Wieks was a lovely player - bit like Horlick, if they weren't continuously towing a piano on their backs and had half a yard would have been playing at a far higher level than we were at the time they joined..........I can’t be having any Wiekens slander.
But they’re reminded every day by the media & rival fans.I think one thing we have to consider is that after 16 years of this ownership group there's a generation of fans who have no conscious memory of us being anything other than a title contender.
I've been to enough Prem games in the Pep era where the atmosphere is very much just waiting for us to go 3-0 up, followed by a chorus of "you've seen the champions, now fuck off home".
It runs a little deeper than people might want to admit and some of our fans who didn't see the days where Gerard Wiekens was a big signing are a little spoiled in comparison.
Not to mention with the fan/media reaction to the FFP stuff, some fans have probably become a little vitriolic towards all other English clubs because of the shit we have to listen to.
We get treated like the evil empire, it gets to a point where some will just kind of just take that moniker and wear it.
Let’s hope so, and I’ve corrected myself on “sole” to “soul” :-)That is the sentence of the month.
It sums up the media in this country perfectly.
I would also hazard a guess that is also one of reasons they've become so bitter. Not just because MCFC are front and centre in the premier league but because they know they've let themselves down professionally.
The real problem for the majority of these hacks is coming around the track. At some point (heaven forbid) MCFC will framed by the prevailing media in the same sycophantic way the rags and Liverpool have been over the years.
That will leave at least six (off the top of my head) of them looking elsewhere for gainful employment.
One of the City fanzines used to have a section on Johnny Macken and his Piano, it wasn’t KOTK, just can’t bring it to mind, think we had one with Chips and Gravy in the title, something like that.Wieks was a lovely player - bit like Horlick, if they weren't continuously towing a piano on their backs and had half a yard would have been playing at a far higher level than we were at the time they joined..........
There's a song in there somewhere. ;-)Let’s hope so, and I’ve corrected myself on “sole” to “soul” :-)
The press really are crap these days and it's no wonder that virtually no one thinks they are unbiased.Enjoying the brilliant Alyson Rudds column in the Sunday Times.
Subject of her article is autographs but as per usual it’s a fawning love letter to LFC.
Really puts that Martin Samuel in the shade with his ridiculous well thought out non biased views.
God is she still going?Enjoying the brilliant Alyson Rudds column in the Sunday Times.
Subject of her article is autographs but as per usual it’s a fawning love letter to LFC.
Really puts that Martin Samuel in the shade with his ridiculous well thought out non biased views.
That's also true. Since coming back up in 02, we haven't really even been in any kind of relegation scrap either.You could also argue that we have not been truly shit for a very long time, more than 20 years. We had excellent football under Keegan, Royle, and Sven. Just one poor season with Pearce and that was a mid table PL year.