Originally Posted by
Danbert Nocurry
Daz, I know what you mean, this isn't the City we know and love anymore, but if all his money was going to happen to anybody, i'm glad it happened to us. To be absolutely honest I stopped feeling, in the late 1980s, that supporting City was about wanting to win things. I enjoyed watching Paul Lake, Andy Hinchcliffe and our kids at Maine Road, and came to feel it was just about belonging, a connection with yourself and your roots and trying to have a laugh in the face of adversity. Lets be honest we had become the club where there was no grand epic, no plane crash, no colonising of the prizes and rewards of the Premier League, we just endured whatever life threw at us. We didn't have songs about glory, glory, or marching on, on, on but about standing alone, without a dream in our hearts, about things so awful we had to joke about not really being there, about being steadfast and loyal, for its own sake - till we died. All of which is me trying to provide an explanation for why the takeover by Sheik Mansour feels out of character for all of us....but hang in there matey we've kept the faith for so long now, remember 'We are City, Super City, we are City from Maine Road.
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