Driven away from football by Man City’s cheating

The Mailbox suggests Man City’s alleged cheating will be forgotten since there’s no asterisk on Barca or Milan’s success. But one correspondent decided enough was enough last year.

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Giving up because of City
Last year before the final game of the PL season I decided I was done with football.

I had just seen my team Liverpool come within two games of winning everything, and yet I knew that they probably wouldn’t because one team was cheating.

I knew that at any stage of football the management and recruitment of Liverpool would have yielded four titles in five years, but this time it didn’t because one team was cheating.

I haven’t watched one game of Liverpool’s season, the only football I watched was England v France at the World Cup because a friend begged me.

Even the sight of England getting hyped up only to lose didn’t bring me any joy.

Can you imagine? An Irishman not even able to laugh at the English thinking it was coming home again?

But that’s what City have done, they’ve destroyed the English game and my three decade plus obsession with it.

Last night a friend text me to say that the title decider was on, Arsenal v City.

I had known Arsenal were doing well but didn’t know they were still in it (plus Lampard is back at Chelsea???)

It’s criminal that a club who has backed a manager for four years, to rebuild and redefine a club that hasn’t properly challenged in around twenty years won’t end up as champions.

Because one team is cheating.

Do yourselves a favour, do what I did and leave the EPL to die, it’s no longer a sport, it’s WWE.

Both are completely devoid of real competition, living off a brand name built in the past whose only real use is to TV broadcasters because live events sell.

And all you have to look forward to is City v Newcastle until the end of time from here on out.
Vinnie, Krakow, Poland

…Quick response to the City fans crowing in the mailbox – all of your success is built on foundations of human rights abuses, climate change denial and pro-fossil fuel lobbying. You are the epitome of all that is wrong with humanity – willingly blinding yourself to the fact (hat tip to Rafa) that you were the original sportswasher – indeed the original transaction from Shinawatra to sell to the black gold overlords was possibly (probably) the single biggest money laundering transaction in history.

But that wasn’t even enough, you have subsequently…