Media Thread 2020/21

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Pogba's free kick has just been described as a fantastic piece of skill, again, on Sky.

They have had a day now, to notice it was going ten fucking yards wide.
What was very telling about that goal was how surprised Pogba was when it went in off the deflection.

Even the rag players are startled when they manage to pull a result off.
 
We are interlopers. The rags and dippers were famous when TV started showing complete games around the world, 80’s and 90’s. This led to a huge expansion of their fan bases. These fans are now in position in high places. You don’t need to be a rag or dipper fan to know which side your bread is buttered if you are in charge at $ly or BT. These two teams bring in the money, more fans watching means more revenue, not just from them paying subs, but from increased revenue from advertising. To keep them happy they employ ex dippers and rags players to increase the revenue. So it goes on.

This is not just something that the TV channels are mindful of but the written press are at it as well. They are having a hard time at the moment and they will do anything to sell a ‘paper’. Good dippers/rag news and negative City news sells.

Take last night for example; we played great football against Burnley but nobody will see it because it wasn’t screened so we, again, don’t get the attention we deserve. It will take a long time to break down this barrier.
 
We have won the war on the pitch. Off the pitch we are ostracised and vilified. How we change the narrative is anyone guess.
 
We have won the war on the pitch. Off the pitch we are ostracised and vilified. How we change the narrative is anyone guess.
My guess is we will do it organically.

At some point the media will burn itself out. Fans of other clubs will notice the tension and dichotomy between the style of football we play, the achievements we make and the coverage we get from the hacks.

At some point in the not too distant future the broadcasting media will recognise that proping up the rags and dippers is no longer a sound business model.

It will become clear that sulking because Manchester City play the better football and have a more robust business model than other clubs is no longer reason enough to vilify us.
 
My guess is we will do it organically.

At some point the media will burn itself out. Fans of other clubs will notice the tension and dichotomy between the style of football we play, the achievements we make and the coverage we get from the hacks.

At some point in the not too distant future the broadcasting media will recognise that proping up the rags and dippers is no longer a sound business model.

It will become clear that sulking because Manchester City play the better football and have a more robust business model than other clubs is no longer reason enough to vilify us.

I would not bet on it but not a bad take on things. The racist undertones that accompany the attacks is worrisome.
 
We are interlopers. The rags and dippers were famous when TV started showing complete games around the world, 80’s and 90’s. This led to a huge expansion of their fan bases. These fans are now in position in high places. You don’t need to be a rag or dipper fan to know which side your bread is buttered if you are in charge at $ly or BT. These two teams bring in the money, more fans watching means more revenue, not just from them paying subs, but from increased revenue from advertising. To keep them happy they employ ex dippers and rags players to increase the revenue. So it goes on.

This is not just something that the TV channels are mindful of but the written press are at it as well. They are having a hard time at the moment and they will do anything to sell a ‘paper’. Good dippers/rag news and negative City news sells.

Take last night for example; we played great football against Burnley but nobody will see it because it wasn’t screened so we, again, don’t get the attention we deserve. It will take a long time to break down this barrier.

It may take time but it will happen. You see a lot more kids around wearing City shirts these days. At some point these kids grow up, some of them will become journos, run TV stations or just be the paying consumers of media output. The media will evolve as it's market and make-up evolves. We just need to keep playing good football and winning things (just as United and Liverpool did to get their fanbases). It's the long game!
 
Yes those comments about City being a smaller club than them and the video of the manager have been circulating most of the papers here.

Have always hated Benfica- they literally own all the football tv viewing rights in Portuguse football and have ruined the league for years. Every twat I have to work supports them and they have more Members than any other club in the world (not fans) - Sporting Lisbon fans far more knowledge and less arrogant
Lots of fans jumping on this benfica are greater than City balloney. Now since we are England's top club by way of domestic honours this past decade and yet the criteria to judge City is is on champions league performance. If that is the barometer then how many trees have benfica pulled up in the champions league in the last 25 years? Or how many top players at their peak have left other top European clubs to join benfica
 
I would not bet on it but not a bad take on things. The racist undertones that accompany the attacks is worrisome.
Well thankfully, there is a global movement towards anti-racism and outlets like Sly, BT and the BBC are hanging their hats on it.

The times they are changing (thank goodness) and these tacit digs we recieve from the broadcasting media and written press will be jumped on.

So yes, it's going to take time but we'll get there.
 
Just caught 10 mins of Sky Sports... going on and on about Sancho's impending move to the Rags... is there any basis to this or are they just plain delusional?
 
We have won the war on the pitch. Off the pitch we are ostracised and vilified. How we change the narrative is anyone guess.
I think we need a sustained period of dominant success, like for a generation. Liverpool then united dominated for about 20yrs each. Whether we want them or not this level of success generates glory hunters, some of whom will grow up to hold prominent positions. Quite possibly a lot of people in influentual positions now grew up watching one of our red rivals winning things regularly so attached themselves to them. Its not going to be a quick fix though.
 
Well l have see the City badge displayed on Bbc at last.

The news was showing what the italians are doing about covid checking. An officer went into a bar in Rome and l thought l saw two familiar things. One l thought was the old Rover badge but was in fact the Leeds badge next to a city badge advertising the match on a screen.
I am sure the Italians will appreciate city.more than uk media.
Took me back when l used to drink Merlins Gold watching city on italian sky presented by a beautiful girl with long legs and high stilettoes.
Ratface and the gobber bring you back to earth with a bump
 
Sports Jock Little Richard Ascombe said Palmer did well on his debut....and Burnly had a couple of penalties waived aside! They are the new Powderpuff Girls!

Over on Granada resident chimps Hall#1 cursory report of the score. They gave prominence to Everton with DCL's hattrick and England call up along with Everton Ladies getting to the FA Cup final. The news anchor Ann O'connor had a huge smile on her face as she said "Everton are doing well." Sports chimp had a glazed look on his face. Good on you, Ann. Sooo much better than the frankly awful misery Lucy Meacock.
 
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