It Starts Again

[johnny crossan]

from The Times

and sadly also from the same paper

[13021J]

What a complete pile of horse shit

[Beefymcfc]

Listening to the SS it's quite clear that there is agenda starting already. Starting off with Woolnough showing near enough every papers take on us (including our back-stabbing move for Sneijder), with many saying Mancini needs to win the Prem League.

Obviously they're starting the pressure early, but did we expect anything else?

[fees]

I cant watch that out here in South Africa but already gave Winter shit on twitter saying that i bet the programme will be full of anti City talk.

[CityGer]

Listening to the SS it's quite clear that there is agenda starting already. Starting off with Woolnough showing near enough every papers take on us (including our back-stabbing move for Sneijder), with many saying Mancini needs to win the Prem League.

Obviously they're starting the pressure early, but did we expect anything else?

I thought they were balanced and fair when talking about us, particularly over Tevez.

Just shows how we all interpret things differently.

[Nigels Tackle]

from The Times

and sadly also from the same paper

for all the money spent, we have a shit pr team. if i was the sheik, i'd fire the lot of them and get a new agency working on our behalf...

[CityGer]

I cant watch that out here in South Africa but already gave Winter shit on twitter saying that i bet the programme will be full of anti City talk.

Have you read winters' piece in the Telegraph today on Balo and Aguero?

Not a hint of anti City in it.

[Beefymcfc]

Listening to the SS it's quite clear that there is agenda starting already. Starting off with Woolnough showing near enough every papers take on us (including our back-stabbing move for Sneijder), with many saying Mancini needs to win the Prem League.

Obviously they're starting the pressure early, but did we expect anything else?

I thought they were balanced and fair when talking about us, particularly over Tevez.

Just shows how we all interpret things differently.

Yes mate, I agree with you there even though I think they skipped over most of the stuff they were supposed to be talking about. I was more talking about the start and the visual stuff where Woolnough showed many paper stories, with about 80% of them relating to us.

After Vicki Kloss' interjection last season, and the fact that Winter's on there today, the SS have seemed to be quite amicable towards us.

[Lev Bronstein]

The press seem a bit more balanced than this time last year, but it would be hard not to be.

There is an undercurrent that's more anti-Bobby than anti-City, although for some getting at Bobby is another way of getting at the club.

There have been too many "Mancini needs to win the title or else" asides in different articles. I mean, would he get the sack if we finished a close second in the league, got to the quarters in the CL and did well in the other cups. I would have thought that as long as the side is making progress his job is safe.

Another set of comments that amuse me are along the lines of "mancini won't be able to keep every one happy if players have to sit on the bench." And, "City will suffer from having to fight on too many fronts."

Sort of answer each other don't they?

[HeyMark]

That picture of Mancini is excellent

[Beefymcfc]

From Vital:

Street Of Shame Hacks Relaunch Anti-City Campaign

The Community Shield derby weekend has co-incided with the relaunch of a tidal wave of anti Manchester City propaganda. Tin hats out for the lads again, Blues...

Previously success starved City fans have become used to being reviled and have taken on the 'mercenaries will never gel' to 'you'll never sign top players' to 'you'll never win anything' jibes with relish.

Yet this week a legion of Wapping's finest who were left absolutely crestfallen at being proved utterly wrong throughout last season by Roberto Mancini and his men have been going after City with renewed vigour in the run up to today's Wembley curtain raiser.

Some of the reporting has been that pisspoor it beggars belief as the writers trip over themselves to get City negativity out there. Badly researched and poorly edited output has seen everything from nothingness training ground punch ups to loaded questions fired at anyone within earshot for subsequent dramatisation. Diego Forlan is one respected footballer whose words have been twisted.

The bias towards Manchester united has been the most stunning aspect of this week's whirlwind of drivel. Any ex rag with an open agenda has been wheeled out to stick their nose into the trough. Cantona and McClair are just two of the hopelessly out of touch pundits whose words have been trawled out ad nauseam.

Meanwhile, the brown nosing of Taggart and his team has been toe curlingly appalling.

A newspaper that most football people would expect better from today actually ran in the same edition one article questioning how Mancini will cope with his expensive strikers and another article praising the 'magificent seven' united forwards of whom 'Manchester City will be the first to feel the full force.'

The Street of Shame's hacks who almost to a man and woman started last season by singling out Merlin Silva as a flop after one game's chief target this year outside of Mario Balotelli appears to be Mancini himself. But the cool for cats City gaffer remains unflappable. You can watch one particular hack's borderline nasty line of questioning online via citytv at the manager's pre Wembley press conference. Our Italian leader dealt with the buffoon concerned impeccably.

The siege mentality that the City side forged last year was fuelled by similar media tactics. Maybe the club's myriad enemies are really closet Blues and out to reinforce it!