Ted Hughes wrote:Tesl wrote:Douglas Higginbottom wrote:They just took the opportunity to say not just that we should win the league(it's our's to lose)but if we don't the manager is a massive flop..Just setting it up for the end of the season so it's either a "told you so what do you expect" or a whole programme analysing why Pellegrini is useless or the players have let him down or...........
I dunno. If they say we aren't that good then everyone gets all offended because we are awesome, and if they say we are awesome and should win the league then everyone gets all offended because 'they are setting it up incase we lose'.
I'm not saying you do this yourself particularly, but lots of other people on this forum do. Honestly I think there is just too much paranoia in here, although many journalists might not like us much I don't see this grand conspiracy everybody else sees. And if you look at any other clubs fan forums they all are exactly the same and believe refs and pundits and the media are plotting against them.
I think anyone that can take anything there they said negatively are reading far too much into things based on their already preconceived notions and not on any actual reality.
It's not a case of taking what they said as being negative, it's a case of knowing how they operate.
In case you didn't notice, whilst praising us, they were already starting to get the knives ready for Arsenal, the club who have been the darlings for the last couple of months, in case that goes pear shaped (sorry I mean for WHEN that goes pear shaped).
They are going to get stuck into them for not signing more players.
No that's fine, football coverage in the british media is incredibly awful and they are always looking for small things to make a massive massive deal of. I know that, besides most football crisis's are basically caused by the media themselves.
A good example was the Hodgson 'racism' joke a while back. The Daily Mail first go nuts about it and print tons of stories about it, only then a day or two later to print lots of editorials saying how ridiculous it was and how it should never have got the uproar it did. Yet that uproar had been completely manufactured by them themselves, nobody else in the real world gave a shit whatsoever. Martin Samuel (my favourite sports journalist) writing how it was a non event really pissed me off, because it was created by the same people hes working for.
Its total bullshit I know, my meaning really was just that they aren't anti City as such, almost everyone gets the same treatment as we do (the obvious exception was Rudolf, but I don't think Moyes will be exempt). Its not an anti City bias, they just want to exaggerate everything as having far more meaning or impact than it actually does.