Football fans......

[Manonabike]

It's interesting how many Man City fans / players / Mancini, etc have forgotten the incident with Carlos Tevez..... he is now ready to play again

When i saw Carlos Tevez in a TV interview attacking Mancini but also saying he was coming back to win the supporters back..... I thought to myself, this guy does not realise how much he is hated.... after he had already talked so much about Manchester being the last place he wanted to live and that he would never come back....etc.

Well, Man City fans are not alone, I think..... Manchester United fans were quick to forgive Rooney after he said he wanted to leave in order to win a new and much improved contract.

Is winning football matches everything for some football fans?

I understand why Man City FC are doing this, given Tevez another chance but I cannot understand the fans.

 

[ianrauk]

It's interesting how many Man City fans / players / Mancini, etc have forgotten the incident with Carlos Tevez..... he is now ready to play again

When i saw Carlos Tevez in a TV interview attacking Mancini but also saying he was coming back to win the supporters back..... I thought to myself, this guy does not realise how much he is hated.... after he had already talked so much about Manchester being the last place he wanted to live and that he would never come back....etc.

Well, Man City fans are not alone, I think..... Manchester United fans were quick to forgive Rooney after he said he wanted to leave in order to win a new and much improved contract.

Is winning football matches everything for some football fans?

I understand why Man City FC are doing this, given Tevez another chance but I cannot understand the fans.

In a nutshell....yes

 

[cd365]

First is first, second is nowhere

 

[Risex4]

The core ethics of the game at the top end are so warped and flipped, fragile; fickle...

Its no wonder that it translates across to the supporters aswell.

Clubs will sell out in a heartbeat to achieve their targets - titles, CL qualification, avoid relegation what have you. The true question is; have the fans just followed their clubs on this moral path, or were they the ones that actually created it?

I've said it before and I'll say it again; I love football. I love the game. But if the "corporate game"; FIFA, the FA, the Premier League, the Football League and the clubs within them; if they all folded it in tomorrow and ceased to exist, I wouldn't actually care much.

No-one actualy cares for the game of football anymore, its all about points = prizes and what ethical, moral or financial sacrafices are we going to make to get there.

 

[Crackedheadset]

Yes it is. And think it or not, I reckon City would of had the PL all but won by now if the whole Tevez saga had never come about.

 

[rollinstok]

If he scores the winner against Utd in a few games time he'll be a hero again with the City fans

 

[rich p]

Of course fans are fickle. It's all about myopic, if not blind loyalty to the team and the result. It matters more if one is partisan. A dodgy 1-0 win for England in the next World Cup final against a far superior, ball-juggling Spain will do just fine, thanks.

When I played footie I nearly came to blows with a thug on the opposition but fortunately his mates stopped him beating me to a pulp. Two weeks later our manager signed him and I grew to appreciate his destructive qualities when they were utilised in the furtherance of my own team. It may not be honourable but it's human nature.

 

[PaulB]

If a player wins a penalty unfairly, the opinion of the watching person will depend entirely on the shirt worn by the ......scamp. He'll either be the worst, lowest form of human life on the planet, the dirty cheating vermin or an absolute hero who's been dragged down in the box by that yard-dog centre-half. Michael Owen brought down in the area wearing an England shirt against Argentina in the World Cup, an absolute hero who did everything he could to stay on his feet and was assaulted by the dago defender. Six weeks later, he was a dirty cheating dog who should be banned from football for the rest of his life for doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING!

 

[MarkF]

Is winning football matches everything for some football fans?

I understand why Man City FC are doing this, given Tevez another chance but I cannot understand the fans.

I still play (at 50), am a season ticket holder and coach an under14's junior team, I love football. Winning? I couldn't give a monkey's fart, I want to be entertained and if that means taking a 2-3 end to end loss over a drab 1-0 win, I'll grab it.

All Man City players are there for the cash ONLY, all PL players go wherever the highest wages are dangled, there is no loylaty, he'll score a goal and be a hero again, just like that! It's all very funny.