What are City playing at?

[Bluescholar]

Anyone remember the press getting the opinion of some of our support at MR? After the mansfield game in that shit cup the Mirror took the piss,showing photos of an empty MR next to packed OT (the shite were at home in CL same night) next home game the press box was "visited" and the error of their ways pointed out! I vote for that being the way forward!

 

[mr t]

At the end of the day these people don't support City and despite all the mouthy bravado since we became 'mega rich City' the sad twats are finally coming to terms with the fact that we are in fact 'mega rich' and their bile is part and parcel of the journey that our club is on.

We can afford to buy players. We can afford to pay their wages. We can offload players no longer deemed good enough to play for us and we can make sure that they do not end up playing for any of our rivals for the league title. And the press fucking hate us because they can't stop us.

We don't need to say anything - in fact silence is golden and it'll bug them even more if we don't rise to their taunts. All we need to do is string a few wins together and watch them squirm and laugh.

 

[Scoople]

A more thoughtful and balanced opinion.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...L-Dont-mock-Manchester-City-silly-think-.html

 

[Tactical Genius]

Part of me thinks that if it was Richard Branson spending all this money and not a muslim we wouldn't be being slagged off nowhere near as much.

 

[Balti]

Anyone remember the press getting the opinion of some of our support at MR? After the mansfield game in that shit cup the Mirror took the piss,showing photos of an empty MR next to packed OT (the shite were at home in CL same night) next home game the press box was "visited" and the error of their ways pointed out! I vote for that being the way forward!

Rag wankers. Fuck em all.
End of.

 

[BobbyLazarus]

Chill, all.

City spunking 500 million (or whatever) of NEW money will change football.
Predicting how it will change football is a reasonable thing to do - and holding the opinion that it is a terrible thing that will destroy the game is a reasonable opinion to hold. There's nothing to say that any media source has to justify the opinion that we are football's apocalypse - in general they never bother justifying anything.

In my opinion, what will happen is we will win trophies and titles - and the current winners of trophies and titles will win fewer of them. What would be bad for football is if we won ALL the trophies and titles over a long period of time.

But I've no wish to silence / attack opposing opinion that thinks the sky might fall in. (see what I did there).

I'd be interested to read an article or two on how it might all end. If the plans all work out, come 2020, do we agree to let other teams win occasionally?

 

[Balti]

Chill, all.

City spunking 500 million (or whatever) of NEW money will change football.
Predicting how it will change football is a reasonable thing to do - and holding the opinion that it is a terrible thing that will destroy the game is a reasonable opinion to hold. There's nothing to say that any media source has to justify the opinion that we are football's apocalypse - in general they never bother justifying anything.

In my opinion, what will happen is we will win trophies and titles - and the current winners of trophies and titles will win fewer of them. What would be bad for football is if we won ALL the trophies and titles over a long period of time.

But I've no wish to silence / attack opposing opinion that thinks the sky might fall in. (see what I did there).

I'd be interested to read an article or two on how it might all end. If the plans all work out, come 2020, do we agree to let other teams win occasionally?

do we have to?

 

[BobbyLazarus]

do we have to?

It might actually ruin football if we don't trip up once in a while. After we've blown apart Real Madrid's record for consecutive wins, of course.

 

[RandyBlue]

Get used to it because its only gonna get worse...

The Mirror are socialists, they want everything flattened out on a level playing field and they despise people who have money. Hence their anti-City vitriol.

The only pro-City articles I have read are from the Daily Mail, written by Martin Samuel.

What a total load of bollocks - how comes they're so pro-United if they hate money and success? Divviest post of the year so far.

 

[cibaman]

IMO and experience City as a club are not proactive enough, football matters wise, though they have improved an awful lot with other bits of PR and fluff.

What do you think City should do to promote a more positive agenda in the media? Is it the quality of the people employed at City? In my own limited experience with the media it seems to be as much about having the right relationships with key people in the industry then anything else.

If City are bothered about the club's image then they first need to decide what image they want to project.

City's current image is probably best encapsulated by the "Welcome to Manchester" poster. City fans loved it but to the neutral it projected a club wanting to be seen as combatitive, in yer face, brash. Add in the "bottled it" quote, the aggressive pusuit of Lescott and other players and the image is inevitably one of a club that doesn't care how it is perceived.

There will be many City fans who are quite happy with that image, but there's no point accepting that image and then complaining if the press respond as they have done.