Media thread 2022/23

[Gobshiight]

One of the few people in the media that actually got it right: we've not won 5/6 titles because of money, we've won them because we have the greatest manager who's ever lived

 

[FantasyIreland]

Reasonable piece by Rob Draper in today's Sunday edition of the daily racist. Sprinkled with the usual tropes, but trying to distinguish between on-field success and off-field bullshit.

'The Daily Racist'?

And yet you are reading and quoting it.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

He congratulated us but went on to talk about the charges on motd , also didnt need to say after pep leaves , just say congrats , the rest is a cunts trick

I haven’t watched MOTD for literally decades but in fairness when a club is hit with 115 charges they have to mention it when that same club wins the league. Now I am convinced these charges are trumped up and compared with other clubs I can say I think City have just been too good. The hit and run charges back in February were designed for exactly this moment, to undermine our success and it’s been a relative success. But it’s there, it’s the elephant in the room. What I do see though is pundits actually differentiating between what happens on the pitch and what happens off it. Pep is finally getting the credit he deserves.

 

[1961_vintage]

'The Daily Racist'?

And yet you are reading and quoting it.

Need something to read when I'm round at the in-laws pal.

Not that it's any of your fucking business.

And show me where I have quoted it?

It's an observation rather than a quote - like I observe that you are probably too ignorant to know the difference.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Need something to read when I'm round at the in-laws pal.

Not that it's any of your fucking business.

And show me where I have quoted it?

It's an observation rather than a quote - like I observe that you are probably too ignorant to know the difference.

Mine was an observation too....

 

[SebastianBlue]

“…certainly it’s non-British, we don’t recognise greatness that easily, and this is greatness we’re talking about. 5 in 6… 3 on the bounce, 3 that he’s won very different… you win a title with Aguero, 21 goals at the top of the pitch. You win a title with a false 9, you win a title with a freak 9. They can find different ways of winning football and winning the Premier League. And the underlying thing for me about Manchester City is the hunger with which they play. They’re champions who play like challengers, they don’t take a day off, they make the opposition submit. You tap out in football terms. They have so much possession and so much dominance… we’ve never seen football like this in the Premier League.” — Robbie Earle

 

[1961_vintage]

Mine was an observation too....

I am aware of that, which is why I didn't suggest otherwise. Unlike yourself.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

Here's the objective Club Elo ratings. Elo is a rating system used in all sorts of sports, plus games like Chess & Bridge, to empirically determine strengths & rankings.

Unless he's under a false name, Baconface isn't even in the top ten in history (although Klopp and Pellegrini are).

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This can’t be right, where’s Big Sam?

 

[laserblue]

What I love about this season is that when Pep won it the first time, we were told we’d have to retain it to be considered great.

Then when we won two in a row, the media told us that it didn’t count unless we won the CL.

Now we’ve won 3 in a row and are favourites in the FA Cup and CL, they’ve moved past whether we can be considered great and now we’re a threat to football.

There’s nothing we can do that will appease those shit cunts that chose a red club and went into football journalism in the 90’s because they thought they’d be paid to wax lyrical on the teams they chose to support, safe in the knowledge that they’re meaningless existence would be bolstered by feel part of a side that always won.

Well you picked wrong you cunts (Delaney, Ronay, Ziegler et al) and hope the pain of our success kills you deep to the core.

After City demolished Madrid Oliver Dolt ramped up the ante with the latest version of this shite.

OLIVER HOLT: It's too early to acclaim Manchester City as the greatest English side ever… let's wait until they have actually won the Champions League - and then they must win it again​

 

[moomba]

Uncreditible clickbait nonsense. I stilll don't get why we are giving the likes of Reddy, Delaney, Keys etc any oxygen.

Because its funny as fuck.