Human nature, I'm afraid to say, doesn't change from club to club. The fact is that within any group of people who are presented with success a number of them are going to deal with it in an ungracious and undignified manner.
Some people react to a lottery win by ensuring that they see the world in all its cosmopolitan beauty and try to improve themselves in every imaginable way - and then there's Michael Carroll.
City have always had fans that I have found objectionable. I have had several run ins down the years with fans who I have considered to be overly negative to the point of parody. Getting on players backs game after game. I suspect many of our 'old' fans who are behaving and talking in a manner that many dislike are those fans with a new means of expressing their wider unhappiness with the world at a football game. The fact is some people aren't happy unless they're miserable and a section of our supporters are no different, even though, in my eyes at least, it renders them as an embarrassment to themselves.
It is frankly absurd when you think about it, that some of our fans consider finishing second this season as 'embarrassing' when you consider where we've come from. I guess it goes to show you how quickly human beings can adapt to whatever new circumstances they find themselves in, but it does not reflect at all well on their sense of perspective or, for that matter, reality.
I just wish they could appreciate every day of this magical and unexpected journey we are on as City fans. It's their loss that they do not seem to realise just how blessed we are to watch the players we have at this club we love turning out week after week. It just goes to show you that some people's nature will supercede whatever good fortune life throws at it and in that sense I genuinely feel sorry for them.
