Media Thread 2020/21

[LongsightM13]

I save the vitriol for Ashton and Rashfords PR team using a national crisis to heighten his social media influence.

Apparently Ashton’s father was a blue. His output suggests he has some serious Freudian daddy issues

 

[City_Sean]

Haha. I can't get enough of Tony Evo's nonsense. A shining example of why the drugs don't aways work.

His claim of Uefa having new evidence for CAS was genuinely incredible.

 

[BillyShears]

His claim of Uefa having new evidence for CAS was genuinely incredible.

Who could forget the confidence he had in his sauces around the CAS case. Hahaha.

 

[Nails]

Yikes.

Whenever Tony Evans is mentioned I'm reminded of him on the Times Football Podcast in December of 2015 laughing out loud at the prospect that Pep was headed to City. I do believe that his exact words were "why would he go there? he likes clubs with history".

However big a **** he seems to be from the outside, he's a far, far bigger **** in person.

 

[cheekybids]

From what I can gather, the specific criticism of Sam is that he handled the FFP/CAS story very badly (you can apply whatever adjective you want there). I've already said that I agree with that and that I think it extends to the Athletic as a whole.

However I'm yet to see any other actual concrete example of Sam writing something hostile or bad about the club. People seem to dislike his manner on Twitter, but then having seen the amount of abuse he takes from faceless accounts, I completely understand why he'll dismiss certain people or certain claims of bias.

That’s fair enough & you are right about the concerns about FFP which you agree with.

is he worse than Delaney, McKenna, Syed & all those, no, not a Fcking chance but they don’t pretend to be well informed, close to our club, in contact & understand our views. It hurt so much because he was so well thought of by us, he was trusted & then “my perception” was he started having snide digs.

Then the zoom chat - wtf was that about?
I suspected it was on orders from the athletic, if that’s the case then you make your bed then lie in it.

 

[BillyShears]

However big a **** he seems to be from the outside, he's a far, far bigger **** in person.

I have absolutely no doubts about that, but thank you for confirming nonetheless.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

This place might mock James Pearce et al, but it's pretty clear from the absolute vitriol every single journalist in the country gets on here that actually, a sycophant who never entertains a bad word about the club is exactly what they want.

There is literally not a single journalist in the sport that has not been attacked in this thread or its predecessors for being biased against us or having some unnamed ulterior motive. Maybe Martin Samuel because he only comments once a year and is anti FFP.

Not at all mate, I want a journalist to be fair and reasoned across the board (in effect, whilst being knowledgeable they should be colour blind to the particular teams in question).

If City are doing something good, write about it and say so (not in that usual snide 'well done for doing this, but so they should do because they have spent X, Y and Z'.

If City are making a complete arse of something, then call it out as it is and report it.

This should be equal across the board regardless of the club involved - we know this is not the case;

Positive story about United, Liverpool and Arsenal + negative story about City = multiple clicks and news outlets live to fight another day.........

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Yikes.

Whenever Tony Evans is mentioned I'm reminded of him on the Times Football Podcast in December of 2015 laughing out loud at the prospect that Pep was headed to City. I do believe that his exact words were "why would he go there? he likes clubs with 'iiiiiiiiiistory".

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

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I like whoever Kenny Walsh is - can we hear more from him on here? ;-)

 

[Mike Cledford]

Not at all mate, I want a journalist to be fair and reasoned across the board (in effect, whilst being knowledgeable they should be colour blind to the particular teams in question).

If City are doing something good, write about it and say so (not in that usual snide 'well done for doing this, but so they should do because they have spent X, Y and Z'.

If City are making a complete arse of something, then call it out as it is and report it.

This should be equal across the board regardless of the club involved - we know this is not the case;

Positive story about United, Liverpool and Arsenal + negative story about City = multiple clicks and news outlets live to fight another day.........

Fairness and credit where its due should be their aim and would certainly do for me.
Anything else is just advertising.