Media Thread - 2021/22

[cheekybids]

Transcript of a zoom call so that excuse doesn’t really wash. He literally said them words.
I know he is trying to protect his new livelihood but when it comes to that horrible old piss his pants in a layby, groped a woman in South Africa, let his son boot his daugher in law up the drivebastard and the odd lot in general, Micah displays some disturbingly servile tendencies.
Call it Stockholm Syndrome, call it Uncle Tommery or just call it bare financial nous, but Micah is far too suggestible.
Hence he let Carragher slag City fans off on US TV without a word but plenty of trademark chuckles.
Nedum would call the cunts out but he’d be smart about it

maybe I gave him to much credit, I can’t believe he didn’t think they were arrogant twats.

 

[willipp]

Seems the media have gone full on wank fest over liverpool. Almost like they weren't totally outplayed and made to look incredibly ordinary by City only 2 weeks ago.

 

[Gundog’s Gundog]

Big up the Daily Mail

Great hatchet job from Samuel on the PL cartel and a nice attack on Neville and the rags.

Then a full page article on Nedum and his role at CITC

 

[The perfect fumble]

Victims v Thieves

Versus...

 

[eastmanc]

Seems the media have gone full on wank fest over liverpool. Almost like they weren't totally outplayed and made to look incredibly ordinary by City only 2 weeks ago.

Couldn’t agree more. BT and Talkshite asking who will beat this Liverpool side, did they not see the game two weeks ago? Played off the park and given a lesson at times. Talk about darlings of the press. Pathetic.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Couldn’t agree more. BT and Talkshite asking who will beat this Liverpool side, did they not see the game two weeks ago? Played off the park and given a lesson at times. Talk about darlings of the press. Pathetic.

they're not wrong 2bf, nobody's going to be allowed to beat them.

 

[Gundog’s Gundog]

Seems the media have gone full on wank fest over liverpool. Almost like they weren't totally outplayed and made to look incredibly ordinary by City only 2 weeks ago.

Or were lucky to get a draw against 10 man Chelsea. Or went life and death with little Brentford. Plus they’re conceding goals left right and centre.

One man team. Purple patches don’t last all season even from players as talented as Salah.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Gets up off the floor....fuck me a proper response from the Beeb.

The BBC will also have to go back and delete some of Dan Roan's and Simon Stone's tweets and articles then. They still have a false story on their website previewing the Footyleaks trial of Rui Pinto (which they have not bothered covering since) which used the phrase: "The data showed how wealthy Gulf Arab individuals and organisations now exert strong influence over some top European clubs...."

The article in September 2020 mentioned City prominently high up but the court documents show that none of the 90 charges against Pinto reference Manchester City.

In fact the Footyleaks case has no reference at all to so-called "Gulf Arabs" and even if it did what relevance would any person's ethnicity have. The reference to Arabs appears to be a fabrication.

I made a formal complaint to the BBC 12 months ago following their complaints process and also contacted Tim Davie the new BBC Director General(who has pledged to clean up bias). They did not respond (Davie did acknowledge my email) and it was later escalated to Ofcom who passed it back to the BBC for a response. And they have still not responded (apparently because their complaints team has been overwhelmed during Covid).

The story is still on their website today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54016147

Meanwhile the trial of Pinto has been ignored by the UK media, presumably because there have been no negative references to Manchester City or Arabs!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I don't actually think it's a great argument. There is a clear difference between an individual owning a club and a state. Whether you think that matters or not, it's a difference that exists. An American billionaire cannot be held responsible for the actions of their president or government, MBS is responsible. Trump owning Liverpool during his presidency would be comparable.

But if you take that view to its logical conclusion then we should look at all owners' actions, whether related to the clubs they own, other businesses they run or their private lives.

If JD Sports mistreated, bullied or harrassed its employees while John Wardle was chairman of both them and us, does that reflect on his chairmanship of City? FSG cheated in MLB, does that make them unfit owners of Liverpool (even leaving aside the illegal accessing of our data?). If an American owner was an unequivocal supporter of the war in Iraq, and the huge number of deaths arising from that, should that disqualify them?

 

[jrb]

As you can imagine the Daily United(and the other tabloids) are awash with articles about the Dublin Derby this weekend.

Further down the Daily United main football page there's this article.



Thankfully, City haven't got any influential players, so I didn't read the article. Not that I would have read it anyway.