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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011 ... ter-united



Mike Summerbee unrepentant in accusing Sky of Manchester United bias

• Former City player bemoans repetition of Rooney goal
• Sky says club ambassador will not be invited again

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* guardian.co.uk, Sunday 20 February 2011 23.04 GMT
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Mike Summerbee playing for Manchester City in 1968 Mike Summerbee playing for Manchester City in 1968. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty

Mike Summerbee, the former Manchester City player, has said he has no regrets over the impassioned outburst on Sky television about the way he believes the broacaster favours Manchester United over his own club. Summerbee admitted losing his temper after City's 2-1 defeat in the Manchester derby last weekend but said he stuck by his words and remains angry about the way "they only see United".

To illustrate his point, the man who formed part of the most successful side in City's history condemned Sky for the frequency with which it has repeated Wayne Rooney's winning goal. "I am already fed up with seeing and reading about that Rooney goal," Summerbee wrote in his column in the matchday programme.

"It was special – any football fan would admit that – but you can have too much of it. The day after the derby I came back from watching my grandson score two goals in his Sunday morning match, switched on the telly and there was that goal again. I gave it the quick change to Antiques Roadshow."

Senior sources at Sky have indicated that Summerbee, now a club ambassador, will not be invited on again but the 68-year-old said he had been heartened by the comments from City supporters. "Most of them have been extremely positive," he said. "I did lose my temper a little bit and it is a good job for Dwight Yorke [the former Manchester United player was a fellow pundit] that I have mellowed with age.

"They [the media] go on as though we don't exist and that annoys me. I don't mind banter. I don't even mind jokes at our expense but, when I feel the progress we have clearly made – on and off the field – is being ignored, then it gets my goat.

"I was proud of the way we knocked the ball around at Old Trafford. We played some lovely football and on another day could have got at least a point out of the game. For the first time in a long time I left Old Trafford after a defeat not depressed about the result. One of the biggest compliments was the fact Sir Alex Ferguson left his top scorer [Dimitar Berbatov] on the bench. He knew what a danger we posed.

"There will be many City fans who will be sick of hearing that United are looking over their shoulder and that we are closing the gap on them but I genuinely believe that the Reds are not hearing us coming up behind them but looking at us right alongside now."

City's lawyers are taking action to remove a spoof account, Simple_as_Mike, that has appeared on Twitter, with the profile 'Embittered Manchester City legend and enemy of statistics & facts.

[Blue In Bolton]

Once again it has to be said: Mike, you are a legend and it is hardly surprising that Sky have fucked you off because you had the bottle to tell the truth. I have a fair feeling that you will be back on a regular basis when we start winning silverware and the Red Shite finally start their downward trajectory.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

When he was a player, I always felt that 'Buzzer' would have willingly gone through a brick wall for City. He was a hard man (it was said that he wrapped his skill in barbed wire) and a formidable opponent on the pitch and it looks as though he's tackling his role as club ambassador in the same way.

Forza 'The Bee'.

[guv111]

Sky says club ambassador will not be invited again.

So, you either sit there lapping up their smiley, bland fare designed for Home Counties Rags, or you can just fuck off? That's a very mature way to run an organisation. When entertaining continental friends, do these Sky people make a point of putting on DVDs of The World At War on endless repetition, or do they perhaps think that might be a little insensitive? I have a United-supporting mate who is a decent sort, and if I want to keep him as a mate I'll avoid nagging away at him about the £1 billion debt, and various other pithy subjects. It's called decency; something Sky Sports do not have.

[WestGorton]

Summerbee was superb. He carried the battle to them.

[bigblue]

"Most of them have been extremely positive," he said. "I did lose my temper a little bit and it is a good job for Dwight Yorke that I have mellowed with age.

After watching that, itd be great to see an unmellowed Mike on Sky

[colonel_muck]

true blue so glad this guy is our ambassador. and i whole heartedly agree with him. that goal was great, i wasn't bothered losing to it. but it was 24/7 last week and there's no need for that.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

true blue so glad this guy is our ambassador. and i whole heartedly agree with him. that goal was great, i wasn't bothered losing to it. but it was 24/7 last week and there's no need for that.

I'm now getting really fed up of people saying that the Shrek goal is the greatest one that's ever been scored at the Swamp.

In all fairness, it was good but we know that the greatest one ever scored there was Dennis Law's backheeler in 1974.

[Blue In Bolton]

true blue so glad this guy is our ambassador. and i whole heartedly agree with him. that goal was great, i wasn't bothered losing to it. but it was 24/7 last week and there's no need for that.

I'm now getting really fed up of people saying that the Shrek goal is the greatest one that's ever been scored at the Swamp.

In all fairness, it was good but we know that the greatest one ever scored there was Dennis Law's backheeler in 1974.

You are of course right, Mik. But Ian Brightwell's equaliser runs it a close second!!