I do believe there is an agenda , but believe the vast majority of what is derogatory said or written is the viewpoint of opposition supporters. The other night a conversation developed between myself a City fan , a Liverpool fan and a Utd fan. Each of us honestly believed our team capable of winning the Premier League next season and more . As the conversation rambled on we debated our teams and we each thought our team had the best goalkeeper , defence , attack , squad , manager etc and we each built our players up whilst pulling down the opposition players. For example we each debated the pros and cons of our midfield arguing for and against Silva , Matta and Coutinho without any agreement . As such if all of us were to put our thoughts into print I am sure each of us would have felt the others words , silly , ill-informed or more likely totally biased . This is what I feel we suffer from a lot , just the often deluded words of another teams supporters , I know I have been guilty of the same. Football is such a passionate thing that football supporters are often blind to the reality of the team they follow and view their team through rose tinted glass and listen to there heart not the head. As for other agendas I think they can be explained in one word , business . We compete for revenue with other clubs be it locally for corporate hospitality or sponsorship or global marketing and any business will do what's necessary to gain advantage from building up a untrue promotion of their business to sneaking in half truths and even lies about competitor's . As we are now a threat to many more clubs not just locally but world wide I think that it is inevitable that we suffer the lies and half truths thrown our way. They fear us and worry for there financial future , winning less equals lower revenue, I don't like the false and silly stuff I read but it means we are a force for them to fear.
