Media Thread 2020/21

[The perfect fumble]

Next weeks episode is with Sir Ryan Giggs showing poor people how to "Slam In The Lamb".

And a new series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em....

 

[The perfect fumble]

Just read an article by Jonathan Liew of the Guardian advocating swingeing penalties on the breakaway clubs. As usual, no recognition of the damage this does to supporters who were more instrumental in bringing about the demise of the SL than any other group. Anyway, that's beside the point which is the sheer hypocrisy of Liew and others in the media who, because of the status of the PL in world football, make a nice living. Maybe Liew should try a spell in sports journalism in Norway or Finland with concomitant salary. But the sickening hypocrisy is that Liew and his fellow travellers would have had no hesitation in covering the affairs and matches of the SL had it come into being; no compunction about the travel (and expenses) to Spain and Italy; no saying to the Editor "sorry, my moral compass points me away from providing publicity and thus helping to line yet further the pockets of people like Perez". No, their cop-out would be "we are journalists, we have to go where the news is". Yeah, right.

I'm not suggesting that the owners shouldn't be sanctioned in some way but it has to be in such a way as to avoid penalising the supporters. In a war, if an illegally occupied city is liberated you don't punish the liberators.

Try again Liew and use your undoubted intelligence to come up with something that punishes owners without delivering forty lashes on the supporters. If you can't then spare us the hypocrisy.

This is all hot air and bullshit.

I would bet everything I own there'll be no punishment for anyone, because I fail to see a crime. It was all ifs and buts and maybes for next season.

 

[Mike Cledford]

And a new series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em....

Jones looks like the Downes Syndrome actor in Line of Duty especially in the still photos on the board.
No disrespect meant to the actor.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Jones looks like the Downes Syndrome actor in Line of Duty especially in the still photos on the board.
No disrespect meant to the actor.

Thats unfair to Downs sufferers

 

[Akira]

Rashford to launch his own food range in the supermarkets.

Shaw's gonna be his best customer

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

But looking at the way they reported their darling clubs they were all backing the right horses. City were the dark horse that caught them by surprise.

I’ve been thinking over the last couple of days and wondering which of the many threads that have come out of this to post this in.
This thread seems most apt;

I was reading @Magicpole very good response regarding respect from other supporters because of what City supporters essentially made the club do. i.e. the right thing.
It got me thinking that , Yes City and Chelsea supporters too, should get some credit in all of this.
Not the Red tops media set including the pundits like Carragher and Neville (although I don’t doubt their sincerity).
I think supporters of the rest of the league who are clapping themselves on the back saying we all came together and showed together that they can’t take our game from us, need to take a long hard look at themselves and their own clubs and examine what part they have played in facilitating these three clubs in particular over the last decade in particular.

We could start with the clubs that signed that letter trying to have us banned before trial. A trial that exonerated us. But the whole of the league needs to look at themselves.

We know the media have their sycophants that will always paint certain clubs as above reproach and will spin the blame on us and oil money, even now.
Sure we deserve our part of the blame for our part in this debacle, but the real story here should be... Why did this happen. Who is behind it. And Why.

The fact is, the real evil in the game has been thoroughly exposed. There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind now, where the real threat to football as we know it lies.
But mark my words you will see the same tripe being spewed out in the media in the not too distant future. It’s started already. They are trying to make out that the fans of these red top clubs including players and ex-players, are the saviours.

Where were they for the past twelve years when the only people telling the truth about what was going on and what City were trying to break into, was City and the City supporters. Where were they when FFP rules were changed originally to allow this kind of debt.
Then changed again to ensure we failed after we had submitted our accounts. Then the whole email scandal years later again which forced us to go to CAS because this cartel had so much influence in UEFA that we knew, yes knew, that we would not get a fair hearing.

Nobody, possibly with the exception of Martin Samuel, called it straight.
And the support not only from these red tops, lapped it up.

As Samuels said, we hadn’t a friend in football before this, so the fallout can’t be a whole lot worse.

I’m rambling, but my main point is these other clubs gladly let this happen for decades. You had managers for a couple of decades almost that would roll over and have their bellies tickled by Ferguson.

