Media Thread - 2021/22

[Marvin]

No mention of sportswashing of England this weekend? Is that just an Arab and Russian thing then?

There is an ethical dimension to Liverpool v Manchester city and that's not to let racists in the media win. The media supports players taking the knee in one breath, and then in the next they claim that Arab capital is inherently dirty because it's country's of domicile are not liberal democracies. Why are they not liberal democracies, or are they too stupid to answer that? Is it simply a coincidence that a whole region / continent is run by evil despots?

 

[Sky Blue]

Jesus, that's a week after Paul Jinnings at The Sun, who was 50.

Paul Jiggins.

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

Yeah, but no mention that their history-breaking crowd of 21k was 10k adrift of the first derby at The Etihad when CW thumped one in.

That's not important obviously.
Do you know why this particular match was played at the Swamp. With free admission and school kids being bussed in it seems they might have have played a more interesting team than Everton for such a historical occasion.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

Uefa proposes new spending rules to replace Financial Fair Play

Proposed new spending rules to replace Uefa's current Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations would limit club spending on wages, transfers and agents' fees to 70% of their revenue from 2025.

www.bbc.co.uk

it never fucking end. That weasel Simon Stone manages to shoe horn “artificial and state funding and Manchester City” funny the **** spends so much time brown nosing at Old Trafford you would think he knows all about the state funded Saudi Telecom deal that’s been worth hundreds of millions over the past dozen years. Twat.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

Uefa proposes new spending rules to replace Financial Fair Play

Proposed new spending rules to replace Uefa's current Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations would limit club spending on wages, transfers and agents' fees to 70% of their revenue from 2025.

www.bbc.co.uk

it never fucking end. That weasel Simon Stone manages to shoe horn “artificial and state funding and Manchester City” funny the **** spends so much time brown nosing at Old Trafford you would think he knows all about the state funded Saudi Telecom deal that’s been worth hundreds of millions over the past dozen years. Twat.

Big nosed twat, him not you.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

No mention of sportswashing of England this weekend? Is that just an Arab and Russian thing then?

There is an ethical dimension to Liverpool v Manchester city and that's not to let racists in the media win. The media supports players taking the knee in one breath, and then in the next they claim that Arab capital is inherently dirty because it's country's of domicile are not liberal democracies. Why are they not liberal democracies, or are they too stupid to answer that? Is it simply a coincidence that a whole region / continent is run by evil despots?

The hypocrisy is planned and part of an agenda. The west decided Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya to name but a few, needed a Western style democracy, which they knew would be completely unworkable.
cue, mayhem, humanitarian disasters and a steep rise in terrorism.
all this ethical shit is just that, it doesn’t stand up to even a veneer of scrutiny. This is about Manchester City stopping the American Vulture Capitalists making bigger sums. Newcastle may turn out the same. They can’t come out and say that of course.

 

[Marvin]

The hypocrisy is planned and part of an agenda. The west decided Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya to name but a few, needed a Western style democracy, which they knew would be completely unworkable.
cue, mayhem, humanitarian disasters and a steep rise in terrorism.
all this ethical shit is just that, it doesn’t stand up to even a veneer of scrutiny. This is about Manchester City stopping the American Vulture Capitalists making bigger sums. Newcastle may turn out the same. They can’t come out and say that of course.

I don't think the journalists involved are being manipulated by American owners. City also have Silverlake onboard. I think these journalists know that the Arab regimes are unpopular in the West and they use that to push a narrative that sells well into Liverpool and Man Utd fans. But it exploits racism and ignores the geopolitical relationship between the West and the Arab world. "We need to control and shape these ex-colonies because they are not capable or willing to organise themselves and if they don't reform we'll simply sanction them or kick them out."

 

[KS55]

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tbh I don't know of any registered legitimate business in any other market place, where investment and success is seen as a negative.

The current fashion is to pick out stuff that is not to your liking and castigate it for being immoral in some way.
Thus City, but others too get criticised in a ludicrous way.
The oil companies produce a vital product, but, oh, they are the big bad wolf. Supermarkets have ruined the high street, apparently. Amazon have killed off bookshops (who charge twice as much). Computers (supporting automation) have taken away people's jobs. NO they haven't. I expect busses got it in the neck for displacing horse drawn trams. The more journos are after clicks, the worse it will become.

 

[KS55]

He was a very good researcher it has to be said, they certainly did not like Rabin at all lol

They put it about that Rabin is a paid shill, in cahoots with City. This makes no sense at all. City are non-litigious and just let the crap roll off their back. Why would they then pay someone like Rabin to point out the flaws in what they write? The journos just accuse him to excuse their own lies and justify the idea that City fans have been weaponised against the press.

 

[KS55]

Are they now suggesting Sheikh Mansour is driven by profit? I thought it was sportswashing.

The good Sheik is even now writing his memoir: "Sportswashing for Profit, how a humble sheik disrupted English football."