Media Thread - 2021/22

[Newman Noggs]

Ah That Ken Early… who earlier (boom tish) this season typed this almost complete opposite piece…

Ken Early: Pep Guardiola showing his tetchy side as Man City face stiff competition

Never before has the Catalan faced a real league title test from as many as three sides

www.irishtimes.com

or after the opening day of the season

Ken Early: Signing Jack Grealish is Man City’s attempt to buy relevance

England midfielder does not address champions’ weaknesses but he gives them star power

www.irishtimes.com

Ha ha ! You have to laugh. Apart from the mandatory City bingo, I liked;

"Even Jack Grealish is hardly worth watching these days. The most exciting footballer of last season has been subsumed into the City system as a kind of glorified ballboy whose role is to stand on the sideline and pass it quickly to the main man, João Cancelo"

Wonder if he's ever actually seen us play or just writes his articles after visiting the Caf or RAWK

 

[sd33]

trip to Dubai canceled because of covid concerns

 

[jrb]

Oh, a positive City article. I'll give it a chance.




I'll read on......

Liverpool are the only ones holding a candle to the champions designate, though they do not have a Gulf state’s wealth underpinning them. City did not even feel the need to make much of the fact that they overtook Manchester United’s annual commercial revenues for the first time last week.

The old Skool Hacks down in London just love Liverpool don't they. The enduring candle lit romance of a club that isn't 'underpinned by a Gulf state's wealth'.

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/so...inder-the-rich-always-get-their-way-1.4778060

Seems our win over Chelsea didn't please everyone.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
But he can always stick to the League of Ireland or those weird Gaelic sports rather than football in a foreign country.

 

[JPAMCR]

It is complimentary and he does list the positives which make us stand out, the interesting one for me was the transfer focus on technically gifted 40-70m players, I haven’t seen that highlighted in the papers before.
But, guardian columnists always qualify praise in any article which is positive about the team or club with references to city being owned by a state or ethics etc. Wilson always.
Perhaps it’s because they’re columnists rather than sports reporters so they feel the need to add politics, but to me it sounds a bit cheap and unnecessary when the thrust of the column isn’t Conn style and about our dirty oil money. Don’t have my knickers in a twist about it though and perhaps it’s just negativity bias that draws my attention to it.

We’ll see how they feel about human rights when they’re all off to Qatar for a month.

 

[Bayblue]

I posted this earlier, Ronay's use of the word "irresistible" does not mean what you think it means....

Irresistible?

Don't get carried away, it has more than one meaning....

too powerful or convincing to be resisted.

They used to call the Wehrmacht irresistible.

Ronay doesn't mean it as a compliment.

I did see your response first time round.
You are right that the word has more than one meaning but I’m not sure your interpretation is the correct one given the rest of the sentence in which it sits.

Also ithe same article he writes of the “sensory pleasure of watching this champion City team in action, its beguiling patterns, its architectural beauty, its simple sporting virtues, the collectivism, the selfless energy, the way players are coached and improved”.
Maybe you don’t think he means that as a compliment?
At the end of last season he wrote of our title being a triumph of class and refinement.
Maybe you don’t think means that as a compliment?
Sure he says things that I disagree with as well, and also other things that I either wish he didn’t say or which touch a bit of a nerve. I don’t think though that those things mean he is part of a vast media conspiracy who want to see us fail.

Anyway, I’ve now realised what I so rarely bother to dip into the Media Thread. Life is too short. I’ve been supporting City since the late 60s and seen some real dross at times, and often have read papers for a week without even a mention of City. Maybe the old adage is true that the only think worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

 

[jrb]

We’ll see how they feel about human rights when they’re all off to Qatar for a month.

Exactly! Name and shame them on a thread. I can't wait. Let's see how many of them refuse to go on a free jolly for a month.

 

[Semper aggressus]

Too much bullshit on the BBC and many of the papers this morning, all full of the same diatribe about scousers being able to catch us. They’re just clutching at straws to appease the sheep that still buy and believe the bollocks peddled by these gobshites.

If the gap were in their favour, I’d bet that not one media outlet would be behind us turning it round, despite our track record of doing so before.

 

[ESP Blue]

Strangest thing ive ever seen.. On the Buses now with Olive wearing a City scarf and matching curlers.
Also red and black stripe shirt making an appearance.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Strangest thing ive ever seen.. On the Buses now with Olive wearing a City scarf and matching curlers.
Also red and black stripe shirt making an appearance.

Funny you should say that, every time I read one of these articles, I have a mental image of the journalist concerned, shaking his fist in impotent rage like Blakey and shouting "I hate you City".