Media discussion - 2024/25

[blueste41]

Just got called a "dick head" by a pissed up cockney for the crime of wearing a city shirt (in Thailand) . This is the media's fault for creating this agenda against city and it's fans.

Is it the medias fault? I've walked past 100's of people in United shirts and whilst I might not have said it (every time) I always think wanker!

 

[blueste41]

Can't find the MOTD thread so this is going in here.

Watching match of the day, we could be on 4th as spurs is the 3rd game.

The BBC couldn't be anymore obvious in how they perceive us. Absolute mardarses.

Be sure to come back and apologise on the weeks we're first but then you can reassert your anger if we're 4th again the following week, the week we're last you can go absolutely ballistic.
Order changes every week, I've seen some pretty tenuous reasons as to why the BBC hate us this one is pretty high up the list.
Sky must love us because they made us game of the day!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Brighton went to the top of the table for a short while after beating an average rag side or manchester united failed to win at Brighton due to a last gasp goal.

We can all call the narrative.

 

[why me? Blue Manchester]

Just got called a "dick head" by a pissed up cockney for the crime of wearing a city shirt (in Thailand) . This is the media's fault for creating this agenda against city and it's fans.

OMG
On holiday with the family in Costa del Sol area which I have been coming for over 35 years.
In a bar tonight whilst ordering drinks, one grandchild unsure of which crisps to to have
Chose a blue pack, then from the bloke next to us commented , nice Everton colours
I replied nah man city bud, then I got the full onslaught of abuse, cheats,115, oil money ect etc
I said whoa mate, let's see what happens when the verdicts arrive
He continued with city bingo phrases and getting more angry by the second
Then it turned nasty and very heated
My family and grandchildren were very scared and upset
Luckily for us the bar staff and other customers witnessed everything and jumped in and escorted the dickhead out of the bar before it got proper out of hand
I couldn't believe what had just happened
This is now becoming a serious social problem
We need this sorting one way or another soon
CTID

 

[Chris in London]

Don’t think it was, if I worked for MOTD, I’d have done the exact same running order as they did tbh. United losing was the big football story of the day and one that unites most people watching in terms of what they want to see!

And yet if you actually watched the game you’d have said this was a poor advert for the premier league between two teams who will be fighting it out for the lower European places. Neither will finish higher than sixth, nor lower than tenth. There were occasional glimpses of quality from both teams, but overall nothing to make you think this is the best league in the world.

The reason it was on first is because of who the rags were 15 years ago. The MOTD running order - close game in which the home side edge it over mediocre opposition - bears no relationship to the game as it stands today.

Putting them on first is simply the TV equivalent of click bait.

 

[Centurions]

And yet if you actually watched the game you’d have said this was a poor advert for the premier league between two teams who will be fighting it out for the lower European places. Neither will finish higher than sixth, nor lower than tenth. There were occasional glimpses of quality from both teams, but overall nothing to make you think this is the best league in the world.

The reason it was on first is because of who the rags were 15 years ago. The MOTD running order - close game in which the home side edge it over mediocre opposition - bears no relationship to the game as it stands today.

Putting them on first is simply the TV equivalent of click bait.

Possibly but don't they always put the early KO on first, I'd guess it's so that any comments during later matches about earlier results make sense?

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

I was quite happy to see United first game, knowing full well they lost and had a goal ruled out - and lost in the last moment of the game.

Well done BBC for making me laugh in the opening 10 mins of the show.

 

[HalfwayUpTheKippax]

Possibly but don't they always put the early KO on first, I'd guess it's so that any comments during later matches about earlier results make sense?

I'm sure they only do that if there is a narrative to be made and, even then, comments are only made or edited in afterwards to fit that narrative. It has always been the biggest +/or best game +/or the greatest shock value that make it on first. So we would have been on first if we hadn't scored finishing 0-1, no matter how dull the game may have been. Lowly underdogs Brighton snatching a last minute winner against the world famous Cayman Islands FC (if only Gordon Smith could have done that in 1983) makes, in their eyes, the classic first game.

 

[Centurions]

I was quite happy to see United first game, knowing full well they lost and had a goal ruled out - and lost in the last moment of the game.

Well done BBC for making me laugh in the opening 10 mins of the show.

Two goals ruled out (correctly as it happens), the one where it hit his knee on the line was well funny.

I think we may have an undercover agent working for SSN online as well.

