Chippy_boy said:
Mister Appointment said:
If it's any consolation I find the "it's pathetic/shit/unacceptable" brigade equally tiresome and it's true most of you sound like undercover rags. Your "look at me" "10 consecutive wins" thread stank of raggy behaviour. You even put an emoticon in the thread title. Not five minutes after the final whistle.
Even an emoticon??? My God that's just terrible.
Perhaps it was because I was a bit pissed off (and pissed for that matter). And the "raggy" comments bollocks, jesus, I've been a supporter for 49 years - how long have you?
Being pissed off with yesterday is perfectly acceptable, as is having a little rant on a message board for city fans set up to discuss all things City - strange but true.
We've been told for six years now by some that we're no longer "ickle City" and as a fan base have to stop behaving like that. Well that's fair enough, I know I've had to change my mindset as a blue over recent years. I grew up going to watch us throughout the 90's when we had fuck all to be cheerful about on the pitch, so instead we learnt to laugh at ourselves, enjoy the day and be grateful we weren't Utd fans whatever the result.
They were great times, admittedly because I was in my late teens and early 20's having a whale of a time before life's responsibilities really kicked in.
These days are different though, I absolutely love where we are as a club both on and off the pitch, watching us nowadays is a privilege, fighting it out for trophies every year, playing sublime football in a fantastic stadium which is about to become even better and being secure as a club for the first time in decades, it's fucking wonderful.
With that comes higher expectations though, which in fairness we're matching on a regular basis.
That's why I was a bit pissed off with yesterday. Not so much the fact it was 2-2 because that happens, more so in the manner it finished like that. There can be no excuses for throwing away a 2-0 lead the way we did, from the first few seconds of the half we were sluggish, giving away a needless corner which eventually led to the goal. I know it was offside and I know overall the standard of refereeing was abject, but it was our own problems that were our undoing more than anything else. we put ourselves under pressure with misplaced passing, silly free kicks in dangerous areas and a left hand sided defence that struggled to get to grips with what was taking place before them.
We could, and should be waking up today a point behind Chelsea with a better goal difference but we let them off the hook. There's still a long way to go and I still feel we will win the league but days like yesterday are few and far between in regards to catching them, we have to capitalise when they drop points.
I appreciate everyone of us has a different outlook, and sometimes I wish dropped points didn't piss me off so much, especially when I know before a ball is kicked in August that there will be weekends like this.
Anyway, today is another day and I look forward to getting back on track against Sunderland.
