Firstly let me say congratulations to Manchester City on winning the title.Personally where the trophy ended up was of no concern to me,I don't particulary like/dislike either club.I am pleased for Joleon Lescott the City centre back who began his career at Wolves and is probably the best defender i have seen at my club...
But amid all the adulation being heaped on the new Champions there's one thing really starting to stick in my craw and it's this nonsense being pushed by the media that City have now eradicated "44 years of misery".I am particularly pissed off with BBC Radio 5 for perpetuating this insidious claptrap.I listen to this station daily and it's normally intelligent & savvy with a healthy dose of cynicism that i find appealing...But even they have been hoodwinked by the myth that City fans are the flag bearers for all downtrodden fans who can but dream that one day oil money will allow them to challenge other oil rich teams to the ultimate prize...Top of the rich list...
Sorry,i mean the glory of winning trophies...Please excuse my cynical remarks.This is what it's done to me...
Here's the thing; Man City are a decent sized club with a decent fan base,like many others.They have'nt had 44 years of hurt at all.They've had 44 years of experiencing what many other fans of many other clubs go through season by season.Had their team been challenging for the title in,say, half of those years but falling short then the media could possibly get away with this oh-woe-is-me bullshit.But until last season they'd been nowhere near.
There's also another little bit of nonsense being repeated ad nauseam concerning their days spent in the third tier of English football.It's become de rigour to mention this period with something approaching brown nosing toadying awe when talking to any City fans.Ohhhh you supported your team when they were in a lower division? Whoop-de-woo.
Plenty of clubs of City's size have been down there recently.Leeds,Both Sheffield clubs,Southampton etc.What's the big deal? It happens.Why barely a generation ago my team went from the top division to the bottom division in successive seasons ...Yet it seems City fans are being lauded as some sort of cross between Mandela,Ghandi and Martin Luther King for them having to endure the horrors of Div 3(old Skool)
The 44 years thing is also very disrespectful to 99% of fans who support a team that will never come close to winning a Premiership title.It's basically saying that our support is a worthless pit of black nothingness...Yea, cheers for that.
As Einstein probably never said "Success is all relative" I have friends who support lower league clubs,notably Bristol Rovers,Leyton Orient and Queens Park(The only amateur club playing in a pro league in the UK.Scottish Div 3) Try telling them their support consists of nothing more than misery
because they won't win the Premiership title...Their dreams and hopes for their teams may be less fanciful than the oil rich clubs but they're no less relevant...Or even my club Wolves,relegated weeks ago.We have'nt been walking around in sackcloth & ashes practising self flaggelation cos' we no longer dine at the top table.Had you been to any Wolves games you would have witnessed fans making the most of a bad time...44 years of misery? My arse...
I know none of this is actually the fault of the City fans but the lazy media looking for a human angle to the game...After all there's where's the romance in Mega rich meglomanic oil barons waving their dicks at each other?
So many congratulations Man City.Enjoy the limelight for a while.At least till another club gets a richer owner with a bigger dick and buys all your players.Maybe then you'll come and join us again and have another 44 years of being a normal fan...
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i can't claim to be unbiased in my assessment of your post but i thought you nailed it mate.
As i said i was'nt blaming the City fans for what the media wrote...With regards to your other comment(Mysteriously not printed here)Of course there are'nt many fans who would'nt want to see their club sign the best players in the world and that takes untold riches.
Indeed i remember well the excitement when we conned yer man Swales out of a shed load for Steve Daley and bought Andy Gray for a then world record price.Gray was player & Young player of the year at the time.It would be like us signing RVP or Ronaldo(The thin one) now...5 years later we were 6th from bottom of the 4th div...
City are gonna get a lot of stick i dare say and as you say some of your younger fans will have no idea of the struggles that went before,much as ours don't.
All the best mate.Now can we have Joleon back off ya? Oh and throw in Kompany too please.Cheers...
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