Wonder if I'll get a response?
Mick Dennis,
How on earth can you call yourself a journalist when you can't even get basic facts right? Your anti Manchester City agenda is obviously clouding your judgement.
I am sure I will not be the first to point this out to you, but Adebayor and Tevez were both signed by Mark Hughes. Who has indeed been sacked. Which you no doubt had an agenda with at the time, as most of the media were up in arms over a club sacking a manager who had spent £100+ million and ended in up a worse position than he started. Just so you know, Sven finished 9th Hughes finished 10th.
Other players signed by Hughes include, Rocky Santa Cruz and Wayne Bridge. I guess these would be players included in your conclusion.. "City, nobody bats an eyelid at the most profligate accumulation of unwanted players the English game has ever known". Nobody bats an eyelid, I take it you don't understand the concept of irony? With this highly inaccurate and woefully thought out piece, you are indeed 'batting an eyelid'.
Again, as widely reported City are not actually paying Tevez, I'm assuming your journalistic instincts escaped you when the facts were there to be discovered, facts that you may have had to use to write about City in a positive light. Why all the negativity about City's money? It's not borrowed, it's not stolen, it's not costing anyone anything. Yet a brilliant and generous man, Sheikh Mansour is investing his own wealth in our game. Yes he buys high profile players and pays high profile wages, but what about the good he does? Could Swindon have employed Di Canio if City had not invested in Alex Henshall? Would Hyde United be in the position they are in now without City's investment? Perhaps you should look at the good we do before condemning the money.
I would like to see you write an article explaining how Sheikh Mansour's investment in a deprived area of the City is bad, how the development of world class sporting and educational facilities is bad for East Manchester. Please do write an article on how the ailing football economy and for that matter how the British economy has suffered due to a fresh injection of some £600 million.
As for the officiating and the supposed agenda. Why not be original? Why not actually be the first journalist to actually highlight that Mancini is not simply asking for everyone to be sent off? Mancini like the City fans, the ones who buy the tickets, the ones reading the papers, the ones that indirectly allow you to work are rightly so wondering where the parity is. You highlight the Richards penalty, it was a in no way a penalty, you fail to mention the Dzeko penalty, if converted, that would have made it 0-2 at half time. granted that would have depended upon a basic level of officiating. The irony/injustice comes for me with the winner for Liverpool, whilst Vincent Kompany is sat in the stands, Glenn Johnson is playing a vital role in Bellamy's goal. Can you not see why this may just irk Mancini and the City fans? Two almost identical tackles, one punished with a four game ban, on punished with a throw in? Who would not get aggrieved at such a blatant injustice. I actually think Kompany should have seen red, therefore so should Glenn Johnson. The decisions going against us are hard to take, especially as similar decisions that should go for us, are not being given. See Anfield Wednesday for this. One penalty missed for us, one wrongly given against us.
Take Balotelli, yes he was lucky to escape a red on the day, I personally think Howard Webb did see it, regardless Mario was rightly retrospectively punished after a media out cry, where was the media furore over Crouch's eye gouge?
It's the inconsistencies and media bias that are driving City fans mad. Take Mancini and Redknapp. Mancini again rightly so is slaughtered in the media for his imaginary card waving, yet Redknapp can effectively give a post match interview lambasting Balotelli, and even going to the extreme lengths of suggesting that Balotelli has previous for 'head stamping' I have searched the Internet, racked my brain, and can find no evidence of Mario ever stamping on a prone player. He has two Red cards in the Premiership, both incredibly harsh(West Brom 2010-11 & Liverpool 2011-12) I'm sure you'll agree.
I would guess that Mancini is not asking or expecting all decisions to be correct or even go our way but just for some modicum of parity. If Kompany is banned so be it, but lets not have the injustice of Glenn Johnson popping up to create the winner in a cup semi. A game he would have indeed missed if all things were equal.
I patiently await your response,
Yours faithfully,
Christopher, City season ticket holder of 22 years.
