Media Thread 2017/18

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

BBC Football front page on their website this morning;

Loads of stuff on pretty much every other team in the CL (including a league table showing the Rag's at the top of their group)...........

..... and a link to an article entitled "Man City and Napoli fans in Champions League belt ban" from 15 hours ago.

There is a table showing tonight's fixtures, so we are actually playing apparently.

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

Not sure if this is the right place for this, so Mods please move if necessary.

Watched a bit of The Debate last night - guests were Ian Wright and Matt Le Tissier, both of whom I don't mind. One of the topics was youth players and the discussion led into Foden & Brewster.

Firstly, they debated why not enough youth players break through into their respective senior teams. Conclusion being managers being under pressure for results so not always able to risk blooding a youth player. Fair enough.

Wright then throws out that he would love Foden or Brewster to playing 1st team football at Newcastle or Southampton. Given the original point about results pressure - why would they have any better chance at these or other clubs?

Then the pure gem. Wright felt Foden was good enough to be training with the 1st team!!! If he checked, I think he'll find that Foden has been training with the 1st team squad all season.

Just another example of comments being thrown about in the media that the masses then latch on to and believe to be the truth.

 

[CityStu]

BBC Football front page on their website this morning;

Loads of stuff on pretty much every other team in the CL (including a league table showing the Rag's at the top of their group)...........

..... and a link to an article entitled "Man City and Napoli fans in Champions League belt ban" from 15 hours ago.

There is a table showing tonight's fixtures, so we are actually playing apparently.

There's nothing on Liverpool and just a single front page article on Spurs v Real, which is undoubtedly the biggest match tonight. The Rag's table is showing because they're in group A - the first group alphabetically.

I get that some journos and corporations do seem to have a bias against City now being one of the big boys, but making a big deal over every little thing really demeans the overall point.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

There's nothing on Liverpool and just a single front page article on Spurs v Real, which is undoubtedly the biggest match tonight. The Rag's table is showing because they're in group A - the first group alphabetically.

I get that some journos and corporations do seem to have a bias against City now being one of the big boys, but making a big deal over every little thing really demeans the overall point.

Fair point.

 

[SWP's back]

The hyperbole surrounding our lads is laughable.

We are nowhere near as good as some of the fawning which is being pumped out.

From some of the people who were also wrong when we regularly exhibited some or the best football in this country for the last half decade.

The truth is always somewhere in between.

Disagree mate. We’ve had the best ever start as so far we have started a season better than all those great teams that have gone before us. Be interesting to see if we keep it up though.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

33 articles down the sports section the premier league leaders get their first mention in the DM and it's slagging us off for the travel attire the players have been 'made to wear

Very similar to the bbc sport football page earlier in the week.28 articles down,they mention us in the most cursory manner.
Incredible for a team already breaking records which have stood for over a century.
No agenda tho folks.

 

[blueju]

The best thing about this season, and several of the pundits and journos have alluded to it, is that the rags wouldn't be getting any shit press or moaning from their followers if we weren't so good. Let's hope Pep finally pushes PEG over the edge.

 

[Blue Til Death]

Just read an article on MSN going through all the permutations regarding qualification to the last 16, the article didn't even mention City, fuckin laughable really...!

 

[FantasyIreland]

I must have missed the media's outrage,and subsequent character assassination,regarding Rashfords apparent dive to win a penalty last night??

 

[andyhinch]

I must have missed the media's outrage,and subsequent character assassination,regarding Rashfords apparent dive to win a penalty last night??

Lilley Savage called it a definite penalty, no need for further discussion.