Media thread 2022/23

[mcfcphil]

I see Miggy is doing a Sam Lee & we’ve just misunderstood his article. You’ve got to feel for these professional writers, it can’t be easy, it’s not as if it’s not the sole purpose of their trade.

Anyway apparently the chasm was based on football ability & not financial & he didn’t even realise he’d written “financial disparity.”

So everyone read his article and interpreted it as being about financial disparity.

Even his own sub editor read it and thought it was about financial disparity.

He’s so far down the rabbit hole he’s lost all perspective on the words he writes, to the extent he’s basically just dog whistled his own newspaper.

Truly bizarre.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

We often criticise BT Sport’s coverage of City in Europe, but just watching the game back and tbf the commentator (Darren Fletcher) seems to be genuinely enthusiastically celebrating our goals. Shouldn’t really be noteworthy, but this is where we are.

Have to disagree. I rarely watch the pre-game but decided to have a go last night. Soon realised why when it was all about Bayern and Tuchel, with their ghosts of Christmas past mantra.

 

[Kippax77]

We often criticise BT Sport’s coverage of City in Europe, but just watching the game back and tbf the commentator (Darren Fletcher) seems to be genuinely enthusiastically celebrating our goals. Shouldn’t really be noteworthy, but this is where we are.

Good job we scored then cos he had a full stonk on for Bayern in everything else

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I actually think BT commentary isn't too bad for City, including tonight (barring the 'Manchester United defender Manuel Akanji' comment).

That was a bit jarring 6 minutes in. Fletcher is better than Darke, and can be very good.

I thought the interview with Mario Gomez pre-match was a good one too. Gomez came across as quite a decent bloke.

 

[blueste41]

Hmm, he said "Silva couldn't miss", and "that's easy for Haaland", as if they were both 1 yard tap-ins rather than great finishes, so, damning with faint praise was what I came away with...

Due to our fantastic approach play and then the subsequent inch perfect crosses both of those players received for their goals the observation was spot on. If he had said the same for Rodri's goal you may have had a point but in reality he said something along the lines of him having no right to score from there and it being a finish De Bruyne would have been proud of .

 

[jaiguruKun]

David Hytner did our match report in the Guardian.

None of the pearl clutching histrionics from the likes of Jackson and Delaney, he always reports on our games in a fair unbiased way. That's all we ask for.

Paradise is still sat in a dark room somewhere trying to work out how to put a negative spin on the performance.

 

[Eds]

Looks like the fail gets their stories from here. Some bloke jokes about getting in his head and lo and behold it’s headlines
‘Fan screams 'O CANADA' at Bayern Munich left back Alphonso Davies’
https://mol.im/a/11962791

 

[blueste41]

But we're a worse team with Haaland in it!

'I do not recall a striker with a more voracious appetite for goals'

After Erling Haaland's latest goalscoring record, Phil McNulty reflects on some of the great strikers he has seen in his long career as a football journalist.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[aguero93:20]

Hmm, he said "Silva couldn't miss", and "that's easy for Haaland", as if they were both 1 yard tap-ins rather than great finishes, so, damning with faint praise was what I came away with...

Due to our fantastic approach play and then the subsequent inch perfect crosses both of those players received for their goals the observation was spot on. If he had said the same for Rodri's goal you may have had a point but in reality he said something along the lines of him having no right to score from there and it being a finish De Bruyne would have been proud of .

Bernardo could well have missed and nearly did, Sommer (****) got two hands on it somehow and if Bernardo hadn't connected absolutely beautifully with that header and got as much force behind it as he did, it wasn't going in.
Haaland's goal, mid air with his weaker foot, was a far harder finish than he'll be given credit for.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

So everyone read his article and interpreted it as being about financial disparity.

Even his own sub editor read it and thought it was about financial disparity.

He’s so far down the rabbit hole he’s lost all perspective on the words he writes, to the extent he’s basically just dog whistled his own newspaper.

Truly bizarre.

And there was me thinking one of the pre-requisites of landing a role writing for news outlets, would be the ability to communicate..............