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My article on Cook for Sabotage Times
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Sigh
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Reveal source / rat to City please Dave.
blueju
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Didsbury Dave said:It's well written and I take some of your points, but I can't agree with your main one.
I don't buy the Sun so I don't know what their overall coverage has been like of City. What I do know is they have a very good source. You'd be surprised. Trust me, really surprised.
The Sun is the most downmarket of tabloids. It prints what it's readers want: gossipy, bitchy stories usually spun from less contraversial facts. That's what it does. If people don't like that then they shouldn't buy it. I think our press is out of control, but that's a different argument. It is what it is at the moment.
City wanted to be at the top table. This sort of coverage comes with being at the top table. If we want to avoid our name being dragged through the mud then we have to be whiter than white. And Cook was a liability ultimately. A well meaning, square jawed, golf playing, cliche-spouting, belly laughing, man's man.
It was always going to end like this. The Guardian would have printed that story if they'd have got it, and Cook would have still gone.
Some City fans are shooting the messenger at the moment.
So theres no agenda? And theres no knives out for the club or insiders in and around the club still willing to destabilise us for their own end? We overestimate how much hatred our gatecrashing of the cosy top 4 cartel has caused and how many vested interests risk losing pots and pots of cash and status because of us?
No agenda,then how come the story involving the buying of Premier League clubs,which featured Brian Robson was swept under the carpet in two days,and being a "classy" club is still employed as an ambassador to MUFC,where there is a ticket tout on the board.Not a Peep from the media.
the blue panther
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If it were the case that Cook shouldn't have resigned, I can see the point of the article, but, given that he made a ridiculous error which showed him to be innefficient, uncaring and unprofessional, he had to go. He made a rod for his own back, and we shouldn't complain when he thereby invited the media to whip him with it. (In my opinion, he was very lucky that he was allowed to resign.)
Going on about the Sun's/Ian Wright's/the media's agenda just smacks of sour grapes to me. When you've gotta go, you've gotta go.
Cook, likeable though he was to many City fans, was a buffoon to the wider public, and that perception is something which City are well rid of. I think you should have balanced the article up a little to reflect this a bit more - unless you disagree with me, in which case, that's absolutely fine - but you asked for opinions.
Cheers.
Going on about the Sun's/Ian Wright's/the media's agenda just smacks of sour grapes to me. When you've gotta go, you've gotta go.
Cook, likeable though he was to many City fans, was a buffoon to the wider public, and that perception is something which City are well rid of. I think you should have balanced the article up a little to reflect this a bit more - unless you disagree with me, in which case, that's absolutely fine - but you asked for opinions.
Cheers.
Dave S
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Well written article. Top stuff.
scenecreamer
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great article, one of the most important sports stories to come along in a minute.
shame it isn't getting more exposure, this collusion between players, representatives and the press should anger every sports fan.
Cook's resignation could indeed have a very disruptive effect on our club. At this time we need stability, not more change.
shame it isn't getting more exposure, this collusion between players, representatives and the press should anger every sports fan.
Cook's resignation could indeed have a very disruptive effect on our club. At this time we need stability, not more change.
A well written and thought out article. Personally I liked Cook and the success he achieved in selling City "the brand" to markets where we had never been before. But remember the current owners inherited him and at least they showed a degree of loyalty by sticking with him in spite of his gaffes. The next CEO will be a Khaldoon appointment, and you can bet it will be the right one. I don't expect a well known name to come in, but it will be the right one.
ifiwasarichfan
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I have just got back from Spain a couple of hours ago, and this "incident" had just reared up on the Forum the day I left for my Hols.
Am I right in assuming that the initial posts on the thread this time last week where it was assumed that Cook had been in South Africa and somebody else had sent the e mail were wrong and Cook did send it - then got caught backtracking in his, what was in effect a lie?; therefore he had to resign??
Excellent writing again by Toma. "Pulitzer" stuff compared to your average Sun Journalist.
Am I right in assuming that the initial posts on the thread this time last week where it was assumed that Cook had been in South Africa and somebody else had sent the e mail were wrong and Cook did send it - then got caught backtracking in his, what was in effect a lie?; therefore he had to resign??
Excellent writing again by Toma. "Pulitzer" stuff compared to your average Sun Journalist.