Media thread 2022/23

[The Viking]

The modern Manchester City are many things — a world-class team, a world-class sports project, a proxy brand for Abu Dhabi and, in the words of Amnesty International, the subject of “one of football’s most brazen attempts to ‘sportswash’ (…) a country that relies on exploited migrant labour and locks up peaceful critics and human-rights defenders”.

It says so much about English football (and indeed British life) in the 21st century that the Premier League’s dominant force is a sportswashing project for an oil-rich Middle Eastern state.

It also speaks volumes about English football governance that City were only recently charged with allegedly breaching 115 Premier League financial regulations between 2009 and 2018 — the period in which Abu Dhabi’s wealth transformed them from a downtrodden, success-starved club into a modern-day superpower.

Any kind of resolution to that case seems a long way off. Until then, the club continues to deny the allegations and the Premier League maintains the most awkward silence imaginable.

 

[PPT]

So tediously predictable.

From a tedious predictable **** of the highest order may I add.
PS. You going Sunday?

 

[stonerblue]

Yeah it was Sinclair i was sat lower east stand, Sweep was at Chelsea at the time.

i should really remember that as i nipped out from work to watch first half in pub. Also won a couple of hundred quid including some on Sinclair to score. Never went back to work

 

[ballbag]

This made me smile - almost worth the ... 50p a year is it now??

 

[Bez]

He’s an absolute joke but this is no joke to Oliver, he’s absolutely seething hence his full bingo card of anti City cliches ….. State this state that, FFP blah blah blah

Comparing our evisceration of the reigning European champions to the rags’ fortunate win at Juve thanks to a couple of breakaway goals just has the look of a deluded desperate rag battling against the mountains of evidence that show present day City to be levels above that Utd team

Agreed. City would obliterate that United team at every level. City's fitness levels, technical skills, tactical nous, game management, team working etc etc. Its laughable, but highly predictable that people associated with Manches Hunidead keep referencing the great team of 1999.

 

[halfcenturyup]

i should really remember that as i nipped out from work to watch first half in pub. Also won a couple of hundred quid including some on Sinclair to score. Never went back to work

You retired there and then on a couple of hundred quid? Kudos.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

From a tedious predictable **** of the highest order may I add.
PS. You going Sunday?

Yes mate.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Christ, Balding Barney is now going after West Ham haha. Completely joyless that c*nt.

The irony of all of these takes is that they are reflective of the general economic discourse in the country, which is to say many people seem to be committed to enforcing a rapid race to the bottom.

“I haven’t received a raise in wages for a few years so [insert other sector worker or job class] shouldn’t be getting one, either!”

Many have been convinced by the top 10% that the solution to wealth inequality is to make everyone comprising the bottom 90% equally poor, and it has naturally extended to the sentiment of the football world, which hacks like Barney work to amplify.

 

[halfcenturyup]

How does being bankrupt prevent someone from opening their mouth?

Well, they wont have money to buy anything to eat for one thing.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Christ, Balding Barney is now going after West Ham haha. Completely joyless that c*nt.

Remember when English journalists used to celebrate the dominance of English clubs in Europe.

You know, around 2008….