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[Ant-emilydesign]

Seems the club are getting involved in all the negativity in the media...

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Sick of it.

Trying to find a positive story about City today is like trying to find a needle in the proverbial haystack.

It’s fair to say the negativity surrounding the Blues has never been higher in the majority of the nation’s press with the club portrayed as some kind of pantomime villain.

Andy Dunn in the News of the World is typical of many columnists in his ‘Bling City’ feature.

He writes: “Great players go to Real Madrid or Barcelona. That’s not City’s fault. Who can blame them for wanting to play under Jose Mourinho at such a fabled club? Or turn out for a team that is setting new standards in the game?”

One wonders what standards Dunn is referring to, with Madrid unable to land the Champions League or even their domestic title last season.

Paul Wilson in The Observer claims Roberto Mancini needs to improve his record against The Big Four, and even has to shoe-horn Tottenham in to add weight to his piece.

“His City side have been unable to score a goal against Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester United or Arsenal, let alone beat them,” he writes. Does he then mean big five or six? And where are Aston Villa in all this?

While Spurs and United did secure 1-0 wins at the City of Manchester Stadium towards the end of last season, Villa were dispatched, a point was gained at the Emirates Stadium and the Blues completed the double of eventual champions Chelsea 4-2 in their own backyard, though even that win, says Wilson, was because Chelsea were “somewhat subdued because of the John Terry scandal.

It should be noted that the Blues boss only took over at the end of December!

Elsewhere there are stories of Shay Given, Robinho, Stephen Ireland and Craig Bellamy, but if you’re looking for a positive spin on the club you love, it might be a day to give most of the back pages a wide berth.

 

[Dubai Blue]

Andy Dunn in the News of the World is typical of many columnists in his ‘Bling City’ feature.

He writes: “Great players go to Real Madrid or Barcelona. That’s not City’s fault. Who can blame them for wanting to play under Jose Mourinho at such a fabled club? Or turn out for a team that is setting new standards in the game?”

One wonders what standards Dunn is referring to, with Madrid unable to land the Champions League or even their domestic title last season.

I think the author's a bit confused here. Dunn is referring to Barcelona as the team that is "setting new standards in the game", not Madrid.

 

[Rammyblues]

The agenda for the papers is that they want us to fail big time and that the old favorites will again become the top four, they will not be balanced in any view against OVO we had better get used to it. I am afraid we will have to go into siege mode. I just hope that we prove them all wrong and when these tossers then want exclusive interviews and the like we just tell them to piss off.

 

[nikusha]

Fuck 'em all

 

[stonerblue]

Seems the club are getting involved in all the negativity in the media...

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Sick of it.

Trying to find a positive story about City today is like trying to find a needle in the proverbial haystack.

It’s fair to say the negativity surrounding the Blues has never been higher in the majority of the nation’s press with the club portrayed as some kind of pantomime villain.

Andy Dunn in the News of the World is typical of many columnists in his ‘Bling City’ feature.

He writes: “Great players go to Real Madrid or Barcelona. That’s not City’s fault. Who can blame them for wanting to play under Jose Mourinho at such a fabled club? Or turn out for a team that is setting new standards in the game?”

One wonders what standards Dunn is referring to, with Madrid unable to land the Champions League or even their domestic title last season.

Paul Wilson in The Observer claims Roberto Mancini needs to improve his record against The Big Four, and even has to shoe-horn Tottenham in to add weight to his piece.

“His City side have been unable to score a goal against Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester United or Arsenal, let alone beat them,” he writes. Does he then mean big five or six? And where are Aston Villa in all this?

While Spurs and United did secure 1-0 wins at the City of Manchester Stadium towards the end of last season, Villa were dispatched, a point was gained at the Emirates Stadium and the Blues completed the double of eventual champions Chelsea 4-2 in their own backyard, though even that win, says Wilson, was because Chelsea were “somewhat subdued because of the John Terry scandal.

It should be noted that the Blues boss only took over at the end of December!

Elsewhere there are stories of Shay Given, Robinho, Stephen Ireland and Craig Bellamy, but if you’re looking for a positive spin on the club you love, it might be a day to give most of the back pages a wide berth.

i like the way the OS takes the piss out of the bollox in the papers.

 

[Why Always Ste]

Who cares? just don't buy the papers....

Save your money and get your newsfix elsewhere (Newsnow, bbc news, digitalspy etc)

Yes many online sites talk shit too but atleast you don't pay them for it.

 

[ged nightingale]

He who laughs last laughs loudest,they are all green with envy every one of them.Wait till we win a trophy it willl get 10 times worse,we have gone from everybodys second club to the one they want to fall on there arse.<br /><br />-- Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:48 am --<br /><br />He who laughs last laughs loudest,they are all green with envy every one of them.Wait till we win a trophy it willl get 10 times worse,we have gone from everybodys second club to the one they want to fall on there arse.

 

[NQblue]

The Club should take the bull by the horns and start issuing banning orders or asbos.

 

[cibaman]

The club should keep quiet for the time being. If the press have got it so wrong lets remind them at the end of the season.

The press swing from one extreme view to another. Reading them its like talking to a bloke down the pub near closing time. If we beat Liverpool on Monday they'll be tipping us for the tiltle, lose and they'll write off the season. They're incapabable of viewing any performance in the context of a developing team. And the ex players are the biggest culprits.

Those that are the most noisy in criticising us now will be the ones that lavish the most praise if we do better than expected. Wait until then to have a go at them.

 

[bigA]

Today's headlines are tomorrow's chip papers as they say. We are now up there to be shot at by all and sundry and if it wasn't City and it was the likes of Spurs/Everton/Villa they would probably be taking the same flak as we are. And their fans would be as happy than ever at their new found wealth and unhappy with the press and other fans against them. We all remember the bad times and moaned at the likes of Chelsea (and Blackburn in the 90's) who were busted arse clubs until the money came in from a benefactor to bring them success. Now we are in the very fortunate position to spend countless millions on players (providing they want to join City of course) and let's all enjoy the exciting times ahead but remember where we were 10-15 years ago and carry ourselves with dignity, unlike Chelsea, United, Arsenal and Liverpool who seem to forget that they were once down amongst the dead men one time or another.