I am from Ireland and nobody takes notice of this guy or what he says, most criticism of City over here is by individuals who don’t like football anyway and whose opinion means nothing to football fans here.
Was wondering where to post this, but I’ve noticed a big shift in opinions over here.
Earlier in the season I was getting the usual shit/banter from work colleagues. There is a mixture of Liverpool, United, one Arsenal and one Everton even and a few that don’t even follow football but still had their totally uninformed media lead opinion.
After the Arsenal game I walked into a much different environment. It had been coming but this was the final penny dropping.
My mate, a long time Liverpool fan reckoned that Pep now has what he had at Barca (bar Messi). He thinks this is the finest football he has seen in the PL and that we are streets ahead of anything in the league for quite a while to come.
United fans saying to me, I hope that’s not what turns up against them at Wembley.
Arsenal fan saying it was men against boys and shows them where and what they need to aim for.
There was what seemed a genuine if perhaps grudging respect for what City and Pep in particular, has done this year.
And we’ve won fuck all yet!