The twat should remember who made him a millionaire for sitting on the treatment room.
I think you entirely miss the point for many who took that abuse with stoicism at the school gates, or wherever. They took it then because they had to; because they had little to fight back with, other than pretty feeble retorts, if we're being honest. That is no longer the case and that feeds people's grater sense of militantcy today towards criticism of City than in the 90's. If you kick sand in a guy's face and he comes back a couple of years later, ripped and toned, don't expect him to reason with you in a gentlemanly fashion.We've been through far worse as a fanbase. We've been given far worse shit as a fanbase. Back in the 1990s when we were everyone around the country's second favourite club and the media were always positive about us in the small snippets we ever got it was because we were shit and when we were shit United were at their peak. At the time I was a teenager at school and the shit I used to get off the Rags at school was daily, sometimes hourly. Bearing in mind back then there were homes where both parents were City fans but their kids decided to be Rags because they were winning everything. When we lost 5-0 in the derby I had the other kids in my form all waiting for me at the gates and they all piled on top of me cheering.
This was just my story. This sort of thing will have happened to many blues, young and older, all over the city at the time at school in work in be pub. Daily piss taking! Which is at worse than some media bollocks.
After a while though that starts to mean nothing. They could say the worst thing ever and it meant absolutely nothing. Back then City fans had the thickest skin of any set of fans ever. You couldn't get to us, you couldn't say anything to us that could wind us up.
The daily bollocks we get from the media here is nothing, absolutely nothing compared to the shit we got from the Rags in the 90s and if that didn't get to us then this media shit certainly doesn't! It's meaningless and has absolutely no effect on me and many other City fans. Me and my mates laugh it off, just like we used to with the Rags jibes twenty years ago. Water off a ducks back.
Unfortunately it's not true of all City fans. I don't know why. It's as if the 90s never happened to some of them. That original Agenda thread on this website was an embarrassment to our fanbase, talk about overly sensitive, Christ almighty! And I'm certain that thread fuled journos with the aim to get their articles into the thread and to do so was their big achievement of the week.
I don't know why the skin is so thin with some of our fans but it is. It never used to be like that. But many of us take no notice of the bollocks and we pay it as much attention as it deserves; none! Just like the club themselves do.
I think you entirely miss the point for many who took that abuse with stoicism at the school gates, or wherever. They took it then because they had to; because they had little to fight back with, other than pretty feeble retorts, if we're being honest. That is no longer the case and that feeds people's grater sense of militantcy today towards criticism of City than in the 90's. If you kick sand in a guy's face and he comes back a couple of years later, ripped and toned, don't expect him to reason with you in a gentlemanly fashion.
Why should we take bullshit from the media like subservient lapdogs? Fuck that.
I wonder if someone knows how to contact Mills and ask him to post and to defend himself on here would he have the brains to do it?
I wonder if someone knows how to contact Mills and ask him to post and to defend himself on here would he have the balls to do it?
I think you entirely miss the point for many who took that abuse with stoicism at the school gates, or wherever. They took it then because they had to; because they had little to fight back with, other than pretty feeble retorts, if we're being honest. That is no longer the case and that feeds people's grater sense of militantcy today towards criticism of City than in the 90's. If you kick sand in a guy's face and he comes back a couple of years later, ripped and toned, don't expect him to reason with you in a gentlemanly fashion.
Why should we take bullshit from the media like subservient lapdogs? Fuck that.
Like Derek Acorah?I certainly would not want to upset him too much because he uses his power in strange ways.
I've been chatting with Simon Green at BT Sport via email.
He's said he's more than happy to take on board feedback.
simon.green@btsport.com
He spent a long time explaining Danny's experience as a professional footballer and ex England player.
I pointed out Alan Ball won a World Cup and still didn't understand football whereas Jose can't kick a ball and does. He laughed and said he took my point on board.