Media discussion - 2025/26

[bobbyowenquiff]

Didn't realise it was a rags to riches story where SM came from nothing to become a billionaire and had nothing to do with being born into the ruling family.

A sarcastic reply suggests you have no understanding of City’s ownership structure.

 

[Blueknows]

Lol...rag central , dont know why I expect anything less...


Liverpool out as Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle progress

Not one headline or article....were not really here indeed

 

[BM96]

I don't know if this is the right place to put it as do they even count as media or journalists. Anyway, the commentators last night were pathetically biased. The co comm (don't know either of the names) wasn't too bad until we scored goals and then he had a moan about them. The other guy though, absolute twat. His obsession with the first goal being an og, even though the rule clearly is that a shot on target isnt an og.

 

[Centurions]

I don't know if this is the right place to put it as do they even count as media or journalists. Anyway, the commentators last night were pathetically biased. The co comm (don't know either of the names) wasn't too bad until we scored goals and then he had a moan about them. The other guy though, absolute twat. His obsession with the first goal being an og, even though the rule clearly is that a shot on target isnt an og.

They weren't biased, they were just clueless. One of them thought that Doku is French for starters. They were also waffling on about inconsequential things whilst an attack was ongoing.

 

[Moss Side's Finest]

So we need to stop saying the Rags and Victims are Yank owned? It's also a massive stretch to say it's accusational and inflammatory IMO, it's a factual inaccuracy at best. Newcastle are state owned, are they breaking some kind of laws/rules?

Come off it mate. You and I know what they meant.

Regarding your comment "we need to stop saying the Rags and Victims are Yank owned?" - who ever says that?! How often do you hear/see the phrase "American owned United".....you don't

They weren't merely stating that Sheik Mansour lives in Abu Dhabi, they were snidely saying that Abu Dhabi owns Manchester City.

 

[mattcity5]

I don't know if this is the right place to put it as do they even count as media or journalists. Anyway, the commentators last night were pathetically biased. The co comm (don't know either of the names) wasn't too bad until we scored goals and then he had a moan about them. The other guy though, absolute twat. His obsession with the first goal being an og, even though the rule clearly is that a shot on target isnt an og.

They were clueless, clearly hasn't done any kind of research. Said something about Silva and Foden both scoring over ten goals last season and not scoring this season, or something along those lines.

 

[mattcity5]

They weren't biased, they were just clueless. One of them thought that Doku is French for starters. They were also waffling on about inconsequential things whilst an attack was ongoing.

Yeah I heard that one too but had forgotten, absolute garbage.

 

[Centurions]

Lol...rag central , dont know why I expect anything less...


Liverpool out as Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle progress

Not one headline or article....were not really here indeed

There is an article (further down though) but then they made a point of saying that that was Cherki's first goal since August. Given he'd only played 94 minutes total in the PL & CL combined this season due to injury that isn't any real surprise is it?

 

[dadnlad]

I don't know if this is the right place to put it as do they even count as media or journalists. Anyway, the commentators last night were pathetically biased. The co comm (don't know either of the names) wasn't too bad until we scored goals and then he had a moan about them. The other guy though, absolute twat. His obsession with the first goal being an og, even though the rule clearly is that a shot on target isnt an og.

david phillips was co comentator played for both clubs dont know main one but his obsession with goal scorer being OG id guess a dipper
sky production team need a pat on back too showing irrelevant things and replays while game clearly going on its like commercial radio can only play limited amount of music it appears they can only show so much live football

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I don't know if this is the right place to put it as do they even count as media or journalists. Anyway, the commentators last night were pathetically biased. The co comm (don't know either of the names) wasn't too bad until we scored goals and then he had a moan about them. The other guy though, absolute twat. His obsession with the first goal being an og, even though the rule clearly is that a shot on target isnt an og.

Yes they described our first as a lucky own goal, the second one was the defender’s fault, and the third was a mis-hit pass from Guardivol. Ha ha so much bitterness.

 

[blueste41]

Come off it mate. You and I know what they meant.

Regarding your comment "we need to stop saying the Rags and Victims are Yank owned?" - who ever says that?! How often do you hear/see the phrase "American owned United".....you don't

They weren't merely stating that Sheik Mansour lives in Abu Dhabi, they were snidely saying that Abu Dhabi owns Manchester City.

The "we" was us, City fans on this forum and elsewhere-it's said all the time.
We may or may not know what they are attempting to insinuate but the claim the OP made was that the words were " accusational and inflammatory" and there just not.

