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[lastmanback]

the one thing i noticed that has come out of this incident,
the amount of city fans on this forum who do not like or want ade
playing for city. besides the shirt abuse the personnel abuse was bad.
lazy, money grabbing, useless etc certainly made there minds up all ready after
a dozen matches, supporters ?????????????????????

 

[law74]

Well, I was one of the more vociferous amongst the people you speak of Dave, and if what he says is true, I owe the public appology you speak of, sorry.
however, I still find the explanation a little hard to swallow, and like every blue in the world, do not believe Baconface was desperate for a shite when he got caught driving on the hard shoulder a few years back, but the twat went to court and they believed him so maybe we're all wrong about that?
Not digressing though, an appology is offered and sorry for some of my over zealous remarks.
Fanaticism is something I suffer from with all things City, and I'll always be that way, I feel and cannot stop being as passionate and defensive for the best club in all the world!

Well said Lord.
You seen something that angered you and you shot from the lip (or in this case keyboard), but in the calm light of day when what annoyed you was explained, you were man enough to apologise.

A lesson for MOST of us to learn from.
(& tonight you have shown to me that you are not what i thought of you last night)

 

[Txiki Vimto]

The hysteria on this site is quite laughable.

Everyone coming on here spouting their moral high ground is pathetic.

Calling other City fans for having an opinion, demanding that they make apologies. FFS get over yourselves!

My personal opinion is that he should not have worn that shirt regardless of the situation. He is paid a good salary by his employers and part of his role should be to represent the best interests of the club at all times - Any shirt without another clubs brand would not have been a problem so why take the risk? If you say that the emotion of the situation etc., to me that doesn't stack up. I presume he dressed himself.

Tribute or not it was at best ill-judged.

Just an opinion - and no I will not apologise for it.

spot on blu

 

[alera]

Who cares why does it matter if he wears a tsirt with Arsenal badge on it ? Maybe he threw it in the case by mistake, maybe he has a little more on his mind at the moment to notice.

Does it really matter, does any one really care ? I certainly dont biggest non issue since the sacking of Hughes.

 

[blueinsa]

right I really don't care if I get a warning for this, but yesterday when the thread about Ade wearing an Arse shirt emerged I really couldnt bring myself to read any of it after the initial OP's offal that spewed out creating it.... now to put it as succintly as possible, to call him a mercenary, slag him off etc after what he's been through, for wearing just a fukin top, basically those that did, YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF SMALL MINDED, PATHETIC FUKIN WANKERS, OK!!!!

oooooohhhh tough guy!

You feel better now?

 

[depps]

Quite frankly this is bullshit, those having a go at Ade are also attempting to take the moral high ground about his duty to the club etc., but its just that there moral reasoning is quite perverse considering the circumstances

Not attempting to take the moral high ground at all fella, i just felt and pointed it out, that players of his ilk are signed not just for their fottballing abilty, but also their marketabilty, especially in emerging markets that we wish to gain a foothold in.

Africa is such one place and whilst i have always stated how sorry i felt for him, it was a serious error in judgment on his part to wear the Arsenal top as he is paid to be an ambassador for City, to market us, not Arsenal and as a proffesional footballer he knows this full well. I would hazard a very strong guess that the powers that be at City have reminded him of those facts today as well given the press interview earlier that saw him in a City shirt.

You are still making a moral argument based on him having a duty to the club and the fans as his employers. Personally I don't disagree with you that it was a serious error of judgement on his part and even that it was wrong for him to wear the shirt but my point all along, and I think most other people defending Ade, has been that this error of judgement is completely excusable considering the circumstances and that fans shouldn't be having a go at him over something as trivial as a football shirt at a time like this.

To be honest I'm willing to just let the whole thing go now as I can understand where you are coming from, and although I disagree with you, you we're actually quite sane and reasonable in your criticism of him unlike some others

 

[allan harper]

Lol ! i didnt comment on his shirt not even when my spurs mates where phoning me up taking the piss !

so all you lot that slated him ! need to be punished so i say give up your semi final tickets and let those ( not me) that didnt get either have one, either that or just say sorry. cheers. xx

 

[Anonymous]

The guy was as close as he could possibly come to his own death.
The shirt he was wearing at the time of his interview was,and remains-totally irrelevant.
Think about it-it could well have been his slaughtered mate's favourite shirt.

Remember guys-for all the passion we all feel for City-at times like that it's only a game.

 

[bizzbo]

seriously

the people involved have upset the rest of us very badly

you can expect to cop it for the forsee-able future, until you apologise or show some understanding of just what has upset us so much

this was bluemoon's darkest episode by a long, long way

 

[blueinsa]

Not attempting to take the moral high ground at all fella, i just felt and pointed it out, that players of his ilk are signed not just for their fottballing abilty, but also their marketabilty, especially in emerging markets that we wish to gain a foothold in.

Africa is such one place and whilst i have always stated how sorry i felt for him, it was a serious error in judgment on his part to wear the Arsenal top as he is paid to be an ambassador for City, to market us, not Arsenal and as a proffesional footballer he knows this full well. I would hazard a very strong guess that the powers that be at City have reminded him of those facts today as well given the press interview earlier that saw him in a City shirt.

