Media thread 2022/23

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manimanc said:
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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
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Fourmidables and centurions already erased from history.
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I think most neutral football fans would put the invincibles, Mourinho's Chelsea that conceded 14 goals all season and our 100 point team ahead of United 1999.
 
The perfect fumble said:
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.
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Guardian binned. The smarmy fuckwits that 'write' about football (especially Ickle old Ciddy) know nothing except how to work their target audience to milk clicks and ensure foaming at the mouth. Soon Newcastle will indeed be in their sights. Journalism my arse..... and they still keep begging for donations.
Fucked it right off.
 
The perfect fumble said:
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.
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“Manchester City, of course deny it” you can feel the bitterness oozing out of his Argos bic pen
 
BringBackSwales said:
Watching the bbc recording. Why at half time do they not even discuss the non given pen on KDB and why the fuck dies Micah Richards as supposedly the City pundit not even mention it? Micah is a nice bloke but clueless as a pundit and clueless as a City fan, or Man City as he would say
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Well lescot on the other side sits there like a nodding dog too!
 
IrishBlueSince92 said:
Whats the point doing a combined team between City now and the Rags a quarter of a century ago

The game has changed dramatically

I don't entertain any of that hypothetical shite for a second

Do people think that if we win on Saturday night I'm not going to enjoy it as Alex Ferguson may have been a better manager than Pep, or David May may get on a combined XI ahead of John Stones?

Fuck them and their treble
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Correct go back 24 years from the scums 99 treble team wasn’t they in the 2nd division?
 
If we win the CL it completely smashes United’s ‘treble’ achievement.
1. We would win the champions league as the previous seasons PL champions, unlike them.
2. The route to the final has seen us dispatch far bigger teams than United did, with more games played and a higher win percentage.
3. The route to winning the 3rd PL in a row has had us win epic season long tussles with Liverpool and this season Arsenal, compared to the drab boring (for all but united fans) united wins. During which we’ve scored far more goals against far better opponents than united had.
4. The route to winning the FA cup saw us see off the previous winners and Chelsea, then play our cross border rivals in a cup final for the 1st time ever on the 100th anniversary of the 1st FA cup at Wembley.
5. We also gave the LC a go, and probably should have progressed. Can’t remember what United did in 99, so maybe that could swing it for them!
6. United had far and away the biggest spending power in the league in 1999 and prior. And The absolute myth spouted by beckham about it all being English united academy youth…Compare with City being the 15th highest net spenders over the last 5 years in the PL (united 2nd, Chelsea 1st).
7. As demonstrated to all the world in the FA cup, they are ‘assisted’ to the nth degree in red cards to others, penalties to them, no penalties to others, license to hack and dive at will, no yellow fouls for them, out of nowhere time added on if they are losing, minimal added time if winning. If there was VAR in 99, they’d have romped the league, the cup, the CL, Ferguson would have won Strictly… etc.
Whereas City almost every game, unless we went 3-0 up in 15mins were at the mercy of ref infield bias and off field VAR bias. The reams of examples we could all think of …
8. The background ‘noise’ of the media, It’s bad enough the difference in how we are refereed but the difference in media reporting is off the scale. I doubt you’d find any article from 99 that criticised United in anyway , or asked whether their opponents ‘need’ to stop it.

So taking all that… and it’s obviously just the footballing side that should decide, we are far and away heading for a better ‘treble’ IF we do it.

Edit: it will be some achievement by Inter to beat us. If they do, (and it’s done cleanly), then so be it, they would have done it against the odds , against the greatest league team ever.

Edit: forgot
9. Pep has revolutionised football ,played out from the back (as done by everyone down to U8 level, bar united), false 9 (no attacker for a year, but still scored more than anyone else), CB as a skilful midfield ball carrier . Compare to the static, hoofball and kick & rush of Ferguson who changed nothing other than proving that bullies can win if no-one stands up to them
 
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