Media thread 2022/23

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Ajm1985 said:
Completely agree - and on your 'o' vs 'ou' example you are correct. Latin was 'o', Old French added the 'u' and then I think both variants were fine for use in American and British English. From memory, it was the Americans who then decided to stick with just the 'o' and that caused the current division. They removed quite a few compound vowels & ligatures (ae is quite a common difference as well) as well. Probably because some of them are unnecessary and English has far too many silent letters.
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Lazy fuckers ;)
 
Onholiday(somemightsay) said:
It's actually a great insight for however many minutes that segment lasts.

Guardiola looks thoroughly fed up and the sheer distain that he openly shows the fuckwit sports 'jounalists' is a joy to behold.

They are absolutely steeling a living - absolutely no fucking thought at all put into those questions and nothing remotely interesting or unique about them.

Pep is bang on, we'd be hung drawn and quartered if we had spent Chelsea's sum* and seemingly none of the journo's would expand on it when Pep calls it out or when he refers to our net spend (5th) as it would show themselves up (similar with usual reporting of our achievements and the treatment of Sterling etc etc).

* Needless to say, I have absolutely no problem with Chelsea's spend - I enjoy the competition and hopefully they help to force the ugly sisters at either end of the East Lancs consistently out of the Top 4.

Cheers Pep, made my evening.........
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Thanks for posting, enjoyed that.
 
wolviedinho said:
The racist/stifle competition attacks has backfired big time on the cartel. Forget the media war as we unfortunately are along way from winning that but what we have won is a shit load of trophies and grown the club organically after a huge cash injection.

I would say the abuse galvanised the club. It’s always good to have extra motivation and the hateful 8/9 with Uefa underhand tactics certainly did just that.

Thanks to all who participated in our rise. Never make it personal. It’s only business -:)
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We know that net spend comparisons are no longer used but isn’t it strange that the original club purchase price isn’t involved in any calculations.

It makes me think that the sportswashing bollox was to force Mansour into offloading City by bringing unwanted attention. If you measured every metric for purchasing City, investment, sporting success you’d give it A+ but surely it’s an E- for PR for Abu Dhabi.
 
Inca Roads Bert said:
Being the UK the 52nd murrican state, y'all Mancs need to go the extra mile and touch down with modern english. Adopt a valley girl accent so subtitles won't be needed when y'all are on the tv breaking news. Y'all gotta have this in your locker but ain't realized yet while eating barms instead of muffins.
Btw, y'all british media are cunts, caint hold a candle to murrican televangelists, period.
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What's the 51st?
 
Sky spitting feathers with pep’s comments about city being 5/6th biggest spenders over the last few years lol. Getting people on to make themselves look like idiots. Spewing and splotching their words like caged animals trying desperately to get enough negative superlatives into one sentence. Haha bunch of fuckers.
 
petrusha said:
Thanks, Colin. I felt that he was looking down his nose at City fans a couple of times in the past, but what really finished me with him once and for all was his attitude on the Why Always Us? podcast in the summer. The Athletic hired a general football writer last May whose name I forget, but his first piece was a laughable alternative account of what could have happened the CL final in which, instead of Real winning 1-0, Liverpool romped to a 5-1 win. I'd never read anything as ridiculous in my life, let alone in a supposed quality publication.

The same guy produced a piece in July, after we signed Erling Haaland, claiming that Haaland was just as likely to fail as to succeed, and then setting out why in a lengthy article. Obviously, City fans thought it ridiculous, but it was the "just as likely to fail or succeed" line that was really to blame. If he'd said that no transfer is absolutely guaranteed to succeed, outlined how it could pay off but then explored reasons why it possibly might not, no one could have complained. People were riled the statement that implied there was a significant chance of Haaland being a flop before giddily trying to argue that he would.

This was symptomatic of The Athletic seeking clicks from other teams' fans when writing about City. But on the podcast, Sam sneered at us for objecting to the piece, claiming we couldn't take criticism of the club. Pure gaslighting. Well, Mr Lee, when you have a moment for reflection, you might care to wonder how you had a fantastic opportunity to write about the country's most successful club for a supposedly ground-breaking new quality publication, but have managed to royally fuck it up and make large numbers of their fans totally hostile to you.
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He’s a wankstain.
 
frothy said:
Who the fuck is this Scottish woman on Sky Sports slaging City and and Pep off? and defending Chelsea for their spending and the prick from the Sun Charlie Wyte
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A talkshite stand in who supports Celtic and pretends to want England to do well. Another paid shill who is not fit to lave Mr Guardiola's boots along with the rest of them.
 
No matter how much Pep gets bored of these people, they're are 10 yrs in to collect click on their attacks on the blue side of Manchester.
The guy is a coach not a fucking Tony Wilson
 
frothy said:
Who the fuck is this Scottish woman on Sky Sports slaging City and and Pep off? and defending Chelsea for their spending and the prick from the Sun Charlie Wyte
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Watching the replay, correct he’s certainly a prick.
 
wolviedinho said:
Sky spitting feathers with pep’s comments about city being 5/6th biggest spenders over the last few years lol. Getting people on to make themselves look like idiots. Spewing and splotching their words like caged animals trying desperately to get enough negative superlatives into one sentence. Haha bunch of fuckers.
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Simply pandering to their main subscribers, rags and dippers.
 
Every cloud and all that. All the appreciation for Cancelo in the media could help us to get a decent price for Jao. We might need them to move on to Kalvin Phillips before too long.

Turning to player purchase prices. All the bin dippers who say Darwin Nunez only cost £64mil, when I tell them he was £85mil, insisted Raheem Sterling was £50mil rather than £45mil. Football is full of hypocrisy.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Every cloud and all that. All the appreciation for Cancelo in the media could help us to get a decent price for Jao. We might need them to move on to Kalvin Phillips before too long.

Turning to player purchase prices. All the bin dippers who say Darwin Nunez only cost £64mil, when I tell them he was £85mil, insisted Raheem Sterling was £50mil rather than £45mil. Football is full of hypocrisy.
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And QPR received something like £10m of the Sterling fee

Something I picked up on in the Guardiola presser was when he spoke of centre halves and the Akanji signing he stopped himself from saying John is "always " injured
 
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