Media Thread - 2021/22

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BringBackSwales said:
Sky sports pre ad break just now “So Manchester City are flying right now, just how do we stop them?”. For those who say there is no agenda please tell me which other teams they refer to this way? The last team hated as much by the media was the defence team at the Nuremberg trials. The presenter has managed to introduce a goal against us, unhappy players in the squad, £100m man on the bench (he’s fucking injured you daft cunts). Edit and now she’s introduced the Pep hasn’t won the CL line, fucking Sly are a disgrace
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Didn’t pep say the other day that the harmony in the squad was the best since he’s been here?
 
Citizen Green said:
I know we say it a lot in gest about people being obsessed with us but I genuinely believe that Nick Harris has a pathological hatred of City, our fans and a very unhealthy obsession about the Club, his behaviour is outright weird. He's delved into open football tribalism now: City fans being weaponised bots, any achievement from the club under Mansour is artificial, dull & requires an asterisk etc etc. He's literally a bot who gains his sense of journalistic worth from Liverpool & United fans lapping him up on Twitter, it's all quite sad really.

His essential MO is that any sponsorship we have from Abu Dhabi must be a front for disguised owner investment & therefore we would be a massive loss making organisation without them, essentially any UAE sponsor = not legitimate. Mental. Here's an articulate breakdown of anyone who buys this nonsense:

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Some good replies in there from Blues. The GIF though, take a bow Mr Hartley.
 
Got to say my sides are killing me with laughter after reading the latest football news in the mirror. The author Tom Victor( never heard of him) is apparently saying that Pogba is open to switching to City. And he’s saying it’s akin to when Tevez came to us. What a load of twaddle. Made my day that.
 
Newman Noggs said:
How's his "research" going ?
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He's just released a spreadsheet showing we earned more in sponsorship than Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal from 2011 to 2020 and cannot think of any reason why.

Personally I would have thought having 10 seasons in the CL vs 7 for Arsenal, 4 for Liverpool and 8 for Chelsea might be a starting point. Seems like getting all that extra exposure in the sports premier competition could have value, but what do I know?


I suppose as @projectriver has said in the past, these are not financial journalists, they're football journalist or bloggers who've wandered off the path.

They don't actually understand what attracts business to sponsor a club, or what dictates the amount of money one might spend other than some sort of "You were successful in the 90s so you can make money, you weren't so you must make less".

However, there are loads of businesses out there who literally make their living doing valuations on commercial deals, and consulting with businesses to show them where they'd get the most value for money by sponsoring. In fact, when UEFA needed to prove that PSG's sponsorships were not worth their value, they went out and consulted a sports marketing company, Octagon, to determine the value, but oddly enough the journalists never give someone like that a call for help.
 
Inter Me Nan said:
Rent free Nick you bellend, rent free.
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While I'd fully agree with the sentiment of this, it's quite depressing seeing some City fans on twitter make homophobic remarks to Crafton or jokes about Harris' deceased wife.

I know that the replies will be "every fanbase has them" and "Twitter is a cesspit" etc. but it's the main point of contact between these journalists and our fanbase and those interactions with the worst 0.1% is bound to colour their opinion of the entire group.

I don't really thinks there's much we can do to address it other than reporting those comments, but it's very regrettable that it happens.
 
domalino said:
While I'd fully agree with the sentiment of this, it's quite depressing seeing some City fans on twitter make homophobic remarks to Crafton or jokes about Harris' deceased wife.

I know that the replies will be "every fanbase has them" and "Twitter is a cesspit" etc. but it's the main point of contact between these journalists and our fanbase and those interactions with the worst 0.1% is bound to colour their opinion of the entire group.

I don't really thinks there's much we can do to address it other than reporting those comments, but it's very regrettable that it happens.
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Yeah that's bang out of order, still stand by what I said though.
 
A handful of journalists have perfected the art of "victim". Absolutely perfected it. They know how to tweet, what to tweet, and when to tweet it. Then they just sit back and wait for the abuse that they can use to further punchdown onto supporters. I would not tire of slapping any one of them. But then I'd never ever waste the energy because really, they are pretty inadequate professionals.
 
BillyShears said:
A handful of journalists have perfected the art of "victim". Absolutely perfected it. They know how to tweet, what to tweet, and when to tweet it. Then they just sit back and wait for the abuse that they can use to further punchdown onto supporters. I would not tire of slapping any one of them. But then I'd never ever waste the energy because really, they are pretty inadequate professionals.
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You'd struggle to get the opportunity to slap Harris. From what I can make out the silly **** doesn't leave the house. I don't do twitter but often look when one of the WhatsAppTwats are linked on here and within minutes of reading the orifinal tweet and then the first dozen or so replies I want to punch fuck out of something.
It's a horrendous place to spend too much time and that's coming from somebody whose spent far too much time on this daft forum over the last decade!
 
domalino said:
While I'd fully agree with the sentiment of this, it's quite depressing seeing some City fans on twitter make homophobic remarks to Crafton or jokes about Harris' deceased wife.

I know that the replies will be "every fanbase has them" and "Twitter is a cesspit" etc. but it's the main point of contact between these journalists and our fanbase and those interactions with the worst 0.1% is bound to colour their opinion of the entire group.

I don't really thinks there's much we can do to address it other than reporting those comments, but it's very regrettable that it happens.
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Yep out of order that!

Should do what I do block anyone in the media who spout lies untruths and innuendoes.
 
domalino said:
He's just released a spreadsheet showing we earned more in sponsorship than Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal from 2011 to 2020 and cannot think of any reason why.

Personally I would have thought having 10 seasons in the CL vs 7 for Arsenal, 4 for Liverpool and 8 for Chelsea might be a starting point. Seems like getting all that extra exposure in the sports premier competition could have value, but what do I know?
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He needs to get rid of the 'intelligence' part of any of his Twitter/online blog

He's anything but intelligent.
 
Ric said:
Come on mate, it’s the BBC gossip page mentioning a Daily Star article. It’s not worth even acknowledging.
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That's what you should write to the BBC about, they shouldn't be acknowledging these shite articles from the daily Star and other likewise quality sources.
They don't need to be a click bait website, well for the time being anyway.
 
Chris in London said:
Just to put this point into context, in the last 10 years the title has been won by a redshirt team twice - rags in Taggart's last season and Liverpool's covid-interrupted season.

In the four decades prior to that - 1973-2012, it is easier to count the number of times a redshirt team (rags/Arsenal/Liverpool) did not win the title.

The answer, as I count it, is 12.

First Division: Leeds 1974 and 1991, Derby 1975, Forest in 1978, Villa in 1981, Everton in 1985 and 1987
PL: Blackburn in 1995, Chelsea in 05,06 and 10, and us in 2012.

So 28 seasons out of 40 in the period 1973-2012 the league was won by a redshirt team.

In the same period a redshirt team won the FA cup 19 times. Almost half. And in the same period the league cup was won by a redshirt team 14 times. Together with a series of European wins that I'm not going to bother with.

Going back to the last 10 years, a redshirt team has won the FA cup 5 times (four of them Arsenal) but has not won the League cup at all.

The fall from grace of those three teams has been fairly clear in terms of their trophy counts in the last decade. But it's not surprising that once upon a time the people writing about football thought the redshirts' domination would last forever.
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Forrest play in red :)
 
For a good number of years now we've had so much negative press, that I for one found myself being so wound up by it, it was almost making me ill. That's probably a bit pathetic on my part, but I couldn't help it.
I've now decided to do what more and more City fans seem to be doing, and embrace the hatred, and already I feel much better for doing so. Onward and upwards.
 
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