Media Thread - 2021/22

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daflanger said:
True but they don't have the caliber of players that we have. I am referring to the fact that if some of our players were in other teams like Liverpool, Chelsea or Man United they will get so much more hype and praise than they ever will at City!

One big example is David Silva! He has to be one of the best players in the world of his time! Aguero same! Kompany same! But because they played for City they never get the recognition they deserve.

Bring Salah to City and then no one will talk about him anyone cause he has become a City player!

This deep denial that many live in about the rise of City is annoying the old guard and its becoming repetitive! City is here to win and here to stay! They have to live with it now
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All of that is absolutely true. But tbh it's been like that for years now.

I know an Everton fan he told me years ago, City could win the title for the next ten years and Liverpool would still get the headlines. That is certainly turned out to be true.

But tbh I like it like that, look at utd now, they get the media bias, the excitement over signing Ronaldo or the superlatives for rashford. But it's not helping them, in fact it's forcing their owners to listen /concentrate on the politics rather than the team and club. They make Hollywood signings to keep the media and fans off their back. I never want that for city, I quite like where we are. I like our owners to actually concentrate on running a business.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Great post. It is the double standards which annoy me the most.

www.bbc.co.uk

Afghanistan: US admits Kabul drone strike killed civilians

An inquiry finds the strike, days before the US pullout, killed 10 members of a family - not militants.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

This recent massacre of civilians by the US didn't get a lot of coverage in this country. It didn't suit the hero narrative. Imagine if this had been carried out by the Saudis.
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Bang on the money. Locally they knew the US had messed up straight away so I assume the US did pretty soon after, yet it took a long while for them to admit it.

Mind you, it wasnt the US trying to stop the Magpie deal, just some of its citizens
 
Ric said:
Nice little dig at the likes of Delaney, Glendenning etc in the FT today:
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It must be hilarious for them, regularly reporting on investments from the middle-east in British businesses and multinationals, government deals and trade agreements and only ever see a spark of outrage when a football club is bought for a piddling amount of money.

I also suspect it's a bit like a grown up overhearing a discussion by 10 year olds.
 
RACHACE said:
Pep sees this and it contributed to his comments regarding fans turning up to watch the team against Southampton.

I think the lack of recognition in the media really irritates him. It's probably a big factor in the overall happiness for some players. Had one of the media darlings done what we've done since Pep came in there'd be non stop praise and recognition for the players.

I think it boils Pep's piss.
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Though it is very annoying I really believe it works in our favour. Whilst the usual teams are fawned over for the slightest little thing our players and manager are largely ignored for much greater achievements. I believe the way we and they are treated by the media gives our players and manager the motivation needed to stick it down their throats. Bernado was given dog's abuse by the dippers and the media over the Mendy incident and his coffee break during their 'Guard of Honour' and now he plays against them like a man possessed. The same applies to Guardiola who is as passionate and as motivated as he ever was and I'm not sure he would still be if the media had treated him like they did the pisscan during his time with us. He can see through their bullshit and it is clear he f*cking hates them with a passion during some press conferences.

Ultimately it creates a false optimism and an even greater pressure on those fawned over teams at the vital points and also at the business end of the season. While they are bigged up we can just quietly get on with things with a steely determination rather than a sycophantic pressure.

But that said, the way our clean sweep of domestic trophies and the 17 game winning run which overtook and then won the title over the dippers was reported and now remembered (ignored) is an absolute travesty of inherent bias.

Still, I'd never want us to get the plastic praise they get in a million years.
 
BlueBas said:
Be interesting to see these so called sports journalists in hospitality in St James Park. If they write the same cr@p about Newcastle's owners as they do about ours, we know how much the Crown Prince appreciates criticism from Journalists!
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"especially for smaller clubs like Newcastle"

I'm sure the Geordies will love that!
 
City score a great goal its always " wonderful goal by City " but, "looked a tad offside", "took a deflection", "looked like a foul on the lead up", "poor goalkeeping", "poor defending", " this is what you'd expect when you spend £100 million".
 
hammocity said:
Britain acquired its wealth from invading countries and making them part of the Commonwealth, they didn’t do it for philanthropic purposes did they? Also, the much revered Royal Family have a lineage steeped in murder, executions and torture not to mention financial embezzlement of the highest order.

Do we have a right to take the moral high ground? Sometimes, definitely yes but hypocritical standpoints don’t always get the scrutiny they deserve especially if it suits the media agenda.
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Britain acquired SOME of its wealth from invading countries, far, far from all of it.
 
Literally every single thing you mentioned has had ample praise afterwards. Bluemoon isn't happy unless every single media piece is gushing about city through the bluest of blue tinted specs whilst shitting on every other team simultaneously.

And even if they hadn't been talked about at all, who cares? Why the desperation for praise from no mark journalists and pundits who we all regularly slag off and say know very little and whose opinions are worthless anyway?
 
hammocity said:
Britain acquired its wealth from invading countries and making them part of the Commonwealth, they didn’t do it for philanthropic purposes did they? Also, the much revered Royal Family have a lineage steeped in murder, executions and torture not to mention financial embezzlement of the highest order.

Do we have a right to take the moral high ground? Sometimes, definitely yes but hypocritical standpoints don’t always get the scrutiny they deserve especially if it suits the media agenda.
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and recent shennanigans with under age girls.....?
 
The whole football world is desperate to see a last-day title win in front of thousands of smiling faces at St James Park
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Marvin said:
I have heard this stance quite a lot in the media. Of course you can not argue with it. Chinese, Russian, and Middle-eastern sovereign funds are hugely invested in Western infrastructure.

It annoys me greatly that the Britain, the capital of the commonwealth and ancient empire is regarded as clean and Johnny Foreigner as dirty. This is racism. Was North Sea oil somehow cleaner than Arab oil. Yes the middle-east is run by autocratic authoritarian rulers and the UK is a parliamentary democracy but this is all a legacy of Empire.

I accept that the UAE is a conservative autocratic state but the UK is not clean either. The British Army and RAF have long marched and flown over the Arab world and we are to be mortally offended if a football club falls into Arab hands? This is absurd! Your moralism has no basis. This is because we have human rights groups whose focus is on the third world when they should be pointing the finger at Washington, London, Moscow and Beijing. Geopolitical power does not lie in Abu Dhabi now does it.

Another point is that somehow over the last 12 months it has become common practise in the British media to claim that MCFC are owned by the UAE state. We are not. We are owned by Sheikh Mansour and sponsored by Etihad. That is not the same thing but they want to create a moral panic with MCFC at its centre because it fits their commercial strategy of selling news to outraged Liverpool and Man Utd supporters
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Excellent post.
 
Spurs quarter 69 said:
What the BBC don't realise is that Rashford can never be universally loved. Playing for United is a double edged sword they are both the most loved and hated football club in the country. While he is a poster boy for all that is good in the home counties and the West country he is an object of hatred and ridicule in Leeds, Liverpool and a good half of his home town and many more places besides . The BBC should choose a less decisive figure as their poster boy an athlete or swimmer perhaps.
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He is now a benchwarmer, and will be increasingly a non football entity, so he may get a little more love
 
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