The fuckwits try and take comfort about the 'quality' of their fanbase and that they are a 'global brand' - not realising that status came from a period of dominance - just like CITY are now establishing in a era of far greater media-reach.
A lot of their posts say that they are going to stop watching PL matches now because they are not being allowed to win - some fanbase that is!!!!
This one on RAWK - innocently got it right - and made me laugh:
"Thing is, we can laugh at city’s support being non-existent, but in 10 years it’ll be different, globally. I already see increasing numbers of kids in the park near my house in Belfast wearing City tops. Success does that - We saw it with Chelsea previously.
I mean, I’m a Liverpool fan cos I was a kid in the 80s when they were brilliant. I’ve no familial affinity to the club or the city. In fact, my mum was born in London to a family of Chelsea fans."
I took a friend of my 14 year old to the game yesterday - who said that she was a Chelsea fan - on the train home she was talking about swapping to being a CITY fan.
The redscouse just need to try and get over themselves.
And that in a nutshell is why SKY and BT constantly give us bad press.
The rags are well off the pace, the dippers are clinging onto our coat tails and the tarquins are at best blowing warm and cold at the moment.
Armchair subscribers are threatening to switch off, SKY and BT are desperately trying to hang on to their money, thus hammering City at every opportunity.
City have taken football in England to a new level, the rumblings are already out there regarding not being able to now win the PL with 80 points..
Even Southgate has taken on board our blueprint and has managed to reach a WC semi and A EURO final.
City have MADE teams like liverpool, united and Chelsea raise their game to enable them to complete.
The PL regularly has teams in the latter stages of the CL competing against Europe's finest.
City are not cheats, they don't spend money they don't have like we always hear, what they have done however is built an infrastructure, put the right people in the right positions, employed arguably the best manager in world football and let him go about doing what he does best and assemble a team of first class players who play as a team in a system that has been coached into them.
The system is coached throughout the club at all levels which cements the chosen style of play..
All of this hasn't just happened, it's been planned from a long way back and has involved a lot of hard work and organisation..
The money in the PL today is the most it's ever been.
There is absolutely nothing to stop teams such as united, liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, spurs and even teams such as Everton, villa, West Ham, Leeds and now Newcastle having a go and doing what we've done.
Instead, the vast majority just do not invest in the team, take the money and then moan like fcuk about unfair everything is..
We haven't had a (fit / any) centre forward for 2 years, play a converted midfielder at left back and have one of the smallest squad of players to pick from.
It's not City's fault that they are 11 points clear at the top and 12 points clear of the media darlings..
Instead of whinging, the other clubs should take a long, hard look at themselves and ask if they are doing all they can to stay competitive..
united spend more than us on players, Maguire, Sancho, Ronaldo, Fred, Wan Bassaka, Cavani, van Der Beek, all either not good enough or are short term fixes.
On top of that, they are run like a corner shop.
liverpool haven't really invested in their first team for 3 years or so.
Same goalie, fullbacks and front 3, who constantly get flogged to death month in month out.
One has to ask where's all the money gone ?
Chelsea to be fair have spent and spent big.
Their management turnover however is only second to united which you would think cannot help ..
Arsenal, haven't spent anything of note since Artetta has been there. Their turnover is right up there with City's so again, where's the money gone ?
spurs, shiny new stadium, no investment in the team, directors and owners sill taking their dividends..
Everton, spent half a billion on ?
Employed a manager nobody wants, one step forward, 3 steps backwards..
Let's see if Newcastle can step up to the plate.
However, spending money to build a competitive first team isn't as easy as it sounds.
Hopefully they can get themselves in the mix just to piss off the usual suspects a little bit more..!
In conclusion, City haven't done anything that other teams cannot aspire to do, they've just made a commitment to invest in the team, the infrastructure, the stadium and surrounding areas to give themselves the best opportunity to be successful..
And boy has it worked out ..!
