Media Thread - 2021/22

[theres only one carlito]

I'll save you the trouble. We're the 31st story on Mail Online's Sport page.

We will never win the PR battle. We are not the so called ‘romance club’ such as United or dipperpool, Barca or Madrid

Uniteds PR surrounds the bubsy babes, the
Theatre of dreams and all that bollocks

Liverpool paisley, shankly the hillsbrough disaster and the much hyped European nights at Anfield

Barca and cruyff and camp nou and la Masis and exotic players

Madrid the galacticos and 13 champions leagues and di steffano etc

we are imposters, we are there to be taken shots at. We are looked down upon.

I don’t read papers either online or hard copy. I already know the script. It’s all propaganda.

Fuck em all, what I’m witnessing is all the report I need. Let them bury their heads in the sand of historical bullshit. I’m not arsed. History is being made and they all know that. No matter how much they try to avoid it.

 

[blue by birth]

We do get some unfair jibes and biased coverage in the press but an element of our fanbase have taken that paranoia and insecurity way too far and have become obsessed.

We certainly don't get ignored.

Fuck em. Everyone hated Man United when they were successful. It comes with the territory.

I'm different then DD ..I fucking hated them cunts even when they weren't successful.
In fact not a day goes by when I don't hate them..
If they lost every game from now till the end of time I would still hate them..

 

[KS55]

50% of their brains are in their boots, and 50% in their knobs but their knobs are nowhere near the size of their gobs.

Slight amendment for accuracy.

 

[west didsblue]

No mention of our game in some online red tops (e.g. Express)

Still no match report in the Express. Not even if you click on to the stories relevant to City, half of which were about United. It's almost as if they're pretending we don't exist.

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

Jonathan Liew's report in the Grundiad is that paper's usual attempt to show that City are well on the way to ruining football. Sporting's manager is only wotking to get a move to an "elite club" this summer because his star midfielder will be on the move then and any "smaller" club will be ruined just as City have ruined Benfica's, the stars of which are now playing "for the highest bidder". Actually reminds us of Liverpool's evisceration of Southampton a few years ago but never mind.
For Liew this is City's iron fist which treacherously is wrapped in a velvet glove so that a truly sinister organisation appears as a good football team. But don't get carried away because "curiously, this game told us very little we did not already know about them. This is the gift and the curse of the modern City: often we have no idea how they will fare in adversity because they so rarely encounter it. All we can really say with any certainty is that the road to St Petersburg in May will be paved with far sterner challenges than this." let's await Liew's ruminations if Liverpool win tonight.

 

[halfcenturyup]

They weren't last night, someone changed it to the rags, then it was changed back.

Pretty pointless arguing about dynamic webpages.

Also pretty pointless putting down City fans when they see things that maybe aren't there, after the amount of shit thrown at the club over the last decade, and which continues to be thrown btw.

I can understand the "paranoia" and won't begrudge people their agenda view points in the circumstances.

Interesting though that there are more comments on the BBC page DD posted about the single article on the City match, than the two about the United match. Maybe the worm is turning (even if a lot are negative, clicks are money).

 

[KS55]

The ignorance towards us by the media in this country is one of resentment and fear. The resentment comes from the entitlement of the media in creating an order of success worthy teams during the first twenty years of the Premier League era.

The fear has arisen from a definite decline in some of those 'chosen' teams along with the emergence and later sustained success of one of those 'chosen' teams main rivals.

As long as there is the obvious, continued ignorance and misinformation spouted about us, I really believe we will continue to dominate as it will not only serve to motivate Pep and the players it will also maintain the sub servant attitude & the impotent mindset of the media and our main rivals.

You only ever succumb and languish whilst under the power of ignorance. Leave them to it, they deserve it.

I don't think it motivates the players. They couldn't care a damn about Jamie, Miggy and the rest.

 

[KS55]

Yes I saw that and thought that has to win knobhead of the century for the writer but who is Harry de Cosemo? I tried for an anagram of all the usual suspects without success.

A cherry moose?

 

[NorthamptonBlue]

Jonathan Liew's report in the Grundiad is that paper's usual attempt to show that City are well on the way to ruining football. Sporting's manager is only wotking to get a move to an "elite club" this summer because his star midfielder will be on the move then and any "smaller" club will be ruined just as City have ruined Benfica's, the stars of which are now playing "for the highest bidder". Actually reminds us of Liverpool's evisceration of Southampton a few years ago but never mind.
For Liew this is City's iron fist which treacherously is wrapped in a velvet glove so that a truly sinister organisation appears as a good football team. But don't get carried away because "curiously, this game told us very little we did not already know about them. This is the gift and the curse of the modern City: often we have no idea how they will fare in adversity because they so rarely encounter it. All we can really say with any certainty is that the road to St Petersburg in May will be paved with far sterner challenges than this." let's await Liew's ruminations if Liverpool win tonight.

I nearly choked on my cornflakes when I read it:

Just ask Ederson, Bernardo Silva, Rúben Dias or João Cancelo: all once teenage products of the Benfica talent factory, now turning out for the highest bidder.

 

[Seedy Ron]

I don't think it motivates the players. They couldn't care a damn about Jamie, Miggy and the rest.

I feel it motivates Pep as he has to answer their inane, loaded questions about fuck all. Pep knows what a bunch of slapped arse, history clinging, job stealing fuckwits they all are.

Pep then motivates the team.