Media Thread - 2021/22

[Eds]

From 1972/73 to 1991/92 (20 seasons) which was the last season before the PL was formed, dippers won the title 11 times and finished second seven times. During this time they had two back to back wins and one three times on the trot. Nobody moaned.
From 1992/93 to 2010 /11 (19 seasons) the scum won the title 12 times, finished second four times and third three times. twice won back to back and twice won it three times on the trot. In the preceding 20 seasons they had finished second three times and third three times so hardly what you call successful during that time which would then lead to all the titles. I wonder how they achieved their success. Nobody moaned.
From 2011 / 12 until now (10 seasons not including this one) due to investment in the club we have won the league five times, finished second three times and third twice. Now every fucker is moaning.
Between the three red shirted teams they have accumulated 52 titles and 40 runners up places, no fucker moans.

 

[tommy116]

There you have it.

When I watch other Premier League games all I see is hoofball, three or four passes strung together then it all breaks down, one dimensional play with one dimensional players. I watched as much as I could tolerate of a dire rag game the other day, I can't remember which one, forget blue tinted specs it was awful at every level.
Al
Liverpool are the best of the rest, but the gulf in class between us and them is immense.

Watch the football from the 90s and early 00's, its kick and rush with two fast wingers and a target man with a clogger in the middle of the park and in defence. Citys football is a thing of utter beauty and unfortuantly we will probably only appreciate how good it is when we look back on it in years to come. Idiots saying football is boring well yes for them as their teams are not at the top anymore. For me the 90s and 00s were boring as nited won everything. Klopp and the dippers are a throw back to the kick and rush era and Pep and City being so far ahead shows how City have evolved as both a Club and team to set the new standards while the dippers have just stood still hence why they are way behind City.

 

[Spanishbob]

Watch the football from the 90s and early 00's, its kick and rush with two fast wingers and a target man with a clogger in the middle of the park and in defence. Citys football is a thing of utter beauty and unfortuantly we will probably only appreciate how good it is when we look back on it in years to come. Idiots saying football is boring well yes for them as their teams are not at the top anymore. For me the 90s and 00s were boring as nited won everything. Klopp and the dippers are a throw back to the kick and rush era and Pep and City being so far ahead shows how City have evolved as both a Club and team to set the new standards while the dippers have just stood still hence why they are way behind City.

Remember a European cup final( not sure who the dippers were playing) and tommy smith said we had to do an ale house ball to score because we couldn’t play through the oppos defense. So nothing new there then.

 

[give it to gordon]

And how boring was the CL final between dippers and spuds absolutely the worse final ever

 

[OB1]

Exactly. These teams who set out to be negative from the start never get any criticism for so doing. They put their plan on full display from the start with the goalie deliberately wasting time from the very first goal kick, wasting time quite literally and often from the first minute and it continues because although the whole crowd notices it the ref doesn't. A yellow card would stop that tactic for the next 89 minutes.
Then at the other end the last 10 minutes see several feigned injuries taking ages to treat to protect a point sometimes three. People look at their watches seeing their trains leaving as they hang on to see some one faking it on the deck like a pork actress. Or they leave and some dick of a commentator takes the piss when he really should be criticising the deliberate time wasting that causes it.

Ps the spell check put in 'pork' instead of porn so l left it as it cheered me up on a cold morning

Where I sit we sometimes play a guessing game as to when the ref will yellow card the opposing keeper; no one ever goes with a number below 80..

 

[OB1]

Very much agree with your mantras. Exactly how I see it. It’s not us that park the bus or try and wait for an opponents mistake. Pretty much what Chelsea did (was like watching a Mourinho side) and they got what they deserve.

I find it baffling that the team that tries to play football for years and years is actually being ignored as being bored

Hope all is well.

Too many people just do not want to give City due credit. It might take a generation to change that but if we continue to be run as well as we have been, the tide will change.

 

[raybo]

Maybe the medias 'Boring' narrative is more sinister than we think and driving some other agenda like a draft style system, who knows??

And why don't Sky/BT just show bottom half of table clashes as their main event if we are so fucking boring!!

Maybe a super league is not such a bad idea after all?

 

[Seedy Ron]

From 1972/73 to 1991/92 (20 seasons) which was the last season before the PL was formed, dippers won the title 11 times and finished second seven times. During this time they had two back to back wins and one three times on the trot. Nobody moaned.
From 1992/93 to 2010 /11 (19 seasons) the scum won the title 12 times, finished second four times and third three times. twice won back to back and twice won it three times on the trot. In the preceding 20 seasons they had finished second three times and third three times so hardly what you call successful during that time which would then lead to all the titles. I wonder how they achieved their success. Nobody moaned.
From 2011 / 12 until now (10 seasons not including this one) due to investment in the club we have won the league five times, finished second three times and third twice. Now every fucker is moaning.
Between the three red shirted teams they have accumulated 52 titles and 40 runners up places, no fucker moans.

It's hypocrisy of the highest order mate. If Pep had rocked up to manage the Rags or the victims and was sweeping all before him, they'd all be swooning over him saying how he'd changed English football forever, how he compared to Slur Alex, Shankly, Paisley, Clough and the like. They'd be glorifying his team as the best the country has ever seen, they will dominate for years (without that being an issue) and have put his team back at the top where they belong.

Instead, he came to manage us and it's all boring football, one team league and the media and it's lickspittles hoping he pisses off soon as there is no competition anymore. Constantly bigging teams up who they see as a threat as the saviours of English football and how they are about to end our dominance, only to get all bitchy about us as these teams fall by the wayside. Negative press conferences, headlines and biased one sided commentaries on our games which always seem to be urging our opposition on to beat us, regardless of the country they come from.

I'm convinced Pep sees the snidey bastards for what they are and treats them with the contempt they deserve whilst also using their bullshit to motivate himself and his team. He's only 51 and for me I don't think there's another club on the planet that can give him what we can and therefore I hope and pray he signs a 3 year extension on top of his current deal.

10 years or more of Pep at City would be exactly what these arseholes deserve.

 

[Bluechipblue]

Maybe the medias 'Boring' narrative is more sinister than we think and driving some other agenda like a draft style system, who knows??

And why don't Sky/BT just show bottom half of table clashes as their main event if we are so fucking boring!!

Maybe a super league is not such a bad idea after all?

I just think it's an agenda to discredit our achievements. Natalie Sawyer asked Slackjaw Jordan yesterday, if the Premier league season has been tainted by COVID-19 postponements. We know where that particular topic is heading, although I didn't hear his response, as I swiftly pressed the off button. Glendening on Sunday was telling all and sundry how boring Saturdays game was, then admitted he watched the game live and watched the highlights later. Why would he watch the highlights if it was so boring? I thought he would have been too busy sending dick pics to unsuspecting young ladies.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Lol, how predictable our unfit for purpose, jealous, grubby sports media are.

The narratives the salivating arseholes will leap upon to discredit us are just totally disingenuous and biased.
A couple of season's ago you couldn't read an article without mention of our "tactical" fouls after the ridiculous Ratboy thought he was a serious pundit highlighting something new, that no other team (his included - Scholsey, Keane, Ince, etc etc etc) had ever done.
Now the greatest football on top-flight record is "boring"! These c*nts really shouldn't be in a job if they can't appreciate what they're seeing.
I'm sure the Spanish press weren't calling Barcelona and R Madrid boring when they were at the height of their powers.