Media discussion - 2025/26

[richards30]

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Needs a bullet this ****

 

[Norman kneejerk]

The good old beeb morphing into the Liverpool Echo :-)

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They surely know he's a proud Catalan and being called Spanish is something he would be unhappy with.
On a totally different topic does everything united do have to have the word brilliant in front of it.
I just checked Live Score hoping for news of a Spurs leveller and read United's goal was a brilliantly taken header. Geeze he didn't even have to jump just landed square on his head,Anyone could have scored it it's absolutely pathetic.

 

[Mr.Banks]

They surely know he's a proud Catalan and being called Spanish is something he would be unhappy with.
On a totally different topic does everything united do have to have the word brilliant in front of it.
I just checked Live Score hoping for news of a Spurs leveller and read United's goal was a brilliantly taken header. Geeze he didn't even have to jump just landed square on his head,Anyone could have scored it it's absolutely pathetic.

Not looking so brilliant now!!! Hahaha

 

[Axel Freed]

I think Ronay’s latest article is defamatory. The allegations made against Sheikh Mansour are very damaging and unproven. The Guardian would collapse under any action because they can’t prove their claims are true. It would be an easy win for City’s lawyers. It would not legitimise Ronay if the Guardian had to pay damages and costs. In fact it could kill his career.

Couldn’t we just Khashoggi him ? It wouldn’t noticeably change the tenor of the coverage we get in his shitty student union level publication

 

[halfcenturyup]

There is a hard core group of activists who are trying to politicise football because it is a convenient vehicle to promote their causes. Some of them hate football. Some of them, like Ronay, have adopted football as a way of promoting their career and lifestyle. Ronay, who went to Dulwich School and Oxford University, ludicrously claims to be a Milwall fan. It is just a cloak of convenience.

You can say that again. And again :)

 

[SheliaTakeaBow]

Couldn’t we just Khashoggi him ? It wouldn’t noticeably change the tenor of the coverage we get in his shitty student union level publication

What a grim comment

 

[eyalluvitt]

“Manager of the months title winning form continues with stunning late equalizer at big spending Spurs”

 

[Axel Freed]

What a grim comment

Tongue in cheek pal, sorry if I offended your sensibilities, my bad

 

[Gazza]

Ronay would swear that there's a link between the City owners & Jack the Ripper if somebody paid him enough money.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

I particularly like his accusation that the British Empire was the first sportswasher....

And yes, we know this works because the original sportswasher was the British empire in a time you’d hope not to repeat, firing up the colonial control system around its codified Victorian games.

This sent me off looking for old YouTube videos of Queen Victoria (Captain), W. G. Grace and "Fatty" Foulke on A Question of Sport.

What a team they were!

Casting the British in the role of 19th century sports washers is a stretch and a half, even for Ronay. Wherever the British went, either as military conquerors or financial advisors, they set up private schools and sports clubs (principally cricket, but also horse racing and, in Latin America, football). However, they did so not as proselytisers intent on convincing the locals that the British were actually benevolent eccentrics rather than colonisers or oppressors, but rather simply for their own amusement and the benefit of their own kind. A chance for a chap to hit a six, sing a lusty school song and have a be-gowned and sadistic headmaster thrash as many of their bare bottoms as possible in some corner of a foreign field that would be forever England. Wrapped up in their own pomposity, they were semi oblivious to local niceties and certainly not classifiable as ‘sports washers’. Cricket matches in particular were social occasions as much as sports ones, but to the best of my knowledge they weren’t held to deflect attention away from any atrocities British forces may have committed in the vicinity.
Amritsar massacre you say? Quick, build another pavilion and invite the locals along!

 

[Fordyboy46]

I think Ronay’s latest article is defamatory. The allegations made against Sheikh Mansour are very damaging and unproven. The Guardian would collapse under any action because they can’t prove their claims are true. It would be an easy win for City’s lawyers. It would not legitimise Ronay if the Guardian had to pay damages and costs. In fact it could kill his career.