 

[Double R]

OMG
On holiday with the family in Costa del Sol area which I have been coming for over 35 years.
In a bar tonight whilst ordering drinks, one grandchild unsure of which crisps to to have
Chose a blue pack, then from the bloke next to us commented , nice Everton colours
I replied nah man city bud, then I got the full onslaught of abuse, cheats,115, oil money ect etc
I said whoa mate, let's see what happens when the verdicts arrive
He continued with city bingo phrases and getting more angry by the second
Then it turned nasty and very heated
My family and grandchildren were very scared and upset
Luckily for us the bar staff and other customers witnessed everything and jumped in and escorted the dickhead out of the bar before it got proper out of hand
I couldn't believe what had just happened
This is now becoming a serious social problem
We need this sorting one way or another soon
CTID

This is why I dont wear my colours in public anymore. Im happy for my 10 year old to go full kit if he wants, he should wear it with pride. But there are far too many tossers like this around.
Im glad that others stepped in to help.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Is it the medias fault? I've walked past 100's of people in United shirts and whilst I might not have said it (every time) I always think wanker!

Seriously, have you ever felt the need to shout it to a complete stranger, though, in a non-football environment. And if not, which is what I hope as you don't come over as a complete dickhead, what do you think caused the dickhead to do it to a complete stranger on holiday in Thailand?

Don't say alcohol, alcohol just removes the restraint from showing your true feelings. So what gives these people the feeling that City fans are dickheads for wearing a City shirt? If it isn't the media coverage, what is it?

 

[Giovinco]

That talksport clip this morning Jesus.

We’ve just won a football game and this guy is going on about how we can’t fill the etihad, how it was all tourists visiting the Real Madrid quarter final last year…

The level of vitriol is crazy

 

[pauls]

That talksport clip this morning Jesus.

We’ve just won a football game and this guy is going on about how we can’t fill the etihad, how it was all tourists visiting the Real Madrid quarter final last year…

The level of vitriol is crazy

Just revel knowing the numpty who phoned in has spent money and talk shite have willingly and gleefully accepted keeping him engaged for maximum extraction.
Might as well be two blokes talking in a pub that charade.

 

[CC1]

Just got called a "dick head" by a pissed up cockney for the crime of wearing a city shirt (in Thailand) . This is the media's fault for creating this agenda against city and it's fans.

Nope. These idiots don’t need the media to turn them against us - it’s just that they’ve had to watch our outstanding successes for years - & if he was an Arsenal fan, he’ll always be gutted about their failures -:)

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

And yet if you actually watched the game you’d have said this was a poor advert for the premier league

I thought it was a fucking brilliant advert for the Premier League.

 

[Shirley]

That talksport clip this morning Jesus.

We’ve just won a football game and this guy is going on about how we can’t fill the etihad, how it was all tourists visiting the Real Madrid quarter final last year…

The level of vitriol is crazy

We’ve completely ruined them and filled them with bitterness

 

[manimanc]

Was amazed that MOTD didn't put their new darlings, Arsenal, on first ?
To put the Trafford Tramps on first was a very odd choice.
There is an unexplained obsession for MUFC, from the BBC ?
As we are the paying public, it should be explained ?
Also why does Slimy Stone seem to be always reporting on them ?

It's an unexplained obsession from Sky sports too, them being the first match on tv was odd but goes to explain that the sports media have their tongues firmly planted up the rags mard arse.

 

[manimanc]

Be sure to come back and apologise on the weeks we're first but then you can reassert your anger if we're 4th again the following week, the week we're last you can go absolutely ballistic.
Order changes every week, I've seen some pretty tenuous reasons as to why the BBC hate us this one is pretty high up the list.
Sky must love us because they made us game of the day!

I'm an old bitter blue.
My kids even call me bertie.
Meh.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

And yet if you actually watched the game you’d have said this was a poor advert for the premier league between two teams who will be fighting it out for the lower European places. Neither will finish higher than sixth, nor lower than tenth. There were occasional glimpses of quality from both teams, but overall nothing to make you think this is the best league in the world.

The reason it was on first is because of who the rags were 15 years ago. The MOTD running order - close game in which the home side edge it over mediocre opposition - bears no relationship to the game as it stands today.

Putting them on first is simply the TV equivalent of click bait.

Also an odd choice since the United game had already been televised in the UK.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

That talksport clip this morning Jesus.

We’ve just won a football game and this guy is going on about how we can’t fill the etihad, how it was all tourists visiting the Real Madrid quarter final last year…

The level of vitriol is crazy

He won’t be happy next season when we have 62,000 in the ground and another 25,000 watching it in an immersive experience at Co-op live!