Manchester - Capital of Football

[Dave]

Do not underestimate the impact that BBC Sport has just moved to Manchester.

So - guess what - Manchester is suddenly the capital of football because their lazy journalists cant be bothered to see it any other way.

I'm pretty sure that if Villa and West Brom were the top two in the country while playing the best football, with the best players then we would magically become of more interest to them.

[dishy]

Sorry but Manchester has far more going for it than Brum, better bars, more culture, frendlier people, better hotels, better food, more nighlife. Mancunians have more pride in thier city.

If i had the choice of living in either city I would choose Manchester

I've worked all over the UK in loads of dodgy places and can honestly say the place I would never want to go back to was Manchester, shit-hole of the highest order, it had an oppressive atmosphere, it was the only place I feared for my safety while working there, and to top it all, it was the only place I had my van broken into and all my stuff stolen, in broad daylight, under CCTV cameras on a busy car park. I hate the place.

[dave.woodhall]

Every time I go to Manchester I try to look at it objectively, and every time I end up thinking "Is that it?"

[hawkeye]

 so you think Brummies are friendly, well you only have to look at some of the comments on here.

[hawkeye]

Sorry but Manchester has far more going for it than Brum, better bars, more culture, frendlier people, better hotels, better food, more nighlife. Mancunians have more pride in thier city.

If i had the choice of living in either city I would choose Manchester

What a load of shite.

And what's this 'if I had the choice' - last time I checked there were no restrictions on moving to Manchester so why don't you move there?

Our economics genius, maybe because I choose to live somewhere else.

[dave.woodhall]

so you think Brummies are friendly, well you only have to look at some of the comments on here.

Funny, that, when you're rubbishing Birmingham on a Birmingham-based forum.

[hawkeye]

so you think Brummies are friendly, well you only have to look at some of the comments on here.
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Funny, that, when you're rubbishing Birmingham on a Birmingham-based forum.

I thought it was an Aston Villa based forum

[dave.woodhall]

And Aston Villa are based in?

[hawkeye]

And Aston Villa are based in?

Aston

[pauliewalnuts]

Manchester gets so much media and sport coverage because they've got two sides, one of which has won the PL title most seasons in the last twenty years and is arguably one of the three or four biggest in the world, and the other has just won the lottery big style and is assembling a squad of world class players.

Anyone who doesn't think it'd be exactly the same for the city of Birmingham if we had a record of either success or investment like that needs to take a look at the gigantic chip on their shoulder.

It's like when people whinge about the football media concentrating on London and the North West and reeling out a load of spurious reasons whilst ignoring the fact that that is where all the trophies have gone for decades.

[Stu]

On another point it beggars belief that the BBC moved to manchester - a city already awash with government agencies and cash when they could have injected money and jobs into Birmingham.

This is worth repeating. I read somewhere that Birmingham has had the least amount of private/public sector jobs created anywhere in the UK over the last ten years. This could be a massive problem soon, the city is twice the size of Manchester in terms of population. A lot of people already see it as 'fly-over' country, either on their way from London to the NW or vice-versa.

[KRS]

I'm pretty sure that if Villa and West Brom were the top two in the country while playing the best football, with the best players then we would magically become of more interest to them.

Is the correct answer.

[Jimbo]

On another point it beggars belief that the BBC moved to manchester - a city already awash with government agencies and cash when they could have injected money and jobs into Birmingham.

This is worth repeating. I read somewhere that Birmingham has had the least amount of private/public sector jobs created anywhere in the UK over the last ten years. This could be a massive problem soon, the city is twice the size of Manchester in terms of population. A lot of people already see it as 'fly-over' country, either on their way from London to the NW or vice-versa.

And the HS2 high speed railway will only make it worse. I can't help feeling that Manchester has been earmarked as England's other centre of power, outside of London, by the powers that be. HS2 is being built to bring London closer to Manchester.

The BBC's move to Salford will have profound effects, both culturally and economically. Manchester will be elevated to the status of some kind of sub-capital of England. Everywhere else will become even more provincial. When the BBC should have spread their operations around the country, and concentrated on representing all the cities, instead they have decided to base themselves mainly in two centres. In an age where the internet and smartphones enables more distant working, they have opted to bring their main operations together and consolidate in two centres of power.

As someone pointed out, when the riots hit Manchester the BBC reported the pants off it. It didn't matter that the situation in Birmingham was much worse, with kids firing guns at police in the streets. In Manchester, they'd smashed up the Arndale Centre - and that's not on. This distortion of reality is dangerous, but people are duped by what they see and hear in the media. They believe that shit. Hence hawkeye's skewed belief that Manchester has better food than Birmingham. The Michelin guide doesn't agree.       

[Ad@m]

Sorry but Manchester has far more going for it than Brum, better bars, more culture, frendlier people, better hotels, better food, more nighlife. Mancunians have more pride in thier city.

If i had the choice of living in either city I would choose Manchester

What a load of shite.

And what's this 'if I had the choice' - last time I checked there were no restrictions on moving to Manchester so why don't you move there?

Our economics genius, maybe because I choose to live somewhere else.

So please share with us the magical place you live that happens to be better than the Utopian-like place that is how you describe Manchester.

[dave.woodhall]

As someone pointed out, when the riots hit Manchester the BBC reported the pants off it. It didn't matter that the situation in Birmingham was much worse, with kids firing guns at police in the streets. In Manchester, they'd smashed up the Arndale Centre - and that's not on.       

It wasn't just that they reported it. They were blatantly waiting for it to happen so they could report it and drop everything else.