Media thread 2022/23

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johnevans said:
Excellent article by Matt Dickinson, thanks for posting. MD could've added a couple of things to his review of the history of this kind of football we've been witnessing from City in recent years:

1 Jack Reynolds
Started at City with his brother in the late 1890s as a right-winger. Didn't play for the first team (had some Welsh herbert ahead of him, name of Meredith..!) and pursued a career in the lower divisions.

Eventually went into coaching, mainly in Holland between the wars, where he eventually developed the style of play which bloomed post-WWII into the 'Dutch School', further shaped by fellow Englishman Vic Buckingham (ex-Sheff Wed and Fulham), then Ernst Happel and Rinus Michels, managers of THAT Dutch squad of the 1970s.

Among many of the things espoused by Reynolds, his observation 'We ignore the wings at our peril' (ie 'stretch the play and space available') was one of the most important tactical set-ups that his followers took on board.

And, of course, everything that developed within that amazing Dutch squad was taken on board by Johann Cruyff, who went to Barcelona and Arigho Sacchi, who took it to AC Milan.

But initially it was all the brainchild of Jack Reynolds, who started at 'lickle' City and is to this day referred to as 'The Father of Dutch Football'!

2 Jonathan Wilson
His excellent, outstanding book, referred to above by MD, ends at the time when Sacchi's AC Milan's dominance had just concluded. Wilson describes how Sacchi mused on what might be coming next, how (or even if?) football might find ways to develop into the next iteration. Wilson's final chapter has him wondering, like Sacchi, if there actually could be new direction(s) for football to follow?

Of course, we now know that Guardiola's Barcelona was taking shape there and then, under the guidance of Cruyff behind the scenes.

And now City.. how blessed are we to see such wonders?!
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If only the sports editor thought erm do a little extra research to add depth & insight to the article rather than just "its ok just add a few bits about state wealth to pad it out and publish".
 
whipper said:
Playing fifa 99 maybe :)
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This has just reminded me, think Tuesday night in the Muen they did a simulation of the semifinal on a computer game FIFA maybe??

Anyway Madrid beat us 4 - 2, course they would! Just standard dogshit reporting from our "local" paper. Think a lot of these churnos are going to be replaced by chat GP, pretty soon.....
 
PPT said:
Holt is everything that is bad about the shameful English football media. He really is an ego on legs. If he was a lollipop he would lick himself to death. I wouldn't wipe my arse anything that he writes. A self important, pompous prick of the highest order.
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Agreed, he doesnt reply to emails, he is so far up himself, in his convertable .
 
Aba452 said:
This has just reminded me, think Tuesday night in the Muen they did a simulation of the semifinal on a computer game FIFA maybe??

Anyway Madrid beat us 4 - 2, course they would! Just standard dogshit reporting from our "local" paper. Think a lot of these churnos are going to be replaced by chat GP, pretty soon.....
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Don’t forget The Sun “Supercomputer“ of Manchester United 99 v Manchester City 23 game they predicted the outcome of.


Spoiler alert. It wasn’t City.
 
MCFC1993 said:



Jesus. The Guardian are scraping the barrel with this.
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"Share your views" my arse.
Give us your clicks, cretins, as we can't make money selling newspapers anymore, and someone may give you a like.
Oh, btw, we aren't even a newspaper anymore as we're going to create the "news" depending upon what you tell us.
 
jrb said:
The floppy haired **** moving the goalposts already. Didn't take him long.

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Chatting with a mate of mine last night who now lives over in Vancouver about Istanbul. We came to the conclusion it might be best abd wait and see if we made Wembley next season. We joked that the football world will implode if we complete a double treble at a 3/4 full Wembley..
 
The Viking said:
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Holt?
Posted this about him earlier in another thread:-
Well, having seen this bumbling troglodite numerous times, trying to express an opinion on the old Sunday Supplement, it's not surprising really that the City-hating member of the click-baiting, red-sympathising football press pack comes to that conclusion - and, who are we to argue?
I guess that near footballing perfection counts for nothing against the scum's extremely lucky win in 1999, equalising and getting their winner at the death of the match. A match in which they had 53% possession overall. And, not forgetting, the scum finished runners-up in the league with 77 points to Arsenal's 78, and hadn't qualified for the tournament as champions in their home competition the previous season.
Some pupils can't even recognise a masterclass when it's provided to them for free.
Stupid, or, clickbaiting? It cannot be serious journalism - which is stating the obvious really, as it's Oliver Holt.
 
Aba452 said:
Stockport fan, my arse!

Funny how CAS result has been ignored, how he ignores the input from the very top of rags and dippers and attempts to orchestrate this ?

Tousle haired scruffy rag apologist.
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He’s an absolute joke but this is no joke to Oliver, he’s absolutely seething hence his full bingo card of anti City cliches ….. State this state that, FFP blah blah blah

Comparing our evisceration of the reigning European champions to the rags’ fortunate win at Juve thanks to a couple of breakaway goals just has the look of a deluded desperate rag battling against the mountains of evidence that show present day City to be levels above that Utd team
 
You know when you go to the zoo and a chimp or a gorilla throw shit at you, it does so because that’s what they do - this is what we are up against with Gorilver Holt, Miguel Deluded et al. We should do no more than look and laugh and move on because they will always be “that side of the glass”.
 
To be fair to Holt, at least the **** waited until after the game before drawing unfavourable comparisons with united’s semi final in 1999.

In contrast, Herbert had the complete absence of professional self-respect to declare united’s treble win to be superior before we’d won a single trophy. Talk about desperate.

Some journalists are certainly better at hiding their bias than others.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
To be fair to Holt, at least the **** waited until after the game before drawing unfavourable comparisons with united’s semi final in 1999.

In contrast, Herbert had the complete absence of professional self-respect to declare united’s treble win to be superior before we’d won a single trophy. Talk about desperate.

Some journalists are certainly better at hiding their bias than others.
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Would love to re enact the final scene in the Great Escape, round every one of these twats up, drive them up to moors and shoot the fuckin lot of em.
 
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