From Sad Cafe. Pre-empting the ineviable...
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A message to City fans.
Firstly let's get it out the way, yes, I'm bitter.
Bitter, but I'm also proud. Proud to support a team that has worked it's way up to the top of the footballing world through years of success. We are a footballing force respected the world over for the hard work that has gone into our achievements. Yes, we've spent a few bob along the way but we've also earned every single penny of that through money that is directly related to our hardwork and performances on the field. Every penny we spend isn't a sign of us "buying a title" it's a sign of our success in the past.
I love the rivalry we have with Liverpool, I hate them, but I respect them. The same went with Leeds a few years back and Arsenal now.
I don't have a single ounce of respect for you, nor Chelsea, both your team's "success" have nothing to do with any sort of hard work that has been put in over the years, it has nothing to do with any talent your coaches have produced nor with talent born anywhere near your club.
So, if you go on and win the league this season or next season, I'll be smiling in the knowledge that deep down, you know you can't really be proud of your team. Not like a United, Liverpool or Arsenal can of their team. So it doesn't matter how successful you are from here on in, you'll never have any real respect from any neutrals and it'll never feel anything like how we feel when we win something. All you'll have is the same empty feeling like when you are struggling on Football Manager so you edit the game to give to a few hundred millions, any success after that just feels wrong.
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Of course they never rewrote the rules to ensure that THEY kept all the gate receipts.
Of course they never joined the G14 to ensure that THEY and their European friends ensured a European cartel.
And of course THEY never outspent everyone else with their ill-gotten gains to buy overpriced players from Pallister to Veron, Rooney to Berbatov.
This post drips with regulation, if delusional, rag bitterness.
They've not been able to compete with us off the pitch for a few years; today merely showed that they can't compete with us on it either, but some kind of mythology endures that they never bought anyone for big money and other rags queue up to endorse that view.
Pathetic in extremis.
