Media discussion - 2024/25

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Morning everyone. So just got up and thought I would have a christmas trawl of the media regarding City. Here is a prime example of why I don't normally read it. A totally misleading headline which will lead to a lot of flapping and panic for all of a split second.
What..Pep has quit? Surely not. It would be all over the media,everywhere. But it is not, so ask yourself why would anyone use a headline like this?

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Of course he hasn't but all it does is fan the flames of negativity towards the club. All the media are doing is controlling emotions ( not mine) of fans who have a lifetime of emotional investment in supporting and loving our club.
They want us gone. They want us relegated. They want Pep gone because he has literally turned the premier league into a farmers league ( unless it's Liverpool on top and a million miles clear)

My one piece of advice to anyone who does read it and lets it affect them then don't. Honestly, take it for what it is a load of Hyperbole that wll only intensify until we start winning again. They will then continue but revert back to 115 to keep that at the forefront of peoples mindset.

Enjoy Christmas. See you at Everton and Leicester.
 
Shirley said:
Clear and obvious, they must be paying for this pr somehow
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I'd love to know the discussion that led to this article 'randomly' being published at this time. Maybe it's to give the rags a bit of a boost during a bad time, maybe it's to remind city fans that once upon a time the rags had the best manager. The thing is, it's always the positive slant on rag articles that is frustrating and the fact they always seem to appear out of context, I mean, why publish that random article today.

You only need to look at the other article on the BBC football pages to see the point (the one below). Even though it's technically talking about a negativity subject, the slant is very much 'its not the great club's fault, it's an individual players, and the great new manger is calling him out

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Moss Side's Finest said:
I'd love to know the discussion that led to this article 'randomly' being published at this time. Maybe it's to give the rags a bit of a boost during a bad time, maybe it's to remind city fans that once upon a time the rags had the best manager. The thing is, it's always the positive slant on rag articles that is frustrating and the fact they always seem to appear out of context, I mean, why publish that random article today.

You only need to look at the other article on the BBC football pages to see the point (the one below). Even though it's technically talking about a negativity subject, the slant is very much 'its not the great club's fault, it's an individual players, and the great new manger is calling him out

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The BBC football pages are like a red shirts Fanzine, its pathetic but sadly there is not a lot we can do, I pop in the HYS section now & again to plant a subtle time bomb which usually gets removed eventually, but not always :-)
I know its sad but its funny to see the reactions to a bit of a wind up & the Dippers are without doubt the easiest to offend.
 
After each defeat we are clearly briefing certain media types about January incomings to deflect the attention.
On the other side utd are throwing rashford under the bus and making sure their fans are blaming one person for their defeats.

Their PR advisors (probably instructed by scruffy Jim) act like a team from the 1980s
 
Reading BBC sport website is like reading the Ladybird Book of Football. A few uninformed hacks have decided they'll write about football having never had any interest in the game but have decided that united and dipperpool seem popular so we'll write all our articles about them.
The BBC haven't even got the brilliant Ladybird book artwork as a form of compensation.
 
St Helens Blue (Exiled) said:
Morning everyone. So just got up and thought I would have a christmas trawl of the media regarding City. Here is a prime example of why I don't normally read it. A totally misleading headline which will lead to a lot of flapping and panic for all of a split second.
What..Pep has quit? Surely not. It would be all over the media,everywhere. But it is not, so ask yourself why would anyone use a headline like this?

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Of course he hasn't but all it does is fan the flames of negativity towards the club. All the media are doing is controlling emotions ( not mine) of fans who have a lifetime of emotional investment in supporting and loving our club.
They want us gone. They want us relegated. They want Pep gone because he has literally turned the premier league into a farmers league ( unless it's Liverpool on top and a million miles clear)

My one piece of advice to anyone who does read it and lets it affect them then don't. Honestly, take it for what it is a load of Hyperbole that wll only intensify until we start winning again. They will then continue but revert back to 115 to keep that at the forefront of peoples mindset.

Enjoy Christmas. See you at Everton and Leicester.
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From the last century when I had no access to Sky and very limited Internet. City were in what is currently the Championship. Monday Mirror had a football section with scores and reports from all divisions. Often barely a paragraph but beggars choosers etc. Whoa, City game has nearly half a page. Report talked about recent signing Mark Kennedy settling in. Soon became apparent, settling into his rented accommodation and his neighbour, Wanker Boy, who had a plush one on the top floor. Stupid fuckin remarks about borrowing sugar and hoping to rise up to be able to afford a penthouse etc. Barely a word about the game, just glorification of all things rag and their pauper neighbours. I can honestly say, I binned the Mirror from that day and pretty much all newspapers within a few years.
 
