Media Thread 2020/21

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How fake is that and how gullible do you have to be to beleive it’s true.
Look at the tattoo - even though he’s arched forward slightly and his back is curved the tattoo is completely straight which means that tattoo pic and been printed in top of a photo
takes anyone with half a brain to see this yet a National newspaper still went with it.......
 
This might be the wrong place but BBC report if City win tonight and United don’t we go top. Surprisingly positive reporting. Even had Pep wishing Villa staff well after the COVID outbreak (take note Everton) and clips from our last win.

This will need putting right in time for the Breakfast show!

we win tonight we go top for a few hours regardless :)
 
Remember when we sunk down to the old third division we actually got more tv coverage then we had in the premier now that could be that the media knew we had great support and that us fans would tune in or i suspect it was because they thought we might end up in the fourth division.
When we were in the old 3rd division, City stood for
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How fake is that and how gullible do you have to be to beleive it’s true.
Look at the tattoo - even though he’s arched forward slightly and his back is curved the tattoo is completely straight which means that tattoo pic and been printed in top of a photo

I think the biggest give away that it is fake is how central it is.
Look at his spine. Why would you put a tattoo on the left hand side of the body.
Wiggy would be in the middle of the spine, and the text centered as well.
 
Exactly.

I remember well all the furore once the ban had been announced but before the CAS verdict came through.

I said at the time that the club were in a true, existential, fight for its very survival. Read the Simon Jordan piece in particular. This was only an amuse-bouche for what would have followed if the ban had been upheld. Titles,cups,records WOULD have been stripped from us. The media and their acolytes in the game would have ensured the pressure was applied to such an extent it would have become impossible to hold back the tide.
Next would have come the briefing in the media about how ‘club X’ wants to ‘rescue’ KDB/Raheem/AGuero/name any of our players you want to from the ‘nightmare’ they found themselves in at City ‘the proven cheats’.
Then would have come the claims for financial compensation from ‘rivals’ who had been ‘cheated’ out of prize money/tv revenue (CL) etc. Even if they hadn’t won the clamour and endless negative publicity around these claims would have served to constantly continue dragging the clubs name through the mud for years afterwards. And by extension the good name of our owner. The pressure on him to abandon us would have risen day by day, and there may well have come a point where in order to protect the good name of his nation he may have felt it sensible to give in.
All of the above accompanied in the media by the sobriquet “Proven cheats”, which the club would have been powerless to combat if CAS had been as bent as uefa and upheld the farcical ban.

It is why I will never, under any circumstances, ever, turn against Pep. At the beginning of all this when the times were as dark for City as at any time In our long and illustrious history, He responded loudly and very publicly to stories in the media that he was going to leave if the ban was upheld with a resounding “I believe in this club, I believe in our owners and my bosses, I am staying at City and seeing out my contract come what may”. THAT is leadership.

I also remember well a thread around the time of the CAS verdict where I actually had to argue with City fans (only two to be fair to every other sensible and normal poster on here) that the above scenarios weren’t excessively pessimistic, but were in fact very real.

Thank God I didn’t have to be proven correct as CAS did the correct thing.

I will never forgive the media Though. Never. They danced on our grave before we were dead and fed their fetid, rancid readership a daily diet of racism, lies, xenophobia and outright glee at the prospect that “the Arabs” were going to get it.

How wrong they were.

CTID.
The best post ever on this subject. Chapeau.
 
Is this a guess or do you actually know something about the vacancy?

I don't think he said anything unreasonable there, in fact it makes perfect sense and he's given actual examples and insight. The Negredo example was news to me. I would have thought we already have someone like that at the club though.

Also, I get the impression that some player agents are relied upon for some of this stuff and that is something I would like to see addressed. The modern day player's reliance on greedy agents in the game.
Somehow I have the impression Negredo and his missus would have managed far better than someone like Merson moving to the very edge of civilisation in Middlesborough.
 
One journalist has stood by City throughout FFP. That journalist is Martin Samuel.

Time and again in the Daily United he has defended us and fought off the baying Rags, Coach Wreckers, Tarquins, Chavs(the irony), Spurs fans, and general City haters.

Why on earth he works for that f***ing Daily United, PR, fanzine is beyond me.
Actually, Martin wrote that he thought we had broken the rules. That surprised me, given his views on ffp.
He missed a chance to be the only journo to get it right.
And what a chance: five minutes with a first year law student on the subject of evidence would have set him going.
 
takes anyone with half a brain to see this yet a National newspaper still went with it.......
The papers don't care whether it's true or not, only whether it sells...

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