Hi guys, enjoy the end of the season? What twat wouldn't, haha...
Anyway, I was pretending to be a City fan when we were shit. I wore my scarf and hat, snuck into the odd game at Maine Road, but I didn't watch every game. Sure I knew the key events in our seasons, but I didn't know properly what was going on. I think my main role, at the time, was just to argue with Utd fans. (Utd fans who knew equally as little as me about football.) Being a City fan was, for me, a way of standing up to the banal sea of predictability and conformity. And Maine Road was 5 mins walk from where I lived.
It was once I'd played Pro Evolution Soccer and figured out what on earth a 'through ball' was that I started to see the beauty in football. Then I started to watch more football, and follow City, though not properly, just better than before... mind you, we were still shit for a while. Then our Thaksin came in and the rest just flowed like fine wine.
Sorry to say, old skool fans with your beer bellies and balding heads; Manchester City is set to become the new 'Evil Empire.' I don't mind, I'll happily admit to hypocrisy if it means we get 10-20 years of domination. I'll take the bent refs, the global fanbase, the spending other teams to death... I'll take all the trappings of a world-beating club.
So on that note; Welcome new fans, one and all
CTID