You've paid your dues to the club, Hart, I salute you and hope you don't pack it in for good. But if you do your spot will be well looked after. There will ALWAYS be a City.
Told my eldest what was going on after school yesterday, and that relegation was a worst case scenario.
"We'll still go if we're in the Championship though, right daddy?", was all he said.
"Course we will, son", I said.
For every Blue who is jaded by it all, there's another who is being reminded, or finding out for the first time that the world really is against us - and is raring to go because of it, like my son, and couldn't care less what the PL does to us.
Little reminder from before all our time - a lot of us may know it, but I like to repeat it because it does put things in context. Back in the day, not long after we won our first FA Cup, the League found against us and we had to sell Billy Meredith and three other players in an auction at the Queen's Hotel in Collyhurst. Must have felt like the end - even worse when the Rags bought all four and won their first title with them.
They were awash with the brewer Davies' money of course, so much that everyone was calling them Moneybags United. Two years later they ended up being done for financial irregularities themselves.
Moral of that 115-year-old story, money has always been part of the game, sharp practice and scandal has always happened in football, the red clubs have always been hypocrites who have profited at our expense, there's nothing new under the sun, and the boys in blue never give in. We just come back stronger. CTID.
Told my eldest what was going on after school yesterday, and that relegation was a worst case scenario.
"We'll still go if we're in the Championship though, right daddy?", was all he said.
"Course we will, son", I said.
For every Blue who is jaded by it all, there's another who is being reminded, or finding out for the first time that the world really is against us - and is raring to go because of it, like my son, and couldn't care less what the PL does to us.
Little reminder from before all our time - a lot of us may know it, but I like to repeat it because it does put things in context. Back in the day, not long after we won our first FA Cup, the League found against us and we had to sell Billy Meredith and three other players in an auction at the Queen's Hotel in Collyhurst. Must have felt like the end - even worse when the Rags bought all four and won their first title with them.
They were awash with the brewer Davies' money of course, so much that everyone was calling them Moneybags United. Two years later they ended up being done for financial irregularities themselves.
Moral of that 115-year-old story, money has always been part of the game, sharp practice and scandal has always happened in football, the red clubs have always been hypocrites who have profited at our expense, there's nothing new under the sun, and the boys in blue never give in. We just come back stronger. CTID.
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