Media thread 2022/23

[Odd socks]

The female presenter shot him down in flames. He is batshit crazy and so must anybody who employs him.

I agree, she pulled him up for swearing then his shirt hanging out, he looked embarrassed and couldn't pull it back.
Well done that presenter

 

[BringBackSwales]

SSN - coming up, “Manchester City’s treble chances, what do man united fans think about that?”. What the fuck has it got to do with those bitter cunts? Switched straight off

 

[Blue Tooth]

A very good podcast talking about the match last night and the biggar picture around this team, with Graham Hunter. Well worth a listen.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Haha Eddie gets a 6!!!!!

He had 3 saves to make. He made them (including tipping the Kroos shot onto the bare (missed by the ref)
He passed well and he didn't knock it out of touch.
Why only a 6?

 

[adr2.8i]

Just watched the match and post match on BT (not watched the pre match) and unusually for them the coverage of us was very positive

to be fair, personally i couldnt really fault it at all last night. Owen was smiling more than i fucking was!!!

 

[TinFoilHat]

SSN been told to shoehorn the rags into any conversation about us today.

 

[SebastianBlue]

My favourite thing about all of these “Liverpool, United, Arsenal, Real Madrid, Barca, Bayern can’t compete with unrestrained, unlimited financial power” articles is that they completely ignore the fact that multiple levels of financial accounting and spending rules were devised and implemented—mostly at the demand of the clubs referenced—specifically to restrain and limit our spending and finances.

They are laughable bad faith arguments meant to distract from the fact that all of those clubs employed similarly high spending for decades before City won the lottery, and most continue to spend as much or more than us today.

And several only have that financial power because of similar massive cash injections (United, Liverpool, Chelsea), government subsidy (Real Madrid, Barca), and/or their leagues allowing them to have a near monopoly on talent (Bayern, Real Madrid), which includes allowing them to tap up the beat players to sign them on frees after they run out their contract, with no independent compensation determinations or regulatory intervention.

This is not about “financial doping”, as if there is such a thing we only adopted the program originated by the other dominant clubs in world football.

This is about the established order pushing against the tides of change and weaponising captured media and governing bodies to try to stop it.

But, as the old saying goes, they’re just pissing in to the wind.

And, once more, they know it. This is them raging against the dying of their light.

 

[LongsightM13]

City have ruined their lives and I’m loving it

 

[Groke]

It makes me laugh all this talk of cheating. A few financial irregularities, if proven, isn't cheating. For me cheating is collusion to rush a whole set of complicated rules in place to stop a team from challenging, when before we could teams could spend what they liked.

yeah, and all this shit about unlimited resources too - if that were the case, we'd have a team full of galacticos; instead, with the exception of a few e.g. Robinho, Adebeyour, Sterling and Haarland all our signings have been relatively low key - and certainly attainable for other premier league sides if they had gone for them instead of us.

 

[LongsightM13]

My favourite thing about all of these “Liverpool, United, Arsenal, Real Madrid, Barca, Bayern can’t compete with unrestrained, unlimited financial power” articles is that they completely ignore the fact that multiple levels of financial accounting and spending rules were devised and implemented—mostly at the demand of the clubs referenced—specifically to restrain and limit our spending and finances.

They are laughable bad faith arguments meant to distract from the fact that all of those clubs employed similarly high spending for decades before City won the lottery, and most continue to spend as much or more than us today.

And several only have that financial power because of similar massive cash injections (United, Liverpool, Chelsea), government subsidy (Real Madrid, Barca), and/or their leagues allowing them to have a near monopoly on talent (Bayern, Real Madrid), which includes allowing them to tap up the beat players to sign them on frees after they run out their contract, with no independent compensation determinations or regulatory intervention.

This is not about “financial doping”, as if there is such a thing we only adopted the program originated by the other dominant clubs in world football.

This is about the established order pushing against the tides of change and weaponising captured media and governing bodies to try to stop it.

But, as the old saying goes, they’re just pissing in to the wind.

And, once more, they know it. This is them raging against the dying of their light.

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