Here is an AMAZING piece written by Simon Curtis for ESPN. I hope you have all seen it and read it. If not, here it is.
THIS is how it feels to be City. I love that he still writes like "one of us" and still acknowledges our past and where we have come from. I pray that this never stops. I don't mean it in the sense that I want us to always feel dread when things look bad on any given match day (although for those of us of a certain age and history, I feel it is impossible not to), but rather that I wish us to remain humble. To always have a sense of humor about ourselves. To always honor the memory of the years that we spent in the shit TOGETHER as fans.
Hope you are all having fun and still celebrating. When Yaya's strike went in, I shed a few tears. There is nothing in life like those pure moments of class. I never saw it coming. He was so nonchalant. Just swept at the ball and then BOOM. I was so tense at that point - so nervous. I have been following City since 1997 and I understand why I felt that way today and why the match thread was full of grunting and whinging. It is who we are, to a degree, if we have been following City since before the new era. It can't be helped. It will always live in us a bit. Long may it be so and long may it keep our feet on the ground as this club reaches for the sky. I don't ever want to be like those other clubs where the fans are all arrogant pricks, full of venom and attitude. I want to be MANCHESTER CITY.
I would give ANYTHING to be across the pond tonight, sitting in a pub with some of you, drowning in ALE (I'm a professional brewmaster) as we celebrate. Live it up, Blue boys and girls. Hopefully this is just the beginning for this year. CTID!
