Media Thread - 2021/22

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gordondaviesmoustache said:
This bit:

Has to be about the most dishonest, specious load of bollocks I can remember reading in quite while. Our player retention is second to none.
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Ken Early needs to find a time portal and return to the 70s/80s where the game was played at 100 miles an hour and possession was only retained for three seconds by keepers who then hoofed the ball upfield as far as possible.

Forget his bitter cheap jibes the only fact proven in his piece is that he has failed to come to terms with the modern game. It may be dull playing out and keeping the ball but it’s the way of things now till the game evolves again.

He’s another imbecile whose coping mechanism against our brilliance is cheap shots and clickbait points. As a journalist he should be ashamed of his bottom dwelling bias. Bet he’s a red.
 
Heath Park said:
Garth Crook's team of the week.
Comment in Chelsea game just before we scored:

"At this point in the match there was precious little difference between the teams and for my money a draw would have been a very fair result"

Really???
Chelsea had one shot on target the whole game!!

Also how does the Aston Villa player, Jacob Ramsey not get in his team but Coutinho, who was only on for 22 mins, gets in the team. Crazy stuff.
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It’s the same way in which Arsenal battered us with 29% possession and less shots on goal/target the week before.

They literally make the shit up to suit.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
How long will it take the morons in the media to understand that most of our players can play in multiple positions and that is the secret of our success. We have a very small but versatile squad. We don't even have a striker.
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They only bother about that part when we fail to score on the very odd occasion and then it becomes a super relevant topic for everybody in planet media.
 
BeerIsTheBest said:
Ken Early needs to find a time portal and return to the 70s/80s where the game was played at 100 miles an hour and possession was only retained for three seconds by keepers who then hoofed the ball upfield as far as possible.

Forget his bitter cheap jibes the only fact proven in his piece is that he has failed to come to terms with the modern game. It may be dull playing out and keeping the ball but it’s the way of things now till the game evolves again.

He’s another imbecile whose coping mechanism against our brilliance is cheap shots and clickbait points. As a journalist he should be ashamed of his bottom dwelling bias. Bet he’s a red.
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He's the sort of **** that would have moaned about the football played by the Brazilian and Dutch national teams in the 70s. Zero appreciation of football as an art-form.
 
Talulah said:
Not 100% sure, no. It's just an impression I got from his numerous writings.

Like in his latest article "How Man City changed the way you win the league" where he comes out with "Liverpool’s dominance was in such a different football world in terms of finances that it almost has no relevance." while still having a slight dig at Utd.

I might be wrong.
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Hi, looked it up after I posted and it was an anthology called "Deepest Red" which is described as "a unique collection of writing about the myth, madness and glory of Manchester United". I haven't bought it to see what he wrote though.
 
Newman Noggs said:
He's the sort of **** that would have moaned about the football played by the Brazilian and Dutch national teams in the 70s. Zero appreciation of football as an art-form.
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WC Final 1970. Jair lashed in a great goal after a passing movement in which almost every member of the team played a part. It started in the left back position, iirc, and was finished by the right winger. Proper football.
EDIT. Just looked it up. Carlos Alberto was the scorer. Jair did score a great goal too!
 
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Claytop said:
'This clinical chloroforming of Chelsea . . . felt better? . . . than the deliciously unjust 2-1 victory at Arsenal, with the 93rd-minute winner by Rodri? Most'

God they're hurting, I hope we go on to win it by 20.
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What a ridiculous piece that is, shocking journalism, very salty suggesting watching the Rags is better than our games, pathetic.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
Funny how yooman rights only comes into it when we’re talking about brown people.

Imagine if the USA happened to be in the Middle East with their record of institutional racism, police brutality, state corruption, conservative religious fanaticism, national obsession with weapons, a recent president who tried to incite a coup after he was voted out, a history of intelligence services dark ops kidnap and torture on foreign soil, etc etc

Would American owners been tarred with the same brush? Probably.

The “oil money” “gulf state” tropes are lazy racist slurs and they need calling out as such.
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Strangely, the BBC mods removed an almost identical comment I made on one of their football articles about City a while back. Yet none of the poorly spelled City bingo from the uneducated and unwashed sheep were removed. Not like the BBC to be racist and have an agenda is it. Oh.
 
KS55 said:
WC Final 1970. Jair lashed in a great goal after a passing movement in which almost every member of the team played a part. It started in the left back position, iirc, and was finished by the right winger. Proper football.
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Best team I’ve ever seen, brilliant. My mum bought me a Brazil kit for Christmas in 1970, it was the envy of the school, I also had a pair of Alan Ball white boots, I looked the Ducks nuts.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
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Has to be about the most dishonest, specious load of bollocks I can remember reading in quite while. Our player retention is second to none.
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Just a piss poor attempt by a nobody to try & undermine our recruitment and a desperate one at that, maybe the pictures of Haaland watching the game have got him rattled, it certainly has Madrid, who’ve thrown out a €300M package to the press
 
Newman Noggs said:
He's the sort of **** that would have moaned about the football played by the Brazilian and Dutch national teams in the 70s. Zero appreciation of football as an art-form.
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Took years for English football to recover after Graham Taylor got appointed to the national job - a manager who based his whole philosophy around long balls planted deep into the opposition half. This journalist prefers Taylor's approach. Dinosaur.
 
Rochdale Blue said:
www.irishtimes.com

Ken Early: Manchester City’s dominance a reminder the rich always get their way

Money wins titles, but Guardiola’s style lacks excitement that club’s fans – and players – seek
www.irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com

Seems our win over Chelsea didn't please everyone.
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An unbelievably bitter article from someone who seems to have personal issues. He describes United as more watchable than City in recent years. That is an absurd comment. Not even the most bitter of bitter United fans would agree with that view.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
I read that article and agree with you. 2/3rds of it was incredibly positive and thoughtful. 1/3 was hateful and the worst type of City bingo. I do wish the club would do more to build relationships with these journalists and try and eliminate the stuff that is just factually wrong. Unlimited riches, owned by a country etc etc.
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It’s the “shit sandwich” school of social interaction. Usually a cynical and long discredited management tool but it’s increasingly used in the media. Especially where City are concerned
Give someone some criticism/negative feedback, ie the message you really want to get across (the shit) - but top and tail it with some praise to soften the blow (the sandwich bread)
So we now get the same old articles from the WhatsApp wankers, all following that format:

“City are a brilliant team (BREAD)
“Its only because they are a bunch of boring, state owned, human rights abusing, sportwashing FFP cheats with unlimited money and a 75 man squad of experienced world class internationals so nobody can compete, they are ruining football and something must be done to stop them (SHIT)
“But City are a brilliant team” (BREAD)

So transparent and intellectually dishonest it’s laughable. They think nobody can see what they are doing

 
There seems to be a few new names (to me) who've crawled out of the woodwork in the last week or so. They all have 'Ireland', 'LFC' or both in their bios and all are spouting the same go to line about us being boring, too dominant and generally bad for the league. I'm sure it's a complete coincidence unless the WhatsApp group have gone on a recruitment drive!
 
Reading the Ken Early tripe about Saturday's match, found this paragraph amusing. Considering how the game in question that he's reporting on was actually settled.

The gap grows every time a crowd screams “SHOOT” when a player gets the ball in space within 30 yards of goal. Players today are told to avoid shooting from distance by coaches who have studied the stats and know precisely how low the chances of scoring from out there really are. Teams now aim to work the ball into a better position before pulling the trigger. The result is that the long-range screamer – arguably the most thrilling sight in football – is being optimised out of the game. Football evolves, while the fans pine for what’s been lost.
 
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