This woman above is looking upset.She is called Nicki.
Nicki is a Manchester City fan.
Nicki is used to being unhappy, being an avid City fan. She is especially unhappy in this picture above.
She has been watching her beloved club in the FA cup. Blackburn Rovers 2-O beat them. They are out of the cup. This is nothing new. She is used to such poor performances. She is a City fan. She is used to cup failure.
This was especially poor however. She feels her team didn't really put 100% into their performance.
Nicki is not happy about this. And seeing as she lives and breathes City, she feels aggrieved.
Her friends around her in the picture feel the same. They are also used to disappointment on a regular basis. As they are also City fans.
They are shouting at their players. They are shouting on national television. They are not shouting nice things. They are shouting, "You're not fit to wear the shirt" and "Pearce, you Cockney wanker".
Which is not nice. But true.
Joey plays for City. He is critical of his team-mates. They don't seem to care as much as he does. Joey tells them this. Team spirit is about as existent as trophies at City.
Joey had a bad match also. He got booked and was lucky not to have been sent off. He went over to his fans at the end of the match. He appreciates their loyal support and throws his shirt into the crowd. They don't appreciate Joey and his team-mates' effort. They tell him so. He drops his shorts to show his backside at them as he walks away. This is what passes for sophistication at City.
Nicki is still not happy and goes on Sky Sports News the next day to express her displeasure at the season so far.
Because Manchester City have been knocked out of all cup competitions (again).
They are fourth from the bottom of the Premier League.
They haven't won a trophy since 1976.
And that was only the League Cup.
It could be argued then that the current team ARE fit to wear the shirt, based on the rubbish of the last three decades, and that Nicki and friends are wrong.
Stuart is the manager. He is not very popular at the moment with the fans. He says “"I will not shrink away from this situation ... there's not a great deal wrong at this football club and it's up to me to turn it around.”
"Not a great deal" is an apposite phrase. Stuart isn’t good at great deals. He has frittered away nearly £10m on the likes of Georgios Samaras, Bernardo Corradi and Darius Vassell. They are players who haven’t performed and are the reasons City are the second-lowest scorers in the Premiership. This is why they are freefalling towards the drop zone.
Manchester City play Chelsea on Wednesday night. Oh dear. They’ve still got the likes of Liverpool to play also. Oh no. And their second to last game of the season is against Manchester United. Stress! Conceivably, United could clinch the Premiership by then and send City down to the Championship. Which would make City fans sad.
At least with United coming they’d have their biggest attendance of the season. For City are unable to fill their stadium each match. I say their stadium. I mean the Council's. Their highest attendance so far this year was just over 42,000, out of 47,726 seats. Usually much less though.
So either their fan base is dwindling (and based on the shite they have to watch who can blame them?) or fans are disguised as blue seats. It must be the latter. City are the best-supported club in Manchester. Nicki and her bitter friends would tell you this until they were blue in the face.
Anyway, by the time the good team in Manchester come to visit, Stuart might be gone. He hasn't done very well. Much like the managers before him. It's a tradition. Poor old Stuart.
But Nicki probably will still be there. As will some of her grumpy friends (and the ones that have disguised themselves as blue seats).
They are shouting at their players. They are shouting on national television. They are not shouting nice things. They are shouting, "You're not fit to wear the shirt" and "Pearce, you Cockney wanker".
Which is not nice. But true.
Joey plays for City. He is critical of his team-mates. They don't seem to care as much as he does. Joey tells them this. Team spirit is about as existent as trophies at City.
Joey had a bad match also. He got booked and was lucky not to have been sent off. He went over to his fans at the end of the match. He appreciates their loyal support and throws his shirt into the crowd. They don't appreciate Joey and his team-mates' effort. They tell him so. He drops his shorts to show his backside at them as he walks away. This is what passes for sophistication at City.
Nicki is still not happy and goes on Sky Sports News the next day to express her displeasure at the season so far.
Because Manchester City have been knocked out of all cup competitions (again).
They are fourth from the bottom of the Premier League.
They haven't won a trophy since 1976.
And that was only the League Cup.
It could be argued then that the current team ARE fit to wear the shirt, based on the rubbish of the last three decades, and that Nicki and friends are wrong.
Stuart is the manager. He is not very popular at the moment with the fans. He says “"I will not shrink away from this situation ... there's not a great deal wrong at this football club and it's up to me to turn it around.”
"Not a great deal" is an apposite phrase. Stuart isn’t good at great deals. He has frittered away nearly £10m on the likes of Georgios Samaras, Bernardo Corradi and Darius Vassell. They are players who haven’t performed and are the reasons City are the second-lowest scorers in the Premiership. This is why they are freefalling towards the drop zone.
Manchester City play Chelsea on Wednesday night. Oh dear. They’ve still got the likes of Liverpool to play also. Oh no. And their second to last game of the season is against Manchester United. Stress! Conceivably, United could clinch the Premiership by then and send City down to the Championship. Which would make City fans sad.
At least with United coming they’d have their biggest attendance of the season. For City are unable to fill their stadium each match. I say their stadium. I mean the Council's. Their highest attendance so far this year was just over 42,000, out of 47,726 seats. Usually much less though.
So either their fan base is dwindling (and based on the shite they have to watch who can blame them?) or fans are disguised as blue seats. It must be the latter. City are the best-supported club in Manchester. Nicki and her bitter friends would tell you this until they were blue in the face.
Anyway, by the time the good team in Manchester come to visit, Stuart might be gone. He hasn't done very well. Much like the managers before him. It's a tradition. Poor old Stuart.
But Nicki probably will still be there. As will some of her grumpy friends (and the ones that have disguised themselves as blue seats).
Misguided fools.
31 years and counting.
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