Nah, I could show you a training session at a junior club on the outskirts of Newcastle, the number of city fans outnumber Liverpool at least 5-1, united, Chelsea and obviously Newcastle are the most common tops, hardly any young Liverpool fans round here now. Most of these kids if they remain city fans won't give a shit about the owners, same for your Asian fans.
Man City struggling to sell out CL Quarter Final v Spurs
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But you're heading into the second leg with a valuable lead. Expectancy has risen and the pressure along with it.
Tonight is an ideal opportunity for Spurs to put the 'bottlers' tag to bed by winning the tie.
City will need a decade or two of domination to catch up to United and Liverpool's following. Winning a title every few years will do feck all. They've won 3 in 10 years, Liverpool and United doubled that output when they were the top dogs and did it for 2 decades.
It was obviously the corrupt UEFA at the direction of the Rags preventing the fan base from buying up tickets until the last minute to make them look bad.
Funny thing is if Spurs win tonight , Man City will be considered the bottlers considering the expectations of them in the UCL and how they've performed. City are still favourites to qualify even considering the 1-0 lead for Spurs.
That's a fair point. So whoever loses tonight will be considered bottlers.
The question is, will Liverpool be considered bottlers if throw away a 2 goal advantage to Porto?
Yes of course we would, we're clear favourites to go through.
A very well timed reply.
Spurs weren't the favorites and City are a side who can score at will. If Spurs are knocked out after being 3-0 on aggregate at one point, I would put it down to a mix of naivete on their part (completely justified considering their inexperience) coupled with City's superior ability to get back in the game thanks to their world class goalscorers. Not a bottle job this time.
So what does?My post didn’t say clubs that won trophies in the past are soulful at all
You’re going to defend Siddy until you’re Sky Blue in the face and rightly so, it’s your right and your club.
But a hell of a lot of people think that you’re still a tinpot outfit with a few local fans and an owner that buys the rest of the tickets and hands them out. Which is great for the school kid and community, fair play
You are entitled to the opinion in the 3rd line. How though can you judge the club as being soulless when you haven't been there?
What I'm asking is again the same as the first line, what constitutes a soulless club?
It can't be the Etihad being empty because well despite the poor showings often but still we pull a bigger crowd than 90% of European football clubs. This means probably 95% of club in England are soulless.
It can't be the atmosphere because Old Trafford is like a morgue much of the time, so bad in fact that the club had to have a meeting with fans to try and sort it just last year and Sir Alex openly criticized it too. You do though have the best away support in the league imho, but your home support is nothing in terms of atmosphere in comparison with Liverpool or Dortmund for example. This would make United soulless and you just said they are magic.
It's not trophies and historical success so I'm none the wiser where this soul comes from?
Another misconception, no City fan in the right mind thinks we have nearly as many fans as the historically big clubs. I don't know where the Caf pulls this myth from. We know 100% we haven't the fanbase other clubs have.
For those who say the etihad is soul less have any of you actually been there?
Geniune question.
I havent myself but it looks live from the tv.
Doesnt seen like one of these soul less placed at all.
Geniune question.
I havent myself but it looks live from the tv.
Doesnt seen like one of these soul less placed at all.
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Tell them again please.
If anything WE are the ones thats being run like a soul less club
Well I wouldn't say we're exactly the definition of the opposite, I think neither are souless, just both have owners that have non football reasons for owning said clubs.