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Right, this morning the Daily Fail ran one of its myriad negative non-stories about City (dressed up as a joke), which alleged that Roberto Mancini had fallen asleep watching the game yesterday.
"It wasn't that bad, Roberto! Mancini nods off at the Etihad"....blah, blah, blah, ran the headline, supported by a photo of Bobby slumped in his chair with his eyes shut just after Zab had shot tamely at Friedel.
Some on here have taken that story as being no more than a poor attempt at humour. Others have sensed something more sinister, namely that the paper concerned has spent the better part of 2 years making up crap about City and is in this instance simply having yet another dig, but disguising it via a light hearted tone. The accusation being thrown at the latter camp by the former is that they are being paranoid.
Well, maybe, maybe not, but the piece has now been removed from the Mail after apparent intervention by Vicky Kloss, and my question to those who say there is no agenda against City, is why would the club bother to take this action over a 'joke' article?
City are trying to build a larger fanbase both domestically and internationally, and I wonder whether the club is finally tiring of the press's onslaught and its potential impact on our 'recruitment campaign'. What was it Joseph Goebbels said? "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State".
Every time cnuts like the Fail print their snidey shit, every time people like Patrick effing Barclay sneer to the world that we have "no philosophy", every time bastards like Brian Glanville claim on air that we are a "ghastly abomination of a club", every time the cameras follow Balotelli to the bench, every time Irani, Christian, Chiles, that slug Green and the rest of the rag loving fuckers in the media wisecrack about our "empty seats", it's damage done to our reputation. Maybe not on here, because we're all wise to it, maybe not to those discerning enough to question what they're being told, but certainly amongst the hordes out there in the world who believe every word they're fed. I've lost count of the times I've had to correct mates that support other clubs, when they've started to regurgitate some myth about City they've heard on Talkshite or SSN as gospel.
Whatever, whether I'm befuddled by paranoia or not, is it not time to start taking a tougher line with these people? Just asking
"It wasn't that bad, Roberto! Mancini nods off at the Etihad"....blah, blah, blah, ran the headline, supported by a photo of Bobby slumped in his chair with his eyes shut just after Zab had shot tamely at Friedel.
Some on here have taken that story as being no more than a poor attempt at humour. Others have sensed something more sinister, namely that the paper concerned has spent the better part of 2 years making up crap about City and is in this instance simply having yet another dig, but disguising it via a light hearted tone. The accusation being thrown at the latter camp by the former is that they are being paranoid.
Well, maybe, maybe not, but the piece has now been removed from the Mail after apparent intervention by Vicky Kloss, and my question to those who say there is no agenda against City, is why would the club bother to take this action over a 'joke' article?
City are trying to build a larger fanbase both domestically and internationally, and I wonder whether the club is finally tiring of the press's onslaught and its potential impact on our 'recruitment campaign'. What was it Joseph Goebbels said? "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State".
Every time cnuts like the Fail print their snidey shit, every time people like Patrick effing Barclay sneer to the world that we have "no philosophy", every time bastards like Brian Glanville claim on air that we are a "ghastly abomination of a club", every time the cameras follow Balotelli to the bench, every time Irani, Christian, Chiles, that slug Green and the rest of the rag loving fuckers in the media wisecrack about our "empty seats", it's damage done to our reputation. Maybe not on here, because we're all wise to it, maybe not to those discerning enough to question what they're being told, but certainly amongst the hordes out there in the world who believe every word they're fed. I've lost count of the times I've had to correct mates that support other clubs, when they've started to regurgitate some myth about City they've heard on Talkshite or SSN as gospel.
Whatever, whether I'm befuddled by paranoia or not, is it not time to start taking a tougher line with these people? Just asking