Amazing how many times the 115 and the word “asterisk” have come up recently when hearing about City.
The media in the UK, esp the red-loving football hordes with bylines, are desperate to find a manner in which the unbelievable football…and the results that have flowed on from it…can be minimized and denigrated.
They ignore the fact that it is humans, not $ bills, that play football, and that it is their skill combining and playing football as never before seen in England that has created the greatest football dynasty in modern history.
These very same people told us Pep couldn’t succeed in England, then taunted us with “I told you so!” after his first season. Since then, they have been made to look like fools, and eat both their words and their hats, as he has set record after record after record…Oh, and he single-handedly changed the way every team and every child in England plays football.
Imagine being a Red fan.
Imagine the pain you’d have felt watching City win almost everything and being the favorites for every game they’ve played for years…and proving the bookies right most of the time.
Imagine watching us not only finally winning the Champions League, but doing it to cap a season where we beat Arsenal to the Premier League and beat United in the first FA Cup Final Manchester derby for The Treble.
Now, imagine we are on the verge of perhaps following that Treble with the English Double by doing the exact same thing…beating Arsenal to the Premier League and United in the second consecutive Manchester Derby FA Cup Final.
Imagine how exquisite THAT pain must feel.
And, as the cherry on the top, imagine if City’s success has been so good, your adored closest rival for the past few years has simply packed it in, downed tools, and called it a day, because he’s just sick and tired of losing to City, even though “his teams would have won multiple Premier League titles”…if it were not for the continued excellence of City.
imagine, 4 out of 4 and 6 out of 7.
Imagine THAT pain.
Delicious, isn’t it?!
And yet we wonder why they are ALL clinging to 115? It’s all they have left, the poor bastards.
Their tears are so salty, they water the mouth as they go down.
Mmmmm, truly delicious!
