The Milner Novela... Final episode page 296

[Chris Smith]

Chris, the money might make them the more succesful club in Manchester for a few years but I don't think they'll ever be the biggest club.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I want to know, as does everyone else, I am sure, is why in 3 days Milner hasn't contacted the press personally and dismissed the suggestion he wants to leave, and only has his mate sticking up for him? If this allegation is so false, it's easily contested or rectified. Don't you agree?

Are you mad, Toronto? The last thing any player should do is start talking to the press. I'm sure the Club have guidelines and rules regarding this point. MON should have kept things to himself. Couldn't it have waited until Monday when Milner is back with the team? I'm not saying what MON said is wrong, i.e. Milner wants to leave but unless he's trying to push the sale through, it really served no purpose than provide the press with a few headlines.

[Chris Jameson]

Man City will never, ever be the biggest team in Manchester.

Closet Red?

[Ads]

Man City will never, ever be the biggest team in Manchester.

Closet Red?

No, he's just being realisitc.

[Billy Walker]

Man City will never, ever be the biggest team in Manchester.

Of course they can be.  One of the things I love about football is that nothing is set in stone.  I love saying to Liverpool or Man Utd fans, when arguing about club size, where were they before the 1950's/1960's?  Where were Liverpool before Shanks and Man Utd before Busby? Where were they both before money and ambition arrived at their clubs? Each club was both nothing special.  

It's all a matter of context.  If you were talking to my late grandad about "big clubs" and metioned Man Utd, Liverpool, Real Madid or whoever he'd go, "Who?"  When he was a lad it was all "Aston Villa".

If Man City go on and win ten European Cups in the next thirty years you can be sure the generations of football fans born in the twenty-first century will view them as something special.  Money or not.  Real Madrid - with the aid of money- got themselves a whole load of European Cups in the 1950's.   From nowhere they somehow became the world's biggest club.  

Money talks and always has done.  When years roll by people will forget the context and what the club was actually like before the money rolled in.  For example, people frustratingly forget that Villa were England's most honoured club for a greater part of the twentieth century than Liverpool, Man Utd or whoever.  It might sound crazy in the here and now, but Man City (or any other club with £30 billion behind them) can easily become the biggest in the world, let alone the city of Manchester.

[Monty]

Fuck Man City. And Man Utd for that matter, but slightly less so. And definitely, 100% fuck Real Madrid, for basing their whole history and success on funds from a nasty Fascist dictator.

[sfx412]

What a strange way of looking at the world you have.

Of course it is.

Its different to your view, so it must be.

[Billy Walker]

Hear, Hear! I'll go along with that, Monty.

[Guy M]

Hear hear for Billy and another hear hear for Monty from the Maidenhead contingent.

[JUAN PABLO]

If MAn shitty win the champions league and they will probably have a good chance in the next 5 years...  I might change my sport to Tiddywinks or something..

[Jimbo]

Having survived the 80s, when football was apparently threatened by terrace boot-boys and a general lack of cash, how ironic it is that the greatest threat to the game in the early 21st century is corporate bullying and too much money.

[adrenachrome]

Having survived the 80s, when football was apparently threatened by terrace boot-boys and a general lack of cash, how ironic it is that the greatest threat to the game in the early 21st century is corporate bullying and too much money.

OK, I'll bite.

It's (like) a free ride when you've already paid.

[mrfuse]

Having survived the 80s, when football was apparently threatened by terrace boot-boys and a general lack of cash, how ironic it is that the greatest threat to the game in the early 21st century is corporate bullying and too much money.

OK, I'll bite.

It's (like) a free ride when you've already paid.

A traffic jam when you're already late

[exigo]

A defensive striker when you need more goals

[adrenachrome]

And who would have thought it figured