Media Thread - 2021/22

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

And the funny thing about Harris's somewhat desperate plea is that I understand at one stage, City considered him a reputable journalist as part of their media strategy and shared quite a lot with him. Yet he turned against us for some unknown reason so was excluded from the 'magic circle' who City felt were sensible and responsible journalists and who they were prepared to trust.

Maybe Harris is being paid well by people/organisations who want to besmirch our club?

 

[Fordyboy46]

You missed out Pep snubs Ya Ya who is now best pal with Klopp!

Just seen it mate, whilst Vicky Kloss just lets it all drift by

 

[M18CTID]

Not a City related tweet but this **** deserves to have his name up in lights at every opportunity.

Just saying………

 

[Rochdale Blue]

And the funny thing about Harris's somewhat desperate plea is that I understand at one stage, City considered him a reputable journalist as part of their media strategy and shared quite a lot with him. Yet he turned against us for some unknown reason so was excluded from the 'magic circle' who City felt were sensible and responsible journalists and who they were prepared to trust.

An ever decreasing magic circle by the looks of it.

 

[jrb]

Yaya is nothing to me. Great player but has no affection for our club. Throughout his stay he’s courted controversy in a negative & selfish way. Shame because his goals were vital & he could have been a real Blue legend. Comes across as a juvenile selfish prick.
Just my opinion of course

That's incorrect.

Call it bad timing by Yaya, a purpose decision, or the Dippers pulling a stunt prior the match?

Liverpool Echo. No link.

(Yaya) He then wrote: “Great to meet coach Klopp and watch the Liverpool squad training! Top manager and what a humble man, really enjoyed my time with you coach Klopp and the lads here today

(Yaya) He said: “Liverpool and [Manchester] City are separated by one point and they are going to fight until the end. I hope City will win it because I am City fan, but it’s so unpredictable and Liverpool are so, so strong.”

For all Yaya’s faults and mishaps, for want of a better word, he played for City, busted a gut for City, scored some amazing goals for City, won trophies for City, was loved and liked by the fans on the terraces a City, and (still) supports City.

The fact that the fans still sing about Yaya and Kolo is testament to his on-going popularity on the terraces.

 

[CC1]

That's incorrect.

Call it bad timing by Yaya, a purpose decision, or the Dippers pulling a stunt prior the match?

Liverpool Echo. No link.

(Yaya) He then wrote: “Great to meet coach Klopp and watch the Liverpool squad training! Top manager and what a humble man, really enjoyed my time with you coach Klopp and the lads here today

(Yaya) He said: “Liverpool and [Manchester] City are separated by one point and they are going to fight until the end. I hope City will win it because I am City fan, but it’s so unpredictable and Liverpool are so, so strong.”

For all Yaya’s faults and mishaps, for want of a better word, he played for City, busted a gut for City, scored some amazing goals for City, won trophies for City, was loved and liked by the fans on the terraces a City, and (still) supports City.

The fact that the fans still sing about Yaya and Kolo is testament to his on-going popularity on the terraces.

I’m not referring to just this latest “out of context” quotes - but to say it’s bad timing is a joke. Biggest match of the season & he snuggles up to the dippers!!! It’s been an issue throughout his stay. He was part of a great team & he gets no gongs for “busting a gut” for us because all our great players do. But negative comments follow him. Aguero; Vinnie; David; Zabba - strangely enough did not seem to attract tgese negative situations & even Joe Hart has nothing but good to say about us. Yaya (or his agent in his day) always has a complaint or a sneaky dig.

 

[old get]

That's incorrect.

Call it bad timing by Yaya, a purpose decision, or the Dippers pulling a stunt prior the match?

Liverpool Echo. No link.

(Yaya) He then wrote: “Great to meet coach Klopp and watch the Liverpool squad training! Top manager and what a humble man, really enjoyed my time with you coach Klopp and the lads here today

(Yaya) He said: “Liverpool and [Manchester] City are separated by one point and they are going to fight until the end. I hope City will win it because I am City fan, but it’s so unpredictable and Liverpool are so, so strong.”

For all Yaya’s faults and mishaps, for want of a better word, he played for City, busted a gut for City, scored some amazing goals for City, won trophies for City, was loved and liked by the fans on the terraces a City, and (still) supports City.

The fact that the fans still sing about Yaya and Kolo is testament to his on-going popularity on the terraces.

I see the Times coverage of the "Yaya the Coach" story is by the less than fragran Alysson Litmanen. Not in the slightest bit skewewd !!

 

[kippaxwarrior]

I see the Times coverage of the "Yaya the Coach" story is by the less than fragran Alysson Litmanen. Not in the slightest bit skewewd !!

That was a genuine WTF moment when she said that on The Sunday Supplement. Even the other journalists at the table looked absolutely bemused

 

[Blue Mist]

That was a genuine WTF moment when she said that on The Sunday Supplement. Even the other journalists at the table looked absolutely bemused

She probably said it because at least now she is remembered. Had she not opened her daft gob or simy said Dalgleish no one would know who she was.

 

[Citizen Green]

And the funny thing about Harris's somewhat desperate plea is that I understand at one stage, City considered him a reputable journalist as part of their media strategy and shared quite a lot with him. Yet he turned against us for some unknown reason so was excluded from the 'magic circle' who City felt were sensible and responsible journalists and who they were prepared to trust.

I find it mad that City ever considered him anything but a very run of the mill, average sports journalist.

Let's take a look @ his last two exclusives in the Daily Mail as an example:

- Another 'smoking gun' hacked email
- A piece built around an opinion poll

The first one around another 'smoking gun' email has already been done to death, namely by Der Speigel. Any credible person with experience on this matter would of told him that an email alone is not enough to lead to any sort of serious sanction being levied. It is what is acted upon, with relevant financial transactions following, proving said email was acted upon that would lead to such. The fact he chose to go with the angle he did shows he is more interested in sensationalist headlines, that generate clicks from legions of United & Liverpool fans.

The second one, in a similar vain to the above, was a piece written on the back of a survey that was quite clearly tainted with confirmation bias. Anyone who took the time to look at it could see what his final piece would look like, this is far from good journalism. In what world Twitter would ever constitute a good platform for information gathering on a subject like football club ownership, I don't know, but alas, he claims the key issue for fans on his survey is the appliance of FFP. He then negates to mention that Leicester City were charged by the EFL for failing it before promotion to the PL, Wolves are currently in a 2 year settlement with UEFA for failing it & Liverpool also failed it before qualifying for European competition again. In another angle he claims City's to be the most damaging ownership model in the eyes of other fans, but yet the 5th most admired? He then claims a City fan said a detractor of Sheikh Mansour's ownership was that we had 'cheated' which is quite clearly nonsense.

Some other side notes I've observed from him include, his view that City not appealing the CAS fine is evidence of their guilt. When pointed out to him this was for none cooperation with UEFA's investigation, rather than the charges themselves, he dismisses it. His referring to City fans who do not share his view that City have cheated FFP in derogatory terms, his breakdown of City relying on £1.7b of UAE sponsorship money over the last 10 years, dismissed by our own audited accounts. I could go on.

Carl Bernstein he is not.