not been updated since City's Champions Lesgue win last summer. Being a sad bastard I let the PL know. No reply. I tried again. No reply. I raised a complaint and I was advised the department would update the page. That was a few weeks ago. No change to the page. I contacted them again. Yes, I accept this is a bit sad. However, I want the PL to acknowledge our success bearing mind all the shit since they charged us. Anyway, to spare you any more on this story, I checked the page and currently it is saying the page has gone. Now it's possible they are making the amendments to it. Or, a more cynical view maybe that someone responsible for the PL website doesn't want to acknowledge City's historic achievement. We shall see. Here's the link.

UEFA Champions League Competition Format & History | Premier League

Find out about the format and history of the Champions League, UEFA's lead club competition, on the official website of the Premier League.
www.premierleague.com www.premierleague.com
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The page is here now:

www.premierleague.com

UEFA Champions League explained

Find out about the format and history of UEFA's lead club competition
www.premierleague.com www.premierleague.com

As you say, it hasn't been updated since we won the Champions League.
 
Bear in mind most journos grew up in the days when Liverpool won a lot, and also got victimised at Heysel, according to their logic. They feel victims, when in fact their fans are probably the worst in the UK, always the victims. Remember the team bus and no charges? Disgusting!
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
Bear in mind most journos grew up in the days when Liverpool won a lot, and also got victimised at Heysel, according to their logic. They feel victims, when in fact their fans are probably the worst in the UK, always the victims. Remember the team bus and no charges? Disgusting!
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There's no probably about it and, according to a Uefa report they're the worst fans in Europe.
 
Platt Lane 59 said:
Yes, definitely the agenda for Sky.
Wonder if it's imitating the American "dream" rivalry, where the Big 2 are dominant in a sport e.g. Boston Red Sox against the New York Yankees ?
Having a Big 2, represented by Neville & Carragher, simplifies football for Sky.
Although these 2 pundits and co-commentators will sometimes laud the achievements of other clubs or players, they will show their one-eyed annoyance/anger when their own team get beat or don't get a 50:50 decision.
Perhaps Sky assume newcomers to football can cope easier with an "either/or" option ?
City and Chelsea are certainly the ignored teams, with the latter yesterday, almost ignored in a Cup Final.
Thank god my local Pub doesn't allow the sound when Sky games are on the telly as these 2 toe-rags are all about controversy...
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Gary Bury v Jamie Everton, two footballing colossuses
 
See Slimy Salford Stone has to yet again of course inc us in his story about Everton having 10 points deducted to 6. I am sure is he had to do the weather reports for a week to cover someone he would still link our charges into that.
Why we allow this Rag into the ground is still a mystery, no doubt he was the one to ask Pep about the Rags
 
hertsblue said:
See Slimy Salford Stone has to yet again of course inc us in his story about Everton having 10 points deducted to 6. I am sure is he had to do the weather reports for a week to cover someone he would still link our charges into that.
Why we allow this Rag into the ground is still a mystery, no doubt he was the one to ask Pep about the Rags
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The rags dislike him as much as on here. They think he's anti-utd and always doing sly digs at them.
 
Regarding Stones latest BBC item, apparently CITY have been charged with over 100 offences icluding illegal payments and non co-operation.

IF you are reading this Stones, for once in your worthless life get your facts right.
CITY have not been charged with anything.
Allegations have been made and it is up to the organisation that made the allegations to prove them.
Where has it been suggested, other than in the gutter press, that CITY have not co-operated? Or are you harping on about the CAS settlement?
Why don’t you concentrate on your homework or crayoning instead of trying to look important by comparing un-related shite?
I feel sure someone is digging a hole for you..
Or maybe you’re digging your own.
Prick.
 
I know he's not especially well liked my many, but I did enjoy this from Barry Glendenning.

www.theguardian.com

Football Daily | Liverpool, Chelsea and the cautionary tale of the offside patella

In today’s Football Daily: Fizzy Cup musings, Gary Mabbutt and Shinji Okazaki: the [Filbert] streets will never forget
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

THINK OF THE CHILDREN​

To read or listen to some of the reports from Wembley yesterday, one could be forgiven for thinking the gnarled and streetwise, serial-winning veterans of Chelsea had just lost a Fizzy Cup final by a cricket score to Liverpool’s Under-14s. As is often the case, some mid-match musings of a Sky Sports pundit were used as a stick with which to beat the losing manager after the game and a visibly distraught Mauricio Pochettino was forced to defend his vanquished team against Gary Neville’s slightly melodramatic suggestion that the Blues were overpriced donkeys for losing a final to children by a solitary goal, scored in the knockings of extra time.

Never mind that here was a game that, give or take an offside patella, could easily have gone the other way. Or that Pochettino started five players aged 22 or under, compared to Liverpool’s three. Never mind that the combined age of the XI that finished the final for Liverpool was higher than their opponents. Ignore the fact that the scorer of Liverpool’s winning goal cost £75m six years ago and had more big-match experience than most of Chelsea’s players. Never mind that the post-match narrative dictated that Chelsea’s considerable injury issues were ignored. And that they are a demonstrably worse team than Liverpool, who sit 25 points and 10 places above them in the league. “It’s Klopp’s kids against the blue billion-pound bottle-jobs,” announced Neville, whose scathing summation was seized upon by many who heard it and went on to form the basis of no end of chin-stroking post-match analysis from writers and broadcasters who couldn’t possibly have watched the fascinating game of exceptionally fine margins that had just been played.

“I didn’t hear what he said, but if you compare the age of the two groups, I think it is similar,” said Pochettino, upon being asked to comment on Neville’s analysis. “I have a good relationship with Gary and I don’t know if that’s how I can take this opinion. But I respect his opinion. We made a few changes with [Conor] Gallagher and [Ben] Chilwell in extra time. But it is true we didn’t keep the energy of how we finished the second half. I don’t know how you can describe this situation. But I feel proud. I feel proud of the players, I think they made a big effort.”

While Football Daily could scarcely agree more with the consensus that Liverpool’s young academy graduates performed commendably upon being thrown into the white-hot heat of battle, it also behoves us to note that they are – to a whey-faced teen – all very good at football and were not just some ragbag assortment of random street urchins who had stowed away in the Liverpool team bus before it left Merseyside. While talk of blue, billionaire bottle-jobs might make for a snappy and alliterative soundbite, we can’t help think Gary’s glib, gantry gripe was a bit unfair.
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bobbyowenquiff said:
It's funny how the narrative about LFC being United's main rivals has vanished into the ether now they are pals (certainly their fans are these days).
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Every rag I know stills hates them with a passion. One rag mate remarked he was glad it was a leap year as he had an extra day to hate the scousers. United hate us, I'd be dissapointed if they didn't but they hate scousers as much if not more so. If Liverpool hate us more than the rags at the moment it's down to jealousy, if the rags were top dogs they would be hated more. A United v Liverpool cup final might be the BBCs wet dream but its the polices worse nightmare.
 
Spurs quarter 69 said:
Every rag I know stills hates them with a passion. One rag mate remarked he was glad it was a leap year as he had an extra day to hate the scousers. United hate us, I'd be dissapointed if they didn't but they hate scousers as much if not more so. If Liverpool hate us more than the rags at the moment it's down to jealousy, if the rags were top dogs they would be hated more. A United v Liverpool cup final might be the BBCs wet dream but its the polices worse nightmare.
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If the dips win the title they equal Man Utds twenty English titles, not a single rag wants that for obvious reasons, especially when you factor in the dips six European Cups.
 
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