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The BBC do it again! City Ban Dan Roan

http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Club-news/2012/March/Man-City-ban-BBC-man-Dan-Roan

Patrick Vieira has expressed his disappointment and anger at what he feels is a serious and cynical misrepresentation of an interview he gave to the BBC.
Manchester City’s Football Development Executive gave the interview at the annual SoccerEx exhibition at the GMEX Convention Centre on Wednesday afternoon. He was representing Football Against Hunger, a campaign to tackle starvation in Africa.

An interview given to the BBC’s Dan Roan contained what Patrick feels was a very leading line of questions regarding Manchester United supposedly receiving favourable treatment by referees. Patrick feels that his views have been deliberately taken out of context.

He said: “I am very angry with Dan Roan. I feel he has misrepresented me. I made it clear in the interview twice that I wanted to avoid criticising United and even stated that I didn’t watch the United game against Fulham and had not seen the incident to which the reporter referred.

“That part of the interview was ignored and my comments were taken completely out of context. I called the reporter twice to ask for a retraction and an apology which has not come. I feel Dan Roan and the BBC have shown a complete lack of respect for me, the ‘Football Against Hunger’ charity and Manchester City Football Club.”

Manchester City support Patrick in his strong feelings on this matter and have confirmed to the BBC that the reporter will now be banned from all Manchester City media activity.

Chief Communications Officer, Vicky Kloss, said: “Despite the Charity arranging the interview with Dan Roan for the purposes of promoting the Football Against Hunger campaign, the reporter pursued a leading and aggressive line of questioning, through which Patrick was very careful to tread a diplomatic path.

“A misrepresentative article by Dan Roan appeared on the BBC’s website a short time later which omitted significant comments of clarification and took the interview completely out of context. Manchester City promotes a positive and welcoming approach to media outlets, however it is felt, in the absence of any correction or apology that there is no option but to issue an immediate ban to Dan Roan from future media activity.”

bravo......fuck em...it worked for Taggert all these years!!

Lets be honest, we do not need Dan Roans comments.Like all media comics he has not got a clue about ethics or honesty

Good for City - and for Patrick Vieira

taggert would have banned all bbc reporters for this type of indiscretion.

i really wish we would ban any media outlet (if possible) for making up stories.

Interesting - this morning, Muppet face has told Viera to shut it after these alleged comments - telling him to "get over it"

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4226232/Rio-Ferdinand-hits-back-at-Patrick-Vieira-as-title-race-heats-up.html

Scrolling further through the papers we have the following:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4226084/Manchester-United-legend-Gary-Pallister-launched-a-scathing-attack-on-Manchester-City-for-their-farcical-decision-to-welcome-back-Carlos-Tevez.html

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Manchester-City-have-bottled-title-race-says-Manchester-United-legend-Steve-Bruce-article884257.html

Funny that - all of Taggert's old boys coming out of the woodwork to stoke the fire.......

Bring it on.

Tbh blue, i kind of agree with what Bruce is saying, we have looked nervy and jittery, especially away from home. Winning that 1st title is so close yet so very far away and i'm sure it'll become easier to win once we've won it.

Pallister: now what he says is just complete bollocks. Unless Fergie would've be allowed to lose £20m by the owners to sell him, then he'd have handled the Tevez situation in EXACTLY the same way.

Not even going to read what Pug has to say.

Back to the origional post: Dan Roan's just a typical jurno, did we really expect anything less?

just make sure you give danny boy what he deserves when he posts a blog on the bbc website....

They are shitting themselves big time, aren't they! So much for Paddy giving Taggart his last few team talks, here we've got half the swamp giving ours. If that's not incentive to go and blast every side we meet off the park from here on in, I don't know what is.

And let's hope we repeat the sick swan at ours, just to reassert our intentions on those arrogant tossbags over the Irwell.

Get all these articles on the dressing room wall and make the players read them before they step on the pitc