Bluemoon goes into Meltdown

When you think about all the moments that City consider great, they're all to do with us aren't they?

The Denis Law back heel, 1-6, 5-1, I don't think they'd be anywhere near as excited about winning the league in the last moment if it wasn't at the expense of us, when do they ever mention 2014? Carlos Tevez signing from us. Shaun Goater going past Gary Neville. Shaun Wright Phillips scoring to beat us 4-1.

I think these would all be in their top 20 moments...if they could find 20. They'd try to argue otherwise if you told them that, but they know that it's right.

On a side note, you can't really take anything seriously from a fanbase that I've heard still argue that Kinkladze was better than Cantona.
 
I think reality will hit hard there

They have a really bad GK and their entire defence is a mess. They need to sign a centreback and they clearly struggle to land their targets: Laporte decided to sign a new contract, Bonucci isn't leaving Juve and Everton is not budging for Stones despite £40m on the table. And centreback isn't the only thing weak about their defence, the fullbacks are also far past their sell date.

Their central midfield is in a bad state with Yaya clearly passed it and Fernandinho pretty average. Delph is not nearly good enough for top quality and Gundogan is a really good player but with his injurry record, I doubt they will ever see the best of him.

They have 2 fanastastic attacking midfielders with KDB and Silva and they have added some much needed quality on their wings with Sane and Nolito. Aguero is a world class striker but one often trormented with injurrys but with Jesus and Illheanacho they have a quality back-up. So attacking they look very good.

Pep Guardiola has no PL experience and plays a style of football that doesn't really work very well in the EPL. I can see City struggling to break down teams with Guardiola's tactics because he will lack the quality to really control the midfield and he will soon learn English defences aren't as easily broken than he is used to with Barca or Bayern. His troubled defence and dodgy Goalkeeper could be very vulnerable to good counter attacking teams and we will have to see if Pep can inspire the right mentality in his players to fight back from falling behind because it is going to happen much more than he ever experienced at Barca or Bayern. We will also learn if Pep will be able to come up with a plan B if his normal tactics aren't working, which I can see happening alot of times.

I predict there will be games where City will look like the best team on the planet and will be scoring for fun. But there will also be alot of games where they will look clueless on what to do and will be getting a very cold shower. I can see them struggling with playing on a consistent level and they won't be picking up 3 points every week to the title. I can actually see them having some really difficult times and Pep will end up being truely tested on his coaching ability and I think this will be the season were alot of people will change their mind about him being the best manager on the planet.

This season will be a battle Manchester United versus Chelsea for the title. Mourinho versus Conte.

Stopped reading after 'Fernandinho is pretty average.'
 
I note they won last night so the first two leading stories are about their game on BBC. I genuinely could not find out their score when they lost to Dortmund. It would be funny if it wasn't so blatant.
This is my favourite one. It's not even paranoia anymore when you get to the point of fabricating things like this. Obsessed.
 
This is my favourite one. It's not even paranoia anymore when you get to the point of fabricating things like this. Obsessed.
It's not fabrication on that one.

Dortmund was nowhere on the BBC site. No match report, result not findable on results page, no highlights, no interviews. The only news piece about it appeared possibly 1/2 days after, but that was headlined about Mourinho, who happened to comment on it, and was far down the list of the days stories. Even the rolling news page the day after barely mentioned it.

Compare and contrast with the Galatasary coverage - match report, extra reports, video highlight, next day rolling news coverage. All prominent or top news on the site.

Blinkered maybe, correct, yes.
 
Mods can snipeathon be relocated to a different thread so that there is a right of reply without accusations of derailing the BMIM thread?
 
It's not fabrication on that one.

Dortmund was nowhere on the BBC site. No match report, result not findable on results page, no highlights, no interviews. The only news piece about it appeared possibly 1/2 days after, but that was headlined about Mourinho, who happened to comment on it, and was far down the list of the days stories. Even the rolling news page the day after barely mentioned it.

Compare and contrast with the Galatasary coverage - match report, extra reports, video highlight, next day rolling news coverage. All prominent or top news on the site.

Blinkered maybe, correct, yes.

