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Match of the Day - why do I bother. Admittedly I only listened on GMR, so only those who were actually at the match could say if the highlights were a fair reflection of events, but from what I heard they were a travesty.

But what really wound me up was the commentary and Alan Shearer afterwards.

The commentary seemed more concerned with exhausting the Book of Lazy Cliches.

"City a club in turmoil" - why if a club decides to change their manager must it automatically be assumed that the club is in turmoil? It's not just us it's every time.

Twice mentioned Bellamy's unhappiness at Hughes' departure. Well any player who plays for a team should support the manager. I've no problem with players being unhappy when their manager is sacked. It's how they respond to the new one that counts. He was all smiles at the end - isn't that worthy of comment?

"Stoke were unlucky to go behind" - why? If a forward can't beat a goalie, what's that got to do with luck. If a defence can't defend in their own 6 yard area, why is that unlucky?

Not to mention snide comments directed at Roberto.

Shearer: sacking Hughes was a sham. Stoke an easy game to start with. Well sunshine, if Hughes had been beating the likes of Stoke instead of drawing he'd still have a job.

Robhino had a shocker, fair enough, no mention of how little playing time he's had. No attempt at balance.

As for Mark bloody Lawrenceson's humour. He's about as funny as a barbed wire sepository.

The blood Lev boils - but his revenge will be cold.

Careful Lev, I hear Lawro's into barbed-wire sepositries!

Horrible they were tonight, worse than usual, that commentator with his snide digs was a piss take, would be funny if the club persued the matter, no doubt the pencil neck basterd would soon be apoligising too the club which would be very amusing. The whole thing about us being in turmoil is all rather amusing if you ask me, turmoil is being owned by a former Thai PM who is a convict with no money, turmoil is having Peter Swales as head of your club for 20+ years, or worse Alan Ball sat in the dug-out, not being in the healthest position the club has been in since the late seventies, and challanging for a place in the top 4 aswell a Carling Cup SF coming up.

Just sit back and laugh at the jealous fools I say, we'll have the last laugh boys.

Lev Bronstein wrote:Match of the Day - why do I bother. Admittedly I only listened on GMR, so only those who were actually at the match could say if the highlights were a fair reflection of events, but from what I heard they were a travesty.

But what really wound me up was the commentary and Alan Shearer afterwards.

The commentary seemed more concerned with exhausting the Book of Lazy Cliches.

"City a club in turmoil" - why if a club decides to change their manager must it automatically be assumed that the club is in turmoil? It's not just us it's every time.

Twice mentioned Bellamy's unhappiness at Hughes' departure. Well any player who plays for a team should support the manager. I've no problem with players being unhappy when their manager is sacked. It's how they respond to the new one that counts. He was all smiles at the end - isn't that worthy of comment?

"Stoke were unlucky to go behind" - why? If a forward can't beat a goalie, what's that got to do with luck. If a defence can't defend in their own 6 yard area, why is that unlucky?

Not to mention snide comments directed at Roberto.

Shearer: sacking Hughes was a sham. Stoke an easy game to start with. Well sunshine, if Hughes had been beating the likes of Stoke instead of drawing he'd still have a job.

Robhino had a shocker, fair enough, no mention of how little playing time he's had. No attempt at balance.

As for Mark bloody Lawrenceson's humour. He's about as funny as a barbed wire sepository.

The blood Lev boils - but his revenge will be cold.

not to mention the idiot commentator acting as Ferguson's unoficial poodle regarding the number of managers we've had since his appointment, then this whole premature/shameful sacking of Hughes mantra!

Good one I forgot to add that.

And .... no credit given for how we coped with so many injured.

Lev Bronstein wrote:Good one I forgot to add that.

And .... no credit given for how we coped with so many injured.

True
We make a great team! :)

Lev Bronstein wrote:Match of the Day - why do I bother. Admittedly I only listened on GMR, so only those who were actually at the match could say if the highlights were a fair reflection of events, but from what I heard they were a travesty.

But what really wound me up was the commentary and Alan Shearer afterwards.

The commentary seemed more concerned with exhausting the Book of Lazy Cliches.

"City a club in turmoil" - why if a club decides to change their manager must it automatically be assumed that the club is in turmoil? It's not just us it's every time.

Twice mentioned Bellamy's unhappiness at Hughes' departure. Well any player who plays for a team should support the manager. I've no problem with players being unhappy when their manager is sacked. It's how they respond to the new one that counts. He was all smiles at the end - isn't that worthy of comment?

"Stoke were unlucky to go behind" - why? If a forward can't beat a goalie, what's that got to do with luck. If a defence can't defend in their own 6 yard area, why is that unlucky?

Not to mention snide comments directed at Roberto.

Shearer: sacking Hughes was a sham. Stoke an easy game to start with. Well sunshine, if Hughes had been beating the likes of Stoke instead of drawing he'd still have a job.

Robhino had a shocker, fair enough, no mention of how little playing time he's had. No attempt at balance.

As for Mark bloody Lawrenceson's humour. He's about as funny as a barbed wire sepository.

The blood Lev boils - but his revenge will be cold.

Very well summed up Lev, I thought it was just me taking offence at the snidey remarks made aginst us and after the first couple i thought OK, he must have some sort of axe to grind but they kept on coming! Unbalanced, biased and down right comedy based commentry!
I don't know who the cock is who was charged with producing this kind of shite but you would think we sat on the devils right hand side it was so uneven!
Oh well i guess we are unloved and nobodys second favourite team anymore!
Are we bothered? I think not!

