The Sun "newspaper"

[Pigeonho]

And how am I playing with the spirit of the code of conduct?
The CoC. It was plainly stated, "[the] letter of the CoC...[on] the spirit."

Numbers 5 and 10.

Which you will deny or claim not to understand. Right? I would say "I don't understand what the hell you are going on about." Incomprehension is better than denial. End with "I don't know what your problem is" or "I'm bored with you" or "Are you stalking me lololol".

Anyway, you are the master of your own posts, and I don't see a blue flashing light on my head (talking about forum police). Take it easy.

Sigh.

 

[Marvin]

The Sun journalist who covered the game thought Demichelis had a good game and was disappointed with the headline.

 

[1961_vintage]

Re: The Sun

Do you think Jamie Oliver sat with our PR lot and said 'sow, these fackin articles I fackin reds, they true or what you cants? My fackin burgers are mustard mate and I ain't gonna be fryin for sam two bit campany who every cant lorrrfs at'. Or did he think, 'fack me, man city want my stuff? Diamond mate, fackin diamond'.

Sorry to be a childish twat in amongst what for some is quite clearly a serious topic, but this "impersonation" of Jamie Oliver just made me laugh so much I thought it worthy of highlighting.

 

[Shirley]

Not doing a very good job of it, I must say.

You have over 27,000 posts on Bluemoon, may I suggest you spend some time reading the world media instead of jumping all over here like a fcukin know it all.
If you don't think they are damaging the brand then you need to travel the rest of the world to see the same old crap repeated and repeated and believed by the people who are reading it.
Not everyone in the world are so highly educated as you.

The people who are reading it? Like who? You see all I see are sponsors and investors galore trying to be a part of the 'brand'. His last few years it seems every other month a new partnership is announced, major partnerships too I might add. Did they not bother reading X journalists latest rant, or Hansens latest out down on motd? Or, as I suspect, did they just get on board because what some **** in the paper says matters not one little bit? Nobody needs to be highly educated to see that if there is an agenda, not many are taking notice of it other than a band of depressives on the internet.

"The people who are reading it" I was referring to the fan base not the sponsors.
City are trying to attract new worldwide support and my point is many of these "negative" articles are reproduced and printed on sport pages around the world not only on the Internet. Newspapers are avidly read and believed in many other countries, just my opinion from what I have seen.

 

[rastus]

Bastards are just trying to to get the bin dippers buying their rag

 

[Balti]

its still a good comic for wiping your arse on tbh

 

[Pigeonho]

You have over 27,000 posts on Bluemoon, may I suggest you spend some time reading the world media instead of jumping all over here like a fcukin know it all.
If you don't think they are damaging the brand then you need to travel the rest of the world to see the same old crap repeated and repeated and believed by the people who are reading it.
Not everyone in the world are so highly educated as you.

The people who are reading it? Like who? You see all I see are sponsors and investors galore trying to be a part of the 'brand'. His last few years it seems every other month a new partnership is announced, major partnerships too I might add. Did they not bother reading X journalists latest rant, or Hansens latest out down on motd? Or, as I suspect, did they just get on board because what some **** in the paper says matters not one little bit? Nobody needs to be highly educated to see that if there is an agenda, not many are taking notice of it other than a band of depressives on the internet.

"The people who are reading it" I was referring to the fan base not the sponsors.
City are trying to attract new worldwide support and my point is many of these "negative" articles are reproduced and printed on sport pages around the world not only on the Internet. Newspapers are avidly read and believed in many other countries, just my opinion from what I have seen.

Where have you seen it? Who have you seen who has decided not to support us because of what some journo has written? You see just like the evidence is there regarding the sponsors, it is also there to suggest people world wide are latching onto the club. Just go to Facebook or twitter posts from the official club accounts and look at the vast range of nationalities who comment, 99% of whom probably never had heard of us pre take over, or maybe even pre May 2012. If for every 1000 of those fans there is an example of little Tok Tok in some far distant village in Taiwan refusing to support us because 'you joke crub, Lob Beasley say so, I berieve him', well fuck him and his weak mind - he's not wanted and in the grand scheme of things, he's insignificant.
The proof is there that City are growing every day, and a so called agenda isn't doing what you all seem to believe it has been set up to do. 9 million 'followers' is it after just a few years? That is only going to carry on growing.

 

[chesterguy]

The people who are reading it? Like who? You see all I see are sponsors and investors galore trying to be a part of the 'brand'. His last few years it seems every other month a new partnership is announced, major partnerships too I might add. Did they not bother reading X journalists latest rant, or Hansens latest out down on motd? Or, as I suspect, did they just get on board because what some **** in the paper says matters not one little bit? Nobody needs to be highly educated to see that if there is an agenda, not many are taking notice of it other than a band of depressives on the internet.

