Just saw some Ipswich fans in Guardian column claiming that they should fight to keep 18th position so when City are relegated Ipswich are the one who will remain in the league.
When a city fan called them out, they just replied we all know you cheated - and relegation is the least you deserve. And even if you are cleared it’s because you paid bribes. And they “know” this and the other club supporters nodded in agreement.
Media disinformation always succeeds. Look around what’s happening world. And the red cartels have succeeded in mudding the water. It is difficult to have a football discussion without the charges coming up.
Hopefully the trial goes our way but it would require some effort to clear our name in football discourse.
We don't have to clear our name.
We couldn't if we wanted to.
MCFC is a very successful football club and people don't like it.
If you ask other fans how they feel/felt about the rags in their pomp under the pisscan the majority would say "cheating fuckers, bought all the best players and Ferguson was a bully who had the refs in his pocket".
Whether that was true or not is irrelevant - it was the opinion of many fans across the country (nothing is ever going to change that) but the majority of rag fans couldn't give a shit about it. If anything they're craving to have those days back.
The issue we have is our owners are brown, the British Media is racist and the red cartel are hemorrhaging money and prestige at an alarming rate. The media is more than happy to step up and create a smear campaign and set the narrative that 'MCFC are cheats". Why wouldn't they? It placates the masses, creates provocative headlines and brings in more clicks than they could have only dreamt of.
Does anyone really buy into this public outcry? If we strip this right down to it's rudimentary level, MCFC are being accused of 'spending money' albeit the acquisition of which has been brought into question.
What successful football club hasn't spent money and can we be 100% certain of it's legitimacy? I'm pretty certain that most fans of said clubs couldn't give two hoots about it.
What about those football clubs that have spent billions of pounds and have not been successful. They're often riddled with debt and resort to panic buying their way out of trouble.
I am convinced that if MCFC had experienced a different journey since Sheikh Mansour took over in 2008 and we managed to break into the top four now and again with a couple of domestic cups under our belt there would be no investigation into our finances whatsoever.
Success is bitch..... ask any loser.