 

[mattcity5]

david phillips was co comentator played for both clubs dont know main one but his obsession with goal scorer being OG id guess a dipper
sky production team need a pat on back too showing irrelevant things and replays while game clearly going on its like commercial radio can only play limited amount of music it appears they can only show so much live football

If it's the David Phillips who played for us in the 80s, he never played for Swansea, but did play for Wales, so there may be an affinity there.

Certainly don't think he's a dipper, he's always very positive about us online from what I've seen.

 

[waspish]

"Abu Dhabi-owned City"

These 4 words alone are accusational and inflammatory, legally we are not state owned, the books also say this

I searched who owns Man City this is it no Abu Dhabi

As of October 2025,
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, through his company Newton Investment and Development, remains the majority owner of Manchester City. The club is part of the City Football Group (CFG), which is the primary holding company.
Here is the current ownership breakdown of the City Football Group:



Stake Percentage

Sheikh Mansour (through Newton Investment and Development LLC) ~81%
Silver Lake (US-based technology investment firm) ~17%

 

[Moss Side's Finest]

The "we" was us, City fans on this forum and elsewhere-it's said all the time.
We may or may not know what they are attempting to insinuate but the claim the OP made was that the words were " accusational and inflammatory" and there just not.

I was the OP and I genuinely believe that the words were used in malice. They were written to imply, without directly stating that we are state owned.

Nationality of ownership has never been used in a weaponised way before we got taken over, now middle Eastern owned equates to 'dodgy, underhand, unfair, lavish etc etc'.

You could argue that Chelsea had some with Abramovich, but he really was a dodgy one.

The only reason Blues on here call out the American ownership is because the media don't, and because it's the American owners who have created the anamosity against middle Eastern owners (which just reflects politics).

I respect your view that 'not everyone is against city's ownership, but if I had the time I could show you endless articles where the bias, both direct and indirect is there to see.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

I don't know if this is the right place to put it as do they even count as media or journalists. Anyway, the commentators last night were pathetically biased. The co comm (don't know either of the names) wasn't too bad until we scored goals and then he had a moan about them. The other guy though, absolute twat. His obsession with the first goal being an og, even though the rule clearly is that a shot on target isnt an og.

You want to see true bias and hatred whilst we’re playing, don’t worry about commentators, just get yourself into the match day thread. Almost makes Stanley SlapaSwede and Shagadog Collymore look like a City positive pundit…

 

[halfcenturyup]

So we need to stop saying the Rags and Victims are Yank owned? It's also a massive stretch to say it's accusational and inflammatory IMO, it's a factual inaccuracy at best. Newcastle are state owned, are they breaking some kind of laws/rules?

Abu Dhabi is an emirate, so it's the equivalent of saying United is America-owned, which it clearly is not. The correct term would be Emirati-owned, which is the equivalent of American-owned. They know what they are doing.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

They weren't biased, they were just clueless. One of them thought that Doku is French for starters. They were also waffling on about inconsequential things whilst an attack was ongoing.

Double commentators must be one of the worst innovations in TV coverage. Two guy having a conversation and paying little attention to the actual game.
The attack you mentioned is probably the same one that frustrated me. A City counter attack, several clever passes but not a mention until Bobb had a shot on goal.
You can couple poor commentating with the camera focusing on replays of corners, fouls, managers, crowd reaction and players spitting and not what's happening on the field. Particularly when you can hear the crowd getting excited by something.

 

[neilhb]

Double commentators must be one of the worst innovations in TV coverage. Two guy having a conversation and paying little attention to the actual game.
The attack you mentioned is probably the same one that frustrated me. A City counter attack, several clever passes but not a mention until Bobb had a shot on goal.
You can couple poor commentating with the camera focusing on replays of corners, fouls, managers, crowd reaction and players spitting and not what's happening on the field. Particularly when you can hear the crowd getting excited by something.

Talking of cameras focusing on irrelevance. During the Villa game, the ball went out for a throw in. Cue camera shot of Villa bench to focus on a long haired herbert, who was apparently the Vila set piece coach. Camera returns to the action to show City taking a free kick just to the left of Villa's penalty area. No explanation as to what had happened since the throw in or how we had gained a free kick!

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

I am personally sick to death of their replays. Endless showing off how many cameras they brought to the game. Just point a camera at the pitch and show the football.

The best coverage I saw was that guy who did the Periscope broadcast from the ground a few years ago.

 

[Double R]

Thought the commentary last night was ok to be honest, fairly balanced sure they got one or two facts wrong, big deal. Its not ALL an agenda against us.