If they do go down, I think it's ridiculous for any City fan to have sympathy for them.
I'm not just annoyed about that recent nonsense of demanding an apology from Riley over an on-field decision. That was bizarre in all sorts of ways. Petulant that they would ask for it in the first place and downright classless they would talk broodingly in press conferences about the receipt of it afterwards.
The insinuations last year, about City trying to avoid them with a Covid cancellation smacked of undue arrogance (amongst other flaws). Demanding an investigation, if you don't mind. Of all the games cancelled due to Covid across football, I don't recall any other club publicly doing that to another. Suggesting City were scared of them..!? Seriously..!? Jesus wept.
Don't even get me started on the narrative around the Lescott transfer, their participation in the Hateful Eight, going back to the early days of the takeover when one of their directors drunkenly taunted ours after Walton had handed them a victory... or, most damningly of all, going further back again to how they were instrumental in stitching up City and 86 other clubs with the infamous ITV deal...
But they're not Red Scouse, people say. Good for them. Hardly an achievement of outstanding merit that, is it? Especially when they have still treated us with as much contempt - before and after September 2008.
Don't care if they stay up. May as well play them as anyone else. I'd be confident of taking six points off of them, most years, too. Certainly, no sympathy from me if they go down though.
I'm not just annoyed about that recent nonsense of demanding an apology from Riley over an on-field decision. That was bizarre in all sorts of ways. Petulant that they would ask for it in the first place and downright classless they would talk broodingly in press conferences about the receipt of it afterwards.
The insinuations last year, about City trying to avoid them with a Covid cancellation smacked of undue arrogance (amongst other flaws). Demanding an investigation, if you don't mind. Of all the games cancelled due to Covid across football, I don't recall any other club publicly doing that to another. Suggesting City were scared of them..!? Seriously..!? Jesus wept.
Don't even get me started on the narrative around the Lescott transfer, their participation in the Hateful Eight, going back to the early days of the takeover when one of their directors drunkenly taunted ours after Walton had handed them a victory... or, most damningly of all, going further back again to how they were instrumental in stitching up City and 86 other clubs with the infamous ITV deal...
But they're not Red Scouse, people say. Good for them. Hardly an achievement of outstanding merit that, is it? Especially when they have still treated us with as much contempt - before and after September 2008.
Don't care if they stay up. May as well play them as anyone else. I'd be confident of taking six points off of them, most years, too. Certainly, no sympathy from me if they go down though.