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[BillyMC]

fair play to Stuart Brennan for coming on here to defend his paper

however I'm afraid I could never believe what a journalist says!!!

Stuart Brennan nicks most of his scoops off BlueMoon....dont you Stuart...provided its not too controversial...wouldnt like to upset Cookie would we Stuart.

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Just to make a point or two here.
The reason City were not on the back page, as Oakiecokie has pointed out, is that the later sports news now goes on the pull-out, so City were on the cover of the pull-out and three pages inside.
The very same happened to United on Monday - they won their opening game and the back page story was Micah Richards talking about City.
With tight deadlines for evening games, these kind of things have to be done.
To answer the last point, the only person "culled" in the last round of redundancies was a Red.
Chris Bailey left voluntarily to work for City.
At a quick tot-up, that means there are now five Reds and five Blues on a 13-man sports desk covering the MEN and the weekly papers.
Just for the record, the main moderator on our website is also a Blue.
Just try taking a step back and put things in context sometimes.
There is no anti-City agenda at the MEN - we would have to be commercially suicidal to do so.
United fans call us the Manchester Evening Blues, as they only see the stuff they regard as being anti-United and ignore all the positive stuff.

Stuart-can't you just reemploy Chris Brierley? Albeit a red nose he is a good friend and a fantastic journalist.!!