Marty
Audere est farce
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Yeah, Man. City have built a balanced squad of Galacticos, rather than just a top-heavy XI of them like Real did.
Of course that's easier to do with unlimited resources.
Let's All Laugh At... Lets all laugh at Man City
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Of course that's easier to do with unlimited resources.
'O Zio
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Had SSN on in the background this morning while I was eating breakfast and it was just bizarre all the Man City fans being interviewed saying things like "It's unbelievable. Absolutely incredible" etc. almost like the same reaction we had on Wednesday when we beat Ajax. I'm sorry but the amount of money they've spend and the players/coaching staff they have, anything but winning the title was surely a failure, they were favourites by miles to win it so in what way is it really "incredible "or "unbelievable"? I think most people fully expected them to win the title before the season had even started.
Spurs 1961
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Wonder what Poch could do if we spent £1billion on players in the next two years?
Gassin's finest
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I think its because your average Man City fan, after decades of being shite, still can't believe their luck with their owners, getting to win stuff, and like us have that instinctive niggle in the back of their minds that it all might just turn to shit again at any moment.
Led's Zeppelin
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Radio 5's Premier League round-up show was gold last night.
In addition to the Scouser claiming that Liverpool had "technically" won the league title, the next call was from a genius of a Man City fan.
His faultless proposal was that they'd rather win the domestic treble than the Champions League.
So Robbie Savage, himself obviously an intellectual colosus in his own right, asked if he'd now rather be in the CL final or the FA cup final and he replied "the FA Cup". So Robbie then asked him to choose between the Carabao cup and the CL (genius never rests) and The Man said, without even thinking about it such was his magnificence, "the Carabao Cup". Yes, the league cup. The Milk Cup. The Rumbelows cup. He'd rather win that than the Champions League.
This was his Einstein-like reasoning: no one's ever won the domestic treble. Plenty of teams have won the Champions League.
Robbie Savage and the other presenters gave the best spontaneous synchronised snort this side of the World Cocaine Championships.
When's this year's Nobel Prize ceremony? I'll be watching out for a wayward middle-aged man with a haircut like an exhausted toilet brush and wearing a tea-stained knock-off Man City shirt.
In addition to the Scouser claiming that Liverpool had "technically" won the league title, the next call was from a genius of a Man City fan.
His faultless proposal was that they'd rather win the domestic treble than the Champions League.
So Robbie Savage, himself obviously an intellectual colosus in his own right, asked if he'd now rather be in the CL final or the FA cup final and he replied "the FA Cup". So Robbie then asked him to choose between the Carabao cup and the CL (genius never rests) and The Man said, without even thinking about it such was his magnificence, "the Carabao Cup". Yes, the league cup. The Milk Cup. The Rumbelows cup. He'd rather win that than the Champions League.
This was his Einstein-like reasoning: no one's ever won the domestic treble. Plenty of teams have won the Champions League.
Robbie Savage and the other presenters gave the best spontaneous synchronised snort this side of the World Cocaine Championships.
When's this year's Nobel Prize ceremony? I'll be watching out for a wayward middle-aged man with a haircut like an exhausted toilet brush and wearing a tea-stained knock-off Man City shirt.
Marty
Audere est farce
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City fans in general are pretty weird about the CL and have a huge chip on their shoulder about UEFA and their FFP sanctioning. That's why they audibly boo the CL anthem every CL match.
This goal.com article provides some interesting backstory. It started out as a legitimate grievance, they were fined a larger sum for turning up onto the pitch late than Porto were fined for fans racially abusing Balotelli, then turned to total shit when UEFA FFP sanctioned them.
Led's Zeppelin
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Interesting, thanks.
That explains why they were all so indifferent when they thought Sterling has scored the winner in the semi. And not at all upset when it was (correctly) over-ruled.
Col_M
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If they abide by the rule so then you congratulate them but make sure that the victory is hollow.
nailsy
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That's why fans of other teams don't care if they win the league though. It's not an amazing achievement. It doesn't count.
'O Zio
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They're just in denial i reckon. They know deep down that none of it counts for shit because it'll always have the asterisk next to it so they overcompensate for it.
Gassin's finest
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Not wrong I guess
Tucker
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With the squad they’ve assembled, they should be winning every competition at a canter. The fact they keep slipping up in the latter stages of the CL shows the pressure they are under to win it. They won the league by a massive points total this year, but watch them go out and spunk a literal kings ransom on replacements/ reinforcements for Fernandinho and De Bruyne this summer.
The city fans may have a hard on for uefa, and they may pretend that the CL doesn’t mean anything to them, but their repeated failure to buy it year in year out tells a different story.
Precisely this. They’re essentially a kid playing Football Manager with an in game editor that allows them to refill their bank balance every few months.
They are an empty husk of a football club, and their achievements will forever be tainted by the fact that they’ve sold their soul to get them.
carmeldevil
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spursfan77
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If uefa don’t follow through with it then ffp is dead.
The third from last paragraph struck me as to why it’s doomed to failure. Although hopefully uefa are arrogant enough not to care. They probably are with any luck:
“Their decision to press forward in seeking punishment against Manchester City could have serious implications for UEFA, which essentially would be accusing a team backed by the U.A.E.’s royal family of cheating and lying to a range of stakeholders, including the Premier League, as it built itself into a champion.”
carmeldevil
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For those who can't get in, I've copied the entire article and pasted it here: https://pastebin.com/W826fYJr
I wonder if the PL would also take action if the ban is upheld?
