Howard Hockin commented on media bias towards City in his weekly editorial for the BM podcast for about 10 minutes, and went over several of the same issues quite well, showing how ridiculously inconsistent and biased the coverage is:
http://bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/podcast/epis ... 2-Hoop.mp3His editorial starts at about 15:50. Here are some key parts:
"Tell me when you have seen or heard any journalist do what Matt Hughes of the Times did last night and criticise not only another English teams' atmosphere but also criticise the club support when a match has sold out? You can't because it's never happened. In the same way that empty seats at Arsenal and United simply don't exist as far as the media are concerned."
"Tell me when you have last watched a European game involving two foreign sides and heard the co-commentator compare the atmosphere with the lack of one at an English sides game the previous night Until Steve McManamon did it tonight, and last night when commentating on City."
"Tell me when do you last recall a pundit sitting in the studio criticising the fans of the team that just secured a famous victory by lying about them not singing rather than just commentating on the performance and the achievement. You haven't of course until Rio Ferdinand did last night at the Etihad."
"The TV studio is filled with ex-United player and they can't be impartial."
"Why then, fans and journalists, do we City fans think you have it in for us? If United had done what we had done, there would be no mention of a few empty seats. Not one mention of what the atmosphere was like. Not one rewriting of history, downgrading the opposition from world beaters two weeks ago to now being considered an average team. And every journalist in the land would say United pressed and made the opposition look average."
"It will take 20 years of success before we have legends in studios."
"Teams that have had success leading up to and during the early years of the Internet age have taken over and consolidated their auras and images of superiority that was transferred around the globe. Raheem Sterling would be the perfect case to prove this...No, it's not paranoia to say if he moved to United none of [the treatment he receives from fans] would have happened