Should I take this one or does someone else want a crack?
Should I take this one or does someone else want a crack?
So only attacking players can be world class?
Gimme some of what you’re smoking
Even as a city fan I just want to say I appreciate your sentiment in your last paragraph. Something needs to be done to FFP to make it easier for clubs to rise like city did, because FFP really does make it impossible for “smaller” clubs to challenge a title which means that there will never be even footing. Older and more established clubs who spent more in the past will always have the edge.
As for city specifically, I read the CAS judgements and they found nothing financially suspect, even when reviewing the time barred stuff. So I wouldn’t say the process is “deciding upon a punishment” at this point in time as much as it is deciding if a punishment is warranted. I doubt we’ll ever agree on that but I do appreciate you mentioning that things need to change to allow teams to replicate City’s rise in a “fair” way.
obligatory comment about those Man City crooks, even though this has nothing to do with them
The fact that anyone thinks the FA like City is a mystery to me. Both UEFA and the FA hate city and that’s why we boy anthems and turn our backs.
Firstly, Thank you for mentioning what most people don’t; the fact that there were only a handful of teams that could realistically win the league and UCL because of FFP. So the footing has never been even. People like to pretend things were perfect before Chelsea and later city came around with the money to compete, but it was not at all that way.
To answer your question; I would absolutely take the memories and things I’ve seen over the past decade or so(93:20 top of my mind) even if that means we get relegated to the championship. I also think it’s highly unlikely we would stay there for more than a season, particularly if even just a few of our players stayed. It would honestly be kind of amusing to watch us absolutely destroy the championship, but also kind of sad for the team the actual championship teams.
With that said, my ideal situation is that we are cleared of all charges and people just deal with the fact that someone new became dominant fairly. However even if we are cleared of all charges we all know that won’t happen. For the rest of time rival fans will claim we bought or strong armed our way out of the charges.
Surprised to see Gvardiol to be honest. I’m happy with his performance so far but I wouldn’t say he’s settled in as easily as a lot of players do.
If that same situation happened for you and we scored from the free kick we would never hear the end of it. That handball had absolutely no effect on the game whatsoever, so why give a free kick for it when that will have an effect?
To be fair we are not known for our diving, we are known for drawing fouls. There is a difference.
Plus if any team attacks as much as city and has as many touches in the box as city, they will get more penalties.
We often lead the league in touches in the opponents box, so that easily translates to leading the league in penalties won.
Even as a city fan I though the pen was soft, but not a clearly wrong and “corrupt” decision. Soft pens happen all the time.
Not giving that was the right decision and if it was anyone but city, no one would mention it.
You can’t just blame city every time a team with an outside chance of winning the league has a call go against them. It’s tinfoil hat territory….
Let’s not turn into sensationalist too, that was a yellow card challenge and nothing more from Sterling. When I first saw it I though “that’s a red” but on the replay his studs are down and the contact isn’t dangerous or out of control.
Mate don’t disrespect Foden and Grealish like that. Palmers a decent player and a good kid, but he’s nowhere near their level yet.
To be fair I wouldn’t have minded they let it go on as a city fan either. The way that game was going either of us could have grabbed another goal with another 2-3 minutes.
Red for telling some shite…
Man United fans pretending they were on even footing with the rest of the league during their dominant period is hilarious to me. You could always and still can outspend all but a handful of clubs in world football.