Media thread 2022/23

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mad4city said:
This post is just a little aside as much as anything else but just about noteworthy all the same.

Denis Irwin was interviewed on RTE 6 o Clock News this evening. Man Utd are playing a friendly in Dublin and he was wheeled out for some promo pics etc. (the United shirt he wore had no main sponsor on it by the way).

The entire piece - a story about Manchester United coming to Dublin to play some other crowd, remember - was announced as "Coming up after the break Denis Irwin gives his verdict on Manchester City winning the treble".

To be fair to Irwin, he was respectful, if maybe a bit resigned about City ("they're up there now for the rest to aim at and take them down").

Now, I remember in 2012, City in the Community brought the FA Cup over to Ireland and all the media wanted to talk to Patrick Vieira about was Roy Keane this and Man Utd that...

Now, it's gone full circle. United were trying to promote themselves but being cornered into answering questions about Manchester City. City's was the name being used for audience retention o that evening's news

As I say, just a passing observation on my part - and only a small moment in the grand scheme of things but I thought it was worth sharing.
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Pound for pound think Dennis Irwin was Fergusons best outfield signing and didn't seem a twat unlike Beckham, Giggs etc
 
mad4city said:
This post is just a little aside as much as anything else but just about noteworthy all the same.

Denis Irwin was interviewed on RTE 6 o Clock News this evening. Man Utd are playing a friendly in Dublin and he was wheeled out for some promo pics etc. (the United shirt he wore had no main sponsor on it by the way).

The entire piece - a story about Manchester United coming to Dublin to play some other crowd, remember - was announced as "Coming up after the break Denis Irwin gives his verdict on Manchester City winning the treble".

To be fair to Irwin, he was respectful, if maybe a bit resigned about City ("they're up there now for the rest to aim at and take them down").

Now, I remember in 2012, City in the Community brought the FA Cup over to Ireland and all the media wanted to talk to Patrick Vieira about was Roy Keane this and Man Utd that...

Now, it's gone full circle. United were trying to promote themselves but being cornered into answering questions about Manchester City. City's was the name being used for audience retention o that evening's news

As I say, just a passing observation on my part - and only a small moment in the grand scheme of things but I thought it was worth sharing.
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Seeing a lot of City shirts about here now on children.

I’ve actually had United and Liverpool fans complain about this to me calling them glory hunters.

Yes that’s Irish Man Utd and L’pool fans who grew up in the 80s and 90s criticising young kids now for supporting city
 
I’d like to announce the start of my Defund the Daily Telegraph .
I am cancelling my subscription as I refuse to pay for their so called ‘football writers’ who are basically just a bunch of rag/scouse sycophants.
Oliver Brown
Sam Wallace
James Burt
Ducker
Carragher
Tell them why you are cancelling/ bias twats.
 
schfc6 said:
ITK’s often have been told something in good faith. Players change their mind. I was told by someone very prominent in the game that Hazard was a done deal. Everything agreed till he and Mancini butter heads over the position he would be played.

I think us crushing Madrid lead them to act in desperation, they may well have blown our deal out of the water. Make no mistakes about it, that 4-0 crushing changed the landscape of European football.
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No better example of when Sturidge was banned for texting his brother who placed a bet on his transfer. He was banned despite not signing for the club.

Bookies really have a cheek…

www.bbc.com

Sturridge devastated by four-month ban

Former Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge says he is "devastated" following his four-month ban from football for breaching betting rules.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
 
schfc6 said:
ITK’s often have been told something in good faith. Players change their mind. I was told by someone very prominent in the game that Hazard was a done deal. Everything agreed till he and Mancini butter heads over the position he would be played.

I think us crushing Madrid lead them to act in desperation, they may well have blown our deal out of the water. Make no mistakes about it, that 4-0 crushing changed the landscape of European football.
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I was being sarcastic but not doing it very well
 
PPT said:
I trust Tolmie more than I trust anyone else in the media. They just literally make stuff up. Nobody is going to be bang on 100% of the time. Football just doesn’t work like that.
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Yes me too. I value his posts but was being sarcastic as I thought Sergio 1970 was being.
 
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nellyonthewing said:
I’d like to announce the start of my Defund the Daily Telegraph .
I am cancelling my subscription as I refuse to pay for their so called ‘football writers’ who are basically just a bunch of rag/scouse sycophants.
Oliver Brown
Sam Wallace
James Burt
Ducker
Carragher
Tell them why you are cancelling/ bias twats.
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I don’t subscribe but I’ve deleted the link to it where I use a paywall remover.
fcuk em
 
We, as fans, take the hit from all the media sh1te. If you look at it from the City business point of view; they don’t do confrontation, it only leads to more bad headlines and nothing changes, in fact it only makes it worse. So maybe they have it right. Ask yourself, from a business point of view, has all the bad press effected our winning of trophies? Has it effected our income in any way be it fans in stadiums, selling merchandise, lack of sponsorship etc? No it hasn’t. We are the fastest growing club in the world and non of this sh1te is effecting the bottom line.

’Taking on’ the media as some on here advocate would be a total waste of time. I have said for years that the best way to tackle them is ignore. The media hate a vacuum. Don’t react to the numpties and most of all don’t buy a paper either hard or soft copy. I haven’t bought a paper in 30 years, do the same, bin Sky or just watch with the City commentary like I do. I can’t believe, after all that is said on here, why people still listen to TalkSh1te, bin it for Christs sake - they want you to react that is what makes them money. I have actually learnt not to hear or react to snide remarks made in public - it makes the speaker feel like a cûnt, they only do it to get a reaction. True friends will not give you grief.
 
Have a feeling a complete 180 will happen soon regarding Qatar human rights issues. Qatar in fact will be the biggest democracy, a good arabic country, an example in the Middle East.

Can you imagine the journos called City fans rats and all will go and do the same to rag fans? More like it would be long articles what western democracies can learn from Qatar and stuff.
 
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