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I genuinely don’t get this. You’ve stumped up a ridiculous amount of cash (easily four figures for the match ticket alone) to travel to the edge of Europe to watch your team win its very first European cup. And yet you’re celebrating like it’s a midweek fa cup tie away at Preston
It’s Man City…they’re a small club at heart really.
I guess the sheer inevitability of this all took away any drama. The whole thing seems like such an anti-climax. It’s been a procession from the moment they tanked us at the Emirates.
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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
The size of the club doesn’t matter really. In fact having a small club mentality you’d think would make the fans celebrate even more. Especially if some of the fans were around when they were trying to avoid relegation to the fourth tier of English football.
I suspect that’s not the case though, and it’s more that the fan base has become gentrified to what Roy Keane called the prawn sandwich eating brigade when talking about United
I'm not here to defend them particularly but if you look further down the replies there's a video of some fans celebrating much more than that
also tbh it probably feels like a relief more than anything, not winning the CL has been hanging over them and while I didn't watch the game it sounds like a relatively poor Citeh performance which could quite possibly have been punished (I gather Lumpkaku missed a sitter at the end for example)
I do agree that you can’t discern the reaction of all fans from one section of the stands, but fuck me one of the guys here looks like he’s either leaving the ground or off for a hit of Turkish coffee.
If they’d bossed Inter and the result was never in doubt, and the final whistle was to confirm a mailing you could maybe understand it
That it was a bit of a nail biter as Inter created some excellent chances to equalise, you’d think that’s even more reason to go berserk.
I did when we won the fa cup in 2014, we were terrible that day.
I can’t say this of course of all City fans, but these ones don’t seem especially emotionally wedded to the club and this felt more like sports tourism.
There are loads of tourists at CL Finals.
One of my abiding memories from 2006 was our end was a sea of yellow, the Barca end was all their colours. The whole middle of the stadium was a sea of corporate grey.
The lack of self-awareness is ridiculous, they spent £2bn and think they’ve achieved something. There’s very dishonest stats about how much Guardiola has spent there which completely ignores all the money spent before he arrived. And their wage bill is ridiculous.
In brief: fuck them.
well Chelsea and Yanited have shown us recently that it's possible to spend a bucketload of cash and not got anywhere - somewhere along the line peopple have to recognise that Guardiola is a good manager who has used the money wisely and put together a killer team
and look at the players he discarded - a little tosser who runs around a lot to no real effect and Jesus, who tbf invigorated our team in the pre-WC part of the season, but can't score for toffee
I’m not disputing Guardiola is a good manager.
But there’s no comparison with Fergie who in the early days built that dominant Utd team without a sugar-daddy and prior to that achieved success at Aberdeen, briefly breaking the Celtic/Rangers duopoly.
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Originally Posted by Letters
It’s impossible to tell, he’s only managed clubs that can spend ridiculous amounts
Taken him six years to get the European cup with Man City. I’m not saying he’s not good, I’m saying a) it’s impossible to tell and b) as long as your board doesn’t do a Chelsea or man United and absolutely bomb in the transfer market it’s not the pinnacle of achievements.
Unless the manager is a complete imbecile, it doesn’t matter who manages the club. Arteta didn’t get us to second by being a brilliant coach, he did it because the good signings he made were able to outweigh the bad ones.