In The Know
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- 11 Jun 2009
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My footballing experience of City started around the formation of the Premiership. In my first years I watched my team get taken apart, we had Lake, White, Quinn, Curle and Redmond, we finished 5th. We also had Swales in charge of which the plight was initiated. If you believe the stories Swales was taking the club to the cleaners taking back handers for contracts ect. ect ladening our club with debt. He sold off our best players and sacked a manager that finished 5th, we were in turmoil. The years that proceded that were some of the darkest in MCFCs history. We ended up in English footballs 3rd tier, we were playing Macclesfield and getting beat. Yet after watching my club get taken to pieces as a young lad I still couldn't ignor the bug. I fell in love with the club and everything it stands for, the working man the battle the underdog the clown. We should have been proud as fans as we were still drawing 28k on a saturday afternoon.
MCFC was and is a massive club but what has been dogging us for years is mis managment of our club. Yet since those years in the doldrums we have slowly dragged ourselves out of the gutters and back onto the main stage. We slowly came out at first with Wardle and Joe, then came Keegan. We were by this stage heavily labled as typical city as an account to how we could aim our rifle down the range and still manage to shoot ourselves in the foot. We have been comical but have always as fans had the ability to laugh at our own situation. At times it really has been comical too, we could have been forgiven for thinking our time had come when a Billionaire Thai landed at COMS in his helicopter but what was to follow really was typical City. City had ladened themselves with the worlds original skint billionaire who'd have thought it.
Anyway Thaksin wasn't all that bad as Thaksin married us up with who I believe to be the most astute buisness people possible. ADUG are tremendous in everything they do, yes they are filthy rich due to oil but they also made 7bn out of Barclays in 6 months. These people win at everything they do and we are a match made in heaven. I honestly think due to our turbulent history that I have highlighted that we have some of the best fans in the world, yes we have our idiots but who doesn't. We are humble, and when we do win some trophies I am sure we will take it with grace. This is why we are destined to be winners because we deserve it more than most we have been patient and now we have the foundations to be the best in the world with the Infrastructure ADUG have laid for us.
The thing is like Purple nose keeps saying, you need pedigree to win at the top and he thinks City don't have it. Well he is wrong, our history stands us in greater stead than any team, we have been through all the emotions and have learned to be humble yet grateful of what we are given. This is my honest opinion and that is we have the best fans in the league but now we also have the best managment of the club by ADUG and now we are together we will conquer the world on our little footballing story. Well done for sticking with the club through the bad times people as it is now our time to be paid back for all those years of hurt.
Thanks ADUG, being City isn't about anything material it is about whats in your heart and we all have it.
CTID
MCFC was and is a massive club but what has been dogging us for years is mis managment of our club. Yet since those years in the doldrums we have slowly dragged ourselves out of the gutters and back onto the main stage. We slowly came out at first with Wardle and Joe, then came Keegan. We were by this stage heavily labled as typical city as an account to how we could aim our rifle down the range and still manage to shoot ourselves in the foot. We have been comical but have always as fans had the ability to laugh at our own situation. At times it really has been comical too, we could have been forgiven for thinking our time had come when a Billionaire Thai landed at COMS in his helicopter but what was to follow really was typical City. City had ladened themselves with the worlds original skint billionaire who'd have thought it.
Anyway Thaksin wasn't all that bad as Thaksin married us up with who I believe to be the most astute buisness people possible. ADUG are tremendous in everything they do, yes they are filthy rich due to oil but they also made 7bn out of Barclays in 6 months. These people win at everything they do and we are a match made in heaven. I honestly think due to our turbulent history that I have highlighted that we have some of the best fans in the world, yes we have our idiots but who doesn't. We are humble, and when we do win some trophies I am sure we will take it with grace. This is why we are destined to be winners because we deserve it more than most we have been patient and now we have the foundations to be the best in the world with the Infrastructure ADUG have laid for us.
The thing is like Purple nose keeps saying, you need pedigree to win at the top and he thinks City don't have it. Well he is wrong, our history stands us in greater stead than any team, we have been through all the emotions and have learned to be humble yet grateful of what we are given. This is my honest opinion and that is we have the best fans in the league but now we also have the best managment of the club by ADUG and now we are together we will conquer the world on our little footballing story. Well done for sticking with the club through the bad times people as it is now our time to be paid back for all those years of hurt.
Thanks ADUG, being City isn't about anything material it is about whats in your heart and we all have it.
CTID