Media Thread 2020/21

[fierydan]

First of all l will say that Rashford did well in getting involved in the school meals lending his same to the campaign and increasing public awareness of child hunger in this country. His involvement together with the Tory MPs who were pushing for the free meals forced Barmy Boris to change his mind. In fact it fell well for Boris - changing his mind because an England footballer raising a lot of attention seemed much better than a rebellion by his own back bencher. But the important thing is the kids get at least one meal a day in school or not. Of course we tax payers foot the bill not St Marcus but l am happy with that.
The charity he works with are also doing good 'work with some supermarkets so good for them.

Moving on to today l open google to a headline in the Liverpool Echo 'l do what l do for Liverpool- Rashford '.lt turns out that Sadiq Khan a born and bred Londoner and never one to avoid publicity and after all this time he writes to congratulate Rashford in a public letter but manages to throw in
something like 'although you are a United player and l am a life long Liverpool fan...bullshit bullshit to show what a jolly good chap he is. Rashford replies that he does it for Liverpool as much as anywhere which is a bit different to the headline which reads as if it is just Liverpool Fc or just the city of Liverpool. Poor journalism or cleverly worded?
The story has been repeated in many of Reach pic's huge number of national and local papers (it owns well over 200) even the local rag in Southend on Sea. Attention has been brought to the problems of poor people and the charity but a load of favourable exposure to Rashford, Sadiq Khan, United, Liverpool, Aldis, Kellogs, Reach plc and more. All good as they say. Silly Sally and the BBC took their eye off the ball on this one
Meanwhile most of what our club and CITC do is ignored even dismissed as publicity stunts. Many clubs and players do good works, often avoiding publicity. City have a relationship with a particular ward at Manchester Children's Hospital that l only learned of through the OSC.
It seems our owners perhaps know they can never beat the media, especially when Reach seem to be patching up the United and Liverpool rivalry with City as a common enemy for them both.

I was hoping that a journalist,any journalist would point out to St Marcus that his employers file their Tax Returns in the Cayman Islands,a notorious tax haven.Bit thick then that he is telling the Government how to spend tax payers money when his club are doing their best to avoid paying in to the pot.

 

[ballbag]

I never used to believe there was an element of the media against us. Its obvious there is (well, from part-time bloggers/full-time Twitter trolls like Delaney and that dog fucker Ewan Nobody). I just don't give a shit about it.

 

[Mike Cledford]

I was hoping that a journalist,any journalist would point out to St Marcus that his employers file their Tax Returns in the Cayman Islands,a notorious tax haven.Bit thick then that he is telling the Government how to spend tax payers money when his club are doing their best to avoid paying in to the pot.

Yes he's not on his own in that. Too many big earners are hypocritical tax avoided and tax evaders. Even when if it is legitimate none of them have the balls to say 'so what? Its not illegal.'
The result is the main thing and the kids were winners but there ain't much difference from security comanies getting the name of of a retired chief constable on their headed paper or retired politicians getting on company boards. They all hire their name out.
Better than Liverpool being sponsored by a dodgy bank though.

 

[Bobbyespania]

Are we playing a cup game tonight? Can’t find a thing in the rag media.

 

[old blue]

Are we playing a cup game tonight? Can’t find a thing in the rag media.

You would think that the holders would be shown on T.V!

 

[manimanc]

You would think that the holders would be shown on T.V!

Nah, we get a wide berth, sky sports must feed the red mardarse sheep.

 

[BolinCell]

I think we got a lot of unfair stick in the run up to ffp case. But since we won that case the negative press has subdued to the point where now it never gets mentioned. The club did well putting that fire out. As for the press mentioning the price of players in articles well what's wrong with that if the player has just joined the club, they never go on about the price of KDB or Aguero because they joined us years ago( some cynics might say its because they were bargains.). As for inflating player prices, the press always do that, they count add on etc. But as for going purple in the face while reading these articles that's silly, as if the club are going to take action against the DM for saying Ake was 10 million more that he actually was and the like, not gonna happen. Some people will be having heart attacks soon if they're frothing at the mouth over some journo quoting prices every time a city story rears its head.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

I think we got a lot of unfair stick in the run up to ffp case. But since we won that case the negative press has subdued to the point where now it never gets mentioned. The club did well putting that fire out. As for the press mentioning the price of players in articles well what's wrong with that if the player has just joined the club, they never go on about the price of KDB or Aguero because they joined us years ago( some cynics might say its because they were bargains.). As for inflating player prices, the press always do that, they count add on etc. But as for going purple in the face while reading these articles that's silly, as if the club are going to take action against the DM for saying Ake was 10 million more that he actually was and the like, not gonna happen. Some people will be having heart attacks soon if they're frothing at the mouth over some journo quoting prices every time a city story rears its head.

Take a look at the Bavarian Football Works. They have a poisonous article about City that shows we haven't been forgotten.

Bavarian Legal Works: I got a case of the ManCity blues

A flawed system and two timid arbitrators allow corruption to go unpunished.

www.bavarianfootballworks.com

 

[Gremlin]

Take a look at the Bavarian Football Works. They have a poisonous article about City that shows we haven't been forgotten.

Bavarian Legal Works: I got a case of the ManCity blues

A flawed system and two timid arbitrators allow corruption to go unpunished.

www.bavarianfootballworks.com

I'm not sure that Bavarian Football Works is on many people's daily 'must read' list. May be big in Germany (I have no idea) but not exactly mainstream press over here.

 

[Boris Becker’s Backhand]

Take a look at the Bavarian Football Works. They have a poisonous article about City that shows we haven't been forgotten.

Bavarian Legal Works: I got a case of the ManCity blues

A flawed system and two timid arbitrators allow corruption to go unpunished.

www.bavarianfootballworks.com

Bavarian Legal Works lol. Reminds of me of when HIGNFY used to have a round where the panel would have to guess the missing words in headlines from obscure trade publications.

Shows how far we’ve come that we feature in esoteric foreign magazines.