Had a quick glance at Rawk. It does amuse me when fans of clubs like Liverpool, most probably not alive when we were doing our tour of the lower leagues, and quite possibly not been to Anfield more than a handful of times, start to question the character of our support, which remains essentially the same as it was a decade ago.
Champions League games apart, I see little evidence (yet) of the mass invasion of "plastics" at the Etihad, all too evident at Anfield on a matchday. We've earned our stripes in a way I expect they never will. They cannot know how it feels to support a club you've watched lose pitifully at Lincoln in the league, lift the Premier League some thirteen years later - for two very good reasons. So continue to make yourselves feel better by creating a fiction about our support. You'll never have the feeling of your club truly coming back from the abyss to be a leading European footballing force - and one that's here to stay. I'm sure you'll take some comfort in the European Cups you won, in the main, a generation ago.
Many of them think they'll win tomorrow and it's a view that is not unreasonable and that they're perfectly entitled to hold, but in the wider footballing wheel of fortune it's us, as City fans, who've landed the top prize and landing it after the journey we've been on in the last 30 years feels better than they can even begin to imagine.
