MOTD - Media Bias Against City

[Dameerto]

Bastids making me wait 'til nearly midnight.

[bobby brows]

Fulham have worked hard against a city team below their best!

That coverage made itv look good

[london blue 2]

Tbf at least they mentioned the 23 passes. It was a shit straight forward game.

As soon as the second goal went in we all became spurs fans for the remainder of the weekend

[ross.mcfc]

Our game was the shittest game of the day and over after 2 minutes. Deserved to be on last.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

I watched the game on a decent stream and I expected it to be last on.The first half was a shocker and although the 2nd was better it wasn't a good spectacle or contest.All the other games,maybe Swansea similar were probably better to watch than ours.

[Blue Since 76]

As a game, it deserved to be on after the credits. However, as Champions and the only team in the top 6 playing, I did expect to be a bit higher up the running order.

[LookMumImOnMCF.net]

Christ

[ross.mcfc]

As a game, it deserved to be on after the credits. However, as Champions and the only team in the top 6 playing, I did expect to be a bit higher up the running order.

Get the good games on first, average in the middle and the one that people may stay up to watch at the end. Makes good scheduling if you ask me.

If you know the last game is Wigan 0 - 0 Stoke, you aint going to stay up for that are you.

A perfect example of victim culture. There is no story here. Our game was shit.

[Mase]

Our game was the shittest game of the day and over after 2 minutes. Deserved to be on last.

Did you go to every other Premiership game today or are you just going off match of the day?

[ross.mcfc]

Our game was the shittest game of the day and over after 2 minutes. Deserved to be on last.

Did you go to every other Premiership game today or are you just going off match of the day?

I'm going off the fact I watched our game and was bored to tears.

[Im_Spartacus]

Interesting article here from 1996 about the perspective of bbc commentators, and the subsequent editing of highlights on motd. Im not sure there ever has been a conspiracy, but stuff like this in light of the things we still see to this day really have to make you wonder just how long we will accept being taken for fools by the bbc and the refereeing establishment.


http://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/108-Re ... ement-days


Manchester City need all the help they can get. In recent matches the referees have not come to their aid. Steve Parish muses on the inconsistencies of referees – and of the TV watchdogs

Alan Wilkie’s penalty award in the Manchester FA Cup derby, and Martin Bodenham’s failure to spot Asprilla’s elbow at work when Newcastle met City at Maine Road the week after, were both well examined by Match of the Day.

A referee making a wrong decision is common enough. Refs like Wilkie missing a clear push by Bruce on Symons but seeing a minor grapple as ‘holding’ typifies the sort of inconsistency – or blindness or bias – that makes a nonsense of the complaint that referees have been turned into ‘automata’.

There is no consistency of interpretation between referees, or even too often between one referee’s decisions in one match. Even fairly basic stuff like a player not wearing shinpads – hardly a matter for sharp eyes and instant judgment – seems to pass some referees by these days. Tim Flowers illegally marks his goal area week by week, and in the end it’s not a referee that punishes him but the ball hitting the illegal rut and bouncing over his shoulder, ho-ho!

But nor is there any consistency in the television treatment of incidents, and commentary. In the first minute of the Manchester derby Cantona and Brown both leapt in hard for the ball. With the ball out of play Cantona and Keane both then kicked Brown and got away with it – with Wilkie commended by summariser David Pleat for “defusing the situation” by allowing a quick throw-in, and by John Motson – “the best thing he could have done”.

Wilkie didn’t “defuse the situation” – he either did not see violent conduct or he chose to ignore it. But so too did Match of the Day, not even bothering to run the whole incident later. Why? To protect the judgment of their own commentators?

Now when Asprilla swings an elbow in a tussle with Keith Curle – an understandable if dangerous reaction when a defender is holding you back – the cameras dwell on it. Who decides which incidents to re-run? On what criteria? Does someone make a judgment that elbowing and butting are more serious than merely kicking an opponent? Or is it that Asprilla is Colombian and black? Or just the BBC bias toward United?

