Media discussion - 2025/26

Aba452 said:
Pretty sure David Bellamy and Johnny Ball both cast doubt on climate change, and weren't seen on TV again.....
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I think some poster are wilfully misconstruing what I meant. I'm not arguing against climate change but simply pointing out that I've read some scientists argue different causes and deny forecasts for "the end of the planet".

It's argued that perhaps the human race could disappear (as per many other species) but, in time "Mother Nature" will recover the planet to her own liking..
 
BerkshireBlue said:
that salary point has annoyed me for a long time. Hugh Edwards £500k a year, Zoe fucking Ball £520k a year, Claudia Winckleman £500k, Alan Shearer £450k, Lineker £1.3m, Fiona Bruce £400k, Kusenburg £400k, Veron Kay £400k. Even Ros Atkins is on £300k and he does fuck all who presented City as guilty in a one-off biased "special". This is just ones listed as normal employees as well, any tax dodging people being paid by production companies (ie the whole Brendan O'Carroll family) are hidden. The list is almost endless, pure waste of cash on talentless boring wankers

all of them are absolute shit at what they do and could easily be replaced with people on a sensible £50k yearly wage. I've stopped paying my license as I find the above obscene
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Rooney 2 year deal worth 800K
 
Two contrasting stories in the media I saw yesterday, on the periphery of football, but what the heck.

Northwest tolite, a grubby bar trying to lay claims to Toto writing the 1982 hit Africa, in said place. Turns out to be nonsense, they wrote it in LA. However the Preston Historic Society Strong objected to the bar putting up a blue plaque outside. The chap from the business turned out to be an oaf who admitted the plaque was crap. Imagine my surprise to see his choice of shirt was a rag one, not a shock!

The One Show I find the Luton born dipper who presents the Watchdog strand to be as his name says an allcock!
Anyway they had a feel-good story on about a chap called Mike Grisenthwaite who after fighting cancer, decided to set up a kids charity Cyclists Fighting Cancer. It's purpose is to buy and hand out bike to kids with cancer to keep fit and help with recovery. Proper selfless bloke whose family had set him up for a surprise thank you from Alexander Armstrong, very moving I thought. Showed personal pictures of his recovery, amongst which was one with his family, all wearing City shirts! Sums up who our supporters are.

Mike if you are on here or if any of your friends or family are, do put on some links to Cyclists Fighting Cancer.
 
mccity said:
It doesn't mean what people are saying it means. People like to lie to themselves about not caring about City. Check out other online spaces that talk about football, and you'll read a lot of people writing that they don't care about City because we're not "a real club", and so anything we win feels hollow. Whereas our title rivals, Liverpool or Arsenal, are "real clubs", and as such, their success will hurt them

It's a sentiment you'll hear more in online spaces than in real life, which is the exact crowd the Guardian sports team tend to try to appeal to

For example, I ventured onto RedCafe this morning to prove this point and was immediately met with this post


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It's just a sad sentiment of immature fans
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That has exact sentiment has been the mantra of many Liverpool fans for years.
We're no different, we will always find a reason why X aren't worthy if they win the league.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
No doubt that the most hated clubs from matchgoing fans are Arsenal and Liverpool and the reason is their despicable fanbases. Real fans know what their support is like. The hatred for United has reduced since they collapsed.
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Then you get the non-match going ones who are just led blind by the red shirt media into hating us
 
leithblue said:
There was an FOI about Eurovision a couple of years ago, from UKIP (obviously). In total, it cost the BBC the equivalent of about 60% of the cost of a single episode of Casualty each year.

Eurovision is mostly a broadcasting union where European broadcasters share facilities for things like the Olympics to save costs. The song contest is a pile of shit.
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My view
 
Aba452 said:
Two contrasting stories in the media I saw yesterday, on the periphery of football, but what the heck.

Northwest tolite, a grubby bar trying to lay claims to Toto writing the 1982 hit Africa, in said place. Turns out to be nonsense, they wrote it in LA. However the Preston Historic Society Strong objected to the bar putting up a blue plaque outside. The chap from the business turned out to be an oaf who admitted the plaque was crap. Imagine my surprise to see his choice of shirt was a rag one, not a shock!

The One Show I find the Luton born dipper who presents the Watchdog strand to be as his name says an allcock!
Anyway they had a feel-good story on about a chap called Mike Grisenthwaite who after fighting cancer, decided to set up a kids charity Cyclists Fighting Cancer. It's purpose is to buy and hand out bike to kids with cancer to keep fit and help with recovery. Proper selfless bloke whose family had set him up for a surprise thank you from Alexander Armstrong, very moving I thought. Showed personal pictures of his recovery, amongst which was one with his family, all wearing City shirts! Sums up who our supporters are.

Mike if you are on here or if any of your friends or family are, do put on some links to Cyclists Fighting Cancer.
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Proper family man that thanker you mentioned there.

But yep pal, on the charity itself, agreed, marvellous work.
 
mccity said:
It doesn't mean what people are saying it means. People like to lie to themselves about not caring about City. Check out other online spaces that talk about football, and you'll read a lot of people writing that they don't care about City because we're not "a real club", and so anything we win feels hollow. Whereas our title rivals, Liverpool or Arsenal, are "real clubs", and as such, their success will hurt them

It's a sentiment you'll hear more in online spaces than in real life, which is the exact crowd the Guardian sports team tend to try to appeal to

For example, I ventured onto RedCafe this morning to prove this point and was immediately met with this post


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It's just a sad sentiment of immature fans
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It’s a comfort blanket, they all cared when we weren’t winning, there’s banners to prove it.
 
Aba452 said:
Two contrasting stories in the media I saw yesterday, on the periphery of football, but what the heck.

Northwest tolite, a grubby bar trying to lay claims to Toto writing the 1982 hit Africa, in said place. Turns out to be nonsense, they wrote it in LA. However the Preston Historic Society Strong objected to the bar putting up a blue plaque outside. The chap from the business turned out to be an oaf who admitted the plaque was crap. Imagine my surprise to see his choice of shirt was a rag one, not a shock!

The One Show I find the Luton born dipper who presents the Watchdog strand to be as his name says an allcock!
Anyway they had a feel-good story on about a chap called Mike Grisenthwaite who after fighting cancer, decided to set up a kids charity Cyclists Fighting Cancer. It's purpose is to buy and hand out bike to kids with cancer to keep fit and help with recovery. Proper selfless bloke whose family had set him up for a surprise thank you from Alexander Armstrong, very moving I thought. Showed personal pictures of his recovery, amongst which was one with his family, all wearing City shirts! Sums up who our supporters are.

Mike if you are on here or if any of your friends or family are, do put on some links to Cyclists Fighting Cancer.
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https://cyclistsfc.org.uk/about-cyclists-fighting-cancer/ is their website
 
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