Good afternoon Steven,
I'm writing this e-mail in response to your (many) columns in the Sun newspaper regarding Manchester City. On three or four occasions during the last month or so, I have read a copy of the newspaper on a Friday (only because I get a lift home from work from a Sun reader) and have noticed a trend in your article. You seem to be obsessed with the goings on at Eastlands. In your latest article, you claim City have been likened to Barcelona since the Swansea City match. Sorry, I must have missed that. Who was comparing us to Barcelona. I apologise for mentioning the Catalan outfit twice in quick succession, I know it must be a sore point for you.
You then go on to criticise the large amounts of players City have brought in over the last few years saying that while United have always invested top money, they have spread it out over 25 years. I don't like to point out the history of your own club, but have you forgotten the spending spree that Ferguson went on from '86 to '90? Leighton, Donaghy, Anderson, Hughes, McClair, Wallace, Ince, Bruce, Pallister, Webb, Phelan, Davenport and Sealey were all bought in before United won their first trophy under Slur Alex, By my reckoning, that's more than a full team.
Suggesting City try to win by "plundering clubs for their best players" is laughable. Do you recall the way United have bullied Everton, Aston Villa, Leeds United, PSV Eindhoven and especially Tottenham over the years? Roberto Mancini has certainly never gone to the length of kidnapping another club's player from the airport in the way that Ferguson did with Berbatov.
The problem you seem to have, rather like most supporters of that hypocritical, corrupt club you all follow, is that you are scared witless by the threat posed by the club you love to mock. If it's not an obsession, then surely you'd be able to think of more subjects for your column than City bashing. You never know, broaden your horizon and you may get a chance to write for a proper newspaper.
One day you may shock us all and report on some of the goings on at Old Trafford. Maybe a piece on Eric Cantona's fees for his appearance in the Munich memorial match, a list of the 99 questions that McManus and Magnier were planning to uncover Ferguson's secrets with or maybe even give us your views on the Glazer families continued attempt to make loyal reds pay higher and higher ticket prices to pay off their debts. Be careful though, I wouldn't want you to write anything that would get you banned from Old Trafford or Carrington by the bully who shall hear no evil.
I await your response eagerly, Kev
