I don't believe I'm above it I'm just a realist is all.
The dippers are a special case. The whole city has a feeling of self entitlement and victimhood which ensures that those in power take pity on the supposedly downtrodden.
We agree about the City we want but I'm telling you man it's gone and charging £10 less for 1 game won't change a thing. So much about City is now geared towards sanitizing and gentrifying the "match day experience" (whatever the fuck that means) and a protest by a dwindling section of "real" supporters won't carry much sway with Khaldoon and his gang. For me they just wanna pay lip service to the concept of keeping the club in touch with the core fanbase while scheming in private to charge £10 for pie n chips etc.
Anyway we must agree to disagree. Good luck to any protest that happens, I'd love nothing more than a return to the old days.
No, mate, we agree. Everything is geared towards us being gentrified by bean counters who don't give a toss for the support, while paying us lip service trying to convince us they do in fact give a shit.
We just disagree on the key point that something can be done.
I think the general discontent has built up around the country to such an extent recently, and with this precedent City have set here, with the season ticket renewals still to be announced, it's come to a head. This is our opportunity to act.
You have to strike while the iron is hot.
I don't know if you still go anymore, but we cannot allow this to regression to continue any further, becuase there will come an absolute point where it is irreversible, that the harm done to our home support is irreparable.
You can't fall into defeatism.
The least we can do is be vocal in our discontent, the very fucking least. I fear that if we don't take this opportunity to protest then we'll have made our bed for the future.
Something can be done, and we can influence the direction we're headed. But we can't do it individually, we have to do it as a collective. We have to recognise the significance of this, to see that it isn't disloyalty to express this discontent - we've been shown disloyalty and treated with contempt by tossers like Soriano and Glick, they don't have our best interests at heart, and as such it's up to us to fight for them to recognise us. Or go all the away above them and appeal to Sheikh Mansour even
For all he knows everything is going swimmingly, the people he's employed are doing a great job and doing right by the supporters.
If he switches on the telly and sees the discontent we have with the likes of Soriano then he might have an epiphany, and intervene himself.
Who knows?
The worst thing we could do is just lie back and accept the state of play, meekly accept the marker that has been laid by Soriano here and recently. If that happens we'll regret it in the future.
And it's our generation of supporters who'll be resented for allowing it to happen. It doesn't have to go the way it is.
