Media Thread 2020/21

[The_Maverick]

Good interview with Gundo in the Guardian tonight. Tellingly its not by one of their resident City haters/sexual deviants

Ilkay Gündogan: 'A surgeon wanted to put a big screw in my back' | Donald McRae

The Manchester City midfielder talks to Donald McRae about his side’s winning run, coming back from injuries and how an NBA player ignited his desire to help others

www.theguardian.com

That’s a great read, thanks for sharing.

Wouldn’t be surprised if Donald McRae will be looking for another job after writing a pro City article and bucking the media trend.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

You could see Pep was visibly taken aback at such basic incompetence and lack of professionalism or research

I took it to mean we'll be 15 points clear of the team in second.
Reporter making the assumption Leicester will win their game.

 

[LongsightM13]

That’s a great read, thanks for sharing.

Wouldn’t be surprised if Donald McRae will be looking for another job after writing a pro City article and bucking the media trend.

He’s a very good boxing writer, does other sports as well. So not weighed down with the baggage of the usual suspects

 

[LongsightM13]

I took it to mean we'll be 15 points clear of the team in second.
Reporter making the assumption Leicester will win their game.

That would be a big assumption given Leicester’s recent form and injuries

 

[cheekybids]

lol

That would be a big assumption given Leicester’s recent form and injuries

& the first time they’ve even considered Leicester, routinely ignored.

 

[JGL07]

Ahh the good old BBC. they have a story that the FA are investigating an agent, Aidy Ward who is alleged to have bunged parents of a youngster 10 grand. If true totally illegal and he could be banned.
The next paragraph states that until last season Ward was Sterling's agent.
It is only later on they decide to mention the liarpool player he CURRENTLY manages. So much bitterness and so little class.

Are they investigating how Matt Busby 'persuaded' Duncan Edwards's parents to get him to sign for United rather than Wolves who he had been associated for some years? Apparently buying a house for the parents was acceptable back then!

 

[samarasra]

Rhian Brewster should also be asking his parents why they gave him a Welsh girl's name.

Maybe they are from Llanrhian, where St. Rhian, a Welsh abbot whose feast day is March 8 has a church dedicated to him.

 

[KS55]

Utter tosh from the spit master. Rival club fanboy setting unrealistic targets and spreading lies. City is a beast of a club and we will not go quietly into the night. Dippers are a pathetic bunch.

"Do not go gentle into that good night."

 

[KS55]

There certainly were. I have read the bombing of Dresden literally created a vacuum that incinerated thousands.

The Dresden death toll has been argued about ever since the raid took place.
The Nazi propaganda machine put out a figure of 100,000 citing the thousands of displaced persons in the city. The effects of the fire storm were cited to explain why there were not 100,000 bodies. Too many ppl took this as gospel, hence much of the revisionist hatred of Harris.
In recent years, the city has conducted its own historical research and concluded that much of what is commonly believed is just myth. For example, they say that the fire storm was much less consuming than believed.
Dresden now puts the probable death toll at about 18,000 and certainly no more than 25,000. Still a terrible price to pay.
(Plenty of stuff, if you google it)

 

[KS55]

I know, that’s one of the things I was thinking but what struck me as well was the three tonight weren’t the ‘old guard’ i.e. Shearer, Lineker, Wright, Keown, Laurenson, but two of the ‘younger ones. Alex Scott and Steve someone. Plus the presenter was Gaby Logan!
So as well as admitting that we are brilliant maybe they are not toeing the ‘party’ line but going their own way.
There is so much competition to get the good pundits now that they may be able to air their own views!
The tide is turning lads and lasses, the tide is turning!

"Steve someone" is Stephen Warnock ex Liverpool player.