Media thread 2022/23

[Gobshiight]

FA Cup final: Man Utd out to protect legacy of 1999 by ending Man City's treble dream

Manchester City and Manchester United will face off in the first all-Manchester FA Cup final; victory for Pep Guardiolas side will move them one game away from matching Uniteds previously unrivalled treble; follow coverage across Sky Sports digital platforms on Saturday

www.skysports.com

Oh do fuck off. Sky sports neutral as ever.

Really hope we fuck these reds twats today good and proper.

I mean, they and the Daily Mail are right, just as the FA Cup semi final was about us finally beating them in a big game, and the Kompany derby was about us finally finishing above them

Fast forward just 10 years and they're fighting for their lives to uphold their supposed 'legacy'. What a pathetic position for the so-called 'biggest team in the world' to be in

God, I hope we tear them apart today

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Fuck the media today, Blues, nothing has changed.

Enjoy your day.

 

[The perfect fumble]

"Any old iron? Any old iron?
Any, any, any old iron?...

City, tearing cockneys apart again.

 

[Ted_Bovis]

"Any old iron? Any old iron?
Any, any, any old iron?...

City, tearing cockneys apart again.

The first walking penis has arrived!

 

[give it to gordon]

"Any old iron? Any old iron?
Any, any, any old iron?...

City, tearing cockneys apart again.

Lol has a sence of humour than lol

 

[blueju]

What gets me with their treble “legacy” crap is they won the league by 1 point with only 79 points and officials in their back pockets, fluked the CL win and nothing is mentioned of our own recent treble, ( quad if you add the charity shield) where we had much stronger opposition and won despite officials.
The media keep bringing up their treble but seem to have erased ours from history

They’d love it if we didn’t exist.

 

[Ted_Bovis]

Lol has a sence of humour than lol

Surprised he’s not got Munich written on there too.

 

[The perfect fumble]

The Guardian being the Guardian.....

in the sky-blue corner we have potential Cup winners with 115 charges of financial and administrative misconduct hanging over them. Perhaps this is football’s idea of dramatic irony.

Manchester City, of course, deny breaking the rules. City’s supporters, who have the chance to boo not one governing body but two in the next couple of weeks, make the point that these rules shouldn’t exist in the first place and therefore deserve to be broken.

It is at least an impressive on-brand, dictator-level approach to reform. Not to mention one that has to date worked out pretty well. Frankly, City could bring back hacking and unilaterally re-abolish the crossbar. If your lawyers are expensive enough it all tends to work out in the end.

 

[bluenova]

The whole rags winning the treble with all homegrown players really pisses me off as it’s just inaccurate. That side had Cole (record transfer when they bought him), Stam who cost £10M and Yorke who cost £12M, when the British record was shearer at £15M. I’d love to dig out a stat to prove it but I’m sure they were the biggest spenders in the 90s. Keane was the British record when they bought him. GPC pulled out all the stops to sign Shearer before Newcastle got him.

If anyone suggests that the "Class of 92" was some kind of miracle, you might also want to point out that in 1992 there were 13 Premier League players from outside the British Isles.

 

[Norbiton]

The Guardian being the Guardian.....

in the sky-blue corner we have potential Cup winners with 115 charges of financial and administrative misconduct hanging over them. Perhaps this is football’s idea of dramatic irony.

Manchester City, of course, deny breaking the rules. City’s supporters, who have the chance to boo not one governing body but two in the next couple of weeks, make the point that these rules shouldn’t exist in the first place and therefore deserve to be broken.

It is at least an impressive on-brand, dictator-level approach to reform. Not to mention one that has to date worked out pretty well. Frankly, City could bring back hacking and unilaterally re-abolish the crossbar. If your lawyers are expensive enough it all tends to work out in the end.

A supposedly serious journalist (well, Barney Ronay) coming out with the most desperate line of the red shirt fans in the comments section, that City were only cleared because they had expensive lawyers. Surprised he didn’t say “everybody knows”. Truly pathetic