This is spot on. The amount of lies doing the rounds in the media now is insane. I saw a picture before of outside the Etihad, no idea when it was, but the caption wrote ‘I hope no one gets hurt’. But there was no one there, as it was clearly taken well before or well after the game. There was 55000 people in that area of Manchester, so why on earth would someone be so fucking sad, as to turn up and take a picture at a point they knew it would be empty. It’s absolutely completely pointless and incredibly childish. But to make matters worst, why would you be so incredibly naive and stupid to believe it.
I had a Utd fans say to me very recently ‘you can’t fill your stadium’, ‘there’s always tickets available on wowcher’, ‘We don’t have that universal appeal like Utd’. They genuinely 100% believe that’s the truth. When I told him the facts and broke it down for him. He couldn’t take it and basically implied I was making it up. So when I showed him several pictures, he shook his head and laughed, and said ‘they must all be day trippers’. So what is it? Do we have no fans or are we glory hunters?
You cannot argue with people who are so upset, that they’ve either become completely deluded or just flat out refuse to believe the truth. It’s genuinely stupid. We used to say non footballing things to Utd fans when they dominated. ‘Lots of your fans are from London and Ireland etc’, ‘your ground is technically not in Manchester proper, so therefore you should change your name’. But those things are actually correct. I don’t recall ever going on about it with the frequency these muppets do though. And we have no out and out blatant lies like them either. Maybe we should make some up but then again, we’ll just do the talking on the pitch.