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Manchester City vs. Newcastle United: 15/02/25 @ 15:00 (No UK TV)

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TheBrownBottle

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I still find Man City a hard club to dislike, even with all their trophies (probably because it clearly fucks off their less pleasant red neighbours).

 

Always felt like a naturally 'big club' with a working class support base who'd been shat on for decades by incompetent owners.

 

I want us to win, obviously - but whenever these have won trophies it has been met by a shrug by me - which is as close as I'll ever get to be congratulatory to another club winning things.

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1 minute ago, TheBrownBottle said:

I still find Man City a hard club to dislike, even with all their trophies (probably because it clearly fucks off their less pleasant red neighbours).

 

Always felt like a naturally 'big club' with a working class support base who'd been shat on for decades by incompetent owners.

 

I want us to win, obviously - but whenever these have won trophies it has been met by a shrug by me - which is as close as I'll ever get to be congratulatory to another club winning things.

 

Yeah I don't have any strong feelings about City tbh. I guess it's because I never really came across their fans growing up - unlike the hordes of Man U, Liverpool, and Arsenal supporting sods. Plus, they barely have any presence in the media so don't have to hear their club legends spout shit.

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1 minute ago, Cort said:

 

Yeah I don't have any strong feelings about City tbh. I guess it's because I never really came across their fans growing up - unlike the hordes of Man U, Liverpool, and Arsenal supporting sods. Plus, they barely have any presence in the media so don't have to hear their club legends spout shit.

That definitely helps (though there was a Man City-supporting lad in my class in high school in the west end of Newcastle - and we're talking 95-98.  Looking back, he must've a masochist).  Their old fanbase still exists for lads my age and both younger and older - lads and lasses who remember being absolutely shite and suffering in the shadow of their neighbours (who as a 40-odd year old NUFC supporter I still utterly fucking detest).  Most of them have retained that cynical edge - they still sort of expect the worst despite being the luckiest sods on the planet over the last 15 years :).  There are knackers amongst them - like any support - but the Manc lads I've met over the years who support them retained that deeply cynical edge about their club which is embedded into my soul re NUFC.  They won the lottery, and they know it - fair fucks to them!

 

I don't have a 'soft spot' for them, exactly - I don't have one for any sizeable club other than us - but I don't give a shite about them, which I cannot say about Man Utd nor the cockney members of the Sky Six.

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I think it will be a close game. We will have our chances, but still not convinced that we will win. Maybe a draw. They are really dangerous going forward, and Haaland seems to have picked up a little bit of form.

 

 

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7 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

That definitely helps (though there was a Man City-supporting lad in my class in high school in the west end of Newcastle - and we're talking 95-98.  Looking back, he must've a masochist).  Their old fanbase still exists for lads my age and both younger and older - lads and lasses who remember being absolutely shite and suffering in the shadow of their neighbours (who as a 40-odd year old NUFC supporter I still utterly fucking detest).  Most of them have retained that cynical edge - they still sort of expect the worst despite being the luckiest sods on the planet over the last 15 years :).  There are knackers amongst them - like any support - but the Manc lads I've met over the years who support them retained that deeply cynical edge about their club which is embedded into my soul re NUFC.  They won the lottery, and they know it - fair fucks to them!

 

I don't have a 'soft spot' for them, exactly - I don't have one for any sizeable club other than us - but I don't give a shite about them, which I cannot say about Man Utd nor the cockney members of the Sky Six.

 

This guy sums it up a little for me for them.  Albeit I disagree with some of his stance, what he says rings true.  That arsenal weapon can fuck off though. 

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23 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

I still find Man City a hard club to dislike, even with all their trophies (probably because it clearly fucks off their less pleasant red neighbours).

 

Always felt like a naturally 'big club' with a working class support base who'd been shat on for decades by incompetent owners.

 

I want us to win, obviously - but whenever these have won trophies it has been met by a shrug by me - which is as close as I'll ever get to be congratulatory to another club winning things.

Agree with this, I would go as far as saying I don't even want them to get found guilty on all them charges, anything that keeps them ahead of Arsenal, Liverpool and Man United is perfectly fine with me, plus the outrage it will cause the fans of them clubs will be brilliant to watch.

 

 

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1 minute ago, mattypnufc said:

 

This guy sums it up a little for me for them.  Albeit I disagree with some of his stance, what he says rings true.  That arsenal weapon can fuck off though. 

Every fucking club 'bought' their trophies.  As if Arsenal's status, revenue and geographical location didn't buy theirs.

 

From the moment Blackburn Olympic won the FA Cup by paying players, all trophies were 'bought'.  It is as true in the 2020s as it was in the 1880s - and any cunt denying that is a fucking idiot

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11 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Every fucking club 'bought' their trophies.  As if Arsenal's status, revenue and geographical location didn't buy theirs.

 

From the moment Blackburn Olympic won the FA Cup by paying players, all trophies were 'bought'.  It is as true in the 2020s as it was in the 1880s - and any cunt denying that is a fucking idiot

There's buying trophies and buying trophies though. Through the sports history the clubs with the deepest pockets have won stuff but it was really only with Man City and Chelsea that it became bottomless pockets.

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2 minutes ago, Turnbull2000 said:

 

What does that mean? Non-serious injury could still put them out for 2-3 weeks and jeopardise our season.

 

 

 

Gordon’s fine. Other two a doubt for Saturday.

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29 minutes ago, madras said:

There's buying trophies and buying trophies though. Through the sports history the clubs with the deepest pockets have won stuff but it was really only with Man City and Chelsea that it became bottomless pockets.

In the 21st Century, sure.  But we got to watch Blackburn win the league; even the Mackems regaled in the 'Bank of England' patter.  It is almost as old as football.

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1 hour ago, TheBrownBottle said:

In the 21st Century, sure.  But we got to watch Blackburn win the league; even the Mackems regaled in the 'Bank of England' patter.  It is almost as old as football.

I've said as much myself but the differences are now (or since Chelsea and Man City) much more stark.

 

Blackburn are an interesting one e as they didn't spend as much as people assumed it was more that an unfashionable was spending. Yes they spent big on Shearer, Sutton and Flowers but the likes of Sherwood and Hendry were peanuts. Compare that with Man City and Chelsea 

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9 minutes ago, Lush Vlad said:


No Burn or Botman vs Haaland would be a disaster. I think he’ll bully Schar and Krafth. That’s if City actually manage to get him involved. 

 

Whilst I'm inclined to agree I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if Krafth pulled out a worldie against him. :lol:

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