17 Years of Supporting Manchester City

I have supported Manchester City my whole life, and have been a season ticket holder for several years now. After having this love affair for years, and watching the team languish and have several false dawns it is refreshing to see us be lucky and come into a bit of money. You'd think after years of being many people's favourite underdog, as we've been told in pubs up and down the country, these same people would think it right that a team outside the big four might win something.
But oh, no, as soon as the status quo is challenged all of a sudden money is ruining football, and you can't buy success (unlike United and Chelsea who have employed such a strategy sucesfully for several years). I do like seeing Sir Whisky-Breath ranting hypocritically about City, but it is still infuriating that I support a team who are demonised by the media, and having to read articles such as this, by a self-important tit, masquerading as the 'typical Manchester City fan'. If he was such a good fan, I think he might have written a book about City, and not the red side of Salford.
These journalists who are City fans are perhaps the most irritating, and many intelligent football fans I know hold exactly the opposite view of these 'fans', who would rather keep in favour with the big four supporting hordes who read their drivel, than support their team. They liked it when we were playing at York and Notts County, as it meant that they could be self-deprecating and gain sympathy. Now they are knifing their own team in the back.
All in all, it appears that a lot of football fans these days would rather be mediocre and 'keeping it real' than a succesful team. And this is a massive failing for the game, and such things help keep the prejudice that football fans are just underclass bozo's with no real knowledge of the world.

20 Years

As many of you know, it is 20 years since the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and I think its time to evaluate whether Capitalism is flourishing in these nations as were are all led to believe, or whether there is an underlying truth that is filtered by the western media.
First of all, we need to look at East Germany, which was the most spied-upon nation in the world. Although this seemed despotic and the over-ambitious nature of the Stasi and the police did ruin any chance they had of having a free and fair society, a lot of people who had no run-ins with these do in fact believe that they were better-of in the east, with better social security, job security and homes. Now a lot of the people who lived in the high-rises with no fear of being victims of crime are living on horrific council estates with massive unemployment, no future prospects and massive racism problems, since the number of immigrants to Germany has exploded over recent years.
Furthermore, in East Germany the populace had to find ways to be free, so the art world was in the best state it has been in the last 100 years, anywhere in the world arguably. This art was state sponsored, but cleverly veiled messages could go unnoticed. People in East Germany also lost any sight of gender differences, with men and women seen simply as 'people', no discrimination in the workplace and the most liberal views on sex seen in any recent society. This even spread to everyday family life and holidays, where many families decided to go about their business naked.
Now, I am not saying that I believe it's right to torture and spy upon your populace, but I am saying that if these Communist governments had a way to stay in power without the use of force, it could have been a much fairer society, where people would not live in fear and would have much happier lives, and perhaps the idea of socialism could have evolved into something more palatable for everyone, where there is more emphasis on democracy, as we saw in USSR and Czechoslovakia, who started to introduce glasnost and perestroika, albeit too late and not far enough.
It can be argued that Russia, especially, is worse off, as several ex-Communist nations are doing well in the EU, but a lot of the population are disillusioned, due to their being at the bottom of the social ladder all of a sudden, and ex-Communists still being in politics, but have shifted their views to being conservative Capitalists.
It seems that if there were some sort of middle ground between the ruthless despots of Eastern Europe and the money-mad, dog-eat-dog attitude of the west, incorporating the social securities of the East but the freedom of the west, this would be a truly fair society.

A view into why the USSR fell

People blame socio-economic factors, the 'tired dictatorships' of communist governments, failures of glasnost and perestroika. I think I've in fact found the real reason...
this interview with a KGB spy on BBC Radio 4, in which he admits he was told to spy on the Conservative Party and recruit members, because he 'looked English' and had a 'long... Lordish face'.

NOTE TO SELF: IN FUTURE, RECRUIT SPIES ON TALENT, NOT HOW ENGLISH THEY LOOK.

Before we know it we'll have people blacked up like minstrels spying on Zimbabwe if this is the logic world leaders use.

Let's Do This

First time blog, etc etc.
The reason I'm here is to bring my own, and other like-minded peoples, world-view into publication, and give opinions on current affairs, politics, and also such mundane things as music and television. Especially as television is a major factor in anything to do with the social overview of Britain, and how it's being run by idiots. Major idiots, literally sitting in their living rooms, shouting "DURRRRRRRRRRR", and watching Big Brother.

And these people run the country.