Media thread 2022/23

[Mr Fraser]

Playing out from the back?

Coming from behind

 

[manimanc]

Joe90 who written the article is an Arsenal fan, surprise surprise.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

So can we deduce from this nerds bitter ramblings that any American owners of football clubs are using soft power to deflect things like Racism, Gun crime and that they spend more money on space expeditions than they spend on poverty stricken areas.

Four eyed prick jumping on the band wagon with all the other mardarse pricks.

If he had more brain cells he might have realised that City Football Group has also invested in countries like China, Uruguay, Brazil, and even Mumbai. This wouldn't make any sense if our only motive was to deflect attention away from human rights abuses. The entire concept of "sportswashing" is false. It was invented by PR firms working for Human Rights charities as a way of attracting attention to their cause.

 

[bluenova]

They could have chosen ANY image... but NO, they chose THIS one.

FFS!!!

FFS? Representing the attractiveness of illegal streaming of the Premier League, by showing the Premier League's biggest star, playing for the Premier League's best club, holding the Premier League trophy aloft?

 

[Bodicoteblue]

If this stupid **** was capable of critical thinking, he would surely see that ownership of successful football clubs attracts far more attention than it deflects.

He doesn’t even need to stretch his obviously flabby mental abilities to do any critical thinking.
He simply needed to do some research, and even then he could have got an office junior to do that.

 

[Maly]

If this stupid **** was capable of critical thinking, he would surely see that ownership of successful football clubs attracts far more attention than it deflects.

Considering Abu Dhabi are already major players across the world, why on earth would they want, or need, football fans to be ‘sportswashed’?

It really is bizarre thinking that the Abu Dhabi government care what a load of football fans think of their politics

 

[manimanc]

If he had more brain cells he might have realised that City Football Group has also invested in countries like China, Uruguay, Brazil, and even Mumbai. This wouldn't make any sense if our only motive was to deflect attention away from human rights abuses. The entire concept of "sportswashing" is false. It was invented by PR firms working for Human Rights charities as a way of attracting attention to their cause.

I mean take away that paragraph about sportswashing and the article is a really good read. It's just a shame they throw these stupid inaccurate comments in to tar their work.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

Considering Abu Dhabi are already major players across the world, why on earth would they want, or need, football fans to be ‘sportswashed’?

It really is bizarre thinking that the Abu Dhabi government care what a load of football fans think of their politics

That’s the elephant in the room, wtf do the UAE need to gain approval from the rest of the world? They don’t. The west has done a great job when it intervenes in oil rich states. They soon become failed states. Unfortunately the masses are by and large poorly educated and believe any old shit they hear.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

I mean take away that paragraph about sportswashing and the article is a really good read. It's just a shame they throw these stupid inaccurate comments in to tar their work.

The biggest sportswashing activity by far is LFC and Standard Chartered (fined one billion dollars for money laundering), closely followed by the Visit Rwanda mob.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

FFS? Representing the attractiveness of illegal streaming of the Premier League, by showing the Premier League's biggest star, playing for the Premier League's best club, holding the Premier League trophy aloft?

Not the point. They could have just as easily used the Rag's, Dippers or the Arse (all bigger teams with a larger number of worldwide supporters in the eyes of the media), but they chose us in order to perpetuate the drip,drip, drip of negativity against us.