Clarets Suffer Another City Slaughter

[Footymad]

It's fast becoming a twice a season ritual slaughter by Manchester City for the Clarets, we could do without being drawn in the cup competitions too. - External Link

[1959_60]

But would you change places with the City fans Dave?

It is all so false. They can buy success without putting too much effort in.

I tell you what, I bet I am prouder of Burnley finishing 7th by dint of bloody hard work, fantastic club management, and producing a "We are all in this together" attitude right through the club than the pampered prawn butty supporters of City who actually expect their team to win the league because they are able to spend £1 billion on the team, and pay them all ridiculous wages. That club has totally sold it's soul.

I for one, do not envy them one jot. And it is just wrong that this is how football has been allowed to evolve.

Football is supposed to be a SPORT. And that means there should be a level playing field. Or, at least, it shouldn't be tilted at 45 degrees against teams like ours as it is now.

I am beginning to agree with those who would welcome our big time Charlies just bugger off and form an elite European League.

Not sour grapes at all. I remember going to Maine Road in the 60's and having to endure a 7-0 mauling. City were fantastic that day, especially the mercurial Colin Bell. I left the ground feeling very low but I was in total admiration for the way City played.

These days I just feel that we simply can't compete against these teams - but their success has simply been bought.

[Norder]

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One of my favourite comedy films is Trading Places. There is a scene in the movie in which a down-at-heel Dan Aykroyd gazes with wistful yearning through the windows of an exclusive restaurant in which Eddie Murphy was wining and dining his wealthy clients in an atmosphere of grandeur and elitism.

For a Burnley supporter, that is what a visit to Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium feels like; a fleeting encounter with a life that is, and always will be quite beyond the means and out of the reach of their club.

http://www.footymad.com/burnley/news...20/index.shtml



could be worse - as unlike a Premier League team - with players earning tens of thousands a week and flash cars and fancy pads...Imagine how a non league team of part timers would feel on free pies and beer money.

[1959_60]

Depends on the kind of pies and the make of beer Norder

[Supersub6]

Depends on the kind of pies and the make of beer Norder

I didn't worry about what type of pies, it was just great to be playing and getting a little bit of something in return and that was thirty five years ago!! Any beer was OK too!!

[Norder]

Depends on the kind of pies and the make of beer Norder

a Shrimp Pie with a slurp of Pigs Ear.....perhaps.