The Guardian is on it's arse mate, running in negative equity. Will go soon

 

[SamBlue]

The Guardian is on it's arse mate, running in negative equity. Will go soon

Hope not, the only broadsheet worth reading in this country, their investigative journalism is the first class.
Saying all that as a subscriber, I stopped reading their City coverage some years ago, open negativity bias turned into a full anti-City agenda. Its all to their sport desk and writers covering football.
This morning Ronay article becomes surreal when he brings Israel and its politics into the story...why, how, what......?!?!?!?!??!?!

 

[nmc]

Ronay is an arsewipe with a sinister anti Muslim agenda… it plays out in much of what he writes. Don’t give him any oxygen he’s really not worthy of our time and attention.

 

[cheekybids]

Casting the British in the role of 19th century sports washers is a stretch and a half, even for Ronay. Wherever the British went, either as military conquerors or financial advisors, they set up private schools and sports clubs (principally cricket, but also horse racing and, in Latin America, football). However, they did so not as proselytisers intent on convincing the locals that the British were actually benevolent eccentrics rather than colonisers or oppressors, but rather simply for their own amusement and the benefit of their own kind. A chance for a chap to hit a six, sing a lusty school song and have a be-gowned and sadistic headmaster thrash as many of their bare bottoms as possible in some corner of a foreign field that would be forever England. Wrapped up in their own pomposity, they were semi oblivious to local niceties and certainly not classifiable as ‘sports washers’. Cricket matches in particular were social occasions as much as sports ones, but to the best of my knowledge they weren’t held to deflect attention away from any atrocities British forces may have committed in the vicinity.
Amritsar massacre you say? Quick, build another pavilion and invite the locals along!

Opening golf clubs around the world so they can refuse memberships to the locals ;)

 

[Gordyola]

What really is puzzling me is how can our owners not go after them? If the journalists would have gone after the scousers they would have been tied up in litigation from the get go.

Makes you think they are not arsed about either their or the clubs reputation at all.

Because it would highlight the article, whether it’s true or not its irrelevant, giving it oxygen far more than the guardian every could

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

He must be 6 points clear or something

 

[wolviedinho]

Sportwashing state owned still a thing?

We have moved on to fraud and 115!

Sportwashing, you havin a laugh.

Tired old racism is still a thing.

Hate that’s deemed ok by the many is still hate. Wrap it up all you want in Sudan or Gaza.

 

[Micky Blue]

There is a hard core group of activists who are trying to politicise football because it is a convenient vehicle to promote their causes. Some of them hate football. Some of them, like Ronay, have adopted football as a way of promoting their career and lifestyle. Ronay, who went to Dulwich School and Oxford University, ludicrously claims to be a Milwall fan. It is just a cloak of convenience.

I’m sure He would fit right in on the terraces at Millwall.
With his friends Rupert and Quentin drinking a good beaujolais in the Barry Kitchener stand.

I’m sure they would have been to Maine road on a few away trips too.

I bet this **** was involved in the trouble at Maine road in 1999. Rumour has it the trouble started when a city fan bumped into a Millwall fans and made him drop his smoked salmon quails egg.

He’d definitely fit in at Millwall… lying ****

 

[heslops barnet]

Sorry if it's off topic, or been mentioned elsewhere but there's a lovely article in the Weekend supplement of this morning's Guardian about friendships formed at the football. A group of City fans feature prominently, well worth a read.

Well played to the Blues involved.

You read The Guardian?
Shame on you

 

[Ithryn Luin]

Hope not, the only broadsheet worth reading in this country, their investigative journalism is the first class.
Saying all that as a subscriber, I stopped reading their City coverage some years ago, open negativity bias turned into a full anti-City agenda. Its all to their sport desk and writers covering football.
This morning Ronay article becomes surreal when he brings Israel and its politics into the story...why, how, what......?!?!?!?!??!?!

Each to their own but one mans "investigative journalism" is another mans Pravda!