Man City - the new bitters?

[Leyton388]

Wow it even has a spear. Did the Duke of Edinburgh design it?

[aRdja]

5 minutes ago, Leyton388 said:

Wow it even has a spear. Did the Duke of Edinburgh design it?

Don’t you worry, it’s just lols amongst mates.

[3 Stacks]

28 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

Seems Mendy is ok with it

 

 

Of course Mendy is fine with it, that's not the point. 

[Rico1304]

1 minute ago, 3 Stacks said:

Of course Mendy is fine with it, that's not the point. 

Surely it is.  Otherwise someone is getting offended on his behalf. 

 

The fact you (or most people) wouldn’t do it, doesn’t mean it can’t be done.   

[Leyton388]

I think the FA will make an example out of him after all the publicity there has been about footballers on twitter receiving racist tweets and now one of their own has done it it makes them look soft if they let this slide and they'll get shit for it.

[Captain Turdseye]

Peter Beardsley must be turning in his grave. 

[aRdja]

John Barnes claimed he wasn’t offended by the banana skin thrown at him... so nothing to see there either lads. lol.

[3 Stacks]

24 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

Surely it is.  Otherwise someone is getting offended on his behalf. 

 

The fact you (or most people) wouldn’t do it, doesn’t mean it can’t be done.   

Sure, you're right. If I call my friend the n word and he's not offended but his mom overhears, she has no right to be upset. That's the problem of putting it on social media. Lots of people unfortunately "overhear". It's like morons like Bernardo Silva forget the internet is public. I'm not personally offended, but he's such an idiot and people have the right to be mad at him. 

[SasaS]

1 hour ago, viRdjil said:

Interested to hear your thoughts on this @SasaS @Rico1304... should the club take action against Bernardo?

I don't know why you mentioned me in this, it is neither similar nor pertinent to any of the points I made in the other discussion.

 

[Rico1304]

9 minutes ago, SasaS said:

I don't know why you mentioned me in this, it is neither similar nor pertinent to any of the points I made in the other discussion.

 

You’re an outlaw now. I hope you can shoot. 

[Rico1304]

16 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

Sure, you're right. If I call my friend the n word and he's not offended but his mom overhears, she has no right to be upset. That's the problem of putting it on social media. Lots of people unfortunately "overhear". It's like morons like Bernardo Silva forget the internet is public. I'm not personally offended, but he's such an idiot and people have the right to be mad at him. 

 They have the right to do the fuck what they want. They shouldn’t be able to influence him though. 

[SasaS]

3 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

You’re an outlaw now. I hope you can shoot. 

I can. I can also take an AK-47 completely apart and put it back again in under 30 seconds.

[Anubis]

1 hour ago, Captain Turdseye said:

Peter Beardsley must be turning in his grave. 

Has he been hanging out in a grave since Notre Dame burnt down?

[dockers_strike]

Looks like The Times is going to keep running this story about our scouting department logging into city's scouting system in Monday's edition.

 

Apparently for a confidential 'agreement' to deem the matter closed, it's clearly been leaked by someone at city to cause damage to Liverpool. There are supposedly calls for the PL to investigate this further and take action.

 

We really are turning into naughty boys, arent we?

[magicrat]

So translated he basically called Mendy a defunct brand of confectionery.

 

 

[manwiththestick]

2 hours ago, Leyton388 said:

Wow it even has a spear. Did the Duke of Edinburgh design it?

Wow, calling him an it. Shame on you.

[aRdja]

1 hour ago, SasaS said:

I don't know why you mentioned me in this, it is neither similar nor pertinent to any of the points I made in the other discussion.

 

Just interested to know if you’d be as outraged if City’s HR department decide to have a word with Bernardo here. Rico has predictably refused to answer my question unfort, but give us your thoughts please.

[SasaS]

9 hours ago, viRdjil said:

Just interested to know if you’d be as outraged if City’s HR department decide to have a word with Bernardo here. Rico has predictably refused to answer my question unfort, but give us your thoughts please.

Since you ask, I don't have anything to go on except the image, if it is considered offensive and Bernardo Silva has shared it to racially offend (I guess implicitly) the other player then yes, but as I say, don't know anything about it and they are both not British, so between them, it may be slightly different rules. As it is happening in public, "banter" using racial stereotypes is a no-no (unless the recipient is from a competitor (historically or predominantly seen as) white nation like French German, Russian, American etc. then it seems to be fair game) If Mendy has a problem with it, absolutely.

 

 Closer to what I was saying in the other thread would be if the other guy (Mendy? He's French, right?) may have adopted this character as his own "mascot" (let's say it's from a well known French comic strip or a cartoon) so B Silva is using it with the full knowledge the other player won't be offended, or if Mendy himself shared it and B Silva is now offended by how a black player is depicting himself and the HR stepped in to tell him he's not allowed to do it (Mendy, not BS). That would be, in my view ridiculous, although, it was public and they are footballers under the media spotlight and implicitly representing their club so again, different rules may apply.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

We need to find out what Sterling has to say about things. 

[3 Stacks]

From a reliable City journo. Would be hilarious if Sterling forced himself out to Madrid.

 

[aws]

8 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

From a reliable City journo. Would be hilarious if Sterling forced himself out to Madrid.

 

He can showcase his T Rex  run in El Jurassico. 

[Captain Turdseye]

Same article says that Baldiola met with Juventus in March and said he’d go there when his contract at City ends in 2021. 

 

I reckon he’s pretty confident he can steer lowly Juve to the Scudetto. 

[Sugar Ape]

[manwiththestick]

Klopp has just won best men's coach ahead of the weirdo at the Fifa football awards. That'll piss them off even more. Which is nice.

[elBooth]

"Honestly, I don’t know what will happen,” the City manager said. “They should put their focus on another issue because they don’t know which guy you are talking about. Bernardo is one of most lovely people I ever met in my life. He speaks four or five languages and that is the best way to understand how open-minded he is and one of his best friends is Mendy. He’s like a brother for him.

The image is not about the colour of the skin. He took a picture of Benjamin when he was young and he related it to this cartoon, which was quite similar for the image."

“Honestly, I don’t think what happened about that. If they want to do that and ask for Bernardo, I think he will be open to talk. But first you have to know exactly which person you are talking about.

There are many situations with people, with white people and you look at a cartoon and the face is quite similar as your face and you put it in there, it is quite similar."

 

Oh yeah bud, the likeness is uncanny.  I'm struggling to figure out which is the picture of the little boy and which is the picture that's drawn with historically stereotypical views of black people.