PeterParker wrote:Dimples wrote:
I think so to, it sets the agenda, is impossible to ignore, like it or not it affects the fans (which can affect match day), can also affect a team and the refs.
Two recent examples.
Last season the media were relentless in putting a negative spotlight on us potentially winning the quadruple, for ex, City are buying success and it will be a failure if City don't win everything with the money they have spent. Saturation negative coverage that feeds into the fans and the team imo.
Liverpool are now in for the quadruple. I see no negative media coverage, no pressure on the team to achieve this, just the fantastic Liverpool team are hunting City down while still in every competition, what a fantastic achievement. Takes the pressure of Liverpool, positive vibes for the fans, less pressure on refs, etc...
How much media cover was given when we won all the domestic trophies in one season. A first. A record. How often is it splashed across Sky - hardly ever. That has to have a negative effect on City as a whole. You achieve something unique and basically it is buried. While at the same time providing positive blanket cover to the Rags and Dippers for doing fcuk all.
Negative Vs. positive cover 24*7. Throw enough shite and it sticks.
The City cover is always negative. It has to affect the players and staff one way or another.
Spot on.
That is why I asked that above, I think our boys need to expand in the media. We really are trying to be non stop the nice guys, but we somewhere fail to understand the power of fake news.
We are seen as the villain by fans from Burnley, Stoke, etc, because of how media is projecting us, instead of seeing that we are fighting a system that ripped clubs of their best players over the years. We are an outsider that broke the system.
We certainly need to do something. Media creates (mis)perceptions. Rant coming up.
Take the academy ours Vs. The Rags and the damage the media are doing to our reputation.
Foden, McAtee, Palmer and Egan-Riley have been with us are since they were kids. All have played for the first team. All have received a top class private education from the club to fall back on jic. That is four kids that have made it all the through to the first team. In a club as competitive as ours that is an amazing achievement IMO. The media spin on our academy is that it is some sort of child labor sweat camp where we cynically buy kids to sell at a profit (that narrative is a mile from projecting that the academy is run like a business with safety nets in place for the kids that don't make it i.e. the vast majority) and one where kids have no hope of making the first team because we just spend fortunes on buying the finished articles i.e. top class experienced players. Most neutrals have bought into this narrative.
Now compare that to the perception of the Rag's academy that is peddled by the media and bought by most neutrals. A caring conveyor belt of the most talented kids in world football, carefully nurtured to play football the right way i.e. 'the Utd way' and who are honored to have the privilege of pulling on the world famous red jersey and continuing the glorious traditions of the most successful and biggest club in world football.
Bit of a difference, all created and propagated by the media and bought by the masses.
Also, how do the media describe Liverpool's transfer fees, for ex, VVD £75M, Allison £55M, Keita £54M, Diaz £50M, Jota and Fabinho £40M each, etc...?
They say brilliant business. Look at all the shite written about Diaz after his debut. Not a mention of £50M transfer fee. Just that it is another master stroke and how Klopp will make him even better. Yet our £50M signings seem to be a case of us splashing the cash. Again neutrals buy into us ruining football and Liverpool putting up a plucky resistance for traditional core values.
BTW how much cover has there been on concerns for the safety of opposing teams travelling to Anfield particularly for CL games? Thats right - silence. Imagine if it was our fans who attacked the Dipper coach.
Some consolation is that very slowly the media coverage is beginning to change in our favor, helped by the first generation of our recently successful players who are retired and doing media stints, for ex, Micah, Lescott, Nedum, Sinclair, Given, etc...
But currently the media is doing a lot of damage to City, in all sorts of different ways.
