Media thread 2022/23

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The perfect fumble said:
Indeed they do.

I won't ask you to watch this hatchet job, what's the old adage? I watch it so you don't have to.

As you can imagine from the title and the presence of our old friend Jonathan Wilson, it's a wonderful dispassionate analysis of Pep's managerial shortcomings.



Talking of Wilson, this went under the radar on Saturday, a lovely piece of agitprop masquerading as sports journalism...

As football slips into the mire, it must remember it is first and foremost a sport​

Jonathan Wilson

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2022/oct/22/football-must-remember-it-is-sport

Fans chant disgracefully about tragedy and find their club not merely not condemning them, but blaming the manager of the other side for having made an entirely reasonable observation about the financial advantages enjoyed by state-run clubs. That manager, on the very weekend local referees had gone on strike to highlight the abuse suffered by officials, is sent off for abusing an assistant referee. Team buses are attacked, social media becomes a battleground of the basest insults, managers who are the de facto agents of authoritarian states lecture others about touchline behaviour.....

financial fair play regulations – have proved essentially unworkable, not least because they are effectively unenforceable when clubs have such wealth they can stymie investigations with endless legal challenges.....

But football isn’t, at heart, either a business or an entertainment. It certainly shouldn’t be a tool of state propaganda. It is a sport and, until that is remembered and prioritised, it’s hard to have any hope for the future. Or, indeed, the present.
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Combined with Liew's article yesterday, our chums at the Guardian have upped the quantity if not the quality of their diatribes. The clunckiness of these desperate narratives shows they're struggling for new ways to bolt the same message to every City article they write.

It's obvious that for Liew and Wilson the sole purpose of writing any City content is the opportunity to ram home the same dogma.
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I notice they have doubled down on the "owned by a state" lie. Till recently they were avoiding this phrase saying vague things like "state-funded" and "run by a state." Even Neville has used the phrase. It really is time for City to send a legal shot over the bows of some of these people. There is no point worrying about the freelance loons on social media but the Guardian online has a big audience (certainly overseas) and so does SKY. This is reputational damage and we should take it seriously. As we grow it is more important than ever to protect our reputation.
 
City 12th in the list of importance on their football page, if there was any doubt the organisation isn't fit for purpose.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
I notice they have doubled down on the "owned by a state" lie. Till recently they were avoiding this phrase saying vague things like "state-funded" and "run by a state." Even Neville has used the phrase. It really is time for City to send a legal shot over the bows of some of these people. There is no point worrying about the freelance loons on social media but the Guardian online has a big audience (certainly overseas) and so does SKY. This is reputational damage and we should take it seriously. As we grow it is more important than ever to protect our reputation.
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I agree with you.

But I'd bet everything I own that we'll do nothing.
 
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Zinchilla said:
Yep. Conn, Ronay, Liew and the other one I can’t remember - always snide, always pretentious and very rarely any discussion of football (and any sport) from a tactical or sporting perspective. And mixing this with the politics thread - apologies - my gut feeling is the guardian benefits the Tories far more than Labour. Their pompous taking of the moral high ground in everything just fucking grates.

Problem is what else is out there? I have this fantasy based on C4 football Italia that the italian sports papers are everything I want in a paper. Sat outside in a piazza, wearing a softly cut indigo coloured cotton suit, with an espresso and a glass of water, perusing the football gossip and tactical analysis of matches - all written without any snidey side. As Monica Belluci is back in my stylishly appointed apartment getting the gnocchi ready…
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Zinchilla, this is clearly fantasy of the highest order mate. Have you seen the price of pasta? ;-)))
 
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