Worst of all is when an outrageous remarks are made without substance like Haalands £1m pw wages or £100m transfer fee that are then are requoted as nauseum as though an "accepted fact" even though accounts and official records state otherwise.
We still have the "Emptihad", "paid off the books", "financial doping" and more including the most damaging alleged 100+ charges in breach of FFP that are largely the same as brought by UEFA and cleared by CAS. The PL broke them down to exaggerate the number and severity in an exercise of negative PR against City to be quoted time and again with the main difference of "not being time barred" even though they were unproven by CAS.
Whilst City have not been found guilty, the burden of proof lies with the PL.. Reasons I've seen as to why there has not been a quick conclusion is not a lack of evidence but obfuscation and refusal to accept guilt on the part of MCFC who have used technicalities, financial legal clout, bribery and more to divert and delay an "obvious decision of guilt".
One would expect the charges brought by the PL would be solid, irrefutable and cut and dried so quickly resolved. Clearly they are based on already discredited evidence yet the charges always seemed mentioned but never the concept of innocent until proved guilty.
I think the tide has turned in the media with even fans of the USA owned red shirted cartel waking up to how badly they have been run compared with City and how their owners have extracted rather than invest. The vast majority of supporters of other clubs do not expect to compete to be top of the tree but look to their own successes. Sadly, media reporting has become increasing limited with gossip about certain clubs taking precedence over real stories about other clubs.
Remember when each club had its own reporter close and privy to information reported in the local or national media? You would expect a more comprehensive and objective coverage in this age of communication. Instead we have a limited, biased reporting geared to generating clicks by pandering to sycophants or from controversy.
The media has been seduced, influenced and corrupted first by the "PL big 5" and then the Sky "Big 4" promoted as the path of least resistance that continues with the concept of mythical self funding, elite, history clubs although untrue and broken years ago. Paraphrasing bobbyowenquiff "too many reporting have little concept of football and are amongst the most plastic of people they profess to deride".