The Media

[Citizen Green]

FUCK THEM ALL, let's get behind our team blues and stop worrying about what these morons have to say, half of them are failed managers or clueless fuck tards, most infact are both. Remember this, the people slating us now, will be the same people praising us when we lift a trophy, just like Chelsea now. That's when we can have the last laugh and tell them to do one.

Fuck the media, COME ON CITY

 

[bluemoonste]

FUCK THEM ALL, let's get behind our team blues and stop worrying about what these morons have to say, half of them are failed managers or clueless fuck tards, most infact are both. Remember this, the people slating us now, will be the same people praising us when we lift a trophy, just like Chelsea now. That's when we can have the last laugh and tell them to do one.

Fuck the media, COME ON CITY

It's doing my head in......"Big Spending City"... X million this, Y million that ..... we're a football team ffs ... talk about the players. We're not doing anything different than Blacburn years ago or Real Madrid today.

 

[Citizen Green]

The media in this country, especially in regards to sport is amongst the worst on the planet. Bias, favoured clubs, cliques and full of stuck up idiots, it doesn't represent the views of the people. For example, you go to any man on the street who knows their football and ask them what they think of the media and they will tell you it's full of crap.

In this country Manchester United and Liverpool are praised to high heaven for every action they make, whilst clubs like City and Chelsea (in the past) are bashed and stomped into the ground because we dare to spend money to challenge them, the ONLY way you can challenge them. Clubs like Villa and Everton are praised because they work on small budgets and are no real threat to them. A club like ourselves pumps millions into the game yet we are bashed at every given opportunity. We give England players like Joe Hart, Adam Johnson, SWP and Gareth Barry a platform which allows them to play for England and were bashed.

The media in this country is fucking ridiculous full stop, they add ridiculous numbers to the players we buy in terms of transfer fees and wages, £30m and £220K a week for Toure, he cost £24m and is not on £200k in a million years, £19m for Kolarov, cost £15m, £29m for Silva, cost £24m. Yet people take this as gospel. These the same papers that used to report 7 years ago that Chelsea were going to spend £100m for Henry and Vieira from Arsenal, it's utter crap.

Oh and to top it off this is the same media, that whilst the country was mourning one of the worst tragedy's in English football history at Hillsborough, decided to write it was the fault of the Liverpool fans, and that they robbed the corpses of dead fans, utter fucking scum, yet they hold so much power with in the game, it's a joke and i'm sick to death of it.

Fuck them all, we don't care what your crap papers have to say or has-bins and failed managers like Merson, Hansen and Thompson say either, we are City and we're the future of English football, deal with it.

 

[Marvin]

The media in this country, especially in regards to sport is amongst the worst on the planet. Bias, favoured clubs, cliques and full of stuck up idiots, it doesn't represent the views of the people. For example, you go to any man on the street who knows their football and ask them what they think of the media and they will tell you it's full of crap.

In this country Manchester United and Liverpool are praised to high heaven for every action they make, whilst clubs like City and Chelsea (in the past) are bashed and stomped into the ground because we dare to spend money to challenge them, the ONLY way you can challenge them. Clubs like Villa and Everton are praised because they work on small budgets and are no real threat to them. A club like ourselves pumps millions into the game yet we are bashed at every given opportunity. We give England players like Joe Hart, Adam Johnson, SWP and Gareth Barry a platform which allows them to play for England and were bashed.

The media in this country is fucking ridiculous full stop, they add ridiculous numbers to the players we buy in terms of transfer fees and wages, £30m and £220K a week for Toure, he cost £24m and is not on £200k in a million years, £19m for Kolarov, cost £15m, £29m for Silva, cost £24m. Yet people take this as gospel. These the same papers that used to report 7 years ago that Chelsea were going to spend £100m for Henry and Vieira from Arsenal, it's utter crap.

Oh and to top it off this is the same media, that whilst the country was mourning one of the worst tragedy's in English football history at Hillsborough, decided to write it was the fault of the Liverpool fans, and that they robbed the corpses of dead fans, utter fucking scum, yet they hold so much power with in the game, it's a joke and i'm sick to death of it.

