Football fan or City fan

[Maccblue]

If City are liquidated forget sport. Rugby is shit by the way

And cricket

 

[chesterbells]

City only. Far too much other good stuff in life to enjoy than getting bogged down watching football day in day out.

That’s exactly my view too.

 

[kaz7]

Used to watch wall to wall prem games , then came var and i got sick of how it ruins the game , now only watch our games. You can see everyone we play trying to play out from the back and try and play pep style but they revert to a bus within twenty mins , find it frustrating

 

[jimharri]

Have to be honest, I don't bother with 80% of non Citeh games now. Our band of mercenaries has raised the bar to which other sides are judged to a ridiculous level now. Take next weekend's live PL games....

Wolves vs Liverpool
Newcastle vs Brentford
Bournemouth vs Chelsea
Everton vs Arsenal
Forest vs Burnley

None of them would strike me as potentially outstanding games. If I was picking one of them to watch, possibly the barcodes game. Or, for comedy value, the Everton game.

 

[eastmanc]

I feel so sorry for the City players who turn out for England. After being coached by Pep they have to perform for that dull as dishwater muppet Southgate. It must be soul destroying.

How Foden doesn't walk into that team last night is mad and when he did come on nobody seemed to want to pass to him.

 

[eastmanc]

People need to remember we existed before the genius Pep and we will exist after
No matter how shit we played in the past I watched city and will post Pep
Just loving this at the moment !!!
City are the best on the planet
Never thought I would witness another trophy after 76
Now I can’t event count them!!!!

We played great football under Bobby manc and Pellers. The 6-1 is still one of the greatest footballing proformances I have ever witnessed from a City side.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

City.

 

[johnevans]

I used to be a football fan. Then Pep took over and the only football I can now watch for 90+ minutes is a city game without falling asleep. Has Pep ruined football or was it always shit?

My take on this is best summed up by what I posted a couple of years ago when I picked up on similar points made by 'Newman Noggs' in another thread, as follows (and apologies if I bang on about it!):


"I have, in the past, enjoyed many great English club sides over the years and, indeed, supported them when reaching European finals and so on.

From first being taken to Maine Road I've seen the Tottenham 'double' side of the early 60s; the great Liverpool teams built by Paisley and Dalglish; that fabulous football played by Nottingham Forest under Clough; the amazing team Wenger built around Thierry Henry at Arsenal; and, credit where it's due, even United have played some good attacking footy down the years. And I've enjoyed the quality of the football that each of these great sides have served up.

I was always a believer (especially having witnessed the title being won by 10 different clubs between 1959 and 1971) that it is 'good for the game' that trophies and success are spread around and so on.

But now let me say two things..

First, I have never seen football played to such a level by any English side as with the City squad in recent years under Pep Guardiola. Never.

The technical skill and physical output of each individual player has been amazing to witness. Put them together as a squad and the sum of their parts makes them even greater still.

This football we are privileged to witness each week from Guardiola and his players is lightyears ahead of anything any other English club has produced.

Second, given the way that the sports media whores linked to the original 'Sky Big 4' have behaved towards City since the arrival of Sheik Mansour, never giving us credit for what our club has achieved and continues to achieve on and off the field; and given the way those self-entitled moaners at United, Liverpool and Arsenal have behaved towards City too (from letters to UEFA and the Premier League, bus wrecking, griping away at every opportunity from FFP to 'financial doping' to Covid/'lack of injuries' and so on); then given all that garbage, I say "f**k 'em", I want us to win everything, again and again and again. And then win it all again for good measure.

And let them all, media and the other clubs, cry in their beer about it because their whingeing is, has been and always will be simple jealousy and self-entitlement."

 

[jimharri]

And cricket

Heretic.

 

[Blue Mist]

I've never been a football fan. I can't remember watching a match that did not involve City.