(Very long rant coming..)
I'm sorry, but who exactly do we think we are? Our attitude is pathetic, not our team, they lost, a poor go of it, they lost and will hopefully learn from it and pick it up for the next game, but us?
I mean we've now no respect for any other team. Why's that because we've more money then them. We give out about the Everton fans celebrating, get over it, they've every right to do so. But suddenly they're not a lot. We look down on everyone now, I mean we've been celebrating over the last few games like we won the title, and laughing about United like they're in the relegation zone, yet everyone seems to forget they're second.
What makes us so special that we think we can treat everyone the way we've been going on. We've money, oh how I wished football had nothing to do with money. The game would be another species all together if it was an amatuer game.
At least then we could see who gives a crap. I mean you think the likes of Robinho would bleed for City, put his body on the line?
I don't think I've ever seen a player with a worse attitude like he had yesterday. He had NO impact on the game whatsoever and what's so much worse is that he didn't care one little bit. And yet he still gets paid more in a week then half of us would make in the year.
We've had a go at just about everyone. I mean we'd even a go the Everton fans for celebrating. The way we've been acting lately, I'm not surprised how the Everton fans did react, we've lost respect for everybody, we think the solution to everything is a cheque book, just because we can.
We take every comment, every action by a ref, every comment by the pundits as a dig at us personally.
I mean, face facts, we were shocking, they were excellent, and played with heart and determination and passion, we thought that it'd be handed to us on a plate just becase we're us. But we were shown up. We didn't put it up to them, we just presumed we were better and whined when we were beating. Fire passion..etc That was Everton.. Something we used to have..now our sollution is to buy everthing that breaths.
I've seen God only knows how many posts about how the ref was biased against us and the penalty wasn't a penalty.
He broke the rules, we're no exception to the rules, there's nothing soft about it. He pulled his shirt all the way from outside the box, and while it's not something you might see straight away it became blatantly obvious when he continued to do so right infront of the linesman in the box, it's against the rules. There's no ifs or buts about it.
I mean because we've won the odd few games against weak opposition that means we have to by right win the next game and the next? Nothing is taken for granted, nothing is handed to us on a silver platter, we need to work hard to win games and we need to earn respect, not piss away the money and scratch our heads when no one has any respect for us.
We'll win nothing if we act the way we did and the team and the fans acts with so little respect to the opposition.
When did we become so pig headed?
Football used to be about football, and all we used to care about was football. Now it's all about fixing this with a cheque book rather then hard work.
We loose one game, and we act like we've just been relegated, the top teams take it in their stride, and pick themselves up, get over it and look forward to the next game. They don't press the panic button. We do. That's what will seperate us in the end of the season.
We've a team of sprinters in my opinion, but the Premiership's a marathon and that's the problem, Man U, Chelsea..etc are better suited for that race.
If we push on, keep our heads down and work hard, we'll end up where we deserve to end up at the end of the season, not now, not in January, you don't win anything in January.
If we put in half the fight that I know we used to be able to put on the field and in the stands then we've the players to go on and achieve something.
IF we go on the way we've been acting, we'll fall flat on our faces and everybody will love it. Lets not give the critics anything more to be right about. Lets go back to what City used to be. Soul, heart, fight.
Fight for everything, every piece of grass, every single minute of every single game, and every single ball, gach uile liatroid and lets put that true blue back into the jersey, it had a meaning at one point. Lets not let that be lost in the transfer market.
I watch players give their heart and soul for a team with sacrifices and commitments ye couldn't imagine, for nothing other then the honour of pulling on their jersey.
Our lads get paid for it, the least they do is treat the jersey with the respect it deserves. And the least we could do is the same.
