Alas!!! Manchester City won the prestigious English Premier
League, pretty much to the dislike of teams like Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool
(they don’t seem to really care now) and especially Manchester United. To many
of the die-hard devotees of MANU, this may be the end of the world. They would
have been ready to paint the town red, when Sergio Aguero’s impossible goal in
94’ shattered the hopes and forced the cheerful RED part of Manchester to
mourn. A person active on the fan pages
of MANU would be feeling like an idiot that just realized that he has now been
blabbering for a whole year and now expecting some respect.
Now the thing that’s
concerning is that, with title in City’s hands,
all the things; the hustles the crazy fans make, cheering in the stands, the hooting, some
dying from forwarding the ‘Mexican waves’…the question worth asking is…..does
it really mean anything now. BPL in City’s hands, a team without history, but
certainly powerful enough to buy the best footballers, it makes one wonder
where is the passion that drove the fans crazy? One might raise his voice
against this opinion, since undoubtedly City earned the trophy, they worked
hard for it, but it’s not the wins or losses that in the talks in here, but the
thrill and pride that the game brings it in itself. Fans make the game and City
doesn’t look like they need a fan- base to gain their accomplishments.
Now
with City’s only trophy in their trophy shelf, they will have their heads high,
but the truth is that the players know that they were like a mini World XI,
assembled in a short time that managed a stopping time grab on the title out of
the blue. Many City fans 0will sure find it contentious to swallow but
something is surely missing in the triumph. Plus, now being only the 6th
different winner of the EPL, it puts on an added pressure of the expectation of
consistent performance. And that according to the pundits may not be as easy as
it sounds. The way is too tough for them and being new to ‘the business of
defending’, they are like a boy dressed like Santa with a million dollar in the
hood, with every hoody bullying him for his share. Defending the title will
certainly pave them in hell’s path.
Well
anyways good luck to them and congratulations for the gain. Well, everyone
loves competition and a team like United will like to take positives from the
season (that’s pretty much they can do now) and hope they get their 20th
title soon.
