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PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules
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Chi-town blues
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The only definitive answer to your question is very easy, if the piss is boiling , than sheik is our owner but if the piss is boiling beyond melting point of the pot , than our owner is Abu dhabi.Can Prestwich Blue give us a definitive answer as to the ownership of MCFC? Is it a very rich Sheik or the state of Abu Dhabi.I am fed up of hearing all the pundits, so called journalists and fans of other clubs spouting their bile on the subject.I dont mind either way but it would be good to know the truth on the subject.
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This is mostly true.I think we were regarded as a proper club with proper supporters. We had respect from most neutral fans and commentators I think - perhaps because we weren't at all threatening. But I forget how many times people have commented to me about how they used to love visiting Maine Road and how they respected the loyalty of CIty fans through thick and thin.
They only started hating us when we started buying expensive players and winning things.
At first they got behind us when we won the league in 2012, because City gave other clubs hope that they could win it too, somewhere along the line.
We had broken the monopoly held by the big 4 and those 4 clubs didn't like what City had done and they were determined that it wasn't going to happen again.
So ffp was rolled out to hamper City and any others who had similar ambition.
City are in danger of turning the P/L into a farmers league by being very good at football according to some, so the attacks on our good name continue.
There was none of this malarkey when the big 4 ruled the roost.
I hope the rags burn in hell, the dippers get eaten by rats and arse disappear up their own fundament.
As for Chelsea, I don't really care what happens to them as they don't wear red.
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We were everyone’s ‘second club’ when we were in the doldrums. Famous for our loyal following and the fact we were in the shadow of the Rags, who everyone despised.I think we were regarded as a proper club with proper supporters. We had respect from most neutral fans and commentators I think - perhaps because we weren't at all threatening. But I forget how many times people have commented to me about how they used to love visiting Maine Road and how they respected the loyalty of CIty fans through thick and thin.
They only started hating us when we started buying expensive players and winning things.
It was nice. But I’d still rather be successful and hated.
Talk about being between a rock and a hard place. A bit like when we were asked to vote for either Boris or Corbyn.
And even better than being unsuccessful and hated, like United and Liverpool.We were everyone’s ‘second club’ when we were in the doldrums. Famous for our loyal following and the fact we were in the shadow of the Rags, who everyone despised.
It was nice. But I’d still rather be successful and hated.
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Amen to that!And even better than being unsuccessful and hated, like United and Liverpool.
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Fine us up, fine us up, fine us up...
Is there any progress on this? It seems go have gone as quiet as the Etihad
Is there any progress on this? It seems go have gone as quiet as the Etihad
gordondaviesmoustache
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10,004 is conveniently within five figures. I’d lay a pound to a pinch of shit it was below that threshold.The very definition of fickle. And that in a one horse town.
Imagine if they had the Disneyland of football right on their doorstep like us?
They are an absolute myth
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gordondaviesmoustache
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The part about that shift in perception that most people on here conspicuously fail to appreciate is the effluxion of time.We were everyone’s ‘second club’ when we were in the doldrums. Famous for our loyal following and the fact we were in the shadow of the Rags, who everyone despised.
It was nice. But I’d still rather be successful and hated.
We were in the third tier of English football a quarter of a century ago. What does any supporter of another ’Big 6’ club under the age if 30 know or care about that? And why would they ever want or need to acknowledge the loyalty of our support back then? Ridiculous thing to expect.
And the same goes for much of our support too. They weren’t even born when we were dropping down the divisions. The last time we were relegated was over 20 years ago.
LongsightM13
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Counted the ballboys10,004 is conveniently within five figures. I’d lay a pound to a pinch of shit it was below that threshold.
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We had one, self-inflicted season in our 130-year history in the third tier, yet to new fan rival divs and even some of the haters in the mainstream media, that should define our entire existenceThe part about that shift in perception that most people on here conspicuously fail to appreciate is the effluxion of time.
We were in the third tier of English football a quarter of a century ago. What does any supporter of another ’Big 6’ club under the age if 30 know or care about that? And why would they ever want or need to acknowledge the loyalty of our support back then? Ridiculous thing to expect.
And the same goes for much of our support too. They weren’t even born when we were dropping down the divisions. The last time we were relegated was over 20 years ago.
No coincidence that our lowest ever point coincided with the formative football years of many of our detractors, whether in the media or online
Whether cunts like Mitten and Evans or cunts like Harris and Delaney, they are pathetic man babies, pining for the lost certainties of their miserable childhoods. When Citeh were shit, Thundercats were on the telly and the redshirts ruled the league
Weren’t there only four channels on the TV the last time the cult won the league before the Covid title?
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And long may it continueAnd even better than being unsuccessful and hated, like United and Liverpool.
Seem to remember the likes of Villa,Leeds and Wolves in the third tier,they don't seem to be perceived by the media as being defined by that.We had one, self-inflicted season in our 130-year history in the third tier, yet to new fan rival divs and even some of the haters in the mainstream media, that should define our entire existence
No coincidence that our lowest ever point coincided with the formative football years of many of our detractors, whether in the media or online
Whether cunts like Mitten and Evans or cunts like Harris and Delaney, they are pathetic man babies, pining for the lost certainties of their miserable childhoods. When Citeh were shit, Thundercats were on the telly and the redshirts ruled the league
Weren’t there only four channels on the TV the last time the cult won the league before the Covid title?
Maybe it's because they haven't threatened the Sky4
It all seems like yesterday. So many good memories from those days..The part about that shift in perception that most people on here conspicuously fail to appreciate is the effluxion of time.
We were in the third tier of English football a quarter of a century ago. What does any supporter of another ’Big 6’ club under the age if 30 know or care about that? And why would they ever want or need to acknowledge the loyalty of our support back then? Ridiculous thing to expect.
And the same goes for much of our support too. They weren’t even born when we were dropping down the divisions. The last time we were relegated was over 20 years ago.
LongsightM13
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Didn’t Forest have a seasonnthere as well?Seem to remember the likes of Villa,Leeds and Wolves in the third tier,they don't seem to be perceived by the media as being defined by that.
Maybe it's because they haven't threatened the Sky4
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Wolves ended up in the 4th tier for two seasons.Seem to remember the likes of Villa,Leeds and Wolves in the third tier,they don't seem to be perceived by the media as being defined by that.
Maybe it's because they haven't threatened the Sky4
SilverFox2
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Our time in the lower divisions together with uncertainty when in the first division was what my dad prepared me for all those years ago.Seem to remember the likes of Villa,Leeds and Wolves in the third tier,they don't seem to be perceived by the media as being defined by that.
Maybe it's because they haven't threatened the Sky4
He called supporting City "character building".
In a way I miss the Monday morning barrage of criticism and banter weekend football brought as an often ridiculed City supporter who could take an occasional smooth with the all too often rough.
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Wolves fell all the way down to the 4th tier in the 80s - they went down from Division 1 to Division 4 in consecutive seasons. That was after starting the decade winning the League Cup against Forest and finishing 6th in the top flightSeem to remember the likes of Villa,Leeds and Wolves in the third tier,they don't seem to be perceived by the media as being defined by that.
Maybe it's because they haven't threatened the Sky4
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And Wolves were in the fourth !Seem to remember the likes of Villa,Leeds and Wolves in the third tier,they don't seem to be perceived by the media as being defined by that.
Maybe it's because they haven't threatened the Sky4