I like this post very much. I’m not going to have a go at any City fans panicking a bit tonight, for obvious reasons, as this has been a stressful enough day already for all of us, but I do wonder how so many have already forgotten the tales of doom and woe from the uefa shitshow only a few years ago.
Month upon month of seeing, every time I opened twitter, some “expert”, most often in the media or an ex-player, Proclaiming with absolute, cast iron, 100% certainty, that “City are bang to rights on this one“ , “they’ve only appealed to delay the inevitable, the ban will be upheld and may even be increased” , “City will be stripped of titles and trophies” , “Player X,Y, and Z have demanded to leave”. Over and over and over again.
We know how it actually turned out, once the actual, irrefutable, evidence was presented. Complete and total exoneration.
I fully expect the same outcome here.
Some of my belief comes from being a fan, I won’t deny that. But most comes from the common sense knowledge that the people running City have known from the very earliest days of their reign that the FA, Premier League, PGMOL, most other clubs, Uefa, the entire G14, every solitary media outlet, every radio station in the world, every sports broadcast business in the world, and 95% of fans from every football team in Europe have been absolutely, gut-wrenchingly, butt-clenchingly, desperate to find something, anything, to hang on City. That we have the single most examined set of accounts in the entire history of sports, and the highest level of scrutiny of any professional organisation in the world and have had every day since the takeover. Every single day.
And so I believe, most fervently, that they would have to be monumentally, criminally, insanely stupid, arrogant, or both to have left a trail of breadcrumbs leading to anything that could be used against us. And as we all know, with the evidence of our own eyes and ears, the people running City are not stupid. They are intelligent, resourceful, innovative business people, who carry the reputation of their proud nation on their shoulders. That’s been half the problem. They are so far ahead of the game that the authorities and all the people I mentioned earlier simply cannot fathom how they can have Turned City into what they are today by legitimate means. They cannot compute it and so they rush to judgement. Again. As their belief that we are bent is a comfort to them as the alternative is to admit that we have simply hoist them by their own petards.
There is a day of reckoning on the horizon. And it will truly be a sight to see. Be glad that we will soon witness it and enjoy the rage and the incredulity as City hand them their arses publicly. Once again.
But please mate, stop referring to the police as Dibble. No idea why, but it triggers me
And relax. We’ve got this. And truly it will be glorious.
