Tell you something, some of them don't like being called Rags over on Rag Cafe - some right fucking mard arses over there who really should take up following a more genteel sport if they can't handle a bit of rivalry and a few unflattering comments.
They tried that in 2012 when they came to ours and were clearly desperate to get that point that would keep us three points behind. They didn't have one shot on target that game but they didn't stop us scoring.They didn't even try to win. They clearly don't want to win the title. Without Aguero and Silva you have to go for it if you're at home.
I reckon most of them simply don't understand or aren't used to the sheer tribalism that fans in and around Manchester will have experienced. They probably exist in an environment where they're given no stick or possibly even admired for being rags.
Would anyone be remotely surprised?Just read a comment on bbc that there is a not so secret cash cow deal between United and the BBC. I've never heard anything about this but the poster said it means a lot more articles and pictures the rags. Outrageous if true.
This Chris Smalling over reaction is now reaching comedic proportions. Wayne Rooney has labelled him as being in the top 3 in the world. It's arguable that he's not in the top 3 in Manchester. He's certainly not as good as Kompany nor would you even think about swapping him for Mangala or Otamendi.
At United, he is protected by Schneiderlein and by Schweinsteiger and his team play possession based low risk football. He's rarely left exposed. We played a similar style of football yesterday and look at the difference in Otamendi - and that was against a title rival. Imagine how good our centre backs would look against a mid table team with us playing that style of football. It's laughable really. He has improved but fuck me....top 3 in the world?
Even funnier, a couple of years ago, the rags were briefing journos that he hadn't developed enough and they were getting rid.If he's top 3 in the world, looks like real madrid and barca will be fighting for super chris smalling.
Tbf he was decent a fair few years ago, when the deal was as good as done to us i wouldnt have complained.Rooney never has been nor ever will be a contender for Ballon D'Or. That's how world class he is.
He was top quality a decade or so ago. I would go as far as saying world class, or thereabouts. That attacking three of him, Tevez and Ronaldo was as good as anything this country has ever seen.Tbf he was decent a fair few years ago, when the deal was as good as done to us i wouldnt have complained.
More likely the Balloon Door!Rooney never has been nor ever will be a contender for Ballon D'Or. That's how world class he is.
What's funny is the way the handful of local rags play along, pretending that City are of no consequence to them. It's an incredible exercise in doublethink, as anyone who lives or works locally will attest to, if they're being honest. To suggest that City supporters are nothing but a minor distraction to local rags is an utter lie. If you work and live in the same city as supporters from another club, and you are both frequently competing for the title, and you care about your club, how can it be any other way? If it doesn't meanigfully bother you, then I reckon you can't be that arsed about your club in the first place.I reckon most of them simply don't understand or aren't used to the sheer tribalism that fans in and around Manchester will have experienced. They probably exist in an environment where they're given no stick or possibly even admired for being rags.
What's funny is the way the handful of local rags play along, pretending that City are of no consequence to them. It's an incredible exercise in doublethink, as anyone who lives or works locally will attest to, if they're being honest. To suggest that City supporters are nothing but a minor distraction to local rags is an utter lie. If you work and live in the same city as supporters from another club, and you are both frequently competing for the title, and you care about your club, how can it be any other way? If it doesn't meanigfully bother you, then I reckon you can't be that arsed about your club in the first place.
It's hugely different to united supporters from elsewhere, I completely get that; especially places where united are dominant and City are largely ignored in terms of support, particularly if those places are on other continents. Here, once again, logic suggests that their attitude and disposition towards our club will be hugely different and much less intense, as they don't have to deal with all the stuff that arises from sharing a city with another club and its supporters. Maybe their attitude to City and its 'rag hating' supporters could be described as one of baffled amusement. Certainly not the same emotions they feel towards Liverpoool or Arsenal, or even close, quite possibly.
For local supporters, however, the looming presence of each respective rival is perennial. If you work on the broadly accurate basis that Manchester is roughly split 50/50, any suggestion to the contrary is absurd and suggests a need on behalf of united fans to perpetuate a narrative (as frequently advanced by Ferguson) of City's utter irrelevance as a stick to beat us with.
Given our current place in the footballing firmament, where we've come from, and how we got there, as well as its total unexpectedness, to suggest that City are an irrelevance to united fans who live and work in the same city simply does not bear any logical scrutiny to anyone who properly applies their mind to it.
You can't change human nature and the tribalism that courses through it.
Anyone who disagrees should spend five minutes in the company of me and my dad.
The fucking rag cnut.
More likely the Balloon Door!
I wouldnt be remotely surprised if he'd ghost-written Taggart's latest revisionist work of fiction.Did your Dad write that?
It's actually a good read.
More likely the Cellar Door!