City - big club or not ?

[Sentinel]

why, what changes when we win 1?

What changes? The fact that we finally win the biggest and most prestigious trophy in club football.

 

[bluejon]

surely this conversation should be over with "we're massive"

 

[warringtonblue]

What changes? The fact that we finally win the biggest and most prestigious trophy in club football.

and Will that change how you feel about city?

 

[MCFCFanTX]

Biggest club in my heart

 

[bellwhaft]

Who cares.

 

[Shaelumstash]

I think this is a great point. There is a class system in football which mirrors the wider class system. It says that old money is good but new money is bad, history is more important than ability. There is a sycophancy in football which is nauseating. There is so much deference given to the clubs which have historic reputations. It is nauseating how the media and the authorities bow down to the traditional clubs. Deference and a fixation on the past feels like an English disease. People seem unwilling to change or modernise. The country has an unhealthy obssession with nostalgia and football is the prime example of this.

Ahem

Imperial measurement review to mark Jubilee

But Labour MP Angela Eagle calls the review a "pathetic" attempt to "weaponise nostalgia".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

We are a small club, we can never achieve the likes of Liverpool, we fans never get pepper sprayed or tear-gassed

 

[GSW Blue]

We will never be big enough to get all English clubs banned from European competition.

 

[bellwhaft]

As long as no one ever says "it means more" then I'm happy. Rejoice in what we are experiencing and never stoop to their level.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I think this is a great point. There is a class system in football which mirrors the wider class system. It says that old money is good but new money is bad, history is more important than ability. There is a sycophancy in football which is nauseating. There is so much deference given to the clubs which have historic reputations. It is nauseating how the media and the authorities bow down to the traditional clubs. Deference and a fixation on the past feels like an English disease. People seem unwilling to change or modernise. The country has an unhealthy obssession with nostalgia and football is the prime example of this.

Neither United nor Liverpool are traditional old money clubs though.

They were both new money compared to Villa Sunderland Everton SheffWeds Newcastle Blackburn and Preston who were the original big clubs in English football. They were even new money compared to City who were much bigger than both United and Liverpool pre-WW2.