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Bad, written about a heroin addicted friend in Dublin, is one of the very best U2 tunes before they lost the plot, started wearing cowboy hats and pretending to be American
Is that what was behind your Downfall?Nick Harris once complained to the club that I was nasty to him on Twitter and was also an admin of this site therefore a representative of the whole City fan base. The obvious implication being that I should be removed from this technical role on a totally unofficial site by the club somehow.
Aston Villa are shit. It's simple really.Some of them are right weird, the hate they have for City is utterly bizarre. Sure City bought some of their players(Barry, Milner, Delph, Grealish) but that can't be it(not even Arsenal fans act as salty as them). Villa made good money on all those deals and it's not like they were knocked off any perch. You'd think their drop off would have humbled them in recent times but nope. I must admit though, I do find some of their disingenuous/poorly researched arguments entertaining to respond to(especially when they try and skew statistics).
I had one saying City are flying, playing great football etc, so we should be embarrassed that we aren't packed to the rafters every week because they would be.
"We aren't even title contenders and we sell out every week. We have a 20k waiting list[which is free, with no obligation] so we'd have higher attendances than you if our expansion was done."
Of course, we know they have a smaller stadium and so does he(should be easier to fill). They are the biggest most successful club in their whole region. Birmingham has twice the population of Manchester. The biggest rivals in their region are Wolves and West Brom. No disrespect to those but City's are United and Liverpool(does everyone forget what City are up against?). The links to London are better, the distance is shorter. Villa are enjoying their biggest resurgence in years. They have less games to attend over all. They have every reason to be filling their stadium every game, if they are even half as big as they say they are. I actually think Wolves have a far better atmosphere at their stadium though, for what it's worth.
Then he went back to cup attendances in the 50s for Villa, for some reason. I pointed out that City averaged 5k more in the league that decade and City spent one of those seasons in Div 2, where they did not. City's own cup attendances weren't bad either. 223k though the gates(total) in the FA Cup winning season, that wasn't far off their best in the 50s(230k when they won it). That's without mentioning the records set by City in the 20s and 30s.
I still haven't forgot that Villa fan from the League Cup final: "How dare these City fans celebrate beating us in a final. I'm gonna punch this little kid in the face now" Beyond entitled. The media have played a part in fuelling hatred like this.
"I wrote the words about a friend of mine; his name was Gareth Spaulding, and on his 21st birthday he and his friends decided to give themselves a present of enough heroin into his veins to kill him. This song is called 'Bad” - Bono
Beautiful song, their best for me. This Live version is excellent.
Good shout, Napoli were asking £70-80m for a 28-y-o KoulibalyWe also walked away from buying Mahrez for a fee of around £90m before eventually signing him for a much lower fee. Unsure how far we got to signing a marquee CB before opting for Dias, but that also worked out well.
Word perfect.So now we are sitting in a commanding position to win the Premier League again. The Press are peddling that City are to blame for making the league uncompetitive. City can spend what they like, City have a bottomless pit of money, it’s unfair and we want our ball back.
A quick internet search reveals that apart from Brentford, Burnley(?), Leeds(?), Norwich and Watford, every other club in the Premier League has Billionaire owners.
Our owner had the initial good fortune of being able to invest in the club before the Cartel pestered UEFA to introduce FFP. From what I can gather on Bluemoon, Sheikh Mansour has invested £1.5bn of his own money, the vast majority of which was during the initial phase of our meteoric rise. Now we are able to generate more money through sponsorship, TV and prize money than any other club in the league including the scum and it is too late to stop us.
There are 15 other clubs currently in the Premier League who through proper vision and management could do the same as City with the same kind of investment, unfortunately for them FFP prevents them from doing so.
It’s not City that’s made the league uncompetitive, (although it’s not), it’s the cartel and their continued zealous protection of FFP in its current guise, and their sycophantic press puppets.
I am really missing watching us play at the minute. Our football is incredible to watch and I hope Pep signs a long extension to really boil the piss.
Good work. Maybe you could colour code the x axis to show: When City were bringing in bigger crowds, When Villa were, When it was about even. You could then turn that into a bar graph-timeline sort of chart. Actually, that might be a bit of a ball ache to get right.It was my graph on Twitter that the other guy referred to.
Be interesting to see what happens in the event of Rissian invasion and sanctions. I've no idea if anythingSo it's still technically 1.3bn? And if they say otherwise, they have to start looking at Abramovich's interest free loans, which amount to over £1.3bn now.
Wishful thinking I know, it will be met with:
"That's whataboutism, there's nothing to see there. The narrative shall remain, that no other owner has invested anything like yours"