Media Thread - 2021/22

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laserblue said:
Spot on. I'd bet a pound to a pinch of shit that most of these bitter hacks had never heard of the likes of Ederson, Zinchenko, Rodri, Fernandinho, Jesus, Dias, and Laporte or the recently departed Torres before City signed them. KDB was widely regarded as a Chelsea flop who wouldn't succeed at City. Some of them said they'd never heard of Yaya and Silva when City signed them either.
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Or.... Ollie Holt, "Aguero will be the highest-profile signing of summer so far if it happens. Still think Charlie Adam to Liverpool could be best though."
Oh dear :)
 
Just for reference.

We asked 20 BBC TV and radio pundits to pick their top four, with explanations for their selections.

Predictor1st2nd3rd4th
Alan ShearerChelseaMan CityMan UtdLiverpool
Fara WilliamsChelseaMan CityMan UtdLiverpool
Sue SmithChelseaMan CityMan UtdLiverpool
Chris SuttonChelseaMan CityLiverpoolMan Utd
Rachel Brown-FinnisChelseaMan CityLiverpoolMan Utd
Matthew UpsonChelseaMan CityLiverpoolMan Utd
Rob GreenChelseaLiverpoolMan CityMan Utd
Martin KeownMan CityChelseaLiverpoolMan Utd
Micah RichardsMan CityChelseaLiverpoolMan Utd
Stephen WarnockMan CityChelseaLiverpoolMan Utd
Danny MurphyMan CityLiverpoolChelseaMan Utd
Mark LawrensonMan CityLiverpoolChelseaMan Utd
Ashley WilliamsMan CityChelseaMan UtdLiverpool
Clinton MorrisonMan CityChelseaMan UtdLiverpool
Michael BrownMan CityChelseaMan UtdLiverpool
Pat NevinMan CityChelseaMan UtdLiverpool
Leon OsmanMan CityChelseaMan UtdLiverpool
Nedum OnuohaMan CityMan UtdLiverpoolChelsea
Lindsay JohnsonMan CityMan UtdChelseaLiverpool
Jermaine BeckfordMan CityChelseaMan UtdLeicester
 
Beswick Prize Band said:
I don't think the majority of Blues go along with this "the league is done and dusted" routine the media are peddling.Whilst it's a great position to be in , and the the football we play is usually a thing of beauty ,not many of us will be celebrating until it's a mathematical certainty, as with Peps mindset. I think many are setting us in the desperate hope of a fall,or even a " slippy" moment.
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They have history with this shit. Peddling the quadruple constantly so that if we didn't win everything last year it was a seen as a failure.

We know who we are, and that's why none of us are thinking this is over yet. However, the other lot's fans are and it shows what fucking mard arses they truly are.
 
One thing for sure, if we were 10 points behind the Dippers/Chelsea and we still had to play them, there would be no talk of the title being over from Pep or anyone at City. Over the last 10 years we've seen big points leads overturned in the last half of the season. It's all about a strong mentality to keep fighting and not looking for excuses when points are dropped.
 
jrb said:
Where has Fabregas been hiding for x amount of years?

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Had to laugh at that. Fabregas is moaning about a penalty when the headline says Xhaka "clumsily brought down Bernardo Silva", which is a penalty in anyone's world.

That's therefore a statement from Fabregas that Comical Ali would have thought better of.
 
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Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
I wonder why they never focus on the question "Why are CFC, Dippers and the Arse ten points plus behind. Why not put a searchlight on the footballing deficiencies in those teams who can't keep up. Much easier and a measure of innate laziness to go for the team who's leading by a margin. Doesn't surprise me that it was never a problem in other seasons when it was another team which raced ahead. Then it was a case of Team X being better than the rest of the pack.
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What's annoyed me about the media whingeing about the penalty incidents is the lack of understanding of how VAR is supposed to work. It's supposed to draw the referee's attention to a "clear and obvious error".

For the Ederson/Odergaard incident, the replays were very inconclusive and therefore it wasn't a "clear and obvious error". Had Attwell given it as a penalty, it most likely wouldn't have been overturned, as (again) it wasn't a "clear and obvious error". None of the twats appear to understand this, making them either totally thick or totally biased. It wasn't Attwell's choice to go to the screen or not, it was Moss who made that decision.

Bernardo, on the other hand, was clearly caught by Xhaka. In the ground, we all saw that and were astounded it hadn't been given. I didn't see the shirt pull at all but that was completely irrelevant. What is relevant was that Bernie was tripped and the ref missed that, which was a "clear and obvious error".
 
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Bozzie said:
Primarily I'd guess because they don't like the answer and they know the fans of the other clubs won't like being told either. This isn't a one season phenomenon, it hasn't happened just since Pep arrived, it isn't even a five year phenomenon. It's been in operation since the day the Sheik took over. It's happened and been managed with military precision by executives with outstanding business acumen all based on recruiting the best people, giving them the best environment in which to operate and then allowing them to do their job. This has been happening under the noses of Ed Woodward, Henry, Levy, Kronke, Laurence and every other CEO and, rather than step up and improve their own clubs from the inside, they've sought to derail City from the outside. Sheik Mansour is happy to invest billions, confident that his investment will make billions (which it has). The likes of FSG, Kronke and the Glazers still want 'the billions', they just want them without the investment or the hard work that goes with it.
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Although the match day thread frequently suggests we are run by a load of muppets who employed a clueless manager to mange really shit players!!
 
Already posted I think but the arsenal fan on 606 last night claiming bernardo’s wasn’t a foul and he was the equivalent of a drug cheat did make me chuckle last night
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
What's annoyed me about the media whingeing about the penalty incidents is the lack of understanding of how VAR is supposed to work. It's supposed to draw the referee's attention to a "clear and obvious error".

For the Ederson/Odergaard incident, the replays were very inconclusive and therefore it wasn't a "clear and obvious error". Had Attwell given it as a penalty, it most likely wouldn't have been overturned, as (again) it wasn't a "clear and obvious error". None of the twats appear to understand this, making them either totally thick or totally biased.

Bernardo, on the other hand, was clearly caught by Xhaka. In the ground, we all saw that and were astounded it hadn't been given. I didn't see the shirt pull at all but that was completely irrelevant. What is relevant was that Bernie was tripped and the ref missed that, which was a "clear and obvious error".
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I think they did understand that on MOTD. But most pundits dont. The clear and obvious error wording is the VAR get out of jail card which is often used to defend poor Ref decisions, in this case however it was used entirely correctly.
 
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