Super Mario said:
Deal, + city are a modern enigma so no more need to wait 35 years
It's just one of those moments, you know? One of those instances when things click and you see how the rest of the film or novel or season in a football league is likely to play out. I hope I'm wrong, but honestly? I don't care what happens to the rags. I don't care if they win the title. I don't care if they all die in a fire tonight. Never have. Never will. I care about them when we face them. Other than that, they're irrelevant to me.
That's for maintainin's benefit as I am not nor will I ever be a scab. I simply love City. The other nineteen teams in the league can fuck off and die. I have no love for them and if they're in the way of City, I hope every misfortune caused by whatever deity you care to name happens to them. I hate Wigan. I hate Stoke. I hate the rags. I hate them all equally. Because one team matters to me. One.
The moment that result went final today, I had that click. I think Mancini got locked in too quickly to installing his system with too many players not invested in his system. I think we're tired. I think we have too many injuries. I think our form is too off. I think our players are too unsettled. So we may win either the FA Cup or the Europa League or even both, but I have a hard time seeing us tread water in three competitions to stay in the top four. I also don't think our owners give a fig about the FA Cup and see the Europa League trophy as just about worthless. Win one of those and we still may fire the manager, which would be fine if we had a chance in Hell of signing the one manager I feel could salvage a bunch of disparate personalities and get them believing long enough to get into the Champion's League before the FFPR nuts us. He won't come to a team not in the CL, though. And it's almost guaranteed he'll be managing the rags. So we're likely to take a trophy and look for another manager who will chuck half the squad and need two years to build his squad to challenge for the Champion's League spot. Note, I didn't say challenge for the Champion's League. No, he'll need the time just to challenge for fourth because if Tottenham makes it this year and the same four from last year are still there, then it's going to be ten times harder to crack the nut.
Maybe I'm overreacting. Don't know. There's a reason I don't post for several hours after a result goes against us. I can't seem to shake the dead-on certainty though that we're about to piss around against a no-name team from Greece again next year on a Thursday night while the owner's patience wears even thinner.
