Saying the Champions League as a whole is meaningless has nothing to do with City's ownership, nor does saying Manchester City as a whole club are. I understand the moral stance and especially the need for more equitable competition (in the winter window, the PL collectively spent 830 million...
Football is inherently meaningless, we collectively give it metaphoric meaning. If you think the most prestigious European competition is meaningless, maybe you've lost interest in club football altogether.
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Neapolitans are an extreme case though, they exaggerate in the other direction. Still remember the full night of fireworks and partying they had just before bottling their last league games and gifting us the title some years ago. Let them celebrate as much as they feel like it, there's no rules...
Uh, my grandma is from that province (from a small town in the Val Tidone to be precise), so I've heard a bit of Piacentino dialect in my life. I can't speak it though, outside one or two words/phrases (e.g. "cus ghé?"="what's this/what's happening?" and "bagài"="kid".) And of course the rhyming...
Oh I see. Yeah it's quite stupid of them to think of themselves as a fairytale story - or rather, it's obviously a fairytale for them, but it's obvious that it won't be considered the same by other fans. I've no idea why they would look for love from other fans - PSG fans certainly don't look...
That's just down to the different structure of organized fans chanting in the UK vs continental Europe (e.g. Italy.) You have possibly a better, more stable middle level given by the totality of normal fans chanting organically, but won't reach the potential granted by better organization and...
Yes, I agree. I was talking about the match, not about the whole season or the team in general.
As for me, yes I explained it a bit when I first posted on here but I sometimes keep tabs about Italians in the PL, and De Zerbi was getting a lot of good press here in Italy about his Brighton...
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Napoli and Lazio are the teams above them, I don't know what you're talking about.
During the whole season? Yes. In this match? Not really, it was more of a game of margins.
Not sour grapes at all, they're quite sweet; I made my intentions clear before the match and I'm thoroughly enjoying...
The best part of City so far is their defence, even though they've made mistakes and are lucky that Inter are not all that going forward. Still, not that impressive so far from the PL champions. Inter have miraculously managed to scrape 3rd place in the Serie A after the teams below them have...