"The people who are reading it" I was referring to the fan base not the sponsors.
City are trying to attract new worldwide support and my point is many of these "negative" articles are reproduced and printed on sport pages around the world not only on the Internet. Newspapers are avidly read and believed in many other countries, just my opinion from what I have seen.

Where have you seen it? Who have you seen who has decided not to support us because of what some journo has written? You see just like the evidence is there regarding the sponsors, it is also there to suggest people world wide are latching onto the club. Just go to Facebook or twitter posts from the official club accounts and look at the vast range of nationalities who comment, 99% of whom probably never had heard of us pre take over, or maybe even pre May 2012. If for every 1000 of those fans there is an example of little Tok Tok in some far distant village in Taiwan refusing to support us because 'you joke crub, Lob Beasley say so, I berieve him', well fuck him and his weak mind - he's not wanted and in the grand scheme of things, he's insignificant.
The proof is there that City are growing every day, and a so called agenda isn't doing what you all seem to believe it has been set up to do. 9 million 'followers' is it after just a few years? That is only going to carry on growing.

The point could be argued though that if there were more positive articles about City then the growth could actually be faster and greater

People like to be associated with success but they also like to feel they are supporting something good and that is done "in the right way". We do, we love the idea of players coming through the academy and playing for City rather than just going out buying a player. It doesn't mean we like the players less we just feel better about it

There is clearly a perception fuelled by media stereotyping that City are "moneybags" whereas United and Arsenal do things "the right way". The thing is this perception will only last so long with time and success the media attitude will change and there are a new generation of kids who will grow up only knowing about a great City side and they will become the journalists of the future and no doubt they will have a different bias towards City and our owners can wait!!

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

The people who are reading it? Like who? You see all I see are sponsors and investors galore trying to be a part of the 'brand'. His last few years it seems every other month a new partnership is announced, major partnerships too I might add. Did they not bother reading X journalists latest rant, or Hansens latest out down on motd? Or, as I suspect, did they just get on board because what some **** in the paper says matters not one little bit? Nobody needs to be highly educated to see that if there is an agenda, not many are taking notice of it other than a band of depressives on the internet.

"The people who are reading it" I was referring to the fan base not the sponsors.
City are trying to attract new worldwide support and my point is many of these "negative" articles are reproduced and printed on sport pages around the world not only on the Internet. Newspapers are avidly read and believed in many other countries, just my opinion from what I have seen.

Where have you seen it? Who have you seen who has decided not to support us because of what some journo has written? You see just like the evidence is there regarding the sponsors, it is also there to suggest people world wide are latching onto the club. Just go to Facebook or twitter posts from the official club accounts and look at the vast range of nationalities who comment, 99% of whom probably never had heard of us pre take over, or maybe even pre May 2012. If for every 1000 of those fans there is an example of little Tok Tok in some far distant village in Taiwan refusing to support us because 'you joke crub, Lob Beasley say so, I berieve him', well fuck him and his weak mind - he's not wanted and in the grand scheme of things, he's insignificant.
The proof is there that City are growing every day, and a so called agenda isn't doing what you all seem to believe it has been set up to do. 9 million 'followers' is it after just a few years? That is only going to carry on growing.

We don't always agree, but that was comedy gold Sir. Wee nearly came out!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Pige is right up to a point about the limited impact of the bile-ridden narrative of much of the media in this country upon City's plans to appeal to a wider audience, but I don't think that's the point for many City fans.

How the club is perceived in this country is important to many fans. There is an innate desire within nearly all supporters of all clubs to want to feel proud of their club. It's a little absurd if you think about it, because we have little or no power over how our clubs are run, but nonetheless the vast majority derive a sense of pride if their club is well supported, plays in the right way or if there's a good team spirit in the squad, for example. The same goes for how 'big' people's club they support is. To deride the club of someone else as 'small' or 'small time' for that matter is used as a weapon of choice in the game of footballing one-upmanship. It's nuts that it gets to people if you stop and think about it. Why should your club being perceived as smaller than you personally consider it, be a source of anything other than a shrug of the shoulders, rather than provoking a response like quoting attendance figures from fifteen years ago, for example? It shouldn't matter, but it does.

Wanting to protect and defend something we care about is a natural human instinct and for most football supporters that extends to the club they support. When people in the press, who purport to be professionals, write lies about our club, or don't report in a balanced, even handed way, or comment upon the club in a sneering, disrespectful way then for many of us, the responses you see on here are a natural reaction to that, myself included.

If I meet someone in a pub and they start bad mouthing City to me, then I usually disabuse them of whatever misconceptions they've got in fairly short order. I cannot respond in a similar way to the likes of Rob Beasley, not least because he hasn't engaged with me directly. On that basis it is entirely natural for me, and others, to express our disquiet about him and what he's said on a football forum. It's merely football supporters doing what comes naturally.