Sorry Kris but that's a bit bitter and twisted.Gonzo wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2019 9:55 pm
The fact that their fans might not be absolute cunts is really no comfort at all.
We're like turkeys voting for Christmas. There was one team that had a sliver of a chance to halt their dominance yet the general mood was a preference for the dominance rather than Liverpool to break the stranglehold.
As someone who can remember Clough's Forrest and of course our own FA Cup win from the lower division I really don't get this fawning over a country using it's oil wealth to steam roll our domestic league. Social media is awash with people saying, "You have to admire them". Do I fuck.
How do you like your sport? Well it seems the answer is predictable and in the form of an exhibition. The premise of sport being a contest seems to have been universally discarded. Maybe it's something in the water that's making people gush for Goliath rather than David but for Watford you might as well read West Ham United.
I'm not deluded enough to think that we'd win the league but at least I'd go into each season hopeful of winning a cup. Not anymore, it's over I'm afraid and in the current Premier League incarnation there is very little point to Watford or West Ham.
With that in mind why should I laud and applaud what City are doing? It's financial doping yet when we play them next season we'll hear all about our special relationship with the City fans . . . .they're just like us apparently.
As you know I have a thing about City. Always have, even before the money. And by
coincidence my son started supporting them So I take him once a season.
And yes, they are like us, and as I said earlier. If Thaksin Shinawatra's last throw of the dice hadn't come off and the Abu Dhabi people had suddenly thought, 'what about West Ham' instead. Would you be having this conversation ?
We all have our own personal hang-ups. Spurs obviously but with me it's also Liverpool as I had an Italian mother and the utter grief their drunken cunts created at Heysel and then they bleat about Hillsborough makes me cringe. But I do take your point. If it was any other team I'd not have been too bothered had the league title gone the other way.
How do you compete ? You don't. But Palace, Leicester and Newcastle proved they're not unbeatable. And for West Ham, don't read Watford. They tried to match them blow for blow. You can't do that.
City are guilty of nothing other than being in the right place at the right time.