I have believed for many years that the rags, Arse and the Dippers and the football public's concept of those entitities is largely a media construct built bu a compliant media, that earned £billions from positively publicising them. The sheeple being the sheeple simply absorbed the shite they were/are spoonfed and so a concept becomes solid and treated as truth.
No mention in the media whatsoever regarding the G14 acts of coersion and the threats against UeFA to shut it down. So the sheeple meekly accepted another large spoonful of shite and the favoured clubs were meekly accepted as being an elite,rather than money grabbing seeking to maximise profits at the expense of everyone else.
We saw, initially with Chelsea, the media vilified them and their Abromovich investment until they were finally such a huge threat to European clubs as well, they had to become absorbed ( extra CL qualifying places given to English, Italian, German and Spanish clubs ). Once absorbed, the media vilification largely stopped against Chelsea and the public soon forgot about the issue and accepted them as one of the favoured elite.
With City, there was no room left for absorbtion into the elite and the threat of City had to be stopped...at all costs. We were and are still vilified by the gutter, money earning media, the FFP was brought in to curtail our spending and eventually City were forced to bypass UeFA and take them on at CAS to remove an imposed 2yr ban for doing absolutey nothing wrong.
Until the Arab takeover last year, Newcastle were everybodys' 2nd club. Plucky Newcastle destroyed by a tycoon tyrant. Arab takeover = media change of tack and now we see them also being treated negatively.
The media are agents for the establishment clubs, UeFA, the FA, the Premier League Plc who have relied on those establishmnet clubs to create the £billions they feed off. The public are sheeple, happy to swallow the shite the media spoonfeed them.
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