Thanks for the kind comments. I'm not sure, as a season ticket holder and particularly having spent 4 years on City Matters, that I'd quite echo the sentiment about understanding us as fans if I were to re-write that piece. But at the time Garry Cook had replaced the self-serving Mackintosh and everything looked rosy under Sheikh Mansour's ownership.
@Gary James will confirm that Khaldoon was keen to understand the club, its history and the fanbase.
I asked Ian Ladyman if he'd let me write a rebuttal of Shindler's article and he kindly agreed.
Now I do have a confession to make. I know Colin Shindler and we've met and exchanged emails since that article. We actually go back many years, as my dad used to work for his dad when I was very little. I did get to see his father regularly in his later days and we always had a nice chat. My mum also knew his brother Geoff, and his sister-in-law very well.
My dad died in 2012, just 11 days before the QPR game and Colin rang my mum to offer his condolences. I spoke to him and we exchanged email addresses. Then he mentioned he was doing a talk, with the late David Meek, at the Football Museum and I went along and we had a good chat afterwards.
Obviously our views on City are diametrically opposed but I have the greatest liking and respect for the family and I really enjoyed his other book, 'Manchester City Ruined My Life', which was a very moving description of his adult years.
