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Kind of makes me sweat that there is a generation of city fans that have no conception of what the football league is about. Luton will probably go down bottom, but hopefully they can bruise a few egos on their way.
Kind of makes me sweat that there is a generation of city fans that have no conception of what the football league is about. Luton will probably go down bottom, but hopefully they can bruise a few egos on their way.
Why should they? I’m not trying to be argumentative but football moves very quickly - why would someone under forty care what that Luton once won more trophies than them?
In the here-and-now, Man City are now one of the best teams in the world.
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Important Luton reminder on 23:15 - May 27 with 3300 views
Kind of makes me sweat that there is a generation of city fans that have no conception of what the football league is about. Luton will probably go down bottom, but hopefully they can bruise a few egos on their way.
Neither are a patch on Wanderers. They had the Old Etonians in their pocket.
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Important Luton reminder on 23:32 - May 27 with 3227 views
Important Luton reminder on 23:08 - May 27 by MattinLondon
Why should they? I’m not trying to be argumentative but football moves very quickly - why would someone under forty care what that Luton once won more trophies than them?
In the here-and-now, Man City are now one of the best teams in the world.
I get what you are saying, but it's not about the trophies as such, it's more about the lack of awareness that a world exists outside of massive, polished bowls with their premium hospitality suites and huge concourses filled with tourists. City fans of a certain age suffered, now they have kids bickering about whether they have the stadium shirt or the match shirt, all charged at obscene prices. Some of them would have a fit if they saw Maine Road nestled among the houses, or watching their club lock horns with the titans of Gillingham for a place in the second tier.
I was there, middle of the Kippax, the day that David Pleat danced on the pitch. One of the most amazing days ever, seeing men in their 40s & 50s crying in the stand.
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Important Luton reminder on 01:39 - May 28 with 3010 views
Important Luton reminder on 23:08 - May 27 by MattinLondon
Why should they? I’m not trying to be argumentative but football moves very quickly - why would someone under forty care what that Luton once won more trophies than them?
In the here-and-now, Man City are now one of the best teams in the world.
I get what you are saying, but it's not about the trophies as such, it's more about the lack of awareness that a world exists outside of massive, polished bowls with their premium hospitality suites and huge concourses filled with tourists. City fans of a certain age suffered, now they have kids bickering about whether they have the stadium shirt or the match shirt, all charged at obscene prices. Some of them would have a fit if they saw Maine Road nestled among the houses, or watching their club lock horns with the titans of Gillingham for a place in the second tier.
Absolutely.
Tbf very few city fans will ever watch their team lock horns with the likes of Gillingham. They would have long since switched to a different colour top while laughing at the real city fans.
Amazing how many city fans down here in Devon, shirt with Haaland etc. Can't ever remember seeing a Goater one.
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Important Luton reminder on 10:03 - May 28 with 2341 views
Important Luton reminder on 01:39 - May 28 by Kropotkin123
Impressive... Ten seasons in one year. Wouldn't knock six seasons in one year either.
SheffWed could only manage two; The first they won in January (but nobody else was finished) and the other when they made the playoffs in only about a dozen games (but the rest of the division had a headstart).
Yes, way more tarnished than a local businessman made very good putting his money into his boyhood team and winning the title.
Abramovich is similarly bad to Mansour.
Your reference to Liverpool can only be to the 70s and 80s: a club built by a great manager with promotion of successors from within. It seems your problem with that is that they were better than us!
Man United are curious. Similarly to Liverpool, the legacy of a great manager was the rock on which success was built. Fergie arguably got lucky with Scholes, Beckham Giggs, Butt and the Nevilles all coming along at once, but he trusted youth before and after that.
Added to that a very clever leveraging of the brand dating back to their previous great era under Busby, to become one of three truly global clubs of the period, along with Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Ferguson took them from also-rans to dominance primarily through footballing means. Chelsea, then Man City and now Newcastle through throwing money at buying rapid ascent.
Arsenal are the interesting team of the past 20 years. Although owned by seriously rich people they have pursued a more sustainable model (relative to Man City and Chelsea) more akin to the Man United under Fergie model: develop youth, expand capacity and commercial revenues. Both teams needed the stability of an untouchable long-term manager to pursue this strategy. But arguably it is now outdated, and can be blown out of the water by Sovereign Wealth Funds, as FFP regulations are largely toothless.
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Important Luton reminder on 14:46 - May 29 with 1648 views
Kind of makes me sweat that there is a generation of city fans that have no conception of what the football league is about. Luton will probably go down bottom, but hopefully they can bruise a few egos on their way.
I think they’ll take a few scalps at KR, but struggle away.
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