gordondaviesmoustache
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Media Thread 2020/21
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Fred_Quimby
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Meanwhile Vicky Kloss says erm nothing
So sad that some people still don't get the message. Let me spell it out for you. Newspapers spout rubbish, City comment and it fills space on said newspaper, newspaper then comments on City comment and it fills more space and so it goes on. Filling up space on a newspaper and it has cost them sweet FA. 'It never happened when the GPC was in charge' - true but everyone sucked up to the raggies in those days and it was easy meat for journalists.
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I wish the club would defend itself more against some of the blatant lies and misinformation that’s frequently spouted in the media. If the order from Khaldoon is do nothing though then our hands are tied. I assume we’re playing the long game.
However, from my point of view I wish we would employ a couple of slimy, aggressive American lawyer types, the sort who get celebrities off the hook on a ‘technicality’ even when blatantly guilty, to take the worst of these media liars apart. I’m sure if some of the rag loving media cunts were faced with fabricated but compelling ‘evidence’ of something like bribery or a dubious sexual encounter then their lying bullshit about human rights, Pep leaving, oil money, etc would stop quite quickly.
However, from my point of view I wish we would employ a couple of slimy, aggressive American lawyer types, the sort who get celebrities off the hook on a ‘technicality’ even when blatantly guilty, to take the worst of these media liars apart. I’m sure if some of the rag loving media cunts were faced with fabricated but compelling ‘evidence’ of something like bribery or a dubious sexual encounter then their lying bullshit about human rights, Pep leaving, oil money, etc would stop quite quickly.
Funnily enough, in personal correspondence with another Blue recently I cited Jonathan Wilson as someone incapable of writing about City without some disapproving reference to the "source of our wealth". It's a coincidence, then, that he's up to his old tricks this morning.
Wilson is an obviously intelligent man who produces some excellent work, though he can't stop himself from being almost comically pretentious on occasion (not for nothing does he feature more regularly than any other football journalist in Private Eye's Pseuds Corner). And he evidently has a well-founded concern for probity in football club ownership. Or does he?
Last summer, a Blue challenged him on why he invariably thus caveats any reference to City but never does similar when writing about Chelsea. Revealingly, the response was laughably, pathetically vapid and unconvincing.
Chelsea, lest anyone forget, are owned by a man who's still owed comfortably north of a billion quid by the club's holding company for funds he's pumped in down the years. He also can no longer obtain a UK work visa because an unexplained wealth order has been issued with respect to him.
In fact, that just denotes he's a crook as the source of his wealth can be explained: it was stolen, cynically and deliberately, from the Russian people. Abramovich, like others in the cohort commonly referred to as the "oligarchs", acquired the basis for his riches in rigged privatisations of state-owned businesses during the 1990s. He paid a paltry (in relative terms) few hundred million for assets worth several billion; typically in this context, the privatised assets realised around 10% of their true worth and those acquired by the Chelsea owner were no different.
Of course, if Wilson is convinced that the probity or otherwise of Chelsea's sole shareholder isn't worth mentioning, there are other issues relating to football ownership that surely are. If we ignore Alisher Usmanov's background presence at Everton (and he allegedly makes Abramovich look like a choirboy), how about the actions of the Americans in charge of the red ugly sisters at either end of the East Lancs Road?
After all, their concern for football lies simply in what they can take out of it. Perniciously, they're conniving at both the European and domestic levels to pervert whatever semblance of proper competition remains in the game for the benefit of their own narrow financial self-interest.
Yet, for Wilson, none of these things are worthy of comment in the same way as is our ownership. In this, he's of course typical of a large section of British football writers, but it's an attitude that amply demonstrates a manifest lack of good faith coupled with an absence of moral or intellectual integrity.
Point that out to him and his mates and they come back with howling accusations of whataboutery. As we all know, having recourse to such allegations is the last refuge of stinking hypocrites when called out on their nauseating double standards.
TL;DR - Wilson is a ****. Fuck him.
Wilson is an obviously intelligent man who produces some excellent work, though he can't stop himself from being almost comically pretentious on occasion (not for nothing does he feature more regularly than any other football journalist in Private Eye's Pseuds Corner). And he evidently has a well-founded concern for probity in football club ownership. Or does he?
Last summer, a Blue challenged him on why he invariably thus caveats any reference to City but never does similar when writing about Chelsea. Revealingly, the response was laughably, pathetically vapid and unconvincing.
Chelsea, lest anyone forget, are owned by a man who's still owed comfortably north of a billion quid by the club's holding company for funds he's pumped in down the years. He also can no longer obtain a UK work visa because an unexplained wealth order has been issued with respect to him.
In fact, that just denotes he's a crook as the source of his wealth can be explained: it was stolen, cynically and deliberately, from the Russian people. Abramovich, like others in the cohort commonly referred to as the "oligarchs", acquired the basis for his riches in rigged privatisations of state-owned businesses during the 1990s. He paid a paltry (in relative terms) few hundred million for assets worth several billion; typically in this context, the privatised assets realised around 10% of their true worth and those acquired by the Chelsea owner were no different.
