Jealousy rears its ugly head...again

[colinbellsboots]

I remember Smalling. Saw him play loads of times at non=league Maidstone. When I saw he'd turned up at Fulham I was aghast. There was just nothing about him that ever gave you the idea he might make the step-up to league status one day, let alone the bloody Premier league. And now he's a rag!

If he goes on to do well then it will confirm what I've always suspected - that I'm no bloody talent scout!

yeah you and how many others, ? yes i do include myself.

 

[sam221985]

It was one bloke.

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

Love it, bring it on and keep it coming

 

[club 18-94]

the mirror today had a whole column on how city will offer a £25m "take it or leave it" bid for milner. then at the end of the column adds city have signed boateng for £11m. so it deems it right to devote a column to pure rumour which makes city look like bullies, but only devote a tiny amount of column inches to us signing a top top player for a "normal" price.

 

[Pam]

Now we've got Boateng the insults are flying in thick and fast. Just been on 606 and all the rags are fuming about our latest signing (Apparently Hamburg are a bigger club than we'll ever be, and everybody hates us because we're arrogant and have no class and...wait for it...No History).

I used to be quite a regular on 606 because it was a good place to discuss all things football-related. But since our takeover all I've seen on there has been ill-informed, bitter, jealous plastic rags spitting venom and bile every time Man City gets mentioned.

Hilarious, isn't it.

 

[mad4city]

Ah jealousy, don't ya just love it?


I was told, in the pub, the other evening by a rag fan (to be fair to him, he does actually go to games) that (you've guessed it) we've no history. I said, 'Is that so? Could be why we've never profiteered from it, then.'
'See typically bitter,' he retorted with store-bought indignation.
Now, it's not a thing (the air crash) that I ever like to drag into a football argument (it's hardly dignified, is it?) but well, I'd alluded to it and I had to defend it. So defend it, I did.
Before he could mount his high horse and head for the moral high ground, I gave him both barrells... The real history; their wilderness years, Cantona taking money from that benefit game... everything that I could think of, Baldy Bobby peddling cup final tickets, Martin Edwards and the Brazillian brasser...
Of course, he denied everything, so I banged on.
'... not selling out the swamp for a derby game in the nineties, all the way back to Billy Meredith, if you don't mind... you all know it, chapter and verse, so I'll not go on.
'Anyway,' he blustered 'no matter what ye do, ye'll never be us!'

'You know what?' I said. 'You're dead f**king right!'

He probably still thinks he won that argument.

 

[Silvercloud]

I was told, in the pub, the other evening by a rag fan (to be fair to him, he does actually go to games) that (you've guessed it) we've no history. I said, 'Is that so? Could be why we've never profiteered from it, then.'
'See typically bitter,' he retorted with store-bought indignation.
Now, it's not a thing (the air crash) that I ever like to drag into a football argument (it's hardly dignified, is it?) but well, I'd alluded to it and I had to defend it. So defend it, I did.
Before he could mount his high horse and head for the moral high ground, I gave him both barrells... The real history; their wilderness years, Cantona taking money from that benefit game... everything that I could think of, Baldy Bobby peddling cup final tickets, Martin Edwards and the Brazillian brasser...
Of course, he denied everything, so I banged on.
'... not selling out the swamp for a derby game in the nineties, all the way back to Billy Meredith, if you don't mind... you all know it, chapter and verse, so I'll not go on.
'Anyway,' he blustered 'no matter what ye do, ye'll never be us!'

'You know what?' I said. 'You're dead f**king right!'

He probably still thinks he won that argument.

haha, brilliant!

 

[allan harper]

How times are changing...

 

[Bilboblue]

Chris Smalling cost the same as Boateng.

I wonder who got the better deal.

Smalling cost £13m

Boateng cost £10.4m

 

[bluevengence]

Chris Smalling cost the same as Boateng.

I wonder who got the better deal.

Here`s the rags view on it ,has you would expect there are some right twats who think smalling is better(must be cockernees or malayan)... but there are also some who talk sense (must be local) and can see we have a far better deal.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.redcafe.net/f9/jerome-boateng-city-297866/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.redcafe.net/f9/jerome-boateng-city-297866/</a>