Media discussion - 2025/26

Can we be clear, this is the media paranoia thread! Someone should make a thread with a poll - Is Sam Lee a cu*t - yes or no (he is) and all dog wanking discussion should move over there.

Don't make me post again, this year...
 
Henry Wopper blowing smoke up the dippers arse last night on the Back Page Review.

Called them 'classy' and a family club; when talking about them retiring the Jota number 20 shirt.

Were they classy when they attacked our coach, causing extensive damage and leaving the players in no fit state to play?
Were they classy when they booed the minute silence for the Queen?
Were they classy when they dropped a cup of coins on a young girl's head at the Etihad and didn't say who it was?

We all know there's plenty more where that came from, too.

I was choked by the death of Diogo Jota and his brother. It's truly heartbreaking. And Liverpool's gestures to his wife and family have been fantastic.

But don't paint them to be a club that is a without fault. They have so many.
 
Pubteam Lomas said:
Henry Wopper blowing smoke up the dippers arse last night on the Back Page Review.

Called them 'classy' and a family club; when talking about them retiring the Jota number 20 shirt.

Were they classy when they attacked our coach, causing extensive damage and leaving the players in no fit state to play?
Were they classy when they booed the minute silence for the Queen?
Were they classy when they dropped a cup of coins on a young girl's head at the Etihad and didn't say who it was?

We all know there's plenty more where that came from, too.

I was choked by the death of Diogo Jota and his brother. It's truly heartbreaking. And Liverpool's gestures to his wife and family have been fantastic.

But don't paint them to be a club that is a without fault. They have so many.
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Yes, and don't forget them all booing Ederson loudly when he weas carried off after a five-foot high kick on the head and bleeding profusely.

Classy my arse.
 
Pubteam Lomas said:
Henry Wopper blowing smoke up the dippers arse last night on the Back Page Review.

Called them 'classy' and a family club; when talking about them retiring the Jota number 20 shirt.

Were they classy when they attacked our coach, causing extensive damage and leaving the players in no fit state to play?
Were they classy when they booed the minute silence for the Queen?
Were they classy when they dropped a cup of coins on a young girl's head at the Etihad and didn't say who it was?

We all know there's plenty more where that came from, too.

I was choked by the death of Diogo Jota and his brother. It's truly heartbreaking. And Liverpool's gestures to his wife and family have been fantastic.

But don't paint them to be a club that is a without fault. They have so many.
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Did they forget to mention the really classy criminal and terrorist money launderers whose name is splashed all over their classy shirts?
 
TinFoilHat said:
Theres compassion and theres fear.

I'm not a fan of either organisation involved.

I'd surmise it wasn't done out of respect but fear of another feral backlash.
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tbf I am with the scousers on this one when it come to that bog paper of a publication

the sun were/are scum, Kelvin MacKenzie is a vile piece of shit. that paper should be given shit at any convenient moment for more than just their hilsborough coverage
 
Pubteam Lomas said:
Henry Wopper blowing smoke up the dippers arse last night on the Back Page Review.
Called them 'classy' and a family club; when talking about them retiring the Jota number 20 shirt.
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That's the barest of bare minimum a club can do for a player who tragically died in that manner!
 
mancboy said:
journalists are a waste of space, they are nothing are more than mouth pieces for certain clubs but they are still a step up from pundits who are the biggest waste of air this side of asking @Blue Mist to get a round in.
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I think you just mean sports journalist
 
IrishBloodEnglishHeart said:
I one day want to be defended so passionately, the way Damocles has defended a man he's never met.
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Because this whole thing is utter madness. Listen, in the last two pages we've had several people say "I don't read Sam but he's a **** for what he writes" and even more insane, "Sam is a **** because he didn't write something".

Can you imagine this in any other form of journalism? Are there people out there who going into blistering seething rants because the Economics Editor didn't present the latest BoE rates change through the Austrian lens enough and are "secretly Keynesian cabal who sit in a WhatsApp group to further their media agenda". I imagine you would think that to be a totally ridiculous idea.

What you're seeing and what I'm rallying against is how everybody complains about modern football but you're playing it out, right now, without a hint of irony. People have turned meta-football into a morality play, where there's heroes and villains on social media who you should boo and cheer and there's secret conspiracies and backroom deals. And it REALLY REALLY matters who people supported 30 years ago as a kid because this creates this "bias" that MUST constantly be in effect secretly and they're leaving hidden clues in their articles. Cole Palmer was a United fan growing up as are/were many of our youth team, did you lot question his professionalism because of that though? Was he on a go slow for City because he hated us secretly?

It's this total lack of humanity in it all. Sam Lee, Jack Gaughan, et al, they're not people to you, they're characters or caricatures in this 24 hour media cycle around football. They're no different to Phil Mitchell or Mike Baldwin, they're the bestest guy ever or a **** based on some half remembered lore you might have because ultimately you're involved in a fictional show.

Now listen, there's people like Nick Harris, Miguel Delaney, James Corbett etc and some social media accounts like The Magic Hat who very clearly have some extremely partisan views and should be mocked and called out for. There's a line that they've crossed that I accept. But how fucking mental have you go to be where someone like Sam Lee is on the other side of that line? Who is on the good side then? Would you like to see some of the shit that you guys have written about City in the past because I might started editing this stuff into tweets from journalists and watch you want to burn them to death.

These media threads are full of the worst type of ultra conspiratorial things that often border on paranoid delusions. I was hoping with a new season then we might get away from that but alas on the first page we go straight back to it.
 
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