No mate, you misunderstand the timing.
Our last league win was 1990, but we'd stopped singing about them about 3-5 years before that. one other thing we pride ourselves on is not singing many generic songs that all clubs sing. We either start them and get copied, or sing our own ones - google "Scouser Tommy" for a start. The same with banners - no Union jacks and St Georgs flags with club name on for us.
TBF to Man U, they are probably the only other prem club who also have a quality control when it comes to songs (overall), although that went a bit south on Sunday with quite a few generic ones as well as 20 songs about us....again.They are one of the most vocal away crods though.
Cant believe some getting their knickers in a twist over a few harmless memes. Their fanbase always give this "biggest in the world" malarkey, well dont be surprised when rivals as well as others revel in a crisis. It happened with us, Chelsea's temporary fall from grace. Arsene/Arsenal. If/when city get arrogant or have a decade or more of success, same will happen with them.
The thing is now, you have had an aligning of the stars of the most arrogant manager alongside one of the most arrogant fanbases - human nature and the English mentality for bringing people down is only going to go one way.
If you give it, you have to take it.
), just something that gained momentum over a few years.
Utd fans were always going to sing songs about Liverpool whilst playing Liverpool. In fairness, in the 35 years i've been going, songs are sung about City and Liverpool in equal measure, with the odd smattering of Leeds thrown in. I think rivalry is a great thing as it pushes you forward. It's not our time right now , so I accept all the banter that's thrown our way, what i read on here is nothing compared to what I get at work from the blue noses and the scousers
I actually saw a lot of passion a few of the players on Sunday, which shows that they understand the rivalry. Despite being outclassed, I still like to see players put in a shift, and if we had been more organised and tactically astute we might have got something out of it. Through my red tinted glasses, I thought we had weathered the storm but Shaquiri made the difference when he came on. Firmino was class too. Like I said earlier in this thread, it shows Jose's mentality when he brings on Fellani when you have Martial (arguably our best player this year) , Mata and Pogba on the bench.
Me finks utds £380 million paid out for players plus £20 odd million in sacking maureen bought pain and misery. ðŸ‘The difference is that L'pool earned the bragging rights, City merely bought theirs!
I know it was said in jest, probably, but they were different era's. In the 70's and 80's you could build a team with modest outlay. Yes, certain teams paid bigger wages but the teams that challenged for the title in those era's showed the wide spread that was possible. In the current era City had to buy their players for big money, same as Liverpool had to pay big money for VVD and Allison, same as any team who wants to be at the top has to pay big money. It is the way of it now. The title has been bought pretty much from day 1 of the PL with the one possible exception of Leicester.The difference is that L'pool earned the bragging rights, City merely bought theirs!
Very fair point, although was FFP going back then?, but Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool all got to their levels before FFP was introduced and so did not need the boost of spending required by City to get where they are. It's a similar argument to that used by developig countries regarding emmissions, pollution etc.
Indeed, but that money was earned through football ........................... you know how it goes Tashy, and I will continue banging on about it until we get bought out by a mega-rich sugar daddy, at which point, there would be nothing wrong with that!
Not much of a deterrent is it? Slap them with a fine that's less than the cost of one mediocre player.
This conversation was going quite well til You posted that rammel. For the record we were already in the prem in a state of the art stadium before oil
So we are not the only ones who have done it. Plus spending money does not guarantee success or a decent standard if football. Never mind trophies.
