Media Thread 2020/21

[The perfect fumble]

There is no such thing as "sportswashing." There is no evidence that investing money in football boosts your reputation. In fact the opposite is true because people are usually jealous and suspicious of money. Do you think California-based Silverlake invested £389m in City because they are worried about their reputation? Is that why they are developing the UK's biggest indoor arena next door to the Etihad? There is not a single line in that article by Jonathan Wilson that stands up to any scrutiny. He is a published writer but has zero journalistic skills. He's another bluffer and the Guardian is full of them.

This is a liberal left perversion of the White Man's Burden. Instead of a justification of imperial conquest as a mission of civilisation, this is the highly selective use of liberal outrage to impose western values on people not like us.

 

[Centurions]

Eh??

This is the goal he scored on Wednesday or are you having a joke I'm not getting?

Errr, would you believe you've been clarkied?



Or should I hold my hands up to making a cock-up?

 

[Mike Cledford]

Can’t remember him doing much after half time!

I can't remember hearing how good he was until he played against City.

But English journalists don't know much at all apart from the English teams in red.

 

[Mr Blue Moon]

It counted as an away goal because of his age.

He’s only 17, you know.

Ahh so his goal counted double as it was past his bedtime...

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Errr, would you believe you've been clarkied?



Or should I hold my hands up to making a cock-up?

Haha

 

[The perfect fumble]

Ahh so his goal counted double as it was past his bedtime...

No, but they did give him a Blue Peter Badge

Haaland got a Blankety Blank cheque book and pen.

 

[Blue Pete]

How much sportswashing does it take to get the blood of 39 Italians off your hands?
How many coaches smashed up is too many?
How many asthmatics is enough to win the premiership?
How much more does it actually mean? And if it means more does that justify more extreme actions?

Our owner is related to the ruler of a country which doesnt have a great human rights record, that is a fact. But human rights in USA, Russia, or Qatar are nothing to be proud of. Standard Charter laundered money for terrorists and broke sanctions and has been caught more than once for doing so, why is that sportswashing any less?

 

[Bodicoteblue]

That great article from Ste Tudor has made me find this again... Christ.

Since Sergio Aguero arrived in England Manchester City have spent £569m on 42 players - only ONE has been a success

WHATEVER way you look at it, they are on a bad run. Name a nailed-on successful signing for Manchester City in the 5½ years since they grabbed Sergio Aguero for £35million in July 2011. Admittedly,…

www.thesun.co.uk

Right at home at United.

Glad you posted this as it gives us all an opportunity to gaze in wonder at the almost supernatural prescience of Ashton.
It also makes me wonder whatever became of the ludicrously overrated and expensive DeBruyne and Sterling.
Did they ever achieve anything in their careers?
Did Ashton go on to be one the most respected and recognised experts in the world of sports journalism?
I think we should be told!!

 

[The perfect fumble]

Spitty gobbing on City in the Telegraph....

City’s wealth may guarantee they are always competing for every major trophy........

Suffice to say, relegation does not look like it will ever be a problem for what might mischievously be described as the First Abu Dhabi Bank club.

 

[stan bowles]

Your posts on this 'pathetic' article, as you put it (and that's 'pathetic' with a capital 'P'), reminds me of one of my favourite film quotations of all time, from 'JFK', when Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) says 'We are through the looking glass here people.. what's white is black and what's black is white..'

So-called 'journalists' like Wilson live in an 'other' world to the rest of us..

Him and his like are a singularly unique species.
As Jim Garrison said to Clay Shaw, "people like you don't have to, I guess [talk to a District Attorney about his possible involvement in the murder of the President], people like you just walk between the raindrops..."