Media Thread - 2021/22

[waspish]

Pol Ballus is joining The Athletic. Good addition for them, he’s very well-connected when it comes to City.

Let’s hope he doesn’t go for the click bait articles

 

[LongsightM13]

Let’s hope he doesn’t go for the click bait articles

Yes we’ve been here before. Maybe the worm is finally turning but I won’t hold my breath

 

[Ric]

Let’s hope he doesn’t go for the click bait articles

I don’t think The Athletic generally do that tbf (in their City coverage, at least) and Ballus is a very good reporter with integrity. Some Blues have complained that we have only had one reporter covering us (compared to 3/4 for Liverpool and United) so this is welcome news on that front.

 

[JASR]

Let’s hope he doesn’t go for the click bait articles

The headline for the piece starts with united, even though the piece is initially all about his joy of City and the steps that took him there.

The sub-editors of the athletic have their clickbait guidelines still.

 

[lancs blue]

We bottled it in 1972. A mere 50 years ago.

As did Liverpool that season.

 

[Sky Blue]

Oh Aldo, you’ve outdone yourself. Some crackers to save you clicking on the link.

Real Madrid have always been a pretty arrogant club that believes the world revolves around them.

United have put in their worst season in living memory.

Meanwhile, this was the campaign when Liverpool became the first English team to take their trophy wins past the 50 mark, with Manchester City needing another £5 billion of transfer spending and at least a decade to get near that total.

Losing the Premier League title on the final day of the season after it seemed like City were going to bottle it again was tough to take.

More people showed up in the first mile of Liverpool's open-top bus parade than Manchester City attracted for their own badly attended parade to toast their Premier League win.


Rival fans laughing at Liverpool are a million miles behind Jurgen Klopp's winners


https://www.sundayworld.com/sport/s...es-behind-jurgen-klopps-winners-41721172.html

I'd like to do a Graham Young on a plate of his Scouse tea.

 

[cheekybids]

I don’t think The Athletic generally do that tbf (in their City coverage, at least) and Ballus is a very good reporter with integrity. Some Blues have complained that we have only had one reporter covering us (compared to 3/4 for Liverpool and United) so this is welcome news on that front.

We also have 3/4 writers but they write about City for the benefit of opposing fans.

 

[KS55]

Some of the independent’s biggest journalists are Delaney, Reddy and Evans… it’s worse than Carragher and Neville on City games.

They can’t get jobs on proper newspapers, so they have to content themselves with an online tiny rag and reams of mendacious bile on twitter.

 

[wolviedinho]

I don’t think The Athletic generally do that tbf (in their City coverage, at least) and Ballus is a very good reporter with integrity. Some Blues have complained that we have only had one reporter covering us (compared to 3/4 for Liverpool and United) so this is welcome news on that front.

I will hold off on singing his praises until he pens a few articles. If Pol is anything like Sam and his Warped WhatsApp bearers of truth and justice then we will be in for much of the same.

Interesting times but if anyone is falling for the non click motives in an age of misinformation and online revenue then I won’t burst your bubble.

 

[burning blue soul]

Let’s hope he doesn’t go for the click bait articles

You know that he will. If he has agreed to join them, he has agreed to all the other shite that comes with it.
Just start with low expectations and work your way down from there.

 

[KS55]

I particularly liked him saying they were disappointed not winning the PL as they expected City would ‘bottle it again.’ Again???

Yeah. Don’t you remember? Every time we have had to win the last game to become champions, we have collapsed into a sea of mediocrity, failing against QPR, Brighton, Villa. Pep out, I say.

 

[KS55]

He vaguely remember someone bottling it. Then as he almost sobers up and remembers....... .
It was Liverpool who bottled it and City who won the league. So he did have the right teams involved just too pissed to get it right.

Liverpool could have bottled it against Arsenal but a last minute goal by Michael Thomas saved them…..oh.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Through gritted dentures the moronic old soak did admit this ....

"Aside from Manchester City, every English club would have swapped the season they have just experienced for the one Liverpool enjoyed."

If you're first you're first. If you're second you're nothing

 

[SWP's back]

Yeah. Don’t you remember? Every time we have had to win the last game to become champions, we have collapsed into a sea of mediocrity, failing against QPR, Brighton, Villa. Pep out, I say.

To be fair, we have fallen behind in all three of them.

 

[domalino]

I don’t think The Athletic generally do that tbf (in their City coverage, at least) and Ballus is a very good reporter with integrity. Some Blues have complained that we have only had one reporter covering us (compared to 3/4 for Liverpool and United) so this is welcome news on that front.

The headline for the piece starts with united, even though the piece is initially all about his joy of City and the steps that took him there.

The sub-editors of the athletic have their clickbait guidelines still.

You can't be click-bait and subscription based.

The whole point of click-bait journalism is to get you to click on an article where you'll go to a website that will show you ads, and that generates ad revenue.

If you're a subscription model with no adverts, click-bait doesn't do anything for you. You just attract people to a pay-walled page with no adverts that doesn't convert anyone into a subscriber.

Unfortunately on BM, click-bait has just become a word for any article containign information or a headline people don't like.

 

[KS55]

To be fair, we have fallen behind in all three of them.

A game lasts 90 minutes!

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Liverpool could have bottled it against Arsenal but a last minute goal by Michael Thomas saved them…..oh.

Ooooooh, how I loved that outcome, and just when yer wonder when the next dropped Dipper bollock will happen, along comes Slippy Steve.

 

[jrb]

News Now Man City is best for click-bait headlines.

Read into the headlines before clicking on the story/article and you can workout it's either made up bullsh*t and lies with no quotes or substance, plagiarised, or about another team, with City used in the headline/story.(mainly from the Liverpool Echo and Liverpool.com, both owned by the same media company)

 

[waspish]

I don’t think The Athletic generally do that tbf (in their City coverage, at least) and Ballus is a very good reporter with integrity. Some Blues have complained that we have only had one reporter covering us (compared to 3/4 for Liverpool and United) so this is welcome news on that front.

Yeah it is good news but isn’t he more a Pep supporter not a city fan. Anyway seeing as I don’t pay for it am just having a moan cause I love a moan [emoji38]

 

[Haaland's Hammer]