Sportswashing is a made up word, so what's your definition?

[Blue Til Death]

Ha ha ha ha ha touché
Bet you’re dead popular at kids parties....or in Liverpool :)

I’m not allowed at kids parties, I’m a bad flatulence on em but I’m happy to shit on Liverpool anytime, for free..!

 

[manimanc]

Flaps down to your knees? :)

Toss them over my shoulder. ;)

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Sportswashing doesn't really deserve a true definition, it's just a convenient, but extremely biased phrase made by up by inadequate wankers, to inflict damage upon the club. Exactly the same with it's close relation, financial doping. Basically words were invented as part of a smear campaign against City.

He who laughs last, laughs loudest. So have a good old belly laugh, we won.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

How about, a football club sportwashes their history by covering up a disgraceful incident they were completely culpable for with another tragedy that afflicted them a couple of years later and then use said tragedy to create a cult of personality and manipulate the media which enables them to be financially, morally and ethically dubious both on and off the pitch and perpetrate acts of criminality against their rivals, basically using said tragedy as a front for all sorts of unsavoury activities, behaviours and people?

 

[Shirley]

There used to be a phrase for siphoning money via the Cayman Islands and avoiding tax but I rarely see it used these days.

 

[idahoblues]

Never heard of it

 

[BigOscar]

I love the whole premise, like Abu Dhabi felt they needed to "launder" their reputation, as if governments all over the world weren't already falling over themselves to take their money. The whole thing makes no sense at all, before they bought City, the average Joe had no idea it even existed, now they are constantly getting shit from jealous football fans and Qatar sponsored "journalists". If they are "sportswashing", they are fucking shit at it.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Is the British empire the origins of sports washing? We invented cricket, association rules football and rugby and sent it out to all areas of the commonwealth to make the locals forget about the shit we did to their countries.

 

[bluemoon32]

Is the British empire the origins of sports washing? We invented cricket, association rules football and rugby and sent it out to all areas of the commonwealth to make the locals forget about the shit we did to their countries.

Unfortunately, in every case, they became much better at them as well

 

[shemnel]

Is the British empire the origins of sports washing? We invented cricket, association rules football and rugby and sent it out to all areas of the commonwealth to make the locals forget about the shit we did to their countries.

Pretty sure the Roman emperors were at it a long time before that, when they staged various Colosseum and games events with free bread when shit got tricky with the great unwashed.

Maybe City need to give out free pies.