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The Men Behind Manchester City: The Dark Side

EmperorKabir

SC's Resident Legend
Dec 8, 2004
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I've always laughed at this image. To so shamelessly send a message which essentially says, 'Thank you for helping us cheat' through financial doping and also directly to a single individual is so small minded and simplistic.

How they can celebrate anything they win without a sense of guilt is remarkable.

I've been on their forums to have a read of what they all think of it and it boils down to them thinking 2 things. First, anyone who writes stuff like I've just written is 'just jealous.'

Well... no... I'm completely loving the idea that at the moment, season after season, we sit at the high table with limited finances with the big boys and basically take a crap in all their faces when they spend so high with dodgy money and often do worse than us. Sure, no trophies, but we are competing at that level and cleanly too which is what football is really about on the pitch.

Second, they laugh off other fans who say they'd stop going to games if a billionaire doped the club. Now to be fair, I don't think I'd stop going, but I'd certainly go a lot less. Victories would be hollow and cheap. Trophies would be like watching faceless global banks or holding companies splitting prizes that only they can win. If we won the league or CL now, I'd struggle to stop crying, it would mean so much. But if a child slaver bought it for us with no real club identity and we unveiled a big banner funded by SC contributions thanking him for it, I'd be a bit subdued to say the least.

Joke of a club. Every time they win... sorry... buy anything, it feels kinda embarrassing for me as a fan of football itself. It's like a big novelty given they weren't long ago relegated.

side note, lol at Infantino being just as corrupt as his predecessors. We all knew that though anyway which is even more ridiculous. I don't expect the British press to say much now that they're on England's side for a change and we want to host 2030.
 

hughy

I'm SUPER cereal.
Nov 18, 2007
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An injury to anyone else in their squad and I'd say they have the players to deal with it. With De Bruyne however, that's not the case. He is absolutely pivotal to their style of play. Not sure an ageing David Silva will fill the void.

Throws the door wide open to the other teams challenging for the title if it's long term.
 

southlondonyiddo

My eyes have seen some of the glory..
Nov 8, 2004
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An injury to anyone else in their squad and I'd say they have the players to deal with it. With De Bruyne however, that's not the case. He is absolutely pivotal to their style of play. Not sure an ageing David Silva will fill the void.

Throws the door wide open to the other teams challenging for the title if it's long term.


Not sure about wide open. Certainly leaves it a little ajar for Liverpool!

Clearly De Bruyne is their No1 brain
 
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