I try to avoid coming on here too often, but when I see falsehoods being peddled, I think they need rectifying, so here are a few points:
1. To my knowledge, the MEN has never had a problem with either Mark Hughes or Roberto Mancini, in my time as City reporter, so does the poster have any evidence to back up this claim?
2. Anti-City bias? Why would we? Why would any business deliberately set out to alienate a large portion of its market? People read what they want to read, and see what they want to see - check out my twitter timeline for United fans slagging off the MEN's anti-United bias on a piece I wrote last week. Many Utd fans call us the Manchester Evening Blues - they are equally one-eyed.
3. This report that City were "selling half of the team" - when was this? Provide us with a link, eh?
I think I know the piece to which you are referring, and it doesn't say any such thing. If you are trying to make a good point, which some posters on this thread have done, lying and twisting the truth simply weakens your argument.
4. Peter Spencer is NOT, and never has been, a United fan.
5. Again, a poster said the MEN had "ignored" Utd's IPO float story when it broke six weeks ago. So what it is this?
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As someone who won the Football Supporters' Federation's Sports Writer of the Year award in 2006 for my coverage of the Glazer takeover, coverage which angered United enormously, I find it ridiculous that the MEN is accused of soft-pedalling on such issues - we wrote more criticism of United, of Ferguson, of Gill than any other paper in the world at that time, and the sports editor and editor both sanctioned it knowing that Utd we less than happy, and that it would impact our access to the club. How, exactly, does that fit in with this mythical pro-United bias?
6. The comparison of the two RvP stories on the two sections of the site - in what way does that convey anti-City bias exactly? I did not work on those stories, but my guess is that our Utd man got something from a contact which indicated Utd were in a strong position.
7. How is the portrayal of the Nick Powell story anti-City? If he had joined City, the headline would have been exactly the same in reverse. For what it's worth, the lad who looks after sport on our website, writing the headlines, is a big City fan - and no, he is not told he has to write the headlines in a way which undermines City. It's bollocks, to be frank.
