My Email from Brian Woolnough

Nocle said:
Is this the original article?

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It certainly is. Some crackers in there. What a fkn tool.

MAN CITY SPENDING SPREE KICKS ENGLAND IN THE TEETH


For one big reason why England fail so consistently at the World Cup and European Championship, look no further than Eastlands.

So England's failure since 1966 is down to City? For the last 30 years, the team has been mostly made up with players from Liverpool, Arsenal, Rags & Chelsea.

Get some young players in to replace the tired old failures!
Where are they? Pushed to the back of the queue by clubs like City, who, it appears, have no ­interest in allowing home-grown talent to develop.

Convniently ignoring the record number of homegrown players produced by City, why not name the other teams, guilty of this? Like his team Arsenal, who under Wenger have fielded almost exclusively overseas players year on year.

Micah Richards, who needs guidance, is likely to be discarded and there is not even a guarantee Gareth Barry will get into City’s first choice side.
If you are a young Englishman looking up at City’s first team then your future is cloudy.

Wrong on all three counts.

City supporters will not mind who wears the shirt next season just as long as they move higher.

Is there another club in the league whose supporters would not feel the same way?

A more balanced article in tonights MEN.

City have six appeal

The common misconception is that City have hurled money around willy-nilly in a hit-and-miss transfer policy.

But the emphasis has been on creating a nub of young English players who will carry the club forward, with foreign stars like Carlos Tevez, Yaya Toure and David Silva weaved in and around.
 
bluemanc said:
MCFC BOB said:
Still nothing.
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Perhaps putting his e-mail up on here & asking for a Bluemoon full frontal assault on the fucker might help things along,if we stalk him he might think fuck this & print an apology.
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His e-mail address is in the address bar of the original post if anyone's interested? (I thought about posting it but didn't want any backlash for instigating a vigilante movement)

For one big reason why England fail so consistently at the World Cup and European Championship, look no further than Eastlands.
Manchester City have so far spent more than £60m this ­summer and all on more foreign imports.
Their outlay could be close to £200m by the time the new season starts.
No doubt City fans are excited and can’t wait for the richest club in the world to open their cheque book again.
Yet this is spending gone mad and to the detriment of the ­English national team.
After the debacle of South Africa the usual cry went up for the introduction of new English talent. Get some young players in to replace the tired old failures!
Where are they? Pushed to the back of the queue by clubs like City, who, it appears, have no ­interest in allowing home-grown talent to develop.
Take the deal that has persuaded Ivory Coast’s £25.5m midfielder Yaya Toure to leave Barcelona and head for the Premier League.
He didn’t want to quit Spanish football and even said one day he would like to return to the Nou Camp.
The deal thrown at Toure was just too good to turn down. Not surprising, is it, when you are offered a basic salary of £185,000 a week rising to £221,000.
Let’s get one thing straight here, Toure is not worth that kind of money. He is a good player, that’s all. Not a world-class talent and will certainly not be in the top ten players in English football next season.
So, why have City thrown the Crown Jewels at an okay player? I have no idea.
They have also signed David ­Silva from Valencia for £24m and Hamburg’s Jerome Boateng for £10.5m. We can only presume these players have only come for the money.
What City are buying are good players to take them to the next level and that is the top four of the Premier League. These are not players to help them win the title.
You wonder how much a week they would pay Fernando Torres or others who are regarded as the best? The mind boggles.
There is nothing wrong with ambition and yet we get it so wrong in this country.
Why can’t we develop our own talent and bring forward English players who might just help us win something in the future. City have got so many players that some will have to be sold.
Micah Richards, who needs guidance, is likely to be discarded and there is not even a guarantee Gareth Barry will get into City’s first choice side.
If you are a young Englishman looking up at City’s first team then your future is cloudy.
Does the game care? Sadly, only a minority.
The fans who turned on England after South Africa will soon be back to where their heart really belongs. Club football.
Ask a City fan what he or she would prefer over the next two years. Their club to win the Premier League with a side packed with foreign players or England to lift the European Championship?
There is only one answer, I’m afraid and it isn’t England.
The FA’s director of football Sir Trevor Brooking had to go cap in hand this week to persuade clubs to allow their Under 19 players to represent their country. How embarrassing is that. Shouldn’t this be compulsory?
English clubs were actually considering withdrawing their young talent from the European Championships tournament that could be vital to the future development of the national side.
Other nations would have encouraged their players of tomorrow to go and take part.
In the past two years Germany have won the European Championships at Under 17, Under 19 and Under 21 levels and that, I’m afraid, tells the story.
We only worry about the national side when tournaments are on top of us. When there is failure the outcry starts and nothing happens. It will be the same in two years’ time and beyond.
After what happened in South Africa, the England team is at rock bottom. We are a laughing stock. How many people care?
City supporters will not mind who wears the shirt next season just as long as they move higher.
Going the other way is the ­England team.
 
Is this an half hearted apology?

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/153261/Manchester-City-Six-stars-at-England-s-heart/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/1 ... d-s-heart/</a>
 
Fallingbostel Blue said:
Is this an half hearted apology?

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/153261/Manchester-City-Six-stars-at-England-s-heart/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/1 ... d-s-heart/</a>
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Fairplay to the fat cnut
 
If you like him or not that was generous of him.

He admits he is wrong, accepts City are doing something he didn't expect and acknowledges the emails form the fans.

He has gone up a notch in my estimation, he is now at 2/10 ;-)
 
Fair play to him. Can't say any fairer than that.

Slight niggle though, and it's not just him, but Barry and Toure aren't holding midfielders. I'd love football 'experts' to pick up on this. Toure has played in an advanced/central midfield role at every club except Barca, and that was because Xavi and Iniesta were in front of him.

Barry is so versatile that he can play anywhere, and for England he holds, but for Villa he didn't always hold, and for us he doesn't really hold. It's a midfield 3 designed to keep hold of the ball. De Jong is the only real holding player we have in the starting 11.

But yeah, i wouldn't expect him to know that to be fair. So yeah, fair play Wooly.
 
He's only saying that now because he has no choice. All the city players in the england team the other day, plus the engish players in the city team that didn't make the england squad have made him look a right twat. But even so, he's still only doing so begrudgingly, and with barbed threats about how if any of those lads fail to hold a permanent place in our side then he will point to it as proof he was right all along. I bet he won't even allow for squad rotation either, like he would if it was one of the 'favoured four' teams. No, I'm afraid I can't give him any credit because I don't believe he's sincere.
 
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