United thread 2012/13 (inc merged IPO thread)

[AntonDonJuan]

Prestwich Blue is the only poster i even bother reading on financial issues

He might be a complete blagger, but he sounds like a genius

 

[M18CTID]

The bitter cunts have come back out of the woodwork on redcafe

It's not that City have no history, it's that they're a relatively small club posing as Real Madrid. This is especially irritating because their fans have always had this ridiculous exceptionalism, and they now feel vindicated by an accident. A couple of eras of success and and a moderately-sized fanbase describes maybe two dozen clubs in English football. Manchester City were on a par with Wolves, Derby, Forest, Blackburn, Preston, Burnley and so on until they won the lottery twice in the 2000s. The accurate way of putting the 'no history' charge is that the current City have no 'history' because there's essentially no direct connection between the proud and storied history of Manchester City Football Club and the current institution, which is entirely the creation of a few very rich men.

History is all about narrative, and City are the footballing equivalent of reading the first 343 chapters of War and Peace and then finding the rest of the book has been replaced by Katie Price's autobiography. Their owners essentially have a millenarian character, rendering everything that came before meaningless, and subsequently any footballer willing to play f
or them can be seen to be betraying the whole idea of history in football.

Put bluntly, ADUG are the Khmer Rouge of football, sort of.

Took your time nobhead

Agüeroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..................

Fuck me, what a crock of shit lol. And they have the cheek to call us bitter.

 

[Mark - TheBlue]

The bitter cunts have come back out of the woodwork on redcafe

It's not that City have no history, it's that they're a relatively small club posing as Real Madrid. This is especially irritating because their fans have always had this ridiculous exceptionalism, and they now feel vindicated by an accident. A couple of eras of success and and a moderately-sized fanbase describes maybe two dozen clubs in English football. Manchester City were on a par with Wolves, Derby, Forest, Blackburn, Preston, Burnley and so on until they won the lottery twice in the 2000s. The accurate way of putting the 'no history' charge is that the current City have no 'history' because there's essentially no direct connection between the proud and storied history of Manchester City Football Club and the current institution, which is entirely the creation of a few very rich men.

History is all about narrative, and City are the footballing equivalent of reading the first 343 chapters of War and Peace and then finding the rest of the book has been replaced by Katie Price's autobiography. Their owners essentially have a millenarian character, rendering everything that came before meaningless, and subsequently any footballer willing to play for them can be seen to be betraying the whole idea of history in football.

Put bluntly, ADUG are the Khmer Rouge of football, sort of.

Took your time nobhead

Agüeroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..................

I actually wish a red would come on here and try and defend that shit. If he's lurking then please explain yourself. Its just fucking stupid. It really is. They are so fucking stupid some of them.

 

[M18CTID]

^^^^

These rags don't know there own history Pre BaconChops Pre premier! When frankly average is what they were

Quite. Up until Bacon Chops had landed the first trophy of his United reign in 1990 the trophy count during the 100-plus years before that was 14-9 in their favour. Hardly the kind of gaping chasm you'd expect between the self-styled World's Biggest Club (TM) and their small time neighbours that nobody has ever heard of outside the UK (according to some of the clueless clowns that follow them). Fact is that pre-Ferguson there were huge swathes of United's history where they were either distinctly average, below average, or piss poor. And while it would be wrong to tar their whole support base with the same brush, it seems that City fans are far more prepared to embrace the shit times of our history while United fans often seem hellbent on airbrushing the leaner times out of theirs.

 

[Heart.net]

Its funny when you hear a rag talk about their history and how they 'earned' everything. Its like their trying to legitimize it & distort pieces here & there to fit the puzzle but you really can't polish a turd.

I hope they burn & fall as a club, & when someone is needed to pick up the scattered pieces, i hope we don't help them this time but rather just say 'bad luck, you fucked up'.

 

[jonmcity]

I hope the rags keep talking about history for a very long time.

 

[M18CTID]

The bitter cunts have come back out of the woodwork on redcafe

It's not that City have no history, it's that they're a relatively small club posing as Real Madrid. This is especially irritating because their fans have always had this ridiculous exceptionalism, and they now feel vindicated by an accident. A couple of eras of success and and a moderately-sized fanbase describes maybe two dozen clubs in English football. Manchester City were on a par with Wolves, Derby, Forest, Blackburn, Preston, Burnley and so on until they won the lottery twice in the 2000s. The accurate way of putting the 'no history' charge is that the current City have no 'history' because there's essentially no direct connection between the proud and storied history of Manchester City Football Club and the current institution, which is entirely the creation of a few very rich men.

History is all about narrative, and City are the footballing equivalent of reading the first 343 chapters of War and Peace and then finding the rest of the book has been replaced by Katie
Price's autobiography. Their owners essentially have a millenarian character, rendering everything that came before meaningless, and subsequently any footballer willing to play for them can be seen to be betraying the whole idea of history in football.

Put bluntly, ADUG are the Khmer Rouge of football, sort of.

Took your time nobhead

Agüeroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..................

I actually wish a red would come on here and try and defend that shit. If he's lurking then please explain yourself. Its just fucking stupid. It really is. They are so fucking stupid some of them.

Better still, I'd like to see the plank walk into a pub full of City fans and explain himself. I'd give it 10 seconds tops before he is flung through the window.

As you say, it's fucking stupid. Plus it blatantly ignores similarities to positions United have been at certain points in their history, 1902 being a classic case in point; 1931 being another. Fuck me, rich owners have been taking over football clubs since the fucking 19th century. What's happened at City is nothing new. As petrusha said some time ago, it's all part of football's rich tapestry. No doubt this clown obviously banked on going through a lifetime of mocking us for being shit and now that it's gone tits up for him he's displaying a palpable sense of bitterness because he hasn't got a fucking clue how to deal with it the soft ****. Plenty of decent reds obviously won't like us doing well but they're accepting of it and are just getting on with the business of supporting their own team. This idiot should do likewise rather than knocking up such cringeworthy shit.

 

[Marvin]

Gone quiet on the share issue front. Treating that as good news.

 

[Football guy]

Gone quiet on the share issue front. Treating that as good news.

Yeah , i heard it may have been put off completely or maybe delayed atleast , do anyone know when the latest ipo window closes in usa?

 

[southern muppet]

I hope the rags keep talking about history for a very long time.

Yep, it really is the ultimate omen of decline or fear of decline.