Tomorrow, Manchester City will win soccer's English Premier League.
It will be a joyous occasion wherever the blood runs Sky Blue as it does in these veins and in the veins of my 25-year old son and 18-year old daughter.
Part of me was surprised therefore to read, just recently, that manager Manuel Pellegrini chided, gently chided City fans for not being as vocally supportive in an earlier match at the Etihad Stadium against Sunderland.
City fans are nuts, they do the Poznan. They did the Poznan before City won the EPL in 2012. How could they not be nuts for every match this season? They are Englishmen, which is redundant with being nuts. Englishmen pursue happiness quite as much as Americans. Ah. Englishmen were the originators of the p.o.h. We are all Englishmen. All Americans wherever they are born are Englishmen if they pursue happiness. So why? Why not more? Why not more happiness? Pursuers always want more, they are never sated. Money, property, sex--happiness--we always want more.
I was surprised that City fans felt as I did. Apparently. This is my theory. Nothing can top this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_84PP23pDl4
I am sated. I was sated by that. Forever. I have been a Manchester City supporter for over a decade. Only more than a decade. Not for 75 years as the man at the end of that clip had been. Not my whole life. Not even close. Yet, I never felt frissons, low and high, as I did on May 13, 2012. No one has. That match was sui generis. If City had lost, out-Devon Loched Devon Loch, I don't know if the club could have stayed the same. Roberto Mancini would have been fired, Carlos Tevez and Mario Balotelli--who set up the winning goal--were gone anyway. I think the club would have had to start over. I don't doubt that City's supporters would have continued to pack the Etihad and do the Poznan for pursuit is the game, not happiness. They would have been more vocally supportive against Sunderland. That's what I think.
For at the moment Martin Tyler screamed AGUERROOOO!!! Manchester City fans caught happiness, pure and intense. Caught happiness. Very rare, that. There will be great joy on May 11, 2014, normal great joy. For this Sky Blue-blood, the pursuit of more happiness ended on May 13, 2012.
Blue Moon risen. That is why City fans didn't go nuts against Sunderland. That's my theory.
It will be a joyous occasion wherever the blood runs Sky Blue as it does in these veins and in the veins of my 25-year old son and 18-year old daughter.
Part of me was surprised therefore to read, just recently, that manager Manuel Pellegrini chided, gently chided City fans for not being as vocally supportive in an earlier match at the Etihad Stadium against Sunderland.
City fans are nuts, they do the Poznan. They did the Poznan before City won the EPL in 2012. How could they not be nuts for every match this season? They are Englishmen, which is redundant with being nuts. Englishmen pursue happiness quite as much as Americans. Ah. Englishmen were the originators of the p.o.h. We are all Englishmen. All Americans wherever they are born are Englishmen if they pursue happiness. So why? Why not more? Why not more happiness? Pursuers always want more, they are never sated. Money, property, sex--happiness--we always want more.
I was surprised that City fans felt as I did. Apparently. This is my theory. Nothing can top this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_84PP23pDl4
I am sated. I was sated by that. Forever. I have been a Manchester City supporter for over a decade. Only more than a decade. Not for 75 years as the man at the end of that clip had been. Not my whole life. Not even close. Yet, I never felt frissons, low and high, as I did on May 13, 2012. No one has. That match was sui generis. If City had lost, out-Devon Loched Devon Loch, I don't know if the club could have stayed the same. Roberto Mancini would have been fired, Carlos Tevez and Mario Balotelli--who set up the winning goal--were gone anyway. I think the club would have had to start over. I don't doubt that City's supporters would have continued to pack the Etihad and do the Poznan for pursuit is the game, not happiness. They would have been more vocally supportive against Sunderland. That's what I think.
For at the moment Martin Tyler screamed AGUERROOOO!!! Manchester City fans caught happiness, pure and intense. Caught happiness. Very rare, that. There will be great joy on May 11, 2014, normal great joy. For this Sky Blue-blood, the pursuit of more happiness ended on May 13, 2012.
Blue Moon risen. That is why City fans didn't go nuts against Sunderland. That's my theory.