There was no proper match report of the Galatasaray game. There was an article with Zlatan and Jose quotes which mentioned some of the happenings in the game. Then there was a separate video link for Zlatan's goal.

Same goes for the Dortmund game. There was an article with Jose quotes which mentioned the happenings in the game. Neither were standard BBC reports, no supporting stats or anything, no detail about the opposing team. Same goes for City's pre-season games. As far as I am aware, the BBC have never done proper match reports for pre-season friendlies. They are very brief, but they are definitely there.

However, the Jose/Dortmund article was at the top of the BBC page that afternoon after the game. It definitely wasn't days later. I remember it well because the article is how I found out the result when I got home from work. The result was also in the 'results' column at the side of the United page. It's still there. The Galatasaray win is not in the results column though.


Funnily enough, City's defeat to Bayern isn't in their results column either. But I really don't care. I certainly won't be contacting the BBC about it like those psychopaths on BM.
 
How are they reacting to Bailley's latest "City called but I chose United because of Mourinho" comment?

 
It's not fabrication on that one.

Dortmund was nowhere on the BBC site. No match report, result not findable on results page, no highlights, no interviews. The only news piece about it appeared possibly 1/2 days after, but that was headlined about Mourinho, who happened to comment on it, and was far down the list of the days stories. Even the rolling news page the day after barely mentioned it.

Compare and contrast with the Galatasary coverage - match report, extra reports, video highlight, next day rolling news coverage. All prominent or top news on the site.

Blinkered maybe, correct, yes.
Good. The less of them I see the better.
 
Why do City fans come across as so much more bitter than Liverpool fans? I know they're our local rivals and we have a long history of rivalry with them but historically and even recently we have more of a competitive rivalry with Liverpool and until the late 90's we were always considered to be behind them in terms of being the biggest club in England. You'd just expect Liverpool fans to be more bitter considering we've recently overtook their Premier League league title count and even during our worse spell since the 80's, we are still better than them but they instead just come across as deluded.

City fans on the other hand hate us and are so bitter about our previous successes despite them being better than us now. It can't be because they know more United fans who boast about United because no United fans live in Manchester and all City fans do apparently. Not sure what it is but they come across as more vindictive and jealous about how big we are.
 
Why do City fans come across as so much more bitter than Liverpool fans? I know they're our local rivals and we have a long history of rivalry with them but historically and even recently we have more of a competitive rivalry with Liverpool and until the late 90's we were always considered to be behind them in terms of being the biggest club in England. You'd just expect Liverpool fans to be more bitter considering we've recently overtook their Premier League league title count and even during our worse spell since the 80's, we are still better than them but they instead just come across as deluded.

City fans on the other hand hate us and are so bitter about our previous successes despite them being better than us now. It can't be because they know more United fans who boast about United because no United fans live in Manchester and all City fans do apparently. Not sure what it is but they come across as more vindictive and jealous about how big we are.

It's a delusion among local city fans that I think starts in school when the minority of city fans love to inform the United majority that in fact it is the other way around and that City are the real Manchester side. This delusion continues throughout their life, until they are so sure that they are better and bigger than United that such an obvious lie (told enough times) becomes the truth.

They can't bear the fact that they were bought out because United exist, not that City do. Had we not been their cross-town hyper neighbour, Everton would have Aguero up front right now.
 
It's not fabrication on that one.

Dortmund was nowhere on the BBC site. No match report, result not findable on results page, no highlights, no interviews. The only news piece about it appeared possibly 1/2 days after, but that was headlined about Mourinho, who happened to comment on it, and was far down the list of the days stories. Even the rolling news page the day after barely mentioned it.

Compare and contrast with the Galatasary coverage - match report, extra reports, video highlight, next day rolling news coverage. All prominent or top news on the site.

Blinkered maybe, correct, yes.
It is. They definitely did a live commentary of the Dortmund game and I'm fairly sure there was a piece on it afterwards too.

The only reasons they even had additional coverage of the Galatasaray game is because a high profile player was making their debut and scored.
 
How are they reacting to Bailley's latest "City called but I chose United because of Mourinho" comment?


