KillieMitch said:
City fans: Usually I just read the forum (I always reckon reading forums is the best way to understand what's really happening at a club) - but just wanted to post to ask something:
I understand the 'group of death' argument - horrendous group for you guys - but I'm really surprised that there is so little anger. You didn't win a single game. That seems a really damning statistic to me. To an extent, does that stat not mean the group of death thing is a bit irrelevant? On that form, even if you had United's group the first decent team would have knocked you out? It seems to me to be a lot more than just bad luck with the group - your excellent squad of players was outplayed in most of the games. Really confusing to watch and, given his record in Europe, I'm just surprised Mancini isn't getting more criticism.
Which bit of "The Group Of Death" don't you understand...?
We died. We blew the first couple of games and that's fucked us for the rest of them. Somebody had to go out. It was us. Yes it's disappointing but tbh I got over my disappointment about a month ago.
The group was over well before tonight and despite what people think, the EL isn't worth the hassle in terms of opposition, money or time and effort. The clubs who do well in it rarely do well in their own leagues in the same season and getting another couple of fixtures vs East Bumblefuck in the Euro Vase wouldn't make any difference to us financially, ESP if it meant hampering our league form. There's a very good reason why Uefa are thinking of scrapping it! And please don't give me the "Mancini said he wanted to be in it" bollox. I remember him saying the the league was finished last April... He didn't mean that either.
Maybe the reason there's less anger than you imagined on here is because actually we don't all believe or buy into the Sky/Rag media spin and narrative... I know exactly what the easy story is going to be in tomorrow's news. Yawn. It doesn't mean it's absolutely correct though does it? And it doesn't actually bother quite a lot of us as we know and can see the bigger picture.
Onwards...