Champions League Haters

Rascal said:
It's the media narrative that we as fans are desperate to win the CL that pisses me off. They make so many assumptions about our fan base and they are so often very wide of the mark. I personally am not having some jumped up pundit **** telling me i am desperate to win the CL when i am not. It is as though they are taking the piss out of us assuming we are the same as fans of other clubs whose whole existence centres on the CL.

Don't get me wrong, i love the football, but then i also love watching the Dog and Duck v the Cock and Hen because its football. Football is not just a sport for the elite, it is a sport played by many and enjoyed by millions, the CL forgets that at times as it concentrates on an elite.

I enjoyed the UEFA Cup nights in the 70s at Maine Road and marvelled at Boniek et al, but the CL leaves me cold, i watch of course because its football, i go to as many of the away's as i can because its new and interesting and i love being with fellow Blues in distant lands, but i rarely bother with a Cl home game as its sanitised and I feel as though I am watching a brand rather than a football match.

It pisses me off that our fans are looked at by the media as not being like other fans when it comes to the CL, but they don't understand our grievances, they expect "glorious nights" like they love to talk about at Anfield. They accuse us of lacking passion and don't understand why we lack passion for these "glorious nights". Its wrapped up in this ridiculous history narrative and of course having read Wilson's diatribe in today's Guardian about us and PSG is it any wonder why so many are switched off from the CL .

Do I want us to win the CL, yeah I suppose so, but give me any of the domestic trophies over it and I will be happy. I don't hate the CL but i don't love it either and winning the FA Cup would mean far more to me than a trophy played for by a select elite.

Recently when we played Leicester I pacing the room, shouting at the TV , we played Dortmund and I didn't feel the same level of passion for the game as I did for the Leicester game. I wanted us to win of course, but if we had lost to Dortmund i wouldn't have been overly bothered by it, lose against Chelsea on Saturday and I will be gutted, lose against Spurs in the League Cup Final and I will be gutted and if we somehow manage to throw the title away I will be distraught. Lose to PSG and i wont be arsed.
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Lavinda Past said:
Why not?

I'm only saying what I (and probably quite a few others) thought when I read it.

I understand and appreciate passion for the club, but putting it ahead of family/everything else in your life...?

Get real.
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There is no need to get personal,express an opinion by all means but why insult? Too much of that going on at the moment,and its harming the board.
 
I am not a fan of the champions league but as we are in it I want to lift the trophy I want us to win every match we play always have done, even York away.
 
Lavinda Past said:
Why?
I think it's quite pathetic to read a grown man who has (as I understand it) at least one child, to consider a football match to be more important than the birth of their child.

You need to re-evaluate your priorities in life.
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Would you have said that to anyone who said "AGUEROOOO" was the best moment of their life or is it just because you don't agree with his position on the CL?
 
Blue Theatre said:
However ... it is revered by fans around the world ...
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Disagree entirely. It is revered by football “followers” (you know the ones - they have bought a Barca shirt cos f++++n Messi plays for them). But real fans - I.e. those that get off their arse and go to the game? Most couldn’t give a shit. Do a survey of season ticket holders at Crewe / Rochdale / Peterborough, or at most Premier League teams as well. They don’t give a toss about it
 
Lavinda Past said:
I appreciate that you are very passionate about the club Dave, but if City winning the CL would genuinely represent the "highest point of (your) entire life", and provide you with "the ultimate excitement", you are possibly the saddest person I have ever encountered in my 66 years on this planet.

Get a life.
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wtf lol. get a chill pill
 
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