City fans' view towards the Champions League

Do you enjoy the Champions League?

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supercity88 said:
Your last line there is quite something. I hadn't thought about that, but it's quite a strong point to make.
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It's a stupid point to make. For a start, they didn't decide to "leave" the champions league. They decided to take it over - the total opposite.
 
The perfect fumble said:
Fuck me! Stop acting like your shit don't stink.

Our owners want it and our detractors use it to beat us down, let's win it and get it out of our system. And if we win it again next year, the year after, the year after that that's great, but it's a sideshow, like all cup competitions.

It's the league that matters and every football fan knows it.
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Didsbury Dave said:
If you want to equate winning this to winning the Carabou Cup then there's no helping you.

This will be the biggest, most important and most prestigious "sideshow" in the club's history and the euphoria around winning it if we do would quite rightly be as much as winning the premier league in 2012. It would be the pinnacle of 128 year's history.
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Somehow, though, you are both correct. As City fans we have grown up (60s/70s) with the prestige of the European Cup, which was a fair competition that we had a small chance to qualify for - but at least it was only one of your rivals that could get into it each year - and then have had to watch it morph into this mega-bucks false league format that we were initially miles away from but have now managed to barge our way into - thank you Sheik Mansour. The CL was designed to print money for the big boys, and that wasn't originally meant for teams like us, so many fans are conflicted. Are we being disingenuous by embracing it now when we always saw it for what it was? Does it make us shallow? Are we forgetting how other teams must feel?

I don't think it's wrong to prefer the league, with its unique rivalries and memories, over the CL, but I also understand what it means to the players and younger supporters.

If it was the old format we would be hugely supportive of it I reckon. But it's not, it is what it is.
 
supercity88 said:
Your last line there is quite something. I hadn't thought about that, but it's quite a strong point to make.
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Didsbury Dave can't see the wood for the trees. Our owners see winning the Champions League not as an end in itself but a means to an end, the end being worldwide recognition as an elite football club and all that comes with it. When the European Super League popped up as an alternative means to that end, they signed up.

So just how important is winning the Champions League if it's just a means to an end? Besides, we know what'll happen if we do win it, our detractors will move the goal posts, the most obvious being we have to win it more than once.

The beauty of the League is 38 games over the length of a season does not lie, you win that and you're the best, everything else is noises off.
 
It's a mafia racket run by crooks, thieves and bent politicians. They hate us, they'd hate us to win it, and for that reason I'm desperate for us to rub it in their faces.

I hope the blues that do get to the game boo the hell out of their daft jingle twice as loud.
 
I think we have evidence of corruption at the highest level - which is why the decisions have been fair this year.

Or - we are just so good they couldn’t stop us !!


Either way I’ll be booing the jingle still
 
The perfect fumble said:
Didsbury Dave can't see the wood for the trees. Our owners see winning the Champions League not as an end in itself but a means to an end, the end being worldwide recognition as an elite football club and all that comes with it. When the European Super League popped up as an alternative means to that end, they signed up.

So just how important is winning the Champions League if it's just a means to an end? Besides, we know what'll happen if we do win it, our detractors will move the goal posts, the most obvious being we have to win it more than once.
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They see/saw winning the premier league in the exactly the same way.

Who gives a shit? It didn't reduce the euphoria when we won it. The exact same applies to the Champions League.

Why bother supporting City if your overriding emotions are cynicism of the owners instead of desire for success?

Given everything this club has been through I'd say that anyone who isn't desperate to win the biggest club football trophy in the world for the first time does not genuinely care about the club.
 
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