Then the FA steams in, picking up on incidents that the TV producers choose to highlight and ignoring the ones we all see but TV fails to analyse. But it is not just the odd highlighted – or ignored – bit of violent conduct that has brought so much criticism of referees this season. It’s that players do get away with tackles from behind that damage opponents, yet are booked for silly little dissents (often getting sent off for a second yellow card offence).

[Hazy2]

The commentary has me smirking this morning. Last on, classic lines throughout, The crowd have all gone.The hatred of us is funny.

[Blue Since 76]

Get the good games on first, average in the middle and the one that people may stay up to watch at the end. Makes good scheduling if you ask me.

If you know the last game is Wigan 0 - 0 Stoke, you aint going to stay up for that are you.

A perfect example of victim culture. There is no story here. Our game was shit.

So how many times over the last 20 years have the rags been on last? Or Liverpool when they were a top 4 side? Or Arsenal? I said our game was terrible, but we were the only top 6 side playing, which they usually obsess over.

A perfect example of the anti-City nonsense you post most of the time.

[Spurge]

I'm no fan of the BBC far from it infact, but on this one I don't have a problem with City being on last.

We were the only team in the top 6 yesterday, it was a comfortable and largely uneventful win. So with the majority of games effecting the bottom half of the table and the relegation battle, all of which had either the same or more goals to show then it made sense to focus on this.

[Beefymcfc]

Strange but true. I fell asleep just as it went to half-time last night and when I woke up this morning, turned on the TV in the hope of seeing MotD again and it was at the exact point that I'd fallen asleep.

Freaky ;-)

[City64]

Much better highlights on Sky Sports News this morning plus they covered actually how fuckin cold it was inside the Etihad and how nearly everyone was having to wear a beanie ! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr im still fuckin shivering ffs , lol

[Beefymcfc]

Much better highlights on Sky Sports News this morning plus they covered actually how fuckin cold it was inside the Etihad and how nearly everyone was having to wear a beanie ! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr im still fuckin shivering ffs , lol

It was understandable why people fucked off early yesterday. I also think the conditions had an affect on the game and that's why it was so flat. It's OK having under-soil heating but that doesn't keep the muscles warm. It must've been below zero in the stadium yesterday and if it wasn't for the heating system in the pitch, a game could never/shouldn't really be played.

[City64]

Much better highlights on Sky Sports News this morning plus they covered actually how fuckin cold it was inside the Etihad and how nearly everyone was having to wear a beanie ! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr im still fuckin shivering ffs , lol

It was understandable why people fucked off early yesterday. I also think the conditions had an affect on the game and that's why it was so flat. It's OK having under-soil heating but that doesn't keep the muscles warm. It must've been below zero in the stadium yesterday and if it wasn't for the heating system in the pitch, a game could never/shouldn't really be played.

windchill of around minus 9 mate apparently ...... now thats fuckin cold !

[Beefymcfc]

Much better highlights on Sky Sports News this morning plus they covered actually how fuckin cold it was inside the Etihad and how nearly everyone was having to wear a beanie ! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr im still fuckin shivering ffs , lol

It was understandable why people fucked off early yesterday. I also think the conditions had an affect on the game and that's why it was so flat. It's OK having under-soil heating but that doesn't keep the muscles warm. It must've been below zero in the stadium yesterday and if it wasn't for the heating system in the pitch, a game could never/shouldn't really be played.

windchill of around minus 9 mate apparently ...... now thats fuckin cold !

That's cold. Our stadium design doesn't help either, it turns the place into a great big refridgerator.

[Beefymcfc]

On a similar note, are the Beeb taking the piss with our web page! Since Uniteds win midweek the top story on our page was 'Big Crowd See Rooney Score Winner' with a big fuck off picture of Rooney. Today the picture has gone in favour of yestrdays game but the top headline is still about the Rags.

Small point but one that pisses me right off.

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