Of course, if Wilson is convinced that the probity or otherwise of Chelsea's sole shareholder isn't worth mentioning, there are other issues relating to football ownership that surely are. If we ignore Alisher Usmanov's background presence at Everton (and he allegedly makes Abramovich look like a choirboy), how about the actions of the Americans in charge of the red ugly sisters at either end of the East Lancs Road?
After all, their concern for football lies simply in what they can take out of it. Perniciously, they're conniving at both the European and domestic levels to pervert whatever semblance of proper competition remains in the game for the benefit of their own narrow financial self-interest.
Yet, for Wilson, none of these things are worthy of comment in the same way as is our ownership. In this, he's of course typical of a large section of British football writers, but it's an attitude that amply demonstrates a manifest lack of good faith coupled with an absence of moral or intellectual integrity.
Point that out to him and his mates and they come back with howling accusations of whataboutery. As we all know, having recourse to such allegations is the last refuge of stinking hypocrites when called out on their nauseating double standards.
TL;DR - Wilson is a ****. Fuck him.
Almost certainly this is the reason why City prefer to express their displeasure privately, off the record to the people/organisations involved. As soon as we ban someone or make a public complaint it becomes 'open season' and the fall out ends up causing more damage than the original insult. Martin Samuel, regarded my many (myself included) as the best out there has publicly said that anyone who believes City aren't proactive in addressing perceived media inaccuracies, lies and bias is seriously mistaken.So sad that some people still don't get the message. Let me spell it out for you. Newspapers spout rubbish, City comment and it fills space on said newspaper, newspaper then comments on City comment and it fills more space and so it goes on. Filling up space on a newspaper and it has cost them sweet FA. 'It never happened when the GPC was in charge' - true but everyone sucked up to the raggies in those days and it was easy meat for journalists.
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100%I wonder if the shit media is helping us keep the world's best manager ever.
He has a fantastic understanding of motivation being a great driver to achieve great things.
He knows how to mentally play the media as seen this week in the money press conference, he knows he's far better than Klopp and what's his response when the awards are given to Klopp, he can either have a hissy fit or as he has done play every other team off the park.
He's making them look mug's, same with individual award's, he knows he has fantastic players but it's his praise they want as a team not a BBC spoty award.
I think Pep never expected or experienced anything like our press and our good fortune is that they have put a fire in his guts that will keep him motivated for a good time yet.
Yes I read it, yes it pisses me off but I know we are the best squad of players, playing fantastic football and managed by the greatest manager in the modern era.
It could have gone either way but, luckily for us, it has galvanised Pep's resolve to fight for his players and his club.
My only worry it what happens with Pep's motivation if/when we win the Champions League... I'm guessing the pathetic reaction/downplay of our achievements from the media will go into overdrive. It could fire Pep up even more!
Plus I think he loves working with Phil Foden to push him forward to become one of the best players in the world.
I'd be banning papers. You dont have to make a big deal of it, and you dont have to argue their points.
Just revoke credentials when people go over the top.
Banning individuals wont work, they'll just send someone else. But if you boot the entire paper sooner or later questions are going to be asked of the individuals that caused it.
Just revoke credentials when people go over the top.
Banning individuals wont work, they'll just send someone else. But if you boot the entire paper sooner or later questions are going to be asked of the individuals that caused it.
Could it be any easier than the free steak they dine on now?So sad that some people still don't get the message. Let me spell it out for you. Newspapers spout rubbish, City comment and it fills space on said newspaper, newspaper then comments on City comment and it fills more space and so it goes on. Filling up space on a newspaper and it has cost them sweet FA. 'It never happened when the GPC was in charge' - true but everyone sucked up to the raggies in those days and it was easy meat for journalists.
Made up trash about our club 24/7 I honestly can't see how it could be worse, you have a tosser on Twitter declaring that our owner kills babies and he is left unchallenged to say what he pleases, he is more than just a Twitter troll.
He needed shut down instantly imo
City doing well = City getting more media digs
Its not a new story. I get my City fix from bluemoon and take anything external with a pinch of salt.
Ultimately every football writer, commentator, pundit, is a football fan and very few if any will be city fans. Tribal nature means we will never get what we think is fair coverage.
And no matter how much we complain about it and vent about it, its not changing. Either embrace it, ignore it or lobby the club in an organised manner. They are the only ones that have the influence to do anything.
Its not a new story. I get my City fix from bluemoon and take anything external with a pinch of salt.
Ultimately every football writer, commentator, pundit, is a football fan and very few if any will be city fans. Tribal nature means we will never get what we think is fair coverage.
And no matter how much we complain about it and vent about it, its not changing. Either embrace it, ignore it or lobby the club in an organised manner. They are the only ones that have the influence to do anything.
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Should have invoked the doom: 'One day we'll come here and turn this lot and everyone else over.Keyes really goading Nicky Summerbee last night on the point that Pep hasn’t succeeded at City because of the CL performances. I was hoping Nicky would put him in his box which he attempted to do at first but then I got the impression that someone in his ear asked him to reign it in....
Five times on the bounce'
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