Probably the usual claims that SSN made it up because they're anti city...even though the player himself said it.

Theyre a special bunch I mean who can say, with a straight face, that Pogba is not worth between 85 to 100mill but try and legitimately claim stones is worth half roughly? They'll be claiming sane is easily worth 35m or whatever next despite having never seen him play besides the euros
 
I'm sure the word over there was that the only reason Laporte signed a new contract was to force City to pay a release clause. He wanted to do the right thing by Bilbao & let them make as much money as possible. When's the presser Bitters ;)
 
Exactly. They hate us so much that they can't enjoy this period of success. It's pathetic and sad.

It's because as they were 'rising' to the top, they wanted us to decline at a similar rate. Yet even though we've been shite since Fergie left, we haven't completely gone away and that's what really rancours them the most. Now that we have Mourinho who has made some quality signings, their dominance is far from assured and they're more concerned about what we're going to do rather than focusing on their own sorry outfit. They couldn't even enjoy the appointment of Guardiola without us taking the gloss off it with Jose and Ibra. They really are a bitter bunch.
 
Some sad bluemoaner posted this...

"I know it's easier to spell than Ibrahimovic, but every time I see him referred to as 'Zlatan'(which is everywhere he is mentioned) by their fans makes me cringe.

They love than first name shit, they must think it makes them look like hardcore fans or something when it just makes them look like sad wankers."


followed by...

reply 1..."Kun agrees."

reply 2..."As does Dave"

reply 3..."As does Vinnie, Yaya and Joe"


ha ha, what an idiot!
 
mark my words ibra will make an impact in the prem. ok he's 35 and yes at 25 he wouldn't go anywhere near the rags but he still has it, he's a wonderful footballer. barring messi and ****face he would have had the ballon dor a few times to boot. shame he's come to the prem so late.
Can't imagine they'll be too happy with that. Would probably get a ban if he was a relatively new member.
 
Made me laugh watching those Pep taxi videos- one bloke talking about how the whole City is buzzing and another going on about how Manchester is blue- we could be starved of trophies for another 10 years and they would still be our little ginger step kid.
 
I presume they are all happy today seeing as they have just signed one of the most promising and exciting youngsters in world football? (Sane) I have to say i'm gutted Jose wasn't in for him and extremely jealous Citeh got him. I think Pep has made some pretty solid signings so far and I can see they are going to be one feck of a side if and when they eventually click. They are certainly going to be the favourites for the Premiership and could easily improve on their CL record with their current squad, and he hasn't finished buying yet. Have to wait to see who Jose ends up with at the end of the window, but so far I think City definitely have a better looking squad. Just my honest opinion.
 
I presume they are all happy today seeing as they have just signed one of the most promising and exciting youngsters in world football? (Sane) I have to say i'm gutted Jose wasn't in for him and extremely jealous Citeh got him. I think Pep has made some pretty solid signings so far and I can see they are going to be one feck of a side if and when they eventually click. They are certainly going to be the favourites for the Premiership and could easily improve on their CL record with their current squad, and he hasn't finished buying yet. Have to wait to see who Jose ends up with at the end of the window, but so far I think City definitely have a better looking squad. Just my honest opinion.
I'd agree with all of this.
 
Made me laugh watching those Pep taxi videos- one bloke talking about how the whole City is buzzing and another going on about how Manchester is blue- we could be starved of trophies for another 10 years and they would still be our little ginger step kid.
It always confuses me as I keep expecting them to start shagging.
 
I presume they are all happy today seeing as they have just signed one of the most promising and exciting youngsters in world football? (Sane) I have to say i'm gutted Jose wasn't in for him and extremely jealous Citeh got him. I think Pep has made some pretty solid signings so far and I can see they are going to be one feck of a side if and when they eventually click. They are certainly going to be the favourites for the Premiership and could easily improve on their CL record with their current squad, and he hasn't finished buying yet. Have to wait to see who Jose ends up with at the end of the window, but so far I think City definitely have a better looking squad. Just my honest opinion.
I disagree in all of this and have covered it in a longer post in the City discussion thread. Their team is good, not the best.