Fuck them all, we don't care what your crap papers have to say or has-bins and failed managers like Merson, Hansen and Thompson say either, we are City and we're the future of English football, deal with it.

 

[cleavers]

I stopped worrying about the media's comments on City about 10 years ago. I don't buy newspapers ever, and take any web pages I read with a huge pinch of salt.

I never click any links to the sun, mirror, mail, people, express, or notw, ever, as it gives them ad revenue they don't deserve nor earn from their journalism.

 

[Ant-emilydesign]

wise words, come on City

 

[Royal Blue Moon]

Even the trashy German "Bild" is bashing you lot: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.bild.de/BILD/sport/fussball/international/2010/08/15/manchester/zahlt-100-mio-fuer-ein-0-0.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bild.de/BILD/sport/fussball/ ... n-0-0.html</a>

"Manchester (i.e. City) pay 100 million for a 0:0 draw"... and "What came of it (all the spending) yesterday? A lucky scoreless draw".

Very nasty but childish in tone...

 

[Scoople]

The joking is over, it's a new reality for mega-rich Manchester City

For many years City have been regarded as something of a frivolity but there is a sense that that is about to change

Back in the 1980s Manchester City made their mark on English football by scoring three goals in the last five minutes of a Wembley final. And losing 5-4.

Chelsea walked up the famous steps to lift the 1986 Full Members Cup, and City's long wait for a trophy went on. It has not ended yet. Although they have won promotions, City have not put any silverware in the cupboard since the 1976 League Cup final.

The Full Members Cup was a bit of a joke, dreamed up by Ken Bates during English clubs' exile from European competition. City, too, have for many years been regarded as something of a frivolity: Malcolm Allison, Peter Swales, losing to Halifax, yo-yoing between the divisions, dropping into the third tier, 18 managerial changes while their cross-city rivals have stuck to the same man, the laughable attempt to sign Kaká ... the perfect club for Stuart Hall's entertaining match reports.

Expectations have rarely been aligned to achievements at City. For years, fans of other clubs have poked fun at them, even if many have held them in some affection. There is a sense that that is about to change.

A couple of years after that Full Members final, the comedian Harry Enfield created "Loadsamoney", an obnoxious plasterer who loved to praise Margaret Thatcher and wave his thick wad of banknotes at those less loaded than him.

In football, as in other parts of life in Britain, new money is seen as vulgar. When Roman Abramovich started putting his (or his country's) millions into Chelsea a few years ago, the London club probably displaced Manchester United as England's most disliked team. It is difficult to measure, and of course a team hated by hundreds of thousands of fans of other clubs are also admired by many, too, especially abroad. Envy plays a large part in fans' opinions. But judging by views expressed in print, online, on air, at the pub and the stadium, Manchester City are not so popular now. There were even Arsenal fans cheering on Spurs in yesterday's opening game of the season.

Although Blackburn, in 1995, and Portsmouth two years ago "bought" success by spending fortunes, it was not held against them by the wider football public, perhaps because they did not realise it was happening at the time, or perhaps because those two are not big-city clubs and are less likely to generate tribal animosity.

"Loadsamoney" City have stockpiled players in a £100m-plus spree this summer, they pay the highest wages and they will happily spend more of their Arab owners' money in pursuit of a place among the elite. Their followers will be happy to hear of other fans' hatred and envy in place of the jollity and joking. Unless City's new regime are as hapless as some of the old ones, Stuart Hall will have to find another club to make fun of.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/aug/15/manchester-city-premier-league" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog ... ier-league</a>

Not all bad is it. Just enjoy the hatred, better than being mocked.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Just wait until we start winning things, then it will really start to get bad.

We are an affront to the elite, the established old guard.

Basically, we've blagged our way into the best golf club in the world, yet nobody wants to consort, even though we are the richest man in the 19th hole.

I have always had tremendous respect for what Chelsea have done in recent years. They stuck two fingers up to this lot.

All they cared about was winning. City fans have to develop thicker skins, and quick.

 

[malg]

Anyone who reads Private Eye will know that our press is full of wankers with their own agenda. We are now public enemy number one. It will take silverware to change that.