Media Thread - 2021/22

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HelloCity said:
My personal experience with Mooney is that he would throw his own mum under a bus if it meant it slightly advanced his media career. He wouldn’t hesitate to do the same to City that’s for sure. He’s absolutely desperate for a job in the industry and will say what he needs to and suck up to the right people to get there.
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I get the impression quite a lot of these blogger/podcast/Youtuber types would do exactly the same for a bit of “fame”, so I don’t think he’d be alone in that, quite sad really.
 
KS55 said:
In one sense, City fans are victims of this bias. It is therefore gaslighting/victim blaming when the press say we are paranoid for complaining about our treatment. Remember, according to Syed in the Times, we are 'feral rats'.
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I remember when Syed the Ping Pong cheat had that first go at us. Apart from Clubs with fans like Millwall, it was unheard of for fans to get criticised for getting behind their team. To be called rats was almost unbelievable, especially in a paper like the Times.
Perhaps we are now witnessing phase two of the wider campaign by these bastards.
 
Bonzo Nododo said:
I remember when Syed the Ping Pong cheat had that first go at us. Apart from Clubs with fans like Millwall, it was unheard of for fans to get criticised for getting behind their team. To be called rats was almost unbelievable, especially in a paper like the Times.
Perhaps we are now witnessing phase two of the wider campaign by these bastards.
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There is a journo on here from the specialist on-line press (forget who) who was warned by a main stream media writer that the war against City was set to intensify.
 
mccity said:
I do think that with the very recent Nick Harris outburst, combined with the even more recent David Mooney and Sam Lee discussions, that there's a worryingly increased anti-City fan sentiment within the media emerging.

It could all have been a coincidence, but I do wonder if there have been discussions amongst certain parties recently behind the scenes to trigger this whole thing.

I've never particularly concerned myself too much with any agendas against the club, but an agenda specifically against the fans would certainly be unsettling.
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An agenda against the club is an agenda against the fans, we are one and the same. The club don’t belong and should know its place. The old guard want us gone. Getting the fans to turn on our owners is the next step in operation remove football competition. They tried it with Pep and the empty seats agenda and now this is another anti competition angle dreamed up to destabilise the success achieved by Abu Dhabi.

It’s all lies. These journalists are only the pawns in a game way above their pay grade. No marks writing shit for idiot red shirt supporters so they can eat at the big boys table. It’s all a scam.
 
‘Journalism is printing what someone else does not want published; everything else is public relations.‘

The problem is that most Sports writers aren’t real journalists , only the ones that report on city it seems ….
 
mccity said:
I do think that with the very recent Nick Harris outburst, combined with the even more recent David Mooney and Sam Lee discussions, that there's a worryingly increased anti-City fan sentiment within the media emerging.

It could all have been a coincidence, but I do wonder if there have been discussions amongst certain parties recently behind the scenes to trigger this whole thing.

I've never particularly concerned myself too much with any agendas against the club, but an agenda specifically against the fans would certainly be unsettling.
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I said something similar after the opening game at Spurs

However i did say it will get to the point where City fans will be attacked physically

It happened at Spurs, close at Chelsea and West Ham plus Lisbon, although Lisbon could be because we are an English club

Let's see at Everton, Leeds.

These are my experiences.
 
KS55 said:
There is a journo on here from the specialist on-line press (forget who) who was warned by a main stream media writer that the war against City was set to intensify.
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No surprise we are spoiling their party like the handsome stranger all the girls go for. Fans used to be sacrosanct but now we are the newest target for the personal but generalised attacks. Anyone who defends our club from the wide remarks gets called all the names in the vast Internet library of insults even completely stupid ones like 'fascists' and 'racists'.
I don't do twitter but l have seen bit of David Mooneys past stuff in King of the Kippax and other articles and he seemed a blue through and through and the recent stuff doesn't seem his style.
So why the change? Perhaps as a reluctant part of the war you mention.
 
I'd guess 90-95% of fans fall in the middle ground in the question asked.
 
Stiff Little Wingers said:
Thanks for posting this. I had previously tried to give David the benefit of the doubt but actually hearing him speak like this gives a different perspective.
What is he on about? Where are these divisions about the ownership amongst City fans? To be fair though, when we had Swales there weren't really issues about LGBTQ, although to be fair in those days it was mainly just LG. However, there was a division in the fan base then!!

Even allowing for undoubtedly dubious editing he again is allowing himself to be used as a vehicle for crap. There's a lot of fans very upset by the ESL and the fact City even joined and I was furious. There's others who think the ownership model detracts from a focus on City and Manchester but these are normal fanbase complaints about actions taken. There's no move towards ousting Sheikh Mansour.
The LGBTQ cause and acceptance is proceeding at different speeds all over the world layered over over by centuries of societal, cultural and religious drivers and interests. To simply compare the UAE against UK standards like for like is not correct and patronising. If David feels this issue so strongly then he should be campaigning to get rid of the ownership rather than sitting there earning money in such a hypocritical way.
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exactly society around the world moves at different speeds, the fact that homosexuality is illegal in a Country awarded the World Cup didn’t matter in 1966.
 
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