Media Thread - 2021/22

[HelloCity]

The way our local media refer to us

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Just in case it has 't been posted?

Why the ruthlessly brilliant, widely unpopular Man City deserve our respect

Pep Guardiola has created a team that defends in swarms, manipulates space and restricts their opponents options – yet the side’s success is often derided.

www.newstatesman.com

Just more bollocks. Liew, Ronay, Wilson, Delaney, all of the WhatsApp gang, their new modus operandii is to don a mask of ostensible fair-mindedness in which they acknowledge the greatness of the current City team (pretending otherwise would be frankly absurd), but then deliver the politically motivated payload - unloved, state funded, no sporting jeopardy, FFP, under investigation, etc, etc. I’m so fucking bored of them it isn’t true. None of them have got girlfriends

 

[manimanc]

The way our local media refer to us

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That's a shock as we're usually referred to as cross town bitter rivals.

 

[citizen_maine]

Not a big twitter person but saw this and couldn’t stop laughing….

Ole no#2

Good to see that even they refer to him as RAGNick

 

[Citizen Green]

Can’t come to terms with the fact that we’ll never be as cool as PSG

 

[The perfect fumble]

Can’t come to terms with the fact that we’ll never be as cool as PSG

 

[Metalartin]

Just more bollocks. Liew, Ronay, Wilson, Delaney, all of the WhatsApp gang, their new modus operandii is to don a mask of ostensible fair-mindedness in which they acknowledge the greatness of the current City team (pretending otherwise would be frankly absurd), but then deliver the politically motivated payload - unloved, state funded, no sporting jeopardy, FFP, under investigation, etc, etc. I’m so fucking bored of them it isn’t true. None of them have got girlfriends

Or as some else put it recently on here, the turd sandwich philosophy. They have switched their tactics, possibly because even their own readership were starting to raise their eyebrows at the shite they were still peddling.

 

[Metalartin]

Can’t come to terms with the fact that we’ll never be as cool as PSG

What a self own that comment was, in the context it was said.

yet the forces that helped them to flourish in the first place – weak regulation, a lack of oversight, the moral desertion that allows repressive states to own cherished community assets – will not.

<Sigh>.... I can't even be bothered to explain how backwards that is. Maybe that's their strategy? "Keep slinging the mud and ignoring them, until they give up".

 

[Paladin]

Full on City Bingo then.
How are you doing mate? I’ve not been on the running thread for a while.

I'm doing fine thanks. Still enjoying my running, and looking forward to getting out a bit more in the spring.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Or as some else put it recently on here, the turd sandwich philosophy. They have switched their tactics, possibly because even their own readership were starting to raise their eyebrows at the shite they were still peddling.

Perhaps it has just dawned on them that they have missed a revolution in English football. They are so behind the curve they have made fools of themselves. What Pep has done is a huge story on a par with Ajax in the 70s, the great Brazil team, and of course Barca. His influence could even lead to England winning a World Cup.
But they have made the biggest mistake for any journalist. They have missed the story and it will damage their future careers. They are a bit like the music critics who slagged off the Beatles for their haircuts.