Media thread 2022/23

[TinFoilHat]

Jonathan Wilson's rewriting of history portrays the rags of 1999 as plucky underdogs that excited the nation, in contrast to the City robots of 2023 who are edging inevitably to fulfil their state controlled destiny. I remember things in 1999 rather differently and see today very differently.
The rags did not recruit GPC in 1986 because they thought he was a downgrade on Ron Atkinson and he outspent the four biggest spenders in English football every year between 1986 and 1993 to buy two teams before the expensive imports after Euro '92 plus a French lunatic won the PL title but flopped in Europe. His policy of youth recruitment amounted to club reps waiting in cars outside grounds waving cheque books at prospective recruits. In this way they acquired some promising players and inculcated sound family values. But they didn't excite anyone outside the swamp. I have been friends with people in the west midlands for many years and one WBA fan told me when the rags appointed Mourinho that he didn't like him but he liked him more than Ferguson - "Inever liked that loud mouthed bully at all." Villa fans resented Racham's in Birmingham selling more United shirts than those of midland clubs. These fans admire City and Pep greatly now! Bile towards City is restricted to the board and hard core fans of those who see themselves as our rivals. They, and certain reporters, need reminding that GPC's "rebuilding" of the rags between 1986 and 93 would have broken the FFP rules they believe in so fervently now every year for seven years. Now they hide their accounts in a tax haven! The world is nothing like Jonathan Wilson believes it to be.

 

[Dribble]

It is the end of competitive football if you're a rag/dipper/tarquin, this isn't what they signed up for.

It's also an end to the many so called sports journalists who ditched their clubs in the '90s to jump on the rags gravy train.

Instead of writing puff piece articles in the newspapers on them & coining it in through book sales, they have to watch City playing the beautiful game while the rags throw their toys out of the pram.

If only they hadn't thought we were going to be a blip, win it once like money bags Blackburn & then fade away.

What makes it even more galling for the clickbait brigade is that once utds day in the sun was fading then lfc, in their eyes, are like a phoenix rising from the ashes, only for City to stop lfc winning 5 in a row & life returning to the '80s.

Exactly! Agreed 100%

 

[foggy1974]

If you have a view about City that deviates from the WhatsApp group line, you simply won’t be commissioned to write about it in the Guardian. It’s clearly editorial policy. The bit I struggle to get my head around is how their writers can pitch the same tired article to their editor time after time, with no fresh take whatsoever, and the editor just nods their head and publishes it.

They won't care if it creates clickbait, going off the comments it's like a perpetual motion machine

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

If we beat Fulham and go top of the league expect the 105 charges story to re-surface alongside one of our players getting his todger out in public and Pep Guardiola eats childen story written by Hans Christian Anderson , Dippers/Rags reading the Sun wil believe anything

 

[i went to rotherham]

Nice find. Fair play to Butt. A decent rag? Can’t be right -:)

Its a decent interview but he (Butt) lets it down when asked if he thinks City will win the treble. He says maybe we will but we will never "do it in the style we (united) did"

Just to put that statement into perspective, as its a view constantly chucked at us by the media:
Uniteds treble winning season, all competitions, stats:

P63. W36. D22. L5, GF128. GA63 League Points 79 League Goal Diff+43
(this includes Champs League qualifying rounds and Cup replays)

City, so far, with a max of 10 games still to play :
P47. W35. D10. L4. GF127. GA34. League Points so far 76 League Goal Diff +54

Definitely not in the style they did !!!
ITS BETTER !

UPDATED !

 

[Fordyboy46]

Stanley Collycock in the people " and the sheer quality of NUMBERS Pep Guardiola has available to him means it's always going to be some feat to overcome them".
Ffs, this myth gets me more than anything else spouted by these cretins, as others have said on here we have three maybe four players on our bench who we can put in the first team and it wouldn't show much difference.
Every other top club can do the same, look at scum, look at Chelsea, look at Liverpool they have supposed quality on their benches each week costing hundred of millions. This lame bs really annoys me and I'd love to challenge them over it.
It's not just Collymore, it seems to be this media narrative that we have 25 top quality players each costing 60m stacked in our squad, it couldn't be further from the truth

 

[Revolver]

With this media campaign I think again about City’s media dept (Do we have one?)

Yes we don’t want to elevate these clowns to martyr status but they probably wouldn’t write such article if it was a team in red or our owners weren’t from the Middle East.

In this age of diversity where we are told rightly to respect other cultures our owners (who should be scrutinised but fairly) seem to be fair game for border line xenophobia.

I appreciate we are never going to win hearts and minds but the club doing absolutely nothing about it seems odd. Is there no point at which the media dept think we need to do something?

Oh well I guess more intelligent people in the club have thought of these things.

In the meantime let’s beat Fulham.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Unless he was referring to the rag and dipper Indians.

This means Mohawk.

 

[hammocity]

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Uncanny likeness:-)

 

[Feed the Elk]

Oh how they crave the comfort of the closed shop of the ‘Big 4’

Bring it on Newcastle, Spurs or even Brighton