Media Thread - 2021/22

[Blue Mist]

Ladyman still banging on about Yaya and Pep, whilst….

That's just bizarre. Was he told to do a City article so rather than do a City for the Treble piece, decided to rehash a 5 year old non story ?

 

[waspish]

Barry 'Dick Pic' Glendenning in the Guardian this morning:
"Newcastle had joined Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain in becoming a state-owned club bought for image-laundering purposes..."

If we aren't taking action over our owner being effectively labelled a criminal in a national newspaper, then when will we?

Say we sue take it to the courts with our owner a member of the royal family in AD they can in effect argue that we are and why city won’t take that risk to sue anyone!

In my opinion and why the media keep saying it is they want us to sue them!

 

[Groke]

Barry 'Dick Pic' Glendenning in the Guardian this morning:
"Newcastle had joined Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain in becoming a state-owned club bought for image-laundering purposes..."

If we aren't taking action over our owner being effectively labelled a criminal in a national newspaper, then when will we?

funny how they (well one of the bitter cunts, then they all followed like lemmings) only dreamt up this angle about 5 years after the event, and how it doesn't apply to any other sport, or any other areas of life.

 

[Maly]

Say we sue take it to the courts with our owner a member of the royal family in AD they can in effect argue that we are and why city won’t take that risk to sue anyone!

In my opinion and why the media keep saying it is they want us to sue them!

Argue that we are what?

 

[BlueMoonday]

Barry Glendenning called Newcastle fans "useful idiots".

He also compared football journalists in Qatar with war correspondents in Ukraine.

Glendenning is a deluded tramp, no doubt his alcohol consumption fuels these ridiculous statements. I bet his trousers are soaked in piss the smelly bast*rd.

 

[waspish]

Argue that we are what?

Are by our owner part of the royal family that indirectly we are state owned and with the negativity we have had over the last ten years the narrative plus when people are football fans there moral compass goes out the door.

 

[petrusha]

I don’t believe the likes of the UAE are viewed as a rogue state in actual geopolitics. Maybe in the eyes of football journalists masking as geopolitical experts, not sure that counts for much though.

The concept of a 'rogue state' was first referred to by the American government in the George W. Bush era to denote aggressive states that threaten either the USA itself or its allies and, in doing so, have no respect for the norms of international law*. Ever since, the State Department has maintained a list of rogue states and there are currently four: Sudan, Syria, Iran and North Korea. Current ervents may see a further addition, but they haven't done it yet.

People citing the current war in Yemen, in which the UAE is part of a Saudi-led coalition fighting an insurgency, rather miss the point. The Houthi rebels are backed by two copuntries named by the US as rogue states (Iran and Syria), and the coalition involving the UAE has the backing of the US and the UK. And while the UAE certainly isn't an unimpeachable bastion of human rights, it's grossly mendacious to suggest that they're anywhere near the dismal performance in this area of Sudan, Syria, Iran and North Korea.

Conclusion - Anyone suggesting that the UAE is a rogue state is a fucking moron, probably in the clinical sense.

* - I know there are arguments that the West, and especially America, is often hypocritical in terms of being prepared to bend international law themselves while lambasting others for doing so. Can we not derail this thread with a discussion of that, please? There's plenty of scope for that in the Politics sub-forum.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The concept of a 'rogue state' was first referred to by the American government in the George W. Bush era to denote aggressive states that threaten either the USA itself or its allies and, in doing so, have no respect for the norms of international law*. Ever since, the State Department has maintained a list of rogue states and there are currently four: Sudan, Syria, Iran and North Korea. Current ervents may see a further addition, but they haven't done it yet.

People citing the current war in Yemen, in which the UAE is part of a Saudi-led coalition fighting an insurgency, rather miss the point. The Houthi rebels are backed by two copuntries named by the US as rogue states (Iran and Syria), and the coalition involving the UAE has the backing of the US and the UK. And while the UAE certainly isn't an unimpeachable bastion of human rights, it's grossly mendacious to suggest that they're anywhere near the dismal performance in this area of Sudan, Syria, Iran and North Korea.

Conclusion - Anyone suggesting that the UAE is a rogue state is a fucking moron, probably in the clinical sense.

* - I know there are arguments that the West, and especially America, is often hypocritical in terms of being prepared to bend international law themselves while lambasting others for doing so. Can we not derail this thread with a discussion of that, please? There's plenty of scope for that in the Politics sub-forum.

Hope you're all well mate.

 

[andyhinch]

The concept of a 'rogue state' was first referred to by the American government in the George W. Bush era to denote aggressive states that threaten either the USA itself or its allies and, in doing so, have no respect for the norms of international law*. Ever since, the State Department has maintained a list of rogue states and there are currently four: Sudan, Syria, Iran and North Korea. Current ervents may see a further addition, but they haven't done it yet.

People citing the current war in Yemen, in which the UAE is part of a Saudi-led coalition fighting an insurgency, rather miss the point. The Houthi rebels are backed by two copuntries named by the US as rogue states (Iran and Syria), and the coalition involving the UAE has the backing of the US and the UK. And while the UAE certainly isn't an unimpeachable bastion of human rights, it's grossly mendacious to suggest that they're anywhere near the dismal performance in this area of Sudan, Syria, Iran and North Korea.

Conclusion - Anyone suggesting that the UAE is a rogue state is a fucking moron, probably in the clinical sense.

* - I know there are arguments that the West, and especially America, is often hypocritical in terms of being prepared to bend international law themselves while lambasting others for doing so. Can we not derail this thread with a discussion of that, please? There's plenty of scope for that in the Politics sub-forum.

Good too see you posting mate, hope things are ok.

 

[petrusha]

Hope you're all well mate.

Good too see you posting mate, hope things are ok.

I've been better, but am more or less OK and safe. Thanks.