so this agenda thing.

[Dribble]

The agenda is quite simple here.

Discount any domestic success we achieve ( only 'bought' it, should have won it by ten points etc), and then move the goalposts for 'success' to winning the Champions league. Until we win it then they can always claim that we are failures. If ( sorry when ) we win it then move the goalposts to 'winning it as a one off will not satisfy the Sheikh' and so on.

The article is just following this pattern.

I actually find the article quite amusing. Anybody with an ounce of common sense can see it for what it is, sensationalist bullshit.

I spoke to a Rag family member a few weeks ago and amidst all the banter I asked him a serious question about our coverage in the media and City's public perception and to his credit, he hit the nail on the head when he admitted, he feared us because we'd upset the old order and had the money to dominate for a generation. He went on to admit that if FFP was the only way to stop our advance, then so be it. So there you have it, just further proof of what we already know.

I'll ask a serious question of all of us which is one which was returned to me during that conversation; 'In all honestly, if you were in our (ManUre's) position, wouldn't you feel the same and want City to disappear into a massive sinkhole? I suppose if a former minnow was threatening my status and revenue, as much as it pains me to say it I suppose I'd feel the same. The only reason some of us wouldn't feel like that IMO would probably be because the pain of being everyone's favourite joke is still raw to most of us, but could the same be said if we'd had a generation of dominance and untold success?

Even the bitterest of memories fade with time.

 

[bernabias home shirt]

Well what a fuckin surprise, the game of the day on SNF is the rags..
Now correct me if I'm wrong but the game with the most goals always got put on first...
Please don't let this be a week of another rag wankfest because they've won a game...
For fuck sake.

Those bastards at MOTD mustn't have read the script. Still don't understand why people obsess over TV running orders so much. Why would anyone give a shit?!

Folk on here are obsessed with the rags and that's the reason
And it's fucking sad tbh as they are not even competing on our level anymore.

 

[Newman Noggs]

The answer to your question is no. I would never accept City trying to wipe out an opponent through off-the-field machinations. But then, I never supported City simply to watch us win trophies.

 

[SilverFox2]

Perhaps the answer to this unreasonable journalism that actually writes with its biggest potential market in mind is for Sheik M. to purchase a National Daily.
No need for any of this chasing circulation nonsense, proper pro MCFC articles with editors who insist on writing the truth whatever the cost.

Pointless asking ADUG to do the deal because they would see all things as an investment and start listening to the people who tell them where their customers are likely to be which may distort the objective.

With Sheik M. at the helm he could use his wealth to prop up the drop in circulation the policy would bring but at least we would have a paper that other clubs could only aspire to.

Am I glad Sheik M. decided to finance ADUG to INVEST rather than take an Oil Magnates punt on a football team.

 

[Len Rum]

The agenda is quite simple here.

Discount any domestic success we achieve ( only 'bought' it, should have won it by ten points etc), and then move the goalposts for 'success' to winning the Champions league. Until we win it then they can always claim that we are failures. If ( sorry when ) we win it then move the goalposts to 'winning it as a one off will not satisfy the Sheikh' and so on.

The article is just following this pattern.

I actually find the article quite amusing. Anybody with an ounce of common sense can see it for what it is, sensationalist bullshit.

I spoke to a Rag family member a few weeks ago and amidst all the banter I asked him a serious question about our coverage in the media and City's public perception and to his credit, he hit the nail on the head when he admitted, he feared us because we'd upset the old order and had the money to dominate for a generation. He went on to admit that if FFP was the only way to stop our advance, then so be it. So there you have it, just further proof of what we already know.

I'll ask a serious question of all of us which is one which was returned to me during that conversation; 'In all honestly, if you were in our (ManUre's) position, wouldn't you feel the same and want City to disappear into a massive sinkhole? I suppose if a former minnow was threatening my status and revenue, as much as it pains me to say it I suppose I'd feel the same. The only reason some of us wouldn't feel like that IMO would probably be because the pain of being everyone's favourite joke is still raw to most of us, but could the same be said if we'd had a generation of dominance and untold success?

