No. It's not.
Yes, it is.
Too much space wasted with huge giant pictures that could be turned over to actual content.
You click on a news article and half the page is taken up by a big picture that you really don't need to see and you have to scroll down to actually read the article.
The headlines are all too big, great if you're partially sighted, not for anyone else.
There's too much padding on everything.
It could be a lot better, but they went completely overboard on having huge graphics, huge headlines, and huge padding which means the site is twice as long as it needs to be which adds needless scrolling.
Its called modern web design mate. Its a great site, and the amount of awards it's won for its design, accessibility and usuablity go some way to proving that.
The pictures are perfect, people want to see there team, not some tiny image where your squniting to make out who it is, it brings you that little bit closer to the action.
And as for swapping the images for more content, what would the point of that be?? the city site is a perfect balance of images and content, and there isnt pointless scrolling either, your never going to keep all the content above the page fold or you end up with a site like ours.
And as for the partially sighted, are these people not allowed to look at football sites? the modern standard is to make your type readable and accessible. Blind and deaf people are football fans too and if you design your site properly all this people can have access and the city site caters for all their supporters here.
City have set the standard here.