[Michael Walker] On Man City: Shaped in the image of its Abu Dhabi owners, it has crushed the opposition. 6th EPL trophy in 7 seasons. The owners love that because autocratic states specialise in monopolies – of power, of thought. The trouble is sport doesn’t love it. Sport thrives on competition.

by TheBiasedSportsLover

28 comments

  1. I’m sure City fans will respond to this reasonably and in a mature fashion categorised by thoughtful analysis and moral rectitude

  2. Crushing the opposition is all that matters in their eyes. How they do it is irrelevant

    Rules for thee, but not for me

    Hollow.

  4. Opposition fans: We don’t care about MAn City and their success

    Also opposition fans: Cries about Man City’s success every day.

    Whatv you special little people don’t realize is that it’s not necessarily the money that’s causing the domination. Man City are not crazily outspending their rivals in the league. It’s simply that they hired the greatest manager to ever live. If Pep Guardiola was Chelsea’s manager. They would dominate this same way. Premier League used to be the Sir Alex Ferguson league too for 20 years.

  6. Thank god Leverkusen was able to break Bayerns autocratic hold on power, of thought and free the BL from their rule…. does this mesn Tuchel was a guerilla freedom fighter?

    Like, at some point its just getting silly lol

  7. City’s owners enjoy their club winning because they’re autocrats? What kind of logic is that?

  8. Ireland only has two teams let’s be honest. Both are rubbish

  9. Also, no one bar the small number of city fans that there are could care less about their cheating club. Respect is earned. Showing off when no one cares is about as pointless as having a bike with no wheels.

  10. City’s attitude towards other fans being fed up with their success sums it all really. “What’s another 3 charges?” “Cry more”
    It’s that attitude that harms the premier league. Every pundit and fan knows something is not right about it all and it’s an elephant in the room that got addressed but is being put off by appeals.
    As a Liverpool fan dare I say I’d rather see United compete at the top level against us and Arsenal, because it would mean more than a proxy club to line pockets, a product, not a culture.

  11. Sport actually does love a dynasty. The issue is not the dominance, it’s the rule breaking that has led to it.

  12. Wild take but I think any owners would love their team to win

  14. I mean, they’ve won the league all those times, but it’s been pretty close for quite a few of them.

    If they have bought the league, it’s only by a little bit for all the money they’ve spent. That’s not crushing the league, it’s overspending and getting lucky.

  15. Did Abu Dhabi stop Man Utd and Chelsea from hiring competent folks over the last decade?

  18. But it was fine when united kept winning every 3 years then lost once then again won 3 years for like 2 decades.

  19. I’d say Liverpool and Arsenal have been quite competitive. But Pep’s genius pushed City over the line

  21. Are they any better or worse than the Club bought by the Head Chopper Offers across the Tyne?

  22. Who’s stopping teams from competing? It’s not as if when teams face Man City, they get bribed by our ‘autocratic’ owners.

    The team does it’s work on the pitch. And for the last 4 years none has dethroned City on the pitch.

    It’s tiresome that every time I’m gloating on every post.

  24. Bollocks! Football hates competition. Football is very capitalistic which means it hates competition and loves monopoly, so the 1% can get richer and richer and exploit the peasant 99%. That’s why the traditional establishment hates new money clubs like City. Especially the salty red cartel fans hate us. Because we broke their corrupt monopoly. They think only they have a divine right to have success. This is why City is the best thing to have happened to the Prem. We’re saving football and that’s a FACT.

  25. The Bitters have/had great players and a manager and would go down as one of the most dominant sides in the modern Prem. But those 115 charges, a third of them are down to non-cooperation with the investigation, leave a cloud over their successes.

    Everton and Forest cooperated, took their punishment and got on with it (forest did hire a professional moaner). Delaying the judgement until ‘25 feels criminal and if the punishment falls short of expectations, their will be an endless queue of owners ready with an phalanx of lawyers ready to take aim at the Prem as they should do.

  26. has the PL ever really had true parity? It seems like its just really era after era of dominance.

  27. No one moaned when United won 7 of the first 10 premier league titles since 1992. Teams have periods of success. This is city’s. They won’t win it forever. Someone will take their place

  28. Swiss owners love draws because it truly is the most neutral of outcomes

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