Mick Dennis,
How on earth can you call yourself a journalist when you can't even get basic facts right? Your anti Manchester City agenda is obviously clouding your judgement.
I am sure I will not be the first to point this out to you, but Adebayor and Tevez were both signed by Mark Hughes. Who has indeed been sacked. Which you no doubt had an agenda with at the time, as most of the media were up in arms over a club sacking a manager who had spent £100+ million and ended in up a worse position than he started. Just so you know, Sven finished 9th Hughes finished 10th.
Other players signed by Hughes include, Rocky Santa Cruz and Wayne Bridge. I guess these would be players included in your conclusion.. "City, nobody bats an eyelid at the most profligate accumulation of unwanted players the English game has ever known". Nobody bats an eyelid, I take it you don't understand the concept of irony? With this highly inaccurate and woefully thought out piece, you are indeed 'batting an eyelid'.
Again, as widely reported City are not actually paying Tevez, I'm assuming your journalistic instincts escaped you when the facts were there to be discovered, facts that you may have had to use to write about City in a positive light. Why all the negativity about City's money? It's not borrowed, it's not stolen, it's not costing anyone anything. Yet a brilliant and generous man, Sheikh Mansour is investing his own wealth in our game. Yes he buys high profile players and pays high profile wages, but what about the good he does? Could Swindon have employed Di Canio if City had not invested in Alex Henshall? Would Hyde United be in the position they are in now without City's investment? Perhaps you should look at the good we do before condemning the money.
I would like to see you write an article explaining how Sheikh Mansour's investment in a deprived area of the City is bad, how the development of world class sporting and educational facilities is bad for East Manchester. Please do write an article on how the ailing football economy and for that matter how the British economy has suffered due to a fresh injection of some £600 million.
As for the officiating and the supposed agenda. Why not be original? Why not actually be the first journalist to actually highlight that Mancini is not simply asking for everyone to be sent off? Mancini like the City fans, the ones who buy the tickets, the ones reading the papers, the ones that indirectly allow you to work are rightly so wondering where the parity is. You highlight the Richards penalty, it was a in no way a penalty, you fail to mention the Dzeko penalty, if converted, that would have made it 0-2 at half time. granted that would have depended upon a basic level of officiating. The irony/injustice comes for me with the winner for Liverpool, whilst Vincent Kompany is sat in the stands, Glenn Johnson is playing a vital role in Bellamy's goal. Can you not see why this may just irk Mancini and the City fans? Two almost identical tackles, one punished with a four game ban, on punished with a throw in? Who would not get aggrieved at such a blatant injustice. I actually think Kompany should have seen red, therefore so should Glenn Johnson. The decisions going against us are hard to take, especially as similar decisions that should go for us, are not being given. See Anfield Wednesday for this. One penalty missed for us, one wrongly given against us.
Take Balotelli, yes he was lucky to escape a red on the day, I personally think Howard Webb did see it, regardless Mario was rightly retrospectively punished after a media out cry, where was the media furore over Crouch's eye gouge?
It's the inconsistencies and media bias that are driving City fans mad. Take Mancini and Redknapp. Mancini again rightly so is slaughtered in the media for his imaginary card waving, yet Redknapp can effectively give a post match interview lambasting Balotelli, and even going to the extreme lengths of suggesting that Balotelli has previous for 'head stamping' I have searched the Internet, racked my brain, and can find no evidence of Mario ever stamping on a prone player. He has two Red cards in the Premiership, both incredibly harsh(West Brom 2010-11 & Liverpool 2011-12) I'm sure you'll agree.
I would guess that Mancini is not asking or expecting all decisions to be correct or even go our way but just for some modicum of parity. If Kompany is banned so be it, but lets not have the injustice of Glenn Johnson popping up to create the winner in a cup semi. A game he would have indeed missed if all things were equal.
I patiently await your response,
Yours faithfully,
Christopher, City season ticket holder of 22 years.