Even the bitterest of memories fade with time.

No reason to accept it though.
I don't suffer from Stockholm syndrome so I think we should give it back to them when they dish it out.
They don't like it.
A few journos were made to eat humble pie when we won the Prem last season.

 

[Dribble]

The agenda is quite simple here.

Discount any domestic success we achieve ( only 'bought' it, should have won it by ten points etc), and then move the goalposts for 'success' to winning the Champions league. Until we win it then they can always claim that we are failures. If ( sorry when ) we win it then move the goalposts to 'winning it as a one off will not satisfy the Sheikh' and so on.

The article is just following this pattern.

I actually find the article quite amusing. Anybody with an ounce of common sense can see it for what it is, sensationalist bullshit.

I spoke to a Rag family member a few weeks ago and amidst all the banter I asked him a serious question about our coverage in the media and City's public perception and to his credit, he hit the nail on the head when he admitted, he feared us because we'd upset the old order and had the money to dominate for a generation. He went on to admit that if FFP was the only way to stop our advance, then so be it. So there you have it, just further proof of what we already know.

I'll ask a serious question of all of us which is one which was returned to me during that conversation; 'In all honestly, if you were in our (ManUre's) position, wouldn't you feel the same and want City to disappear into a massive sinkhole? I suppose if a former minnow was threatening my status and revenue, as much as it pains me to say it I suppose I'd feel the same. The only reason some of us wouldn't feel like that IMO would probably be because the pain of being everyone's favourite joke is still raw to most of us, but could the same be said if we'd had a generation of dominance and untold success?

Even the bitterest of memories fade with time.

No reason to accept it though.
I don't suffer from Stockholm syndrome so I think we should give it back to them when they dish it out.
They don't like it.
A few journos were made to eat humble pie when we won the Prem last season.

It's not about accepting anything Len, I find it galls them more when I just look at them and burst out laughing when they talk shite to me. :-)

It's all such bollocks, they usually stop trying to defend the ridiculous because they themselves become a part of it and if they've got more than one brain cell, not wanting to look like a right arse is generally the emotion that follows.

I was stood with a bunch of Rags at a funeral earlier this year and I could see the pain in their faces as I just laughed at them as they trotted out their bullshit diatribe against us. TBH mate, I wouldn't give them the satisfaction of anything more than a belly laugh as a response because to argue against the ridiculous is to become a part of it.

I have the same mind set with those god people who haven't got ONE shred of evidence to back up their claims. I've got more chance of proving the existence of fairies than they have of proving their beliefs so I just leave them to get all hot and bothered trying to prove the impossible. :-) But I digress as that's something for another forum. I feel that even getting into a debate with your average Rag based on articles like the aforementioned gives their ludicrous claims the credence of debate which they're not going to get from me........

 

[uwe rosler 28]

Was reading the match report in the star today and the guy who wrote it (doolan I think ) said a 4-2 victory for a very unimpressive city! How can you not be impressed by a team that scores 4 away from home! Also every time he mentioned mangala it was the 32 million pound man not mangala! Is it only our players that get called by what we paid for them? Never hear them call zaba and vinny by what we paid for them!

 

[City Glory While Others Fade]

Was reading the match report in the star today and the guy who wrote it (doolan I think ) said a 4-2 victory for a very unimpressive city! How can you not be impressed by a team that scores 4 away from home! Also every time he mentioned mangala it was the 32 million pound man not mangala! Is it only our players that get called by what we paid for them? Never hear them call zaba and vinny by what we paid for them!

Fair point well made. The article in the daily mail regarding the 32 million man was online before half time was up.......they'd decided on the storyline before the game had finished. You can't crucify one player for giving away two goals and then say a team that scored four goals away from home in the same game was unimpressive.....well you can if you understand the agenda!

 

[George Hannah]

Seemed fair enough to me.

the cloud of unknowing, although getting smaller by the day, remains remarkably dense in places

 

[tonea2003]

Seemed fair enough to me.

the cloud of unknowing, although getting smaller by the day, remains remarkably dense in places

you and your blind faith... i don't know