Luton Town Fans
@LutonTownFans
Have you ever seen a worse atmosphere when a team is 5-1 up than at Man City right now!?!
Modern football really is utterly soulless.
7:10 AM - 19 Aug 2018
This is the second person to tweet something similar during this match and my sense is there is something to this and it is disturbing. I do not know if it is a City issue or as this guy says a "modern football" issue.
Last season's title was so anticlimactic, City was so far out in front for so long. My son, a veteran of the 2012 frisson remarked on it and I saw something that City's parade was less well attended than Wigan's for something Wigan did I have no fucking idea what.
If it is a City problem it could be because there is a "soul" problem. Manchester City is a machine, I wrote that admiringly last season borrowing from the great racehorse Secretariat...Had to pause to update the score and final...and of course a machine is soulless.
Is there also a related issue? That as soulless machine there is no stopping Manchester City. We can buy whomever we wish, money is utterly no object. The club is the anchor of a global football machine, City Football Group, with several clubs all over the world. CFG gobbles up clubs and Manchester City gobbles up players. The joke about Pep Guardiola's genius is that he will produce the greatest football club the world has ever seen if you give him the two best players at every position. The allure of sport for the follower who is not a fanatic is the competition, the doubt, the "On any given Sunday" and with an unstoppable machine there is no doubt. Perhaps that infects fandom as well. Take this match. Utterly predictable, devoid of drama, a complete mis-match. Yes, it has infected me as well. I am writing of the dreary fixture list and suggesting that the bigger clubs break away to form a super league.
Jose Mourinho complained last year of the atmosphere at Old Trafford. Arsenal fans stayed away last year. But before the first utterance of "WENGER OUT!" their stadium was known as the "Highbury Library."
Ticket prices? I bet.
I think it is a modern football problem, at least in England, but I think there is also a Manchester City strain.
@LutonTownFans
Have you ever seen a worse atmosphere when a team is 5-1 up than at Man City right now!?!
Modern football really is utterly soulless.
7:10 AM - 19 Aug 2018
This is the second person to tweet something similar during this match and my sense is there is something to this and it is disturbing. I do not know if it is a City issue or as this guy says a "modern football" issue.
Last season's title was so anticlimactic, City was so far out in front for so long. My son, a veteran of the 2012 frisson remarked on it and I saw something that City's parade was less well attended than Wigan's for something Wigan did I have no fucking idea what.
If it is a City problem it could be because there is a "soul" problem. Manchester City is a machine, I wrote that admiringly last season borrowing from the great racehorse Secretariat...Had to pause to update the score and final...and of course a machine is soulless.
Is there also a related issue? That as soulless machine there is no stopping Manchester City. We can buy whomever we wish, money is utterly no object. The club is the anchor of a global football machine, City Football Group, with several clubs all over the world. CFG gobbles up clubs and Manchester City gobbles up players. The joke about Pep Guardiola's genius is that he will produce the greatest football club the world has ever seen if you give him the two best players at every position. The allure of sport for the follower who is not a fanatic is the competition, the doubt, the "On any given Sunday" and with an unstoppable machine there is no doubt. Perhaps that infects fandom as well. Take this match. Utterly predictable, devoid of drama, a complete mis-match. Yes, it has infected me as well. I am writing of the dreary fixture list and suggesting that the bigger clubs break away to form a super league.
Jose Mourinho complained last year of the atmosphere at Old Trafford. Arsenal fans stayed away last year. But before the first utterance of "WENGER OUT!" their stadium was known as the "Highbury Library."
Ticket prices? I bet.
I think it is a modern football problem, at least in England, but I think there is also a Manchester City strain.
