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[Brewster's millions]

Interesting and well-balanced? My arse! Written by the new Colin Schindler out to get a name for himself by going against the club and its ever-increasing fanbase. Absolute bellend in my eyes. Why would any Blue want to write an article to besmirch the club? Let alone make up some shite that only RAWK activists or could latch onto as truth and run with it. This **** needs to get a serious grip and then, when he has, fuck right off from our club.

Having read the article again this morning, I must say it really is a terrible piece of work from a poor excuse of a journalist, who as you say seems intent on stealing Schindler’s gig as the self-loathing, navel-gazing ‘City fan’ and the meal ticket that comes with it.

The whole thing reads as a borderline-satirical expose of the importance of ships to global trade in the 19th century. Appallingly written, too. Try as he might, and no matter how many times he repeats his simplistic logic, Hattenstone fails to make a persuasive argument to link Manchester’s ship emblem to the slave trade, and so any controversy around the use of the ship in the football club badges is somewhat hysterical.

Little to no attempt is made to provide balance, and Manchester’s proud history of economic Liberalism is regrettably (but rather predictably) skipped over. For example, no mention is made of the influential Manchester School of Economics, which saw free trade as the route to a more equitable and peaceful society, and - ironically enough - essentially advocated Britain abandoning its colonies and the taxes which supported them. Needless to say, the Manchester School was strongly opposed to slavery, with the betterment of conditions for the poorest of society being the central element of its philosophy.

Given the pioneering nature of this school of thought, in particular how it promoted economic theory as a route to a fairer and freer society, some celebration of free trade within Manchester’s coat of arms seems wholly appropriate. But all of this is lost on Hattenstone, who appears incapable of producing anything beyond a bit of bland virtue-signalling and a few mis-directed pops at our football club.

Thank God our city had some genuine intellectual heft behind it back in the day and didn’t have to rely on the likes of the present-day Guardian for direction or indeed the mealy mouthed Andy Burnham, who I note refuses to defend the Manchester coat of arms.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Stop the world i want to get off.

 

[John Wayne]

More woke shite. Everything in everyday life nowadays that is normal is not acceptable to these white middle class baby face zealots. So therefore it has to be cancelled. F*ck them.......

No doubt the article was written on an iMac built in a Chinese factory where the workers get paid fuck all, sleep on toilet floors and jump out of windows to end their misery of forced labour. The Guardian really is full of tossers.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Notice they never go and try storm downing street or the offices of a major multinational corporation or the Davos convention.

All little middle class agent provocateurs

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

I hope the clown who started all this gets punted out the games moving forward.

 

[halfcenturyup]

FUCK OFF!

Having read all the posts in this thread, and carefully considered the pros and cons, I have finally come to the conclusion that this is the only appropriate response.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Can we still be called Mancs?

 

[DCS1]

An interesting, well-balanced piece in the Guardian today, written by a blue, discussing the origins of the ship on our badge, and it's links to slavary in the cotton fields of America.

Abandon ship: does this symbol of slavery shame Manchester and its football clubs?

A three-masted vessel adorns the city’s buildings and both teams’ crests. But is it an emblem of a crime against humanity?

www.theguardian.com

AS A life long Mixed race City fan , I find this article disgraceful. Youd be hard pushed to find a more integrated racially diverse club as City are today and I am almost embarrassed to think any other blue would think just because of my race I would agree with this nonsense. Just about every old institution will have some link , however tenuous to racism (as this link is) or other unacceptable behaviour but this so called link defies belief and I want our lovely badge to stay the same .The badge represents MANCHESTER not slavery and lets not forget that Manchester was VERY involved in the abolition movement .

 

[cheekybids]

Can we still be called Mancs?

I’m afraid not as Mancs comes from Manchester which comes from the Roman name Mancunium & they also had slaves. In fact I think we also have to avoid straight roads, aqueducts & medicines with latin names.

 

[mancityvstoke]

I’m afraid not as Mancs comes from Manchester which comes from the Roman name Mancunium & they also had slaves. In fact I think we also have to avoid straight roads, aqueducts & medicines with latin names.

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