Media thread 2022/23

[Gingers Dad]

Have sky mentioned coins being thrown at Pep?

Why do they assume those chants are related to Heysel and Hillsborough?

 

[M18CTID]

Off the top of my head, Fulham, Blackpool, Colchester, Walsall, Wrexham from the games I was at.

First game of the season Blackpool must have had a few hundred at most.

Blackpool sold out the away end for that first game of the 98/99 season. Colchester too. Fulham I don't think quite sold out but they brought plenty as they were running away with the league at the time. Can't remember Walsall's turnout but it was a midweek game so they probably didn't fill it. Not sure how many Wrexham brought but it would've been a decent following as it was a Saturday 3pm kick-off.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Our non existent PR department are absolutely fucking useless. As you say the scousers would have been all over this be it the other way around. I really have given up with them. We just allow ourselves to be the whipping dogs of the MSM.

Along with every pro-scouse media outlet this side of Vladivostok!

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Why do they assume those chants are related to Heysel and Hillsborough?

Because it then allows them to be always offended and never ashamed. They are trying to bracket the two incidents together as a sly way of trying to place heysel off limits for discussion. All 'stadium tragedies' when it suits, but for one anniversary it's apparently ok to ignore it and have a quadruple parade, for the other we all bow our heads.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

You know the answer to that.

City should have released a statment saying they were appalled with the actions of their fans endangering Pep.

City are too passive, and late, when it come to things like that.

If City fans had thrown coins at Klopp, City would have released a statement, rightly, condemining our fans though.

Have Liverpool apologised for their vile fans singing about the death of the Queen on a number of occasions? The club should tell them to do one, and when they get there, do another.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Blackpool sold out the away end for that first game of the 98/99 season. Colchester too. Fulham I don't think quite sold out but they brought plenty as they were running away with the league at the time. Can't remember Walsall's turnout but it was a midweek game so they probably didn't fill it. Not sure how many Wrexham brought but it would've been a decent following as it was a Saturday 3pm kick-off.

I can remember a Wrexham fan stood outside the North stand at full time offering to take everyone on. Luckily for him everyone just laughed at him.

 

[JRockBlues]

i posted this the evening of the derby - bbc buried that game within hours

currently (11:26 sunday night) a massive picture of salah celebrating the winner earlier today adorns the bbc homepage 4th story down and is the main image on bbc sport.

A picture of Gomez during the game also adorns Garth’s team of the week where he says Joe should be in the plane to Qatar.

One good game (and let's be honest, he did play quite well) does not a season make. Where's he been for their other games? Anyway, I'm sure Raheem will enjoy sitting next to him on the plane.

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

not sure if already posted - so apologies if it has. Just read the following on a BBC Sport article from the game yesterday -

Analysis - City annoyed by Klopp pre-game comments​

Simon Stone, BBC Sport

A rivalry that has been simmering for the best part of five years as Manchester City and Liverpool have battled it out for domestic supremacy has boiled over again.

Liverpool's damning allegations about the behaviour of some City supporters will create revulsion within the game and plenty of negative headlines around the current Premier League champions.

City are privately stressing they do not condone the abuse in any way.

However, they feel it cannot be viewed in isolation.

They have not forgotten how their team bus was attacked as it made its way to Anfield for the Champions League quarter-final in 2018.

Guardiola's claim he had coins thrown at him follows allegations of City coaching staff being spat at during corresponding fixtures in previous years.

And it is also clear that many Blues fans are defensive in the extreme about how their club is funded.

Whether it was fair or not, and many agreed with him, Klopp's comments about "three clubs" not having a financial ceiling in the build-up to the game annoyed senior figures at City and doubtless riled some visiting supporters, igniting passions even more at one of the most toxic fixtures in the Premier League calendar.

There is a feeling at City that what they view as Klopp's provocation was needless and made a difficult situation worse.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

not sure if already posted - so apologies if it has. Just read the following on a BBC Sport article from the game yesterday -

Analysis - City annoyed by Klopp pre-game comments​

Simon Stone, BBC Sport

A rivalry that has been simmering for the best part of five years as Manchester City and Liverpool have battled it out for domestic supremacy has boiled over again.

Liverpool's damning allegations about the behaviour of some City supporters will create revulsion within the game and plenty of negative headlines around the current Premier League champions.

City are privately stressing they do not condone the abuse in any way.

However, they feel it cannot be viewed in isolation.

They have not forgotten how their team bus was attacked as it made its way to Anfield for the Champions League quarter-final in 2018.

Guardiola's claim he had coins thrown at him follows allegations of City coaching staff being spat at during corresponding fixtures in previous years.

And it is also clear that many Blues fans are defensive in the extreme about how their club is funded.

Whether it was fair or not, and many agreed with him, Klopp's comments about "three clubs" not having a financial ceiling in the build-up to the game annoyed senior figures at City and doubtless riled some visiting supporters, igniting passions even more at one of the most toxic fixtures in the Premier League calendar.

There is a feeling at City that what they view as Klopp's provocation was needless and made a difficult situation worse.

Does anyone else find it interesting that Liverpool have only managed anywhere near that level of performance on three occasions over the last few months and on each occasion we were the opposition.

 

[KS55]

The capacity was probably less than 34,000 in the third tier. I am not sure on the timings of the attempts to shoe-horn a few extra seats into Maine Road but I had the impression that the home support capacity was around 30,000 at the time.

The number of visiting supporters at the time was probably not high.

I understood that you could only get a ticket with a membership card. On my visits in the mid-1990s, I always asked a friend to get the tickets.

The interesting fact is that City were enjoying better support when struggling in the second and third tier than they were getting when around the top six of the PL under Peter Reid.

There is a reason for that. Reid’s attacking tactics were:
Get the ball wide
Hoof it to the big guy (E.g. Disco pants)
Er… that’s it.
Often elicited groans from blues in the stands; was not attractive.