Imagine slagging someone off on a City forum for saying that moment involving City could be one of the highest points of their life. I'll bet most people have the Aguero moment in their top 3-5 moments, I'll bet there's many that have it number 1. I'll bet there's many other moments involving City that rank very high, would a CL win really be that absurd? Don't think anyone has the right to criticise somebodies personal experiences.
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Imagine slagging someone off on a City forum for saying that moment involving City could be one of the highest points of their life. I'll bet most people have the Aguero moment in their top 3-5 moments, I'll bet there's many that have it number 1. I'll bet there's many other moments involving City that rank very high, would a CL win really be that absurd? Don't think anyone has the right to criticise somebodies personal experiences.
Used to love the old European cup when you had to win your title to get into it but now there is too many teams involved and even if you finish 3rd in the league 30 points behind you still can win the champions league . Want city to win the cup but I don’t care much for it
citizen_maine
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You might have a point if the person he was responding to hadn't just called others small minded parochial and patheticImagine slagging someone off on a City forum for saying that moment involving City could be one of the highest points of their life. I'll bet most people have the Aguero moment in their top 3-5 moments, I'll bet there's many that have it number 1. I'll bet there's many other moments involving City that rank very high, would a CL win really be that absurd? Don't think anyone has the right to criticise somebodies personal experiences.
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If we get to the final, who’s going to Istanbul?
Even without tickets this would be a great atmosphere!
Even without tickets this would be a great atmosphere!
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Look, sorry, but if you want to win it because of the way the world looks at us, and how you surmise that will be changed, you're in for a bad, bad fall. By all means want to win it because you — you yourself — think of it as the ultimate trophy that made you dream as a boy and man. No problem with that. Each to his own.
The narrative will not be changed. It will not. At its most benign, it will be something like this in the media: “Well, it's what their Abu Dhabi owners wanted when they took the project on, they've invested hundreds of millions in a way that's unprecedented. But they've done well, and let's admit it, it's a good team”. At its most vitriolic, as in the case of many rival fans (read for that all dippers, all rags, but many more fans from neutral clubs than many on here would like to recognise, and not a few so-called ‘pundits’), it'll be “Means nothing. Won with oil, backed by an oil state that rides roughshod over human rights”.
I'd like us to win it, but if it's in order to be accepted. Get used to it — it ain't gonna happen!
The narrative will not be changed. It will not. At its most benign, it will be something like this in the media: “Well, it's what their Abu Dhabi owners wanted when they took the project on, they've invested hundreds of millions in a way that's unprecedented. But they've done well, and let's admit it, it's a good team”. At its most vitriolic, as in the case of many rival fans (read for that all dippers, all rags, but many more fans from neutral clubs than many on here would like to recognise, and not a few so-called ‘pundits’), it'll be “Means nothing. Won with oil, backed by an oil state that rides roughshod over human rights”.
I'd like us to win it, but if it's in order to be accepted. Get used to it — it ain't gonna happen!
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Actually, I'll tell you why I want to win it. Because you've only got to look at this thread to see that this issue divides blues, sharply and violently, like virtually no other on this entire forum.
So let's just get the fucker won and then we can move on.
So let's just get the fucker won and then we can move on.
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People don’t hate the CL because of the footy played on the strip of grass between two teams...
It’s because of the corrupt governing body and their FFP, for allowing debt to ruin the game but doing their utmost to get rid of the likes of City Malaga Leicester and Atalanta for daring the rock the Cartel’s boat, for colluding with the G14 to extend qualifying places to fit them all in (even if that put leagues from certain countries miles behind the top leagues, with no chance of ever catching up because of this decision), for seeding the group stages so the same teams always qualify for the KO stages, for brushing racism under the carpet, FFP, that 8-4 bent game those years back, for that corrupt refereeing performance in the Chelsea v Barcelona semifinal, for banning Kyiv fans from the Ro16 but then reinstating them as soon as they pulled City out of the hat, for not doing anything about Moscow letting fans in when they were supposed to be banned against us, for fining City more for coming out late than Porto for racist chanting, for fining City more for six bookings (of which about two should have been given) than Porto for racist chanting, for warning City about our conduct for chanting “you’re not incredible” at Hulk, for warning City about our conduct booing their CL jingle, for them calling their little jingle ditty an “anthem” like they’re dead important (deluded cunts, it’s not a fucking “anthem”!), for making clubs move home fans from their seats to accommodate corporate away fans, for their stupid massive advertising boards that means you have to kick fans out of their usual seats, for their stupid cameraman area (even though grounds have purpose built cameraman areas below pitch level) so that you have to kick people out of their usual seats, FFP, the fucking corrupt G14/Cartel, UEFA appointing the main Cartel CEOs as the main UEFA board members, them wanting to change the rules in case the Cartel finish outside their CL places in various countries so these cunts can still get into the CL, Der Spiegel and UEFA cutting and pasting bits of different emails together to make us look guilty for something we didn’t do and then having the cheek to take it all the way to court despite it all being fabricated, for banning Pellegrini for pointing out corrupt refereeing, for their continual corrupt refereeing, for the Jesus “offside” goal at Anfield, for the DSilva no penalty at Anfield, for the Sterling no penalty at Anfield, for the Sané “offside” goal at the Etihad, for the Milner handball not given at the Etihad, for not allowing City to retake the penalty at Spurs for encroachment, for not showing the ref different angles of the supposed Llorente handball, for banning Pep for simply pointing out corrupt refereeing... I could probably go on and on!
If it was one or two things you could understand but the whole thing from top to bottom is a corrupt load of shite, so I can understand why people hate it.
To me personally, this makes me want to win it more, but I don’t begrudge any City fan if they never watch a single second of this disgrace of a competition.
I've read that post twice now....what a thing of beauty. I once got asked at CL QF game why I was booing the anthem from an obvious tourist....I might laminate your reply and keep it handy if it happens again. Brilliant post.
However I go to all the CL games. Why? Well 40+ years of following the Blues, even down to Bournemouth and Swindon in the 2nd Division days (No I didn't make York away) meant that the chance to watch City playing in Europe was too much to resist. The high's of Sergio's 3-2 winner against Bayern, the 5-3 Monaco game, walking into the Etihad for the last SF game, thinking at all of Europe would be watching the game, the same game I would be sitting in my seat watching and something that if you'd told me would happen back in the dark days of Division 2 I would have thought you were mental :)
So I suppose that makes me a hypocrite, hate UEFA, love City and would love to see us go on and lift the CL trophy and cement this teams, club and players legacy as the very best in Europem if not the world.
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