geoffchall said:
I really cannot believe the number of people who are apparently willing to have such a sour-faced, self-centred, arrogant over-rated, little shit come play for City. Yes he scores goals by the shed-load and he is a very talented footballer, but as a human being he is just dreadful. All the weirdness of Michael Jackson, no pleasure in playing or scoring and he just wants to prove to himself somehow that he is as good as Messi. Sorry mate - but you ain't. Just watch them when they play and when they score. CR is one long series of complaints and shows no particular pleasure in his scoring. Messi smiles from ear to ear every time he touches the ball and beams with happiness when he scores or when one of his team-mates does.
What I want from City is what happened on Saturday. Rodwell, tackling back somehow hoofed the ball in the direction of his own goal and just missed. Hart was laughing his head off, taking the piss out of Rodwell and generally taking pleasure in his and City's game, even in adversity.
Please keep the sour-faced twat away from Eastlands.
you, and i, and everybody just know fuck all about Ronaldo's personality. my mate and colleague was doing an interview with him last year and thought that he was a great guy informally. even this doesn't prove anything though. but comparing his to Messi's (who is a little ugly gnome and clearly some kind of a savant) is laughable. have you ever seen anything like you pictured from Joe and Jack from, say, Silva? i didn't. you could easily make the same case about him, if you were at it.
it is just not very clever to judge modern footballers on their public image, especially based on a small sample size. i'd imagine that being part of two of the cockiest football clubs in the world does certain things to your behaviour model, but there's nothing about it that can't be fixed by a scenery change. also, i like our Inside City clips very much, but keep taking eye on players who are not that much involved in the team's friendly activities, e. g. Clichy, Milner. does that make them less needed or less liked by fans? on the contrary, does Mario's obvious cockiness on and off pitch turn you on him?
sorry for my poor and impulsive English, i just wanted to say that people tend to aggravate some traits of players' character, especially ones they don't like (even myself in the Messi-related sentence) which does no justice either to them or the players themselves. you just sometimes don't see the big picture. i keep telling this to myself ever since i became a sports journo and got to know some sportspeople from the side a fan seldom sees.