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.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment