Media Thread 2020/21

[KS55]

Interesting that. We've just had a CM Reps meeting and the consensus was that while there's an awful lot they do right, there are some significant failings. The whole ESL fiasco showed there are some stupid people running our top clubs in fact. And I wouldn't absolve our club from that either.

The article was exclusively on football matters and personnel. I presume they were given access on that basis. Political matters such as the superleague were not touched on.

 

[ROCKET80]

Ronay is not even a trained journalist. He is happy to repeat the "owned by a nation state" lie because he just doesn't check his facts. The ownership structure at City is very transparent. Our accounts have been audited again and again over the last 10 years. Why would respected independent financial auditors collude to hide our ownership structure? Is all the information held at Companies House false? And yet some newspapers choose to deliberately publish false information about our club. The correct information is all verifiable.

Ronay lost any remnants of credibility he had remaining after his love letter to Putin/Russia during the last World Cup.

There are few good football journalists at the Guardian and every now and then they cover our games, usually we are reserved for the likes of get Ronay, Wilson and Jamie fucking Jackson.

 

[blueju]

Stop subscribing & passing it on, I’ve no interest in posh public school boys opinions who pick & choose their principles depending on the narrative they want to create. We certainly know that one of their principles isn’t truthfulness.

Who’s families have all become rich over the years through backslapping dodgy dealings and clever offshore accounting

 

[cleavers]

Guardian Fiver describes Manchester City as a Petroclub and urge the games regulatory authorities to "impose what we all know they are never going to impose".

Ronay: On the the duality of City. "The boundless resources, the basic weirdness of a nation state owning a football club for PR reasons: this all remains. There are those who will be unmoved by success on the pitch, and unable to look past this. It is a logical position. We are all, City fans included, being manipulated in our dear old home grounds by a state hungry for soft power."

It's not news any more that they have this opinion of City but there are a hundred or so City fans who comment on their regularly who just seem to accept this. In what sense are Manchester City a Petroclub? Where is the evidence that City are owned by a nation-state?

Stop commenting.

Didn't you tell us all to stop reading the gaurdian many months ago ? Yet you keep quoting them on here, so you must still be reading their shite, why not unsubscribe and stop quoting them ?

I personally couldn't give a shite what they say.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Would have been if Sting was there...

He was the founder of physical distancing

 

[Marvin]

Didn't you tell us all to stop reading the gaurdian many months ago ? Yet you keep quoting them on here, so you must still be reading their shite, why not unsubscribe and stop quoting them ?

I personally couldn't give a shite what they say.

I have unsubscribed (deleted my account) but I follow what they write because they are influential, and because football media has become weaponised. See FFP. Those media companies were being used and lobbied and were happy to be part of the process.

 

[manchester blue]

With Shearer again repeating the myth that City have a "big" squad!
He did also say "talented " but he said "big" which implies more than any other club

I suppose ‘big’ could be interpreted as good. i.e. he’s a big player for the team...

 

[Mike Cledford]

I suppose ‘big’ could be interpreted as good. i.e. he’s a big player for the team...

I prefer to use 'quality' in connection with our squad and 'big' in relation to the profits that the owners of the redshirts and other take out of their clubs.

 

[Centurions]

Didn't you tell us all to stop reading the gaurdian many months ago ? Yet you keep quoting them on here, so you must still be reading their shite, why not unsubscribe and stop quoting them ?

I personally couldn't give a shite what they say.

I quite literally would (happily) have no clue of what The Grauniad is writing if not for Marvins posts on here and his imploring that we don't read it.

 

[Marvin]

I quite literally would (happily) have no clue of what The Grauniad is writing if not for Marvins posts on here and his imploring that we don't read it.

Of course there are many people who don't read it, but there are many City fans who comment in it. Football fans aren't just snide. They are capable of more.