Gazza said:
Reading BBC sport website is like reading the Ladybird Book of Football. A few uninformed hacks have decided they'll write about football having never had any interest in the game but have decided that united and dipperpool seem popular so we'll write all our articles about them.
The BBC haven't even got the brilliant Ladybird book artwork as a form of compensation.
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Good last line mate, was thinking the same as I read the post
 
mexico1970 said:
Here's the obvious reason how the "genius" managed to build his great side.

How many times did Alex Ferguson break the English transfer record?


Alex Ferguson broke the English Transfer record 5 times FIVE TIMES
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When United floated on the stock exchange back in the late 80s the IPO enabled Taggert to buy a team that was worth 80 percent of the club’s actual value. It would be the equivalent of the rags having a squad worth £5 billion if you compared it to the clubs value now, would still be in 13th though.
 
St Helens Blue (Exiled) said:
Morning everyone. So just got up and thought I would have a christmas trawl of the media regarding City. Here is a prime example of why I don't normally read it. A totally misleading headline which will lead to a lot of flapping and panic for all of a split second.
What..Pep has quit? Surely not. It would be all over the media,everywhere. But it is not, so ask yourself why would anyone use a headline like this?

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Of course he hasn't but all it does is fan the flames of negativity towards the club. All the media are doing is controlling emotions ( not mine) of fans who have a lifetime of emotional investment in supporting and loving our club.
They want us gone. They want us relegated. They want Pep gone because he has literally turned the premier league into a farmers league ( unless it's Liverpool on top and a million miles clear)

My one piece of advice to anyone who does read it and lets it affect them then don't. Honestly, take it for what it is a load of Hyperbole that wll only intensify until we start winning again. They will then continue but revert back to 115 to keep that at the forefront of peoples mindset.

Enjoy Christmas. See you at Everton and Leicester.
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If Pep left and joined a red shirt club, then the joyous, triumphant celebrations would reach a crescendo as they welcomed a second farmers league with open arms. Fortunately they ain't gonna get him.
 
Pep walked away from Spanish football vowing never to return, for a couple of reasons. One was the political interference at the club and the another was press interference in his life and the shit they were stirring up against him. It does feel like things are getting to that level now for him when you see the amount of negative shit being reported.
Fortunately he has already signed an extension, but I imagine Khaldoon and Soriano have sat him down to discuss a way out of all this and deliver a big 'feck you' to all concerned,
 
HelloCity said:
Compare and contrast

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I'm surprised you haven't included the articles which tell us for the hundredth time why Salah is an "all time great", why their Hungarian midfielder is so great and the two explaining why Saka's hamstring puts him out "for many weeks". We're all used to the orchestrated coverage of our redshirt opponents which contrasts their excellence in the face of adversity and their heroic response compared to our cheating which has finally caught up with us and I must be feeling very entitled, because I enjoy winning and rubbing their noses in it.

Nor do I think our period of absolute dominance is over. For this season it may well be but I'll bet Pep will put things right and I agree (for once!!) with Warnock. And I've found that the views put forward by the media are in no way shared by other fans. In 2023 we went for a few days to Devon just before the FA cup final. In our hotel were parties from Nottingham, various parts of Yorkshire and areas around the south coast. When they found we were from the Manchester area they were keen to find out who we wanted to win the cup. On being told we were solidly behind City the reaction was universally along the lines of "Oh good. We like city. Can't stand the other lot!" This was at a time when the greatest achievement of the red knight was increasingly unlikely to remain uniquely his. And there was evidence that Liverpool aroused even less enthusiasm than the rags. I can't remember any mention of Arsenal. So, I think we are used to going to places like Villa Park and finding that most there want us to lose but that doesn't mean that this validates the hostility of the media to us or their fawning over the red tops. I can only repeat that I expect (and hope) that Pep and the lads are back socking it to them next season ... and the season after that ... and ...
 
I'll never watch that Scum shite about Fergie, but I wonder if the BBC glossed over their absolute demolition by Pep in the Champs League final in 2009. What an absolute joy that was to watch - just as City were beginning to rise in the background. Who could have thought what Pep would go on to achieve, and that he would ever deign to come to us! Hard to believe that his greatest rewards would come at City.

United had their big hitters playing - especially Rooney and Ronaldo. They were absolutely mullered.
Scum.
 
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