mick10 said:
Paul_Powers_Tash said:
Is this the level we've come too?
Blame everyone apart from ourselves? Fuck the excuses for not being there tonight, I'm sick of hearing the shit spouted on here to justify their decision not to go and support the lads. Everyone who normally goes but didn't bother tonight is the reason Scholes had us on toast tonight. its your fault not his.
For all you conspiracy theorists who think we are being stitched up let me draw you another scenario. Scholes and ITV turn up tonight to find a packed stadium with a hostile atmosphere that drives the team on to a glorious victory. How much fun would Scholes have had then?
I had 8 rows of empty seats in front of me as I watched from my season ticket in tier 3 of the East stand. Disgrace. "We've not taken to it", "the ticket prices", "I can't afford it", PATHETIC. Are our fans really the poorest people in football? Really?, the scoucers who have fuck all will sell out every CL match. It was the crowd who dragged them over the line in their last game in the CL.
Tonight we had no crowd, hence no atmosphere and no passion. Sheikh Mansour must wonder why he bothered.
Either support City or don't. Get to the game, forget the excuses, find a way, and make yourself heard. Period.
This is a good post and hard to disagree with. However the original point is about Scholes and his obvious loyalties and dislike of City. No one's blaming him on the defeat but it's worth the point about his clear bias against City ( I thought the ginger twat was ready to burst out laughing!)and why, and how ITV saw fit to bring the tramp in as a pundit for this game??? He has no wish to give any praise or plaudits to City as a team or club, and Lee Dixon who is a blue is much to professional to tell him to 'just fuck up!!' Never mind the fact Scholes is an ex dyed in the wool red (Oldham.......never) and as a pundit is absolutely awful.Should never have been on that show for that match. He enjoyed that result just slightly less than a defeat. He really is a hateful fucker.
On the contrary, it is an absolute constable of a post and it's easy to disagree with. A Deloitte Touché survey in 2012 revealed City's fan base as the second poorest in the Premiership in terms of disposable income per head, behind only Wigan, and now that the Pie Eaters have sunk beneath the waves, it's only the presence of Burnley that keeps us out of bottom place.
It isn't that the game itself was hugely expensive in isolation, but on the back of Stoke (£55), Hull (£45) etc etc, there is bound to be a sizeable percentage of City fans that simply cannot afford it, and the arrogance of someone suggesting they should go anyway and to hell with the financial consequences gets my goat. My seat (season ticket North Stand) was unoccupied as it always is for midweekers, because it would have involved a 500 mile round trip, an overnight stay, 2 days off work, and about £150 to fill it. I haven't got that sort of money to waste on a competition run by a bunch of c**ts that hate us anyway unfortunately. As far as I'm concerned, Mr PP's Tash is due a Withnailian 'shove it up your arse for nothing, and fuck off while you're doing it'.........