We have won 1 single piece of silverware a League cup since 2006. 13 seasons and only aleague Cup to show for it. So I'm just desperate for any silverware soon. Because we haven't won anything for so long we seem to be panicking. Our form has been awful since new year.
A few weeks ago we were ready to go 10 points clear now we're a point behind. 11point swing. I was sure even in injury time someone somehow would stick one in the onion bag for us. We need to go back to high press every match go for the win from first minute not play like we're afraid to lose ffs
We're in a bad moment but what use is wallowing in bad form and promoting angst at missed opportunties right at this very instance barney? It only adds to the probability of complete self destruction. Everyone can do their little bit by turning this bad day into a positive and attacking approach. Not all of us get the chance to go to the games to make that difference but in an online setting and when we're conversing with each other then we must do our very best to make us all realise that our roles as supporters and encouraging each other becomes even more important at this stage of the season.
Now I won't lie - after the game I was like yourself really pissed off. As pissed off as I've been the whole season. Annoyed at the sloppy second half performance, annoyed at certain players. But after all is said and done, I realise it is utterly futile and only adds to the likelihood of a failed outcome by the end of the season (and extremely bad health in the long run!). It's not our job to project back the failings on the pitch. The table has turned back in Man City's favour - so be it. We have to accept it and now more than any, is the time to stand up. In tough times you have two options - to lie down and continue feeling sorry for yourself or rise up and fight and rouse everyone around you. The electric feeling that creates amongst all of us is one of the most empowering things!
Of course, in the age of social media where tw*ts are spouting off on twitter about how Klopp did this wrong and that player doesn't look like he wants to give it his all, it's an impossible job to unite the whole fanbase. But f**k those people. The game is a holy trinity between the manager, players and supporters. If all three are down on the floor no one is there to pick the other or both up. But we can make that effort as supporters to be the ones standing. If those twitter misfits truly cared for the team right now then they'd shut their moaning pie holes - and concentrate and turn all that negative energy into something more positive by supporting the team rather than playing to a gallery of loutish misfits all in the name of feeling satisfied for themselves because a Gaz Dickhead (@Dickhead) liked your tweet about bottling the title.
We could choose to be like that (and f**king hell I've been that it enough times in the past) or we could try to be the better person and start showing our support. These players can't do it on their own. They may have the swankiest cars and the most lucrative filthy wages but at the end of the day they are still human and still prone to the pressures of everyday life and situations. They're not having a great time of it as recent results show so the emphasis really is on us as supporters to drag them back up. Sing the songs, charge the atmosphere, say positive things about players. Getting towards the crunch end, City are back ahead but that gives us all an awesome responsibility to turn it all around and start pointing our weapons outwards towards them rather than keeping it pointed at ourselves.
Remember - those City lot are evil bent bas**rds with a pathetic fanbase to show for it. What better way to contrast ourselves from that shower than now when the going has got tough. Unlike those tw*ts we won't vacate the building. Rise up and be counted. If it worked at half time in Istanbul when the cards were against us it can most certainly work when we're just a point behind City and still very much in the race. If it weren't for those heroes in the stands at the Ataturk singing YNWA at half time and totally outdoing the Milan faithful then I really don't believe we would have pulled off that recovery. We call it the miracle of Istanbul - but that does it a disservice because it plays up to the idea that it was some sort of supernatural higher power that delivered that result, completely uninfluenced by the actions of the supporters and the players. Wrong - it all started with the Redmen and women in the stands. It was as fine an example that our fortunes and how we fare in the future all stem from us the supporters. What better time to realise that than now?
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