The terrible truth (which is no longer the truth)

Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Peter Swales
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Him... Malcolm Allison for dispanding a very good team... and the generation of fans who followed the club around that time who pulled their kex down and bent over to let Swales and others take us from being on of the big five clubs in this country to a fucking joke of a club with a fucking hotch-potch average stadium and an ever decreasing fan base.



And I know of no Rags who liked us, not even pity was felt. Any Rag I know revelled in the fact that we'd turned into the mother of all jokes in English football. Does nobody remember the "I fucking hate City, I fucking hate City, I fucking hate City, I do I do" song? what about "City Manchester City, nobody knows their name"? The kids at my school would learn them chants from their cunts of fathers and sing them at me and the odd Blue there was at school in the 90's. They hated us and laughed about how shit we were. Make no mistake! We've always been their bigger rivals, whether we've been rivalling them in the league or whether we've been in the third division.. City and United have always and will always be arch enemies.
 
shootmeifipost10k said:
One of the problems amongst many was we have been run for the past 30 years mostly by people who thought their own self importance was more important than the club itself.
There as been more bickering and arguements in the boadroom over the years at the club than there as been at all the family wedding discos in manchester combined.
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Lets face it, the club was a complete and utter basket case for three decades.
 
nobody wants pity.......especially from those that they most despise

thankfully.....

CITY ARE BACK
 
Although I think that, in general, Swales is the correct answer here, its only half the answer.

As we went down, and then down some more, and then dow......-well, you know what i mean- football embraced the Thatcherite ideology of money is everything. It was the 80's afterall. Because of this there was a divide opening up in football whereby the clubs with bigger incomes could expoit their advantage. Then the Premier League came along; instigated by all those who could see even greater profits. The divide became a gap. Then the Champions league and the gap became a chasm.

We got back to where we were only to find that a handful of clubs had disappeared over the horizon. So it looked like we were still way off when in fact we had simply been struggling against even greater odds to get back to where we had been, only to find that where we had been was now nowhere.

Still, could have been worse; just ask Leeds fans.
 
For too long, we were trying to compete with them lot (and on a fraction of the budget), rather than accept that we had different priorities.

For instance, our transfer policy was that of a team trying to be something that we were not. George Weah, Nicolas Anelka, Robbie Fowler, Steve McManaman, hell even Robinho, were all big "name" players, who cost a shitload but weren't conducive to actually improving the team.
 
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