Media Thread - 2021/22

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BobbyBoy said:
The point is sport washing works. Putin and Russia have used sport to move their image away from cold blooded Ivan Drago into a welcoming modern state where football fans can drink cans on the street. He has done it brilliantly too, I had Putin down as an absolute psychopath 10 years, somehow my opinion of him had subliminally mellowed over the years to the point that I thought he was just posturing and being strategic right up until the point he went full psycho. This is an opinion that seemed pretty wide spread from the man on the street right the way up to the governments of Europe. I can see why the inclusion of City in the article would piss off many and don't really see the need to include the reference.
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Tbh, once I saw this, my opinion of him has never changed :-
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Maly said:
Not sure what your problem with the article? Its clear as day that there’s a huge link between City being owned by Newton, CMC & Silverlake & Russia Invading Ukraine

How can you not see that? Militant crank ;)
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Amnesty International was among those to introduce the phrase “sportswashing” four years ago. An article on this page in 2018 about Abu Dhabi, Manchester City and the Matthew Hedges affair used the word in inverted commas, and took time to explain where it came from.

In an article about Putin, the wanker still can't help himself but take a pot shot, if this **** still comes to our ground to report he would be told the next time he tries to enter he is banned for life.
 
domalino said:
That’s all todays article is, a public attack of conscience.
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And an admission that the subject and tenor of articles written by Ronay and his ilk will directly correlate to the personal benefits they receive.

At least until such times as the consequences of their (and let's be charitable here) "mistaken beliefs" are laid bare for all to see.

And what better way to dilute a mea culpa than by throwing in a tactical diversion. "Right, enough of my craven stupidity, look at Manchester City"
 
mrbelfry said:
Not sure what the point of Ronay's article is. He has used a lot of words to say not very much
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I stopped reading as soon as he mentioned us, did he eventually get round to an apology or put a link to his fawning cock slurping piece about Putin?

He managed to mention an article about us from 4 years ago so he must remember the pile of shit he wrote about Putin.

I'm going to guess we have to take the 'wool pulled over the eyes' comment as his weak apology.
 
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Funny, with all his moral highline and flagrant criticism of everyone for allowing Russia to "sportswash", he forgot this arse kissing article he wrote a few years back. One of many too.

www.theguardian.com

Four weeks of endless drama in Russia has re-energised World Cup | Barney Ronay

After a tournament that was gripping from start to finish with thrilling matches, marvellous midfielders, the rebirth of England and VAR controversy, Qatar has a lot to live up to
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
From another gushing BBC article about liverpool.

"Legends Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane plus Diaz lined up against Norwich City last weekend... cult favourite Divock Origi and the versatile Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain... provide further alternative."

Surely the traditional "win quadruple or season is a failure" article is the one they meant to write?
 
nmc said:
There is no point to Ronay…. He’s a sycophantic prick with a very bitter agenda. personally I ignore the utter prick he’s not worthy of my time or attention. The grinning beards comment was vile and offensive and I’ve never read anything by him since.
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He definitely has a gift with language. However, his analytical skills, as with so many of the current sportswriters, are sadly lacking and his judgement is poor. Thus, regrettably, his felicitous ability to turn a pretty phrase is invariably deployed in pursuance of saying absolutely fuck all of any substantive value.
 
blueinsa said:
It will be an onslaught.
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So what?
The shithouse UAE decision deserves criticism. If City gets caught up in the fallout, so be it. It's known as collateral damage.
Football doesn't matter when people are being murdered and driven from their homelands.
 
halfcenturyup said:
I am sure Guardiola can handle a few idiot questions from intellectually-challenged sports journalists with zero experience in geo-politics.
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Organisations that want City to lose football matches should not be able to question our coaching staff especially when it comes to non-footballing matters.

City should hold press conferences but make them open to all. That way you'd instantly bypass them.
 
blueinsa said:
It will be an onslaught.
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Well hopefully after one question Pep bats it aside with

'Why are you asking me about the UAE, we are not owned by the UAE and as such I know nothing about their ideas on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.'

Even better if Sheikh Mansour has said he can say he is against the war personally but that would be unlikely tbh
 
Marvin said:
Organisations that want City to lose football matches should not be able to question our coaching staff especially when it comes to non-footballing matters.

City should hold press conferences but make them open to all. That way you'd instantly bypass them.
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Ferguson was the master of taking the oxygen out of the room.

Every post-match presser, he would keep us waiting in the press room until the very rules stipulated, knowing we were on deadline and the desks were screaming for the quotes.

He would walk in and start talking, giving a five minute appraisal as he saw it, and all the shitting dogs in the front rows were too intimidated to contradict or interject.

At which point, he would get up from his chair and leave.

If anyone had the temerity to ask him something on the way out, it was usually met with a sarcastic response or put down of said person.

He was the master manipulator, because he would occasionally try to make a joke about somebody and most of these cunts would laugh along, seeking his approval.

Seen nobody better at it.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
He was the master manipulator, because he would occasionally try to make a joke about somebody and most of these cunts would laugh along, seeking his approval.

Seen nobody better at it.
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Not in my lifetime and noisy neighbours put downs aside, of course, lol

I would so much have loved to have been a fly on the wall when he was told about the Tevez 'welcome to Manchester' poster and in the dressing room when we 93:20'd them, his face on the pitch as he waved his players off, still gives me a 'massive' grin every fucking time I see it.
 
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