Media thread 2022/23

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The modern Manchester City are many things — a world-class team, a world-class sports project, a proxy brand for Abu Dhabi and, in the words of Amnesty International, the subject of “one of football’s most brazen attempts to ‘sportswash’ (…) a country that relies on exploited migrant labour and locks up peaceful critics and human-rights defenders”.

It says so much about English football (and indeed British life) in the 21st century that the Premier League’s dominant force is a sportswashing project for an oil-rich Middle Eastern state.

It also speaks volumes about English football governance that City were only recently charged with allegedly breaching 115 Premier League financial regulations between 2009 and 2018 — the period in which Abu Dhabi’s wealth transformed them from a downtrodden, success-starved club into a modern-day superpower.

Any kind of resolution to that case seems a long way off. Until then, the club continues to deny the allegations and the Premier League maintains the most awkward silence imaginable.
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Axel Freed said:
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
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Agreed. City would obliterate that United team at every level. City's fitness levels, technical skills, tactical nous, game management, team working etc etc. Its laughable, but highly predictable that people associated with Manches Hunidead keep referencing the great team of 1999.
 
BlueMoonday said:
Christ, Balding Barney is now going after West Ham haha. Completely joyless that c*nt.

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The irony of all of these takes is that they are reflective of the general economic discourse in the country, which is to say many people seem to be committed to enforcing a rapid race to the bottom.

“I haven’t received a raise in wages for a few years so [insert other sector worker or job class] shouldn’t be getting one, either!”

Many have been convinced by the top 10% that the solution to wealth inequality is to make everyone comprising the bottom 90% equally poor, and it has naturally extended to the sentiment of the football world, which hacks like Barney work to amplify.
 
Bez said:
Agreed. City would obliterate that United team at every level. City's fitness levels, technical skills, tactical nous, game management, team working etc etc. Its laughable, but highly predictable that people associated with Manches Hunidead keep referencing the great team of 1999.
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I’d love to see the clip of Walker schooling Vjr & asking Neville is he quite sure he’d put himself at right back.

Delusional ****!
 
stonerblue said:
That 'locks up critics and human rights defenders and exploiting foreign labour' line reminds me of England.
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One person's critic is another person's truth-teller, one person's human rights defender is another person's agitator, one person's exploitation of foreign labour is another person's trickling-down of wealth.

What makes this twat think we need a sports writer's view on any of these issues? He should stick to reporting on the football, then we can see he probably isn't very good at that either.
 
stonerblue said:
That 'locks up critics and human rights defenders and exploiting foreign labour' line reminds me of England.
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Exactly!
Also, when the UK decides to stop taking investment, oil and gas from the apparently rancid Abu Dhabi regime, then come back and complain.
And also, aren't these cunts forgetting, very conveniently, that Real Madrid have had state backing for fuckin' decades! Yet, they've been lauded to high heaven by the media these past few years/decades.
Hypocrits, and sad, biased, red-shirted, sycophantic dickheads the lot of 'em.
Drink in those salty tears as your piss boils - for the forseeable future.
 
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