BillyShears said:
nijinsky's fetlocks said:
I think a lot of German confidence in their own abilities often comes across as arrogance in translation.
Clearly Bayern Munich are not in the same ballpark as the rags when it comes to boasting and hype.
When Bayern sell product on the back of a tragedy, or when Bayern finance the club by knowingly selling contaminated meat for school dinners, then I may just entertain the notion.
They are a big club, and they have been successful, and folk don't like them for it.
That is where any similarities with the rags begins and ends for me.
Clearly you've missed all the entitled, hypocritical, nonsense that the Bayern hierarchy have come out with about City and Sheikh Mansour's investment in the club. German rags sums them up perfectly.
No, I haven't missed it Billy - some of it has been inaccurate and borderline racist.
Don't get me wrong - I have no time whatsoever for Bayern, but I just don't see them as having the nefarious historical legacy of duplicity, cheating and double standards that the rags have made their default setting for as long as I can remember.
Bayern may well ape the rags in some respects, but when it comes to being scumbags on that scale, they are mere apprentices, and more reminiscent of the classless chavdom that Chelsea seem to have made their unique selling point.