Media discussion - 2025/26

Sly Sports after the end of the United match and the adverts.

Back in the studio.

“Could this be the turning point for Manchester United”

Again!
 
The media will be getting plenty of zinc down themselves tonight in anticipation of the cumfest that would follow a red shirt treble this weekend
 
Blueboy73 said:
Is this Barney " row of grinning beards" Ronay?
Nothing but a bitter, snide racist.
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Yes, also an egotistical journalist that hasn't got the balls to write what he obviously thinks/is paid to think.
C'Mon Barney, grow a pair of Fred Flintstones and say that City have not only "ruined" the Premier League, but dared to challenge the established order.
So if the 130 charges play out as a 0-0 draw, it's City's fault that the Premier League have to pay out so much in Legal Fees, due to City's "better legal team" ?
 
Sly Stone in his United v Chelsea match report.

The Blues have not won since 2013 at this stadium and - despite United being a declining superpower - they keep finding innovative ways to lose at this ground.

The big nosed, Rag, c*nt must have a good memory. It’s 13 years since United last won the PL title.
 
TinFoilHat said:
UK sports media daisy chaining their favourite teams winning today.

I really hope that's rain landing on train passing the swamp...
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And this is why I won’t pay, or watch, their loaded content. Tonight, though, I thought I’d flick the 2nd half of the Fulham game on. What do I get, a fucking interview with Amorim. Turned the **** off and waited for another 10 minutes to make sure they hadn’t extended/replayed the interview instead of broadcasting the game.

Sky, gone, many years ago. BT/TNT, gone, as they followed Sky’s lead. BBC, gone, as they chased the clicks. Newspaper media, who the fuck would pay for them to shit in your mind. NOW broadband, gone, when you realise Sky have bought it out and use as a loss leader to gain customers.

Just think, all that money people fund them which goes to pay for the likes of Neville and Carragher, for them to rip our club and our fans apart

Anything red, I do not buy, anybody who sponsors them, I do not buy.

Fuck them and their ‘agenda’ driven shite, and may they eat shit from the devils hole for eternity.
 
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jrb said:
Sly Stone in his United v Chelsea match report.

The Blues have not won since 2013 at this stadium and - despite United being a declining superpower - they keep finding innovative ways to lose at this ground.

The big nosed, Rag, c*nt must have a good memory. It’s 13 years since United last won the PL title.
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tbf he was half right…
 
mad4city said:
I wonder if Ronay has it within him that he might someday look back on the piece published today with a degree of embarrassment? Because it really is that pathetic.
Never mind that it's surprisingly poorly-written (in fairness, even if I rarely agree with his takes on City, he's normally one of the better actual writers). The fact that the article positively reeks of sour grapes (as opposed to say, oh, I dunno, the positing, exploration and conclusion of any coherent argument) is what really makes it an offering of unreadable petulance.
File under the whinging and mewling of a man who knows the dance is over, the lights are flickering on and the girl he fancied has left with a guy he hates.
Ronay's piece reads like a guy who is now workshopping excuses for having (yet again, where City are involved!) allowed his prejudice to be his guide and called the 115(ish) case spectacularly wrongly.
As far as City are concerned, Ronay has proven himself to be a nothing, a nobody. Wrong at every turn and clearly embittered by the experience. His opinions on anything City-related, like their beholder, are of no importance whatsoever.
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He’s a very weird man. Clearly has underlings tasked with scouring the internet for very niche bits of information to use as part of tenuous, clumsily delivered analogies designed to elicit knowing nods from other pretentious wankers. The Guardian sure know their audience.

He’s all for show. As you say he doesn’t actually try to use what we know about the case and the financial landscape in football over recent years to make a cogent argument one way or the other like Samuel does. No he just waffles on, chucking in words you’ve never heard of, random musings about things you didn’t know existed (and nor did he 24 hrs ago) and alluding to having worked at a law firm.
 
Axel Freed said:
No he just waffles on, chucking in words you’ve never heard of, random musings about things you didn’t know existed (and nor did he 24 hrs ago) and alluding to having worked at a law firm.
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I'm not surprised to hear he worked in a law firm. That must be from where he got his pretentiousness, arrogance and unshakeable belief that everything he says must be right.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
What I just cannot understand is why the club allow Roan onto the Campus. After the snidey, sneering, reporting he cobbled together he should be spotted. And just how many tickets did he have? He must have had one for the camera man. And the camera man must have got in first 'cos he's filming him walking in. And why does my licence fee go towards getting this 'chief' into the ground?
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Our media staff probably gave the cockroach a hospitality suite. It seems we have no backbone and the press are allowed to walk all over us and say whatever they want. I’d love to see the club send out a few slander lawsuits.
 
Gordyola said:
After the deadline for them to reply to my FoI I prompted them and received the answer to the very difficult question Once again they played the journalism clause in their response with no apology for the delay in replying

I have been informed* that the BBC has a “group of journalists that cover specific Premier League Clubs.” I would like to request a list of the journalists assigned to each club.
Additionally, I would like to request a list of each journalist’s trips to cover their assigned clubs for both pre-season and post-season tours over the past five years. For each journalist, I would like to know their official job title.
*From a previous FoI

As of 1st September 2025, BBC Sport had the following reporters covering specific Premier League clubs:

• Simon Stone, Manchester United
• Alex Howell, Arsenal
• Ciaran Kelly, Newcastle United
• Niz Kinsella, Chelea assuming thats Chelsea
• Shamoon Hafez, Manchester City

This list is subject to change over time. In addition, other BBC Sport reporters have responsibilities for covering other aspects of the sport.
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It always staggers me how the BBC have put a "journalist" who's twitter bio had him as a dyed in the wool utd fan as the chief City reporter.
 
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