We weren’t invited into this SL by choice. It was necessity on their part to get six English teams. We definitely brought it down, although I don’t go along with this master plan theory. I don’t think it was a total fuck up either.
I think the timing of it being launched speaks volumes with the end of season we have coming.
We made our decision on what we thought was best and have to live with that, but ultimately we have exposed to anyone who is willing to look at it unbiasedly what is really going on in the game.

And there are a lot of changes needed. And that starts with UEFA.

Watch the usual suspects try and rehabilitate the reputations of the usual Rags/Scouse and we will still somehow be the villain.

I won’t have any credence in any of them until they rid themselves of this American led cabal who are the real enemies of football.

As for Perez and Madrid and the likes. Don’t get me started.

 

[horlock_was_super]

I had to google what a muffin was, turns out it’s a barm

This is the definitive answer. Thread now closed forever.

 

[dobingsdobber]

Jones looks like the Downes Syndrome actor in Line of Duty especially in the still photos on the board.
No disrespect meant to the actor.

He looks like the victim of one of those electric chair executions that go wrong,i.e. they forgot to put the skull cap on.

 

[hertsblue]

I for one am sick of him on the BBC Breakfast show nearly all the time.
The last (publicity) campaign was about books which didn't go very far. Ashton seems to have selected this on with more care given the national obsession with cookery programmes.

He would solve World Poverty if he donated a pound for every dive he does :)-

 

[LongsightM13]

I’ve been thinking over the last couple of days and wondering which of the many threads that have come out of this to post this in.
This thread seems most apt;

I was reading @Magicpole very good response regarding respect from other supporters because of what City supporters essentially made the club do. i.e. the right thing.
It got me thinking that , Yes City and Chelsea supporters too, should get some credit in all of this.
Not the Red tops media set including the pundits like Carragher and Neville (although I don’t doubt their sincerity).
I think supporters of the rest of the league who are clapping themselves on the back saying we all came together and showed together that they can’t take our game from us, need to take a long hard look at themselves and their own clubs and examine what part they have played in facilitating these three clubs in particular over the last decade in particular.

We could start with the clubs that signed that letter trying to have us banned before trial. A trial that exonerated us. But the whole of the league needs to look at themselves.

We know the media have their sycophants that will always paint certain clubs as above reproach and will spin the blame on us and oil money, even now.
Sure we deserve our part of the blame for our part in this debacle, but the real story here should be... Why did this happen. Who is behind it. And Why.

The fact is, the real evil in the game has been thoroughly exposed. There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind now, where the real threat to football as we know it lies.
But mark my words you will see the same tripe being spewed out in the media in the not too distant future. It’s started already. They are trying to make out that the fans of these red top clubs including players and ex-players, are the saviours.

Where were they for the past twelve years when the only people telling the truth about what was going on and what City were trying to break into, was City and the City supporters. Where were they when FFP rules were changed originally to allow this kind of debt.
Then changed again to ensure we failed after we had submitted our accounts. Then the whole email scandal years later again which forced us to go to CAS because this cartel had so much influence in UEFA that we knew, yes knew, that we would not get a fair hearing.

Nobody, possibly with the exception of Martin Samuel, called it straight.
And the support not only from these red tops, lapped it up.

As Samuels said, we hadn’t a friend in football before this, so the fallout can’t be a whole lot worse.

I’m rambling, but my main point is these other clubs gladly let this happen for decades. You had managers for a couple of decades almost that would roll over and have their bellies tickled by Ferguson.

We weren’t invited into this SL by choice. It was necessity on their part to get six English teams. We definitely brought it down, although I don’t go along with this master plan theory. I don’t think it was a total fuck up either.
I think the timing of it being launched speaks volumes with the end of season we have coming.
We made our decision on what we thought was best and have to live with that, but ultimately we have exposed to anyone who is willing to look at it unbiasedly what is really going on in the game.

And there are a lot of changes needed. And that starts with UEFA.

Watch the usual suspects try and rehabilitate the reputations of the usual Rags/Scouse and we will still somehow be the villain.

I won’t have any credence in any of them until they rid themselves of this American led cabal who are the real enemies of football.

As for Perez and Madrid and the likes. Don’t get me started.

Well said pal