Media thread 2022/23

[Dirty Harry]

Snide **** was trying to set up a meeting between City & Liverpool fans following the Anfield game. He contacted City Matters but as soon as I heard his name I made it clear I didn't trust his motives and I wouldn't be part of any circus that he was involved in. There would only be one outcome anyway if we spoke with those deluded, whingeing, self-pitying cultists.

Think you’re being “paranoid” mate ;-).

 

[pride in battle]

He and the other usual suspects are literally and blatantly taking the piss out of the club and the fans now. And yet the club still sits back and doesn’t lift a finger to stop it. Or at worse reduce it. I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that the club don’t actually give a flying fuck about the claims of Manchester City FC being state owned. FFP cheats. Sponsorship cheats. Ticket sales attendance cheats. Under the table bungs cheats. Players wages cheats etc etc. However they may not but a lot of us actually do. So why don’t the club do something on behalf of us the fans? Because as I say they don’t give a fuck about us either. There is no other logical conclusion. Discuss:

For the club to sit back and let journalists spout lies is unforgivable, any other business in the same position as city would be on them like a ton of bricks, so the question is why NOT City ????

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

The DT this morning headlines three things that Pep should be worried about re Haarland. There's a graphic of Erling holding his foot so he might have a knock, unless as the RDAHMeedya are hoping that the sock is holding the foot inside the boot to stop it falling off! I'm not reading the article. I've just assumed that the other two are pure speculation. Could be that Pep needs to be worried that Erling is scoring all the goals and is becoming a nightmare in the dressing room as the rest are getting their noses shoved out of joint, or, again, Riyad missed those pens on purpose 'cos Erling as taken on the job, or, indeed, the club canteen can't keep up with the amount of liver the lad has for his breakfast!

 

[cheekybids]

Such a snide c*nt..

If we did it wouldn’t be long before we are accused of mocking Hillsborough…….

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Snide **** was trying to set up a meeting between City & Liverpool fans following the Anfield game. He contacted City Matters but as soon as I heard his name I made it clear I didn't trust his motives and I wouldn't be part of any circus that he was involved in. There would only be one outcome anyway if we spoke with those deluded, whingeing, self-pitying cultists.

Sam Lee has essentially become a twitter troll these days whose target seems to be the people who are supposed to be his customers. He is doing this at a time when City (and our fanbase) is growing faster than any other club in the world. It really doesn't make any commercial sense to alienate all your contacts. It is the journalistic equivalent of "losing the dressing room."

 

[cheekybids]

No chance Tesco’s will employ them

Would you trust them to stack shelves?

Tesco wouldn’t employ people to abuse the customers as they shopped.

It’s a bazaar industry that allows people to publicly taunt, just bazaar.

 

[beast]

Jonathan who? Aisle 5 please.

 

[LongsightM13]

Sam Lee has essentially become a twitter troll these days whose target seems to be the people who are supposed to be his customers. He is doing this at a time when City (and our fanbase) is growing faster than any other club in the world. It really doesn't make any commercial sense to alienate all your contacts. It is the journalistic equivalent of "losing the dressing room."

He works for an American outlet. Hasn’t once written about the cabal of US owners trying to bringdown our club

 

[mat]

Reach PLC gone full dipper on back of the mirror.

So childish.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

He works for an American outlet. Hasn’t once written about the cabal of US owners trying to bringdown our club

City have a large and rapidly growing fanbase in the USA. It is stupid for the Athletic to ignore this. City Football Group also own the current US MLS Champions. They should be building bridges with people like Khaldoon not destroying relationships.

 

[HelloCity]

Sam Lee has essentially become a twitter troll these days whose target seems to be the people who are supposed to be his customers. He is doing this at a time when City (and our fanbase) is growing faster than any other club in the world. It really doesn't make any commercial sense to alienate all your contacts. It is the journalistic equivalent of "losing the dressing room."

He threw the towel in ages ago. ‘Silent quitting’ is the new term for it I believe. A big drop off in the quality & passion behind his work and this is reflected in the reduced social media interactions his work has as well.

I’ve never been a fan. He used to blanket every article with ‘Pep will be leaving soon’ and would tell anyone who’d listen it would be the case. When Pep signed his new contract he re-tweeted someone else’s article on it and never ever mentioned it again. Not really what you’d expect from a Manchester City reporter.

