Media Thread 2020/21

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franksinatra said:
Yes he did get it wrong, but I think deep down many blues probably thought we might lose at CAS.

As I wrote previously not sure football in finances is his specialism and so it was probably unfair to put him in that position. Being wrong though is a big difference from being biased, which seems to get levelled at him.
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Not the many Blues I know, we were very confident of a win at CAS.

No issue with Sam Lee as I don’t subscribe to the Athletic and don’t do Twitter. Like all, if he wants to put his head above the parapet then he must expect to get it shot down if he is wrong. Just like you and I.
 
domalino said:
The worst thing you can say about him is there are quite literally dozens of worse journalists to read or listen to as a Manchester City fan.
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The worst thing you can say about him is the company he so readily keeps On his Whstsapp group. Fuck him.
 
Ban-jani said:
I do think we need to pick our battles.

A player rating isn’t where we should be going after journalists.

The underlying racism towards our Arab owners is a decent place to attack the press, not because someone gave Dias a B+ in their ratings list ffs.
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As a club, absolutely.
As fans, we fight them wherever and whenever we see or hear bullshit against our team. I love it that toe rag journalists see us as weaponised and Rabinised. Bring the fkrs down word by word, line be line.
 
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domalino said:
My opinion of Sam Lee is pretty simple, he spends a lot of time with dyed in the wool blues like @BillyShears, Mooney, Lloyd, Howard etc. on various podcasts and none of them have a bad word to say about him, and all of them want to keep working with him. In fact I'm yet to hear anyone who has actually met him or spoken to him outside social media have a bad word to say.

As a reporter, his long form Foden and Aguero pieces have been probably the best pieces of Manchester City journalism I've read int he past 5 years.

He's not Delaney, he's not Alyson Rudd, he's not even Jamie Jackson. The worst thing you can say about him is there are quite literally dozens of worse journalists to read or listen to as a Manchester City fan.
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He's a rag
Doing his job!
 
richardtheref said:
I thought it amusing that on 3 occasions the commentator referred to Bernardo as David. Then at one point that numpty Warnock said Jesus should have crossed it to "Bruno"
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Tbf despite the goofs with the players' names I found the BBC commentary far better than the usual list of transfer fees and wages from Ian Darke. I didn't hear them mention money once.
 
GBrannan said:
It’s like they’ve not watched our team before Dias came and after.

I let my subscription lapse with the Athletic in December. The majority of the written articles are puff pieces in the PL. Sam Lee has definitely lost his edge there too. He used to get exclusive stuff before but now anything worthwhile reading on City is from their A list writers... which is quarterly, and with CAS where it had a bit of Sam proved to be poorly researched and sourced.

FWIW, Dias has been an A+ for impact on our team. Impact on the team signed for with any signing is about the best metric you can use because that’s why any club signs a player... to make an impact in their team. In our team we had the key stone cops running around in our back line before Dias rocked up. Now we look like Fort Knox. Dias thus far has been A+.
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Best CB in the prem so far
 
You'd think we signed a bargain,we spend way too much on players, everybody knows that.lets just hope hes better than Richard dunn, anyone can get player of the year now because we have a brilliant team,what a time to follow city like enjoy.
 
BBC have just released an article on why new man United signing Diallo is reminiscent of Ronaldo.

Curious I clicked the link, only to see that they spend most of the article listing the differences and finish off by quoting an ex coach who says he needs to add a few kilos of weight. As Lukaku, Shaw and others will testify, he's certainly gone to the right club then. All he needs to know is when to dive and when to shove a Big Mac in his face.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Dias has had the biggest impact of any defensive player I have seen in 50 years. He transformed the City team from his first match. Much more impact than Vinny in his first six months. Dias was captain of Benfica at 21 and is one of the most influential players in Portugal's brilliant team.
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To be fair Vinnie started out at defensive mid and the team was a lot inferior to this team. Agree with you regarding Dias influence but up until recently we've played with two DM's. Which is a luxury that Laporte didn't get. Stones and has really benefitted from playing alongside him. Also there seems to have been a lot less exposure for whoever has played LB.
 
City_Sean said:
I don't want to target people in general because frankly it's tiring. I just want Manchester City football club to be praised when it gets things right.

History is dictated by the winners. And over the last decade Manchester City are the winners. I want us to be treated with the respect that we deserve but ultimately football is so tribalistic that everyone pusbes their own agendas. Tom Worville wrote some shits tweets about us but his recent articles shows he's biased. I don't like United - but if I had to write articles on them I'd be very fair and considered and also wouldn't write tweets pisstaking when employed by a website that relies on supporters subscribing.
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With regard to being treated with respect I think the phrase is pissing in the wind?
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
I agree. She just called the game in a fair balanced way. She had a better understanding of tactics than Steven Warnock whose response to everything seemed to be: "Birmingham need to be more aggressive." It was a shock to have a totally unbiased commentary.
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Just a shame about the voice. Like listening to the Mrs when I've left the seat up
 
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