M147WN wrote:Are we bothered? I think not!

mate according to this comment and many many more i'd have to disagree ;)

LB2 I really have noticed the kind of press we've been getting recently and ok a new manager and MH sacked is big news and i concede that the papers will make hay while the sun shines but I can't see much foundation in thier attempts at belittling us.
They know we will challange the recognised top 4 before long but I can't get my head around the fact that in doing so we seem to be the bad guys and ultimately have no right to be so bold as to even dare to not stray from our station and continue to be subserviant!

I've followed City now for 41 years and I've been abused by the best of 'em for most of that time! I really don't give a flying shite what anybody other than City fans think of my team and i couldn't care less if some spotty faced journo fresh out of journo college thinks he's cool to diss City because he might make a name for himself!
I am fucking Millwall x 10 and treat others peoples negative views about our club with a fraction of a second glance!

The live match commentary (was it on Sky? I never know over here) was almost unbearable... one of the two commentators actually had the guts to say that Stoke were the better team after we just enjoyed a spell of what must have been 80% possession in the first half. Soon after that we scored and they still said we are lucky. And when we scored the 2nd they also said we were lucky...

M147WN wrote:LB2 I really have noticed the kind of press we've been getting recently and ok a new manager and MH sacked is big news and i concede that the papers will make hay while the sun shines but I can't see much foundation in thier attempts at belittling us.
They know we will challange the recognised top 4 before long but I can't get my head around the fact that in doing so we seem to be the bad guys and ultimately have no right to be so bold as to even dare to not stray from our station and continue to be subserviant!

I've followed City now for 41 years and I've been abused by the best of 'em for most of that time! I really don't give a flying shite what anybody other than City fans think of my team and i couldn't care less if some spotty faced journo fresh out of journo college thinks he's cool to diss City because he might make a name for himself!
I am fucking Millwall x 10 and treat others peoples negative views about our club with a fraction of a second glance!

The press we've been getting is a disgrace mate i agree. Does piss me off and i wont pretent it doesnt. They'll soon be lovin us when we establish ourselves though :)

Don't think it'll be long bud!!
I'm off to me pit now.
i shall forgo the well execised dreams of ex-girlfriends and other peoples wives and drift off thinking that maybe , at last we see the first flickerings the dawn of a new era! A sucessful one where we beat all before us and summarily exectute baconface on tower bridge and play 5 a side with his head for a couple of hours on Wembley way!

M147WN wrote:Don't think it'll be long bud!!
I'm off to me pit now.
i shall forgo the well execised dreams of ex-girlfriends and other peoples wives !

Lol
You truly are a martyr for the cause!

Firstly i was shocked to see us on from the start. They then went striaght into bashing us in every way, so much so that even my bloody girl friend said that they are clearly anti City.
Why they felt like slating us so much god only knows both as a club and team.
If there is anyone from MoTD reading post on forums to get some sort of feed back heres some for you, FUCK OFF YOU RAG LOVING PRICKS.

They've always got to bash someone and right now it's going to be us.

My Dad rang after the match and said we played terrible football and that Stoke should have beat us good and proper???, eh?, he then told me he had watched Sky Sports all afternoon. Mmmm.

Basically I couldn't give a flying fuck.

avoidconfusion wrote:The live match commentary (was it on Sky? I never know over here) was almost unbearable... one of the two commentators actually had the guts to say that Stoke were the better team after we just enjoyed a spell of what must have been 80% possession in the first half. Soon after that we scored and they still said we are lucky. And when we scored the 2nd they also said we were lucky...

Yea I was watching it on a stream , and could not believe what I was hearing when he said Stoke have been the better team. if they cant be fair and not show their true colours [ i.e. Rag lovers] they are not fit to be commentators imo.

Well I guess I'm lucky then, I didn't have it as bad as you guys. I watched the game on Sky Italia, and while the commentary was done by their Premier League "specialist" who is a rag, the fact that Mancini is Italian resuted in a lot of praise for him and criticism for Hughes' previous reign, and the fairest City commentary I'veeer heard him doing. I guess I might search for a MOTD video to hear what the fuck they had to say though, you lot made me curious.

shearer ia a complete prat, in turmoil,
has he forgot about his beloved geordies.
oh i had talkcrap on this morning huhges being linked with barcodes acc to them.
then i heard a gem, they had people ringing up about their heroes,
this evertonian phoned up discussing alan ball how hed met himm etc, etc.
and that mark saggers came out with great man bally.
wait for it and a great coach by the way.
what a load of absolute crap.

Also, they kept going on and on and on about Bellamy being dropped in favour of Robinho. Didn't even stop to mention that he's incapable of playing 2 games in 3 days!

Mancini even said in his BBC interview (on their website) that Robinho was to start against Stoke and Bellamy against Wolves. Yet they ignore this completely!

We should boycott any interviews with them in the future. Why waste our time with them!?!?!?!

aaron bond wrote:Also, they kept going on and on and on about Bellamy being dropped in favour of Robinho. Didn't even stop to mention that he's incapable of playing 2 games in 3 days!

Mancini even said in his BBC interview (on their website) that Robinho was to start against Stoke and Bellamy against Wolves. Yet they ignore this completely!

We should boycott any interviews with them in the future. Why waste our time with them!?!?!?!

Seems like they're trying to get into Taggarts good books for next season. Maybe they'll get an interview eh???

I've only just watched it and like Lev, my blood was boiling at the total bollox that was spouted. And after the double 'Bellamy's not Happy' statement, they had the audacity to state that he wanted to go to Spurs, with the old 'I understand' statement so there is no comebacks.

I don't know about the Hughes situation being a sham, but that depictment of events surely was!!!