He’d also list the charges City were waiting to be breached for and when they ran out or didn’t go anywhere, that seemed to be when he started to drift away into not giving a shit.

There was also the time he said something along the lines of ‘are there any normal fans I can speak to are in the middle of recognising the club are well run but accept they’re at least part way corrupt?’

He’s very sly about the way he goes about things rather than in your face like some other journalists. I find that worse.

 

[argyle]

He and the other usual suspects are literally and blatantly taking the piss out of the club and the fans now. And yet the club still sits back and doesn’t lift a finger to stop it. Or at worse reduce it. I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that the club don’t actually give a flying fuck about the claims of Manchester City FC being state owned. FFP cheats. Sponsorship cheats. Ticket sales attendance cheats. Under the table bungs cheats. Players wages cheats etc etc. However they may not but a lot of us actually do. So why don’t the club do something on behalf of us the fans? Because as I say they don’t give a fuck about us either. There is no other logical conclusion. Discuss:

It's because they're not so easily triggered as fans on bluemoon.

Liew has been trolling and offered up another tweet as bait and City fans did not disappoint him by biting, yet again.

City don't care about what some journalists write or the opinions of nobodies on twitter, City fans should do the same.

We're playing the best football the club has ever seen, winning almost everything, we're getting better and gaining new fans each and every year so why care about the throwaway remarks of people you don't care for or respect?

 

[LongsightM13]

Reach PLC gone full dipper on back of the mirror.

So childish.

Riddled with dippers and ex Echo types from top to bottom

 

[cheekybids]

It's because they're not so easily triggered as fans on bluemoon.

Liew has been trolling and offered up another tweet as bait and City fans did not disappoint him by biting, yet again.

City don't care about what some journalists write or the opinions of nobodies on twitter, City fans should do the same.

We're playing the best football the club has ever seen, winning almost everything, we're getting better and gaining new fans each and every year so why care about the throwaway remarks of people you don't care for or respect?

I know I shouldn’t call him a shit **** but it feels right & when they are in Tesco’s I’ll do the same. Obviously it will be TesDA for Liew.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Think you’re being “paranoid” mate ;-).

Blinkered and a little crackpotty?

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

It's because they're not so easily triggered as fans on bluemoon.

Liew has been trolling and offered up another tweet as bait and City fans did not disappoint him by biting, yet again.

City don't care about what some journalists write or the opinions of nobodies on twitter, City fans should do the same.

We're playing the best football the club has ever seen, winning almost everything, we're getting better and gaining new fans each and every year so why care about the throwaway remarks of people you don't care for or respect?

They are not throwaway remarks when they are published online by a media company to a huge global audience. They damage the club's reputation. I agree that fans shouldn't be triggered by such absurd comments but it is important for the club to defend its reputation. To publically accuse our owner of being a supporter of Putin (which is totally false) is defamatory and damaging. And I am certain that the club will certainly respond to this privately.

 

[blueju]

So he thinks we’re boring because Kev is going to assist Haaland with 4 billion goals & score a hatful each game

However, when we don’t score, we’re also boring, which proves his point?

Seems like a rational man, with perfectly rational & logical thoughts

Or maybe the Arsenham fan (says it all) knows less than my dog about soccerball

Hopefully he’ll be spotted skulking around East Manchester and made into a martyr.

 

[Prophet of Doom]

If you check out the replies to Sam Lee’s City articles on The Athletic website then you will know that he doesn’t write for City fans.

He seems to have now progressed on to snide Twitter comments.

No idea what good he thinks will come from Trolling City fans. Weird behaviour

 

[Inter Me Nan]

It's because they're not so easily triggered as fans on bluemoon.

Liew has been trolling and offered up another tweet as bait and City fans did not disappoint him by biting, yet again.

City don't care about what some journalists write or the opinions of nobodies on twitter, City fans should do the same.

We're playing the best football the club has ever seen, winning almost everything, we're getting better and gaining new fans each and every year so why care about the throwaway remarks of people you don't care for or respect?

This, just call them cunts and move on.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Football journalism in 2022 has been resorted to a parody of those fan channels. They're not even trying to hide their bias anymore. Given everything that happened in relation to the Liverpool game, surely it'll only get more pathetic from here.

That cunts grammar is shocking!
Dumb ****.