The ‘Red Cartel’ telling Manchester City fans to boycott their club over the FFP charges and ‘sham legal battles’ is a stunning show of hypocrisy after the European Super League.I am a City fan. They are my club that I grew up with in the 80s and if you relate to growing up in an urban working class world where football is such a big part of your upbringing and your identity you would understand how hard it is to turn your back on your team. Look at it this way.
To fans of the big 6, our clubs commited the marital equivalent of texting us a video of themselves in bed with the other five, seeing our faces, saying that they’re surprised we are this upset, saying “I’m sorry you feel this way, we pinky swear never to do it again.” whilst not so subtly winking at each other. No sniggering at the back!
A study in the Journal of Sports Science found significantly better performance of red teams over a 55 year period with nearly all that performance increase coming in home games when they were wearing red. Its not just football either, the effect is even greater in combat sports. Athletes, it turns out, can experience profound psychological differences based on the colour of their sportwear and that of their opponent. Red is associated with aggression, dominance, and danger.
I thought his first email was quite good. I would agree that action across club fan bases would be great to see to drive out the excess of the game. But really the problem did not exist until Abramovic started the sportswashing projects which Man City and Newcastle have also joined up to. However, you’re very much blinkered – which I understand completely – to say Manchester City are just a symptom. To use your analogy more accurately a I would describe FFP as a first attempt of a vaccine taken willingly by all clubs but Manchester City are very much the super virus that only have one thing on their mind and that’s their own self preservation. You can see that right?