Positive MCFC Articles:

[LoveCity]

 

[waspish]

How many pro Southampton articles have there been of late? Liverpool, Sunderland, Villa, Arsenal, West Brom...

What is it that you want, a constant arse lick of our club? What have we done this season to warrant the positive articles you appear to crave?

You turn everything into a negative don't you?! It's a thread to bring a balance to bluemoon that there is positives articles out there. Not "agenda" ones that you love!

 

[Groke]

Any this morning? Waiting with bated breath

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Any this morning? Waiting with bated breath

Try this one from the ToryGraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ss-following-defeat-of-Tottenham-Hotspur.html

Mancini's weekend of perfect management! I like that!

 

[The Silver Surfer]

Any this morning? Waiting with bated breath

Try this one from the ToryGraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ss-following-defeat-of-Tottenham-Hotspur.html

Mancini's weekend of perfect management! I like that!

Omg. The usual journalistic trolls will drown this out in a barrage of hating though don't you worry.

 

[Mikeegrini]

Any this morning? Waiting with bated breath

Try this one from the ToryGraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ss-following-defeat-of-Tottenham-Hotspur.html

Mancini's weekend of perfect management! I like that!

At the end of a hectic 90 minutes and a trying week there was no doubt as to the boss round the Etihad Campus: it is the bloke in the blue and white scarf.

Everything Mancini did went to plan yesterday. His team selection, his tactical switch, his substitutes: all contributed to a breathless late victory. He even managed to give Maicon a run-out against Gareth Bale without triggering alarm. The last time we had seen the two in opposition, during a Champions League tie when Tottenham eviscerated Inter Milan, the Brazilian was caused such trauma by the flying Welshman that many observers counselled immediate retirement. Yesterday there was no requirement for the services of any local taxi firms: Maicon emerged psychologically unscathed.

Mancini’s afternoon of perfect management began by leaving Mario Balotelli to watch the game from the stands, where the shy Italian sought anonymity by wearing a giant padded coat and what appeared to be a knitted pith helmet. In tricky times, the last thing the manager needed was a further test to his patience. As his side have struggled to find the spark that illuminated last autumn, he knew that the best way to emerge from the doldrums was via the application of simplicity and resolve. Rather than a preening prima donna in his line-up, he needed a team full of Gareth Barrys.

Yet even the best laid plan can start with a stutter. In the first half here, City appeared still mired in the sluggish, heavy approach work that has characterised so much of their play this season. Few could have been surprised when, with 45 minutes gone, they were behind. After leaking two goals from corners against Ajax in midweek, another failure to defend a set-piece allowed Spurs to take the lead. Steve Caulker met a free-kick with an unchallenged header that Joe Hart spooned into the net.

“We have to tighten up [on set-pieces],” City coach David Platt said. It was not a problem with systems, he added, but more simple than that: “We’ve got to get our head on the ball first.”

 

[xzbit04]

Any this morning? Waiting with bated breath

Try this one from the ToryGraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ss-following-defeat-of-Tottenham-Hotspur.html

Mancini's weekend of perfect management! I like that!

At the end of a hectic 90 minutes and a trying week there was no doubt as to the boss round the Etihad Campus: it is the bloke in the blue and white scarf.

Everything Mancini did went to plan yesterday. His team selection, his tactical switch, his substitutes: all contributed to a breathless late victory. He even managed to give Maicon a run-out against Gareth Bale without triggering alarm. The last time we had seen the two in opposition, during a Champions League tie when Tottenham eviscerated Inter Milan, the Brazilian was caused such trauma by the flying Welshman that many observers counselled immediate retirement. Yesterday there was no requirement for the services of any local taxi firms: Maicon emerged psychologically unscathed.

Mancini’s afternoon of perfect management began by leaving Mario Balotelli to watch the game from the stands, where the shy Italian sought anonymity by wearing a giant padded coat and what appeared to be a knitted pith helmet. In tricky times, the last thing the manager needed was a further test to his patience. As his side have struggled to find the spark that illuminated last autumn, he knew that the best way to emerge from the doldrums was via the application of simplicity and resolve. Rather than a preening prima donna in his line-up, he needed a team full of Gareth Barrys.

Yet even the best laid plan can start with a stutter. In the first half here, City appeared still mired in the sluggish, heavy approach work that has characterised so much of their play this season. Few could have been surprised when, with 45 minutes gone, they were behind. After leaking two goals from corners against Ajax in midweek, another failure to defend a set-piece allowed Spurs to take the lead. Steve Caulker met a free-kick with an unchallenged header that Joe Hart spooned into the net.

“We have to tighten up [on set-pieces],” City coach David Platt said. It was not a problem with systems, he added, but more simple than that: “We’ve got to get our head on the ball first.”

Easy to say when you've got a head that big tbf :p

 

[moomba]

How many pro Southampton articles have there been of late? Liverpool, Sunderland, Villa, Arsenal, West Brom...

What is it that you want, a constant arse lick of our club? What have we done this season to warrant the positive articles you appear to crave?

Read quite a good one on Southampton on the weekend as it happens.

I don't want overly positive articles, just balanced ones. The Telegraph one just before looks a good balanced read. It even contains a few negative comments about our play, but nothing that should bother anyone.

Articles like that are what we should be able to expect.

 

[Campagnolo]

How many pro Southampton articles have there been of late? Liverpool, Sunderland, Villa, Arsenal, West Brom...

What is it that you want, a constant arse lick of our club? What have we done this season to warrant the positive articles you appear to crave?

The media are only supplying what the people want. And outside of the walls of this forum, the people out there want schadenfreude at Man City's expense.

So if a story about Mario's paintjob, sells more newspapers or generates more internet hits than say a story about Colleen Rooney's handbag, then who do you think they are gonna keep reporting about as frequently as possible? And only when the public get bored of it, will the media will stop.

Many people on here are far too precious and need to be thick skinned. This pro rag media agenda is pure nonsence. The biggest story of last year was Giggs shagging glamour models and his sister in law, and the year before that it was Rooney shagging hookers. People also tend to forget that the person whom all this agenda blame is focused on, SAF, was the victim himself of a five year long media campaign where he was slaughtered by the tabloids from 86 - 91. It was what the public wanted at the time.

 

[moomba]

How many pro Southampton articles have there been of late? Liverpool, Sunderland, Villa, Arsenal, West Brom...

What is it that you want, a constant arse lick of our club? What have we done this season to warrant the positive articles you appear to crave?

The media are only supplying what the people want. And outside of the walls of this forum, the people out there want schadenfreude at Man City's expense.

So if a story about Mario's paintjob, sells more newspapers or generates more internet hits than say a story about Colleen Rooney's handbag, then who do you think they are gonna keep reporting about as frequently as possible? And only when the public get bored of it, will the media will stop.

Many people on here are far too precious and need to be thick skinned. This pro rag media agenda is pure nonsence. The biggest story of last year was Giggs shagging glamour models and his sister in law, and the year before that it was Rooney shagging hookers. People also tend to forget that the person whom all this agenda blame is focused on, SAF, was the victim himself of a five year long media campaign where he was slaughtered by the tabloids from 86 - 91. It was what the public wanted at the time.

Media should be about more than what people want, particularly if what people want is a person or organisation getting unfairly maligned.

I don't see why we need to just accept that, and thankfully on this occasion it seems the club doesn't either.