jamie goode's wine blog: NWR: City fans are the best

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

NWR: City fans are the best

[Not wine related]

Haven't had any Man City talk for a while on the blog (this is the football team I support for those a little puzzled...http://www.mcfc.co.uk/). As regular readers will know, I was, along with just about every other City fan, perplexed and distressed by the way the chairman - the ex-Thai priminister - dispensed with the services of Sven at the end of last season, even though he'd got City playing good football and transformed the club from relegation battlers into contenders for Europe.

Anyway, after this ill-judged, heavy handed decision, he sort of redeemed himself by making a sensible choice for the next manager - Mark Hughes. While some uncertainty surrounds the future of the chairman, who has had to return to Thailiand to face trial for corruption, the City faithful can look forward to the new season with a degree of optimism.

The season begins early, because City have managed to get into the UEFA cup by the backdoor route of the fairplay league. Basically, the country with the most sporting behaviour gets a place, which is given to the team that fouled the least that didn't already qualify for Europe, and that's City. The only drawback is you have to start right at the beginning of the competition, and City will be playing their first game against a team from the Faroe Islands.

It's difficult to get there, so one enterprising City fan has chartered chartered a trawler. Sounds hilarious, although not for land lubbers who suffer from motion sickness.

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3 Comments:

At 8:28 PM, Blogger Jamie said...

Just heard the great news that City won't be signing Ronaldinho. That would have been disastrous. Phew.

 
At 11:19 PM, Blogger Will said...

Sounds like we got another Wine/Sports fan on the net *caugh* Gary Veynerchuk *caugh* ;)

 
At 3:17 PM, Blogger Barry said...

Jamie..I'm with you about Ronaldinho...he have sat crying in the Manchester rain...not what we want...a double PHEW!!!
PS..my guess is..Hughes is happy as well

 

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