everyone complain now

[Pam]

Excellent, Paul Lake. Keep 'em coming. The Torygraph seem to have provoked quite a big reaction. Neutrals are fed up of it as well.

 

[BCP]

Well Done everyone your comments on this thread, and replies on the Telegraph website are superb !!

 

[Monkey Boy Blue]

I cannot properly express my anger at that article.

For everyone who feels the same, here's some sports journalism of real quality to calm you down:

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1121542/MARTIN-SAMUEL-McCartney-earn-Kaka-listen-The-Beatles.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... atles.html</a>

*Note - I do not normally approve of the Daily Mail,

 

[dannybcity]

Send in the clowns - it's another episode in the sad saga of Manchester City
Long-suffering fans of Manchester City (are there any other kind?) like to bolster their spirits by croaking Blue Moon – or those two lines of the song they can remember.

By Michael Henderson
Last Updated: 11:01AM GMT 22 Jan 2009

Under fire: Manchester City executive chairman Garry Cook (right) has come in for some criticism over his handling of the potential Kaka transfer to Eastlands Photo: AP
But it is another Rodgers and Hart classic that defines the club’s character: Glad to be Unhappy.

"Look at yourself", goes Lorenz Hart’s introductory verse. "If you had a sense of humour, you would laugh to beat the band". They might not be chortling in Miles Platting right now but everywhere else people are roaring. At a time of global uncertainty you can always rely on 'Cit-eh’ to don red noses in the noble cause of cheering us all up, and they have not disappointed.

Being a laughing-stock in England was never enough for a club of such overwhelming ambition. Now, after a week of buffoonery unparalleled in the history of football, they have finally achieved the international recognition they craved for so long. Manchester’s little-regarded other team is now a laughing-stock throughout the world!

Take a bow, Garry Cook, but please, keep that blessed cap and those precious bells, for they suit you so well. Goodness gracious, has there ever been so preposterous a figure in English football? Michael Knighton, possibly, but the portly ball-juggler never actually got his mitts on the Reds. Cook, by contrast, has anointed himself as a modern-day Diaghilev, chief impresario at the Theatre of Base Comedy, as Stuart Hall once dubbed it, and nobody can say he has let the audience down.

Comedians to the world! Even the great Morecambe and Wise couldn’t pull off that trick. Yet, by reducing Mark Hughes, a manager of some promise, to the rank of errand boy, endorsing a transfer policy that values Craig Bellamy at a cool 14 million smackers, and now, after the humiliation of Milan, hurling insults at one of the world’s grandest clubs, the former sportswear salesman has won the gratitude of millions.

One can just about forgive him for talking of 'the City project’, and even something called 'the broader community’. These salespeople imbibe such claptrap with their mother’s milk and besides, not all the fans seem to care one way or t’other. The City supporters were not greatly bothered by Thaksin Shinawatra’s millions and now that billions are sloshing their way from the oilfields of Abu Dhabi, they think that’s quite a wheeze, too.

But when the mouthpiece of a club synonymous with high-spending failure accuses Milan of lacking 'sophistication’, it is surely time to start counting the spoons. To demean the club you represent so shamelessly in public does not merely insult Milan; it insults the game itself. Even a candy-coated charmer like Cook must know he will never again be taken seriously by anybody in the game.

The mood may be changing because it is clear that a growing number of City fans are deeply ashamed of their club’s conduct.

It is also clear that the Land of Plenty that Cook claims to see is so far away that you need a visa to get there, and not many leading players are prepared to have their passports stamped.

Kaka did the football world a huge favour when he knocked back Cook and his associates. It is now time for Mark Hughes to do the game another good turn. If he stays at Eastlands Hughes will be forced to walk the plank sooner rather than later, so he may as well leave now, on his own terms.

Hughes is an intelligent man who should, in time, become a successful manager, but he will never be allowed to manage independently at a club like Manchester City. Were he to walk out now nobody would hold a thing against him. It is the best course, and he shouldn’t think twice about it.

Cook, meanwhile, can get on writing his memoirs, which are provisionally titled Golfing with Thaksin. He can also get on with the delightful business of recruiting some more 'humanitarians’ for the 'project’. That, apparently, was the thing about Kaka, not his ball skills.

On Wednesday night it was reported that City were preparing to make an eight-figure offer for Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 'The dynamics’, said a club spokesman, 'feel right’.

The funniest thing about this article is the comments.

 

[dannybcity]

BTW how do you comment?

 

[br55]

I have also just sent this to the editor David Bond:

Mr. Bond,

I would just like to register my total disgust at the article in your newspaper today regarding Manchester City. I was also very disappointed to see such an article appear in a paper of your standing and cannot believe how you allowed this piece to be published. We have certainly deserved the leg-pulling about our team over the years but this article goes way beyond the mark. It is unbelievably bitter and nasty and sounds like the drivel you might hear from a drunken Manchester United fan in a pub on a Saturday night. I hope you are proud of yourself and a certain Michael Henderson for publishing this article....the real loser in all this is the credibility of your newspaper. Have a nice day,

 

[chrishull]

I have also just sent this to the editor David Bond:

Mr. Bond,

Were you on a revolving chair stroking a white cat while typing this letter.

 

[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

I have also just sent this to the editor David Bond:

Mr. Bond,

Were you on a revolving chair stroking a white cat while typing this letter.

PMSL

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

BTW how do you comment?

They seem to have removed the "Submit Comments" button. Probably having to deal with so much shit being thrown at them.

 

[johnny on the spot]

Sorry about the article guys but I needed to let off some steam.
My dads recently had his cock enlarged(as a present for my sister)and I'm finding it hard to walk.
won't do it again xx

Michael Henderson
on January 22, 2009
at 11:18 AM
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