baldmosher
Well-Known Member
I don't mind the press twisting the truth to suit their own agenda.
I don't mind them offering criticism, even if it is blown out of proportion.
I didn't even mind before Fulham away, when they were taking it in turns to slag us off for whatever we'd done in the past; I have no issue whatsoever with people criticising things that have actually happened. That's called constructive criticism. To state that the sacking of Hughes "lacked class" is a fair point, if you believe that sacking a key member of staff without lining up his replacement is "classless". If you believe that lining up the perfect man for the job BEFORE you sack the man who's doing reasonably OK is a sensible thing to do, then it's not classless. It's just a difference of opinion and vision.
ADUG have been impeccable since day one. Anything they've not already sorted out is in the process of being sorted out and it's usually sorted in days, not months. We're at the point where, as fans, a few of us get pissed off about something every week. Last season I'd wager it was a few hundred of us. The season before, probably a few thousand of us. Under Thaksin, most of us were just glad that we didn't have to employ Stuart Pearce any more, but I'd bet many thousands were still a bit uncomfortable, to say the least, about what was happening to our club. Before Thaksin.... well I think we were all just generally unhappy, but tempered by our memories of 97/98 as we knew we were very lucky simply to exist let alone still be in the Prem.
We've never, ever had it so good as City fans. Even during the brief successes at the end of the 60s we had to suffer shite, dangerous stadia and people pissing down our legs. What are the major down criticisms today? Natalie Pike's microphone is too loud. People aren't allowed to smoke anywhere in our stadium, where it's been illegal to smoke since 2007. Prices of tickets at away games (away games!) are still too expensive.
I mean, seriously, fuck me, the press had to scrape the barrel from the last 12 months of hearsay, rumour and lies, just to trap arguably the biggest klutz ever employed by the club. He was surely a fantastic CEO, but you could have picked any one of a number of schoolboy errors made by Cook, this one included. But of course, he duly went and put his foot in it by lying under pressure, instead of just saying "whoops, that email wasn't meant for you, no offence meant." So ADUG asked him if he wouldn't mind resigning, and he took his severance package and left, and frankly it looked like he was leaving anyway as his family already moved back to Portland.
What's left now? What further criticism can anyone possibly lay at the door of MCFC for them to fix? Not very fucking much, that's what.
However, lining up, eager to write inconsequential shit about our club is one thing. Peddling outright lies about our club is another. Some of the shit that bunch of bitter bastards was spouting on the Cunty **** Football Show before Fulham simply wasn't true, but they were so obviously bitter and angry. But some of the shit that they've come out with this season is beyond untrue, they're inventing criticisms because they can't report any true criticisms. Hansen took it one step too far and I hope the club demands an unreserved public apology from the outdated, useless tosser.
I don't mind them offering criticism, even if it is blown out of proportion.
I didn't even mind before Fulham away, when they were taking it in turns to slag us off for whatever we'd done in the past; I have no issue whatsoever with people criticising things that have actually happened. That's called constructive criticism. To state that the sacking of Hughes "lacked class" is a fair point, if you believe that sacking a key member of staff without lining up his replacement is "classless". If you believe that lining up the perfect man for the job BEFORE you sack the man who's doing reasonably OK is a sensible thing to do, then it's not classless. It's just a difference of opinion and vision.
ADUG have been impeccable since day one. Anything they've not already sorted out is in the process of being sorted out and it's usually sorted in days, not months. We're at the point where, as fans, a few of us get pissed off about something every week. Last season I'd wager it was a few hundred of us. The season before, probably a few thousand of us. Under Thaksin, most of us were just glad that we didn't have to employ Stuart Pearce any more, but I'd bet many thousands were still a bit uncomfortable, to say the least, about what was happening to our club. Before Thaksin.... well I think we were all just generally unhappy, but tempered by our memories of 97/98 as we knew we were very lucky simply to exist let alone still be in the Prem.
We've never, ever had it so good as City fans. Even during the brief successes at the end of the 60s we had to suffer shite, dangerous stadia and people pissing down our legs. What are the major down criticisms today? Natalie Pike's microphone is too loud. People aren't allowed to smoke anywhere in our stadium, where it's been illegal to smoke since 2007. Prices of tickets at away games (away games!) are still too expensive.
I mean, seriously, fuck me, the press had to scrape the barrel from the last 12 months of hearsay, rumour and lies, just to trap arguably the biggest klutz ever employed by the club. He was surely a fantastic CEO, but you could have picked any one of a number of schoolboy errors made by Cook, this one included. But of course, he duly went and put his foot in it by lying under pressure, instead of just saying "whoops, that email wasn't meant for you, no offence meant." So ADUG asked him if he wouldn't mind resigning, and he took his severance package and left, and frankly it looked like he was leaving anyway as his family already moved back to Portland.
What's left now? What further criticism can anyone possibly lay at the door of MCFC for them to fix? Not very fucking much, that's what.
However, lining up, eager to write inconsequential shit about our club is one thing. Peddling outright lies about our club is another. Some of the shit that bunch of bitter bastards was spouting on the Cunty **** Football Show before Fulham simply wasn't true, but they were so obviously bitter and angry. But some of the shit that they've come out with this season is beyond untrue, they're inventing criticisms because they can't report any true criticisms. Hansen took it one step too far and I hope the club demands an unreserved public apology from the outdated, useless tosser.