Oil money and Arab money city

[laserblue]

Our owners are always referred to in the media as Arab which is their ethnicity not their nationality. Their nationality is Emirati. Ever heard or read in the media the owners of the rags, Chelsea or Villa referred to as Jewish? No, thought not.

 

[gooner6729]

I still don't think City have faced anywhere near as much resentment as Chelski. Might be different in Manchester, but in the rest of the country definitely not. There are plenty of reasons why.

- City were always quite well liked by neutrals. Chelsea were always an ugly club (hooliganism,racism,crap stadium,Ken Bates etc)

-People remember that City fans never deserted their club while Chelski had pitifully small attendances in their dark days, and even in the early days of the Premier League

- Chelski were the first club to catapult themselves to the top with petro-dollars. People had seen it all before when Mansour came in

- you share a City with United whom nobody likes

- Apart from that chavvy knob of a Chief Executive (Cook?), City didn't behave as aggressively as Chelski

- no hate figures like Terry or Cashley Hole

- the regular sackings of popular managers

- they played an unattractive style of football for most of the Abramovich era. Thats changed this season, but the perception will remain for a long time.Has any English success in Europe attracted as many snide remarks as their CL ''triumph''? Compare that to the neutral reaction to your title win.

- people know the sheikhs from horse racing

- Abramovich, like all oligarchs, is perceived by many as a criminal.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I still don't think City have faced anywhere near as much resentment as Chelski. Might be different in Manchester, but in the rest of the country definitely not. There are plenty of reasons why.

- City were always quite well liked by neutrals. Chelsea were always an ugly club (hooliganism,racism,crap stadium,Ken Bates etc)

-People remember that City fans never deserted their club while Chelski had pitifully small attendances in their dark days, and even in the early days of the Premier League

- Chelski were the first club to catapult themselves to the top with petro-dollars. People had seen it all before when Mansour came in

- you share a City with United whom nobody likes

- Apart from that chavvy knob of a Chief Executive (Cook?), City didn't behave as aggressively as Chelski

- no hate figures like Terry or Cashley Hole

- the regular sackings of popular managers

- they played an unattractive style of football for most of the Abramovich era. Thats changed this season, but the perception will remain for a long time.Has any English success in Europe attracted as many snide remarks as their CL ''triumph''? Compare that to the neutral reaction to your title win.

- people know the sheikhs from horse racing

- Abramovich, like all oligarchs, is perceived by many as a criminal.

Your posts appear, to me at least, to have developed a degree of common sense of late.

And to anyone questioning an Arsenal fan's right to post on here, he's got as much right as any other poster to be on here. This board would be much poorer without input from fans of other clubs, apart from sad rag fucks pretending to be blues. Fucking losers.

 

[LoveCity]

We've faced far more resentment from the media. But perhaps not the common football fan, May 13th showed that we're still quite liked at least compared to our neighbours when people up and down the country celebrated. Funny thing is United fans will try and convince you that no one respects what we've done because of the money, when people from north to south were elated about us pipping them to the title in the most dramatic fashion ever seen.

 

[coleridge]

We've faced far more resentment from the media. But perhaps not the common football fan, May 13th showed that we're still quite liked at least compared to our neighbours when people up and down the country celebrated. Funny thing is United fans will try and convince you that no one respects what we've done because of the money, when people from north to south were elated about us pipping them to the title in the most dramatic fashion ever seen.

Indeed.

I don't want to bang on but I said things about the media back in September 2008 which, sadly, largely remain true.

In contrast, those of us that inhabit expat bars around the world know that (1) the [generally non-Manc] Rags fear and respect us and (2) most fans of other clubs just respect us. The UK tabloid press are not a true reflection of the global view.

 

[LesBleuMiserable]

I think the fact that media are on the whole owned by proprietors of the leaning to the "right" with significant jewish influence/control may have something to do with it!

Do we remember the Garry Cook email fiasco letter and the subsequent storm well how does that compare to Spurs and their pusuit of the reported olympic committee members responsible for the stadium tenders being targeted/followed. From the last reporting there was trial going on and Spurs may have been directly implicated and West Ham were the reported victims too...heard anymore of the trial...? Thought not! Just imagine the Arab owned club had been in the shoes of Spurs...think there would have been a bit more reporting...just a bit? Think how every Tom, Dick and Harry would have been outraged about the lack of morality, criminality, pure evil etc...Bizarely nothing of the trial in the media...not even from Mr Ian Wright and who had been so outraged by Garry Cook and his conduct!

Seems no appetite unless they can print something about the Arabs...!

 

[WoahMancini]

I hate to see Islamophobia still existing. It's gotten a lot better in North America, not so sure about Europe!

 

[mcmanus]

True, you won't ever read about the rags trying to buy the league with 'Jew money'.

But why is it never referred to as 'jew money'? Or jew money united? Never read it in a paper or heard $ky even mention it ever.

Or Chelsea buying the title with 'jew money' either. Or jew money Chelsea?

A team bought by someone who goes to church is never referred to as christian this or christian that.

Why are Muslims/Arabs singled out?

 

[EalingBlue2]

American owners are nearly always referred to as such

 

[Bill]

We have faced far more than Chelsea, it's because we have hurt and continue to hurt their cash cow. Don't think the Arab / Muslim bit comes in to it.