Our fans are sooooooooooo gay

[The Rob2]

looking down the board is ridiculous, 3 posts in a row:

1) those nasty men who had a go at Nasri should be locked up :rolleyes: they should have battered him you mean

followed by posts about being cold and will I die from the flu jab?

:glazer:

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

For leaving the club?

[East Upper for Supper]

Whatever next. Judging by the hollier than though reaction from the normal ****ers on here I thought Nasri had been stabbed to near death before being gang raped and left tied up outside turnstile A to bleed to death,

[Monty91]

contempt for us and therefore erode any residual sense of loyalty or duty to us.

[East Upper for Supper]

[Monty91]

is justified because of the pantomime-esque environment.

Can you imagine being the type of human who would actually shout abuse at someone outside of that environment for changing employers?

[Monty91]

"Look at those pathetic ****s who earn less in a year than I do in a week abusing me for trying to better myself. Why on earth would I ever feel any sense of loyalty to them?"

[East Upper for Supper]

within pissing distance of the stadium on a busy match day ffs.

[Maravilloso Marvo]

something quite well?

[Monty91]

suffer the verbal abuse safe in the knowledge that they are under no physical threat. Outside a stadium, surrounded by thousands of people who hate you and with little protection, that is not the case. Of course, you could say he's silly for walking amongst fans in the first place, but that's what they say about girls in mini-skirts getting raped too, isn't it.

[East Upper for Supper]

would drop their present employees to move to a rival if the pay or benefits or potential for promotion was attractive enough.
This is football and your're talking a completly different ands unique mindset when it comes to values from a fans perspective.

[Peter]

As a club.

It has a spurs-like feel to it

[The Rob2]

[Peter]

[Classic Jorge]

Nasri, hardly plays. Robin, nowhere near captain. Cesc, semi-bench player.

[Monty91]

from tens of thousands of people as footballers do (until they lose form, obviously) without feeling *something* positive towards them in return.

[East Upper for Supper]

Eboue coming back for instance could walk around the ground with not a worry. The circumstances dictate and the ill feeling and anger in the way nasri left meant the man was a tad stupid to walk to the ground and expect not one bit of verbal abuse. of cource should it have turned vioulent then we're talking along your lines. I think he got of lightly. Could you imagine Sol walking around WHL on a match day? No me neither because he wouldn't be so stupid enough to do it. Doesn't make what happened to Nasri right but it makes it realistic.

[Monty91]

title winners, Cesc a regular starter in the world's greatest ever side.

[Peter]

Precisely how it has worked for decades :-)

[Classic Jorge]

smaller cogs in larger machines.

Will any of them ever captain the sides they now play for?

[East Upper for Supper]

Something to show for when you no longer play.

[Peter]

The argument is that theywent from focal point to rank and file. Apart from van persie who simply lost the captaincy.

[East Upper for Supper]

[East Upper for Supper]

but won diddly squat as opposed to being part of a very successful squad which won several trophies.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

But you may find that the Nasri who hardly plays probably played as often for City last season as he did in most of his previous seasons as a professional.

Maybe a small bit less but then he's part of a big squad.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Monty91]

Surely as an employee, you'd rather work for a thriving successful company (for better money) as a mere cog in the wheel, with the chance to win tangible rewards (trophies) rather than be the flagship member of one that's simply plodding along?

[Peter]

Which it is.

Still reasonably valid in my opinion.

[East Upper for Supper]

[Peter]

Of itself i agree it means very little.

On the other point, again for some people the second option might be more attractive. But in football itis more than that. It is the glory, the trophies, playing in the biggest competitions etc...

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

He is their main player, he was our main player.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

at him, given half a chance?

[The Rob2]

[East Upper for Supper]

in a team where the company is treading water to a progressive company and job which pays 50% - 75% more and where there is a very good chance you can get big bonuses (medal analogy)and one day if you perform to your previous highs a promotion as well.

[Peter]

Now you are going with 'many'

Iamnot saying you are wrong but there are essential differences with football and itis a fact that not every player runs out the door at the first oportunity.

The otherdifference is tht mostof us would move formoney because we need to. Footballers simply dont need more money and there are still some for whom 100 grand a week is a decent enough wage.

[Classic Jorge]

And obviously there's Wazza.

Our alternative was a misfiring Moroccan bisexual with a chronic hookah problem

[East Upper for Supper]

However there may be the like of Gerrard who are an exception. but then again he has not won the PL.

[Classic Jorge]

In many ways the chance to be integral in building something is more appealing to me than just maintaining a level of success you've had no part in creating in the first place.

Call me an idealist

[Ashberto]

crushing skulls, raping women and destroying worlds? Or are you still the small boy with long blond hair photographed getting all excited smashing a seat at WHL?

Just curious.

[Monty91]

[Classic Jorge]

[The Rob2]

I believe that was HBIN smashing seats up....RIP

[Ashberto]

I would stay somewhere agreeable to do the job I came to do, and build the thing I came to build, than to do a runner at the first chance of more money.

[Monty91]

biggest career move at the optimum time.