You are still making a moral argument based on him having a duty to the club and the fans as his employers. Personally I don't disagree with you that it was a serious error of judgement on his part and even that it was wrong for him to wear the shirt but my point all along, and I think most other people defending Ade, has been that this error of judgement is completely excusable considering the circumstances and that fans shouldn't be having a go at him over something as trivial as a football shirt at a time like this.

To be honest I'm willing to just let the whole thing go now as I can understand where you are coming from, and although I disagree with you, you we're actually quite sane and reasonable in your criticism of him unlike some others

Fair do's fella. Onwards and upwards.

 

[Scottyboi]

seriously

the people involved have upset the rest of us very badly

you can expect to cop it for the forsee-able future, until you apologise or show some understanding of just what has upset us so much

this was bluemoon's darkest episode by a long, long way

Shall we put it into the classics?

 

[blueinsa]

seriously

the people involved have upset the rest of us very badly

you can expect to cop it for the forsee-able future, until you apologise or show some understanding of just what has upset us so much

this was bluemoon's darkest episode by a long, long way

For fucks sake, get over yourself will you!

Seriously bizzbo, im woried about the effect this has had on you?

 

[Pam]

Who cares why does it matter if he wears a tsirt with Arsenal badge on it ? Maybe he threw it in the case by mistake, maybe he has a little more on his mind at the moment to notice.

Does it really matter, does any one really care ? I certainly dont biggest non issue since the sacking of Hughes.

Under normal circs, it would matter a hell of a lot.

 

[Scottyboi]

seriously

the people involved have upset the rest of us very badly

you can expect to cop it for the forsee-able future, until you apologise or show some understanding of just what has upset us so much

this was bluemoon's darkest episode by a long, long way

For fucks sake, get over yourself will you!

Seriously bizzbo, im woried about the effect this has had on you?

I was thinking the same I am more worried about bizzbo now that ade.

 

[moomba]

seriously

the people involved have upset the rest of us very badly

you can expect to cop it for the forsee-able future, until you apologise or show some understanding of just what has upset us so much

this was bluemoon's darkest episode by a long, long way

What a fucking drama queen. If you choose to believe every bit of pr you see and hear then good luck to you. If you think that entitles you to remind anyone about it for a long time, then good luck to you again. Hope it makes your life worth living.

 

[Matt Diablo]

I think it's disgusting, I saw him in his shirt and really didnt care, you could feel how his perceptions of what is right or wrong with club vrs club politics etc were a million miles from where his mindset was or is. His mate died in his arms ffs, truely staggering it really is. I dont think i've ever wanted a player to come back and do the business as much as him, ever before.

 

[kunaguero10]

Someone please name and shame the fucking knobs from that thread. Please.

Every one of them should publicly apologise.

apologise for what??? that our star striker was pictured wearing a rival's shirt...

he shouldnt of but its finished now

 

[Matt Diablo]

no its not finished Mr Mansoor, it's an embarrasment of epic proportions

 

[bizzbo]

seriously

the people involved have upset the rest of us very badly

you can expect to cop it for the forsee-able future, until you apologise or show some understanding of just what has upset us so much

this was bluemoon's darkest episode by a long, long way

What a fucking drama queen. If you choose to believe every bit of pr you see and hear then good luck to you. If you think that entitles you to remind anyone about it for a long time, then good luck to you again. Hope it makes your life worth living.

none of you get it at all do you. it was out of order to slate someone in a vulnerable state. it was a totally unacceptable way to behave to one of our own players. this club does sometimes make my life worth living and I'm not about to let it go to down the shitter because of a few people who just don't know how to act. I have standards that I will defend until the cows come home, whatever you wanna call me, that's fine, makes no difference to me.

 

[vonksbignose]

I missed "shirtgate", as I was in the pub all yesterday afternoon, commemorating my mate's 23 year old kid brother, who passed away a year ago yesterday.

First I heard of it was when a rag mate came bounding in, all excited at having something to have a pop at me about! Now I was pretty pissed by this time, so you would think, prone to a little irrational thinking. I can however, honestly say, that my reaction to him was that if that was the best him & his fellow small minded toss-pots could throw at us, then they could bring it on, because its fucking pathetic & shows them for what they are - a bunch of hypocritical shitbags who like to give it out when others suffer tragedy, but run to the press whenever anyone has a dig at theirs! I'm not condoning either set of supporters in this by the way, just making a point!

Anyway, those on here who say they are passionate about City & this is why they felt the need to jump down Ade's throat are missing 2 points! One - as passionate as I am about City (and trust me, my mates get exasperated sometimes by the lengths I'll go to in order to defend them), my passion for my club is probably outweighed at the moment by the feelings running through Ade's mind, and anyone who can't see that is just choosing to be ignorant, in order to serve some perverse agenda which probably has more to do with their view of him as a player, than it does his choice of fashionwear (in my view)!

Secondly, they give wankers like my mate from last night & his bunch encouragement to have a go at OUR CLUB, therefore undoing whatever good it is they think they're doing in support of the club anyway!

Seeing as I had to tell my mate last night that I thought he was a pathetic wanker for so gleefully trampling on another man's grief in order to score cheap points, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to say the same for those I've read on here who've come out with similar fucking nonsense!

I don't expect anyone to apologise by the way, I don't care & its nothing to do with me, but I do think you're wankers!