I am pleased for you. But it’s really a very complicated situation that your team and city find themselves involved in.
Many people despise City’s owners and far too often it seems City fans are utterly unable
to actually question why these people are investing in Manchester. It is not a charity situation. It’s not because the Shiek likes the Manchester rain a lot.
What your owners are doing is “Sports Washing”. Sadly, each and every shiny new thing they give to your fans is tainted by real grief and sadness. Why don’t City fans want to see it for what it really is? that being cheating to gain a favourable media payback.
An entire country bank rolls your club and based on your comment part of your City too. Yet United never had such an advantage and dominated English football, proving that’s it is possible to succeed without being ludicrously doped by an entire country.
Consider this, in May 2014 when City were winning the league, a woman was being sentenced to death via stoning by your owners ( country rulers ) No amount of self gratification from a city win really makes that fact any better to stomach. Sadly winning the league sticks in the mind of the masses and no one gives a fuck about that poor woman.
The UAE regime has so many issues surrounding it that you can only look at obvious examples and ask questions about how it functions, City fans don’t seem to question a single thing. That is wrong.
I don’t know if you have a daughter or will ever be blessed with one, but would you like to see any part of the world where she did not have a free choice? That’s what City’s owners want to achieve in their state with their female population. I’d like my daughters to marry whom they want, in UAE that’s not permitted. You can’t marry outside of your religion. That is simply not right, is it ?
When Raheem Stirling smashes in a goal, how many of your fellow fans consider that the people whom pay his wages would arrest him and “disappear” him if he declared himself a homosexual? City’s owners even got twitchy about relocating a stadium to Queens, New York, yet again, they go unchallenged by all our media. Money don’t talk, it silences.
What plays out in a sanitised Amazon Documentary or within certain branches of the media is nothing different to what happened at the 1936 Olympics, it’s propaganda and again the money is keeping (too many) people quiet.
City’s investment ( simply put ) buys “Cheer leaders” for the rulers of UAE. For the city of Manchester, a place that once had Peterloo, to end up blind to this reality and clapping the City group is really quite sad.
The choices for City fans seem to be to 1) “Happy clap” via Amazon Prime or 2) have the balls to point out what Der Spiegel & others has found to anyone who will listen and tell this mob to piss off. Number 2 does not seem to be on the verge of anyone’s to do list.
On the wider point about North West investment and north / south divide. The stats show that the North West region gets the third highest amount of spending per person per year in England. And rather shockingly less money is spent on London than is spent per person in Scotland / Wales and NI. With that in mind I am not sure the reality of the north / South divide is as negative as has been suggested and gives you any hiding place. Exactly why are you not pointing out that Edinburgh gets more than you, so it’s acceptable what your owners do.
Anyway, I’ve digressed. 2-2 and Spurs were a bit lucky. Good. 2-2 and our supporters can moan at Levy a bit, but also sleep well in knowing the only one who disappeared under ENIC seems to have been Jacques Santini. City’s fans can’t sleep with the same feeling.
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