Media Thread 2020/21

[elbearos]

So predictable wake up city P R fight. Back for the thousandth time

Sucking your thumb is a bit infantile

 

[Ban-jani]

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They Daily United always do this when they know an article by one of their journalists is going to cause a backlash.

2 nice comments have got through.

Mine won't. I've also told the moderator where to go, as well as Powell.

No mention of the Uninted players celebrating together at Burnley.

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I genuinely feel sick

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

Bruno Fernandes = "best example", "top player", "sublimely gifted footballer", "superstar" and his POTM award is "the most welcome item of football news this week."

 

[Mike Cledford]

I read the Telegraph for years and one of the reasons l stopped was that the young snotty nosed Jonathan Liew got far too gobby not only about City but with Blues.
Journos posting all over social media in their own names and spouting out purely private and often biased stuff started the decline in the previous standards of professionalism and led to the awful state it is now - low grade advertising copy-writers, drumming up support for their clients.

 

[LongsightM13]

The UK media, especially the press, has lost touch completely with its customer base. When you see people like Matt Lawton (Daily Mail) slagging off fans on Twitter it's totally bizarre. The volume of negative comments a lot of these reporters get is seen as some sort of badge of honour.
But upsetting the paying customers is a disastrous business model and most newspapers are already on their last legs because of the digital revolution (let alone Covid). Thousands of jobs have been lost in the media in the last decade. Trolling your own customers on Twitter is just commercial madness.
Most proper fans I meet despise the way football is covered in the press and on TV. There is no need for this to be the status quo. All anyone wants is honest, balanced, fair, and critical analysis of the sport we all love. What we get is bitter, partisan, and negative coverage where content seems to be designed just to wind people up.

There is no other group of professional writers on earth who openly despise their readers as much as the English football press.
I once knew a bloke who earned a crust writing the ‘articles’ and ‘letters’ in porn mags. He had more respect for his readers and his craft than the rabble of grifters and stenographers posing as football journalists nowadays.
Jeff Powell has always been a hysterical, pearl-clutching old queen with little time for City

 

[Mike Cledford]

Just looked up the days results and it turned out from Google l think. It shows the score and to the right a little video of the match. It shows all the league games since Chelsea. Apart from Wolves v Newcastle no huddles shown on the pic for the video.......just City.
Underneath there is an article from Sky 'PL predictions which show 7 players in a v shape. Left to right : Villa, Arsenal, Rags, Dippers, Chelsea, Leicester and someone in a white shirt l can't recognise. Agenda?
How bloody childish can they get?
Just realised the team in white was Leeds. So they can get more childish.

 

[Mike Cledford]

There is no other group of professional writers on earth who openly despise their readers as much as the English football press.
I once knew a bloke who earned a crust writing the ‘articles’ and ‘letters’ in porn mags. He had more respect for his readers and his craft than the rabble of grifters and stenographers posing as football journalists nowadays.
Jeff Powell has always been a hysterical, pearl-clutching old queen with little time for City

I knew a bloke who did the same believe it or not. Mine was in Peckham and did his bit in a swingers contact magazine. A nice old boy who was good company over a pint.

 

[jrb]

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That f***ing Rag fanzine, the Daily United, the hypocritical c*nts!

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Just posted this in the premier league matches thread but I guess this is a better place for it.

Slightly of topic but is rugby union still being played ? If so have they scrap the scum ? After all that's no different to a celebration hug but with gorging and biting of ears

Saw some professional rugby on TV today. Lots of tackles, scrums, and celebrations. A segment was show on the BBC national news with not one comment about social distancing. Yet the media continues to push the negative agenda against football, backed up by some attention-seeking backbench MPs who don't have enough work to do. It's the usual double standards we see all the time.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Indeed. What they don’t seem to realise either is that those who respond, Like etc and generally bolster their biased POV on social media are not a representative sample of all footy supporters; they are from a narrow band imho

Getting online clicks from fanboys in Mumbai or Los Angeles doesn't drive much advertising revenue. The press has alienated its core customer base. Audience has no value unless you can monetise it. These journalist trolls are just cutting their own throats commercially.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Saw some professional rugby on TV today.

Saw the Edinburgh match.
They linked together in a huddle at the start of the match for ages.
Clung together in rucks and line outs.

 

[chedinho]

Comments are being moderated.

They Daily United always do this when they know an article by one of their journalists is going to cause a backlash.

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Bruno Fernandes has set the best example of how top players conduct themselves during the COVID-19 era.... by sucking his thumb before washing his hands.
Well done Bruno for showing the world your as stupid as the English football press.

 

[cheekybids]

That f***ing Rag fanzine, the Daily United, the hypocritical c*nts!

6 points clear of who?

 

[TheThirdDeano]

Me trying to work out where the hell the media muppets get their numbers from

 

[bongsblue]

Leafing through the New Statesman this week, I know give me a break, there is a two page spread on King Colin entitled "The Manchester Nijinsky" by Michael Henderson. Quite a pleasant nostalgic piece, inevitably from Henderson, until yes, even in a tribute to Colin, I find " the club that Bell adorned is no more. Manchester City is now an accessory for multi-billionaires from the UAE whose wealth has brought success (four Premier league titles since 2012) but little sense of kinship. Needless to say I have written to remind him of some of the remarkable communal experiences, spiritual some might say, that I have shared of late with fellow blues. Suspect it will fall on deaf ears and won't be in the readers letters page.

 

[rabby]

That f***ing Rag fanzine, the Daily United, the hypocritical c*nts!

That f***ing Rag fanzine, the Daily United, the hypocritical c*nts!

Keown and Merson,who were probably the thickest cunts in that arsenal era are the two who have stolen a living out of football punditry.
Tells us all we need to know about how little emphasis is put on quality of analysis.

 

[Gaz1105]

Love how they are building this game up as some kind of clash of the titans, two bang average teams playing for second place at best

 

[sandiegoblue]

Love how they are building this game up as some kind of clash of the titans, two bang average teams playing for second place at best

Let them all drool over themselves. Meanwhile, the best team in the land and all the world will quietly sneak up and win the league. They will say we cheated, but we will have the last laugh, just like the FFP debacle.

 

[blueju]

Leafing through the New Statesman this week, I know give me a break, there is a two page spread on King Colin entitled "The Manchester Nijinsky" by Michael Henderson. Quite a pleasant nostalgic piece, inevitably from Henderson, until yes, even in a tribute to Colin, I find " the club that Bell adorned is no more. Manchester City is now an accessory for multi-billionaires from the UAE whose wealth has brought success (four Premier league titles since 2012) but little sense of kinship. Needless to say I have written to remind him of some of the remarkable communal experiences, spiritual some might say, that I have shared of late with fellow blues. Suspect it will fall on deaf ears and won't be in the readers letters page.

And also just as we had ‘Bell, Lee and Summerbee’ we have had Komps, Zabba, Sergio, Merlin, Joleon , Joe, Raheem and dozens of others that have come and gone since the takeover some of whom have stayed years, some have left but they all keep a bit of City close to their hearts...except possibly Jimmy scouse boy?

 

[peter.evans]

Love how they are building this game up as some kind of clash of the titans, two bang average teams playing for second place at best

Ha true ! Where's Merson when you need him letting us all know that the Scousers are "light years" ahead of the rest of the league !!