Poor show Citeh

[GOBIAS]

Surely part of the magic of football is that a kid can grab such a thing and make some money from it years down the line? It's kinda like Citeh giving back to the community without even trying :dunno:

Alas, it shows to what depths some aspects of the game has sunk. If the ball was worth that much to Citeh they should have given the kid 1% of 1 players wage for it.

f***ing lowlife c*nts.

This is exactly the point I was trying to get across Fudge. I remember the kid (think he might have been a sheep fan) who got the ball Chris Waddle booted into oblivion in the 1990 world cup semi. It's a bit of a fun story and good on him. I remember in 1995 getting on the pitch after we played Man City and grabbing a clump of the turf and sticking it in my scrap book. People who are talking of things like this as theft and a criminal offence really show how society and especially football has gone. Nil fun allowed, nil youthful exuberence and it just shows how football has gone when a team can spend £1bn on a team and wages but get a minor arrested and threatened with pressing charges, issuing banning orders etc.. unless they get their ball back. Pathetic. If they really wanted it back that much I'm sure they could have dealt with it in a different manner especially given the lads age.

 

[Army]

This is exactly the point I was trying to get across Fudge. I remember the kid (think he might have been a sheep fan) who got the ball Chris Waddle booted into oblivion in the 1990 world cup semi. It's a bit of a fun story and good on him. I remember in 1995 getting on the pitch after we played Man City and grabbing a clump of the turf and sticking it in my scrap book. People who are talking of things like this as theft and a criminal offence really show how society and especially football has gone. Nil fun allowed, nil youthful exuberence and it just shows how football has gone when a team can spend £1bn on a team and wages but get a minor arrested and threatened with pressing charges, issuing banning orders etc.. unless they get their ball back. Pathetic. If they really wanted it back that much I'm sure they could have dealt with it in a different manner especially given the lads age.

To be fair to city, i think they probably said the ball has been stolen can we get it sorted via ringing the police without knowing it was a 17 yr old lad, and obv when all was sorted they didnt press charges. I know its bad, and im all for fan and youth exuberance, but id guess some player or someone at the club wanted the ball as a momentum and they couldnt find it so persisted with police involvement.

 

[Alf-engelos Mindminackers]

This is exactly the point I was trying to get across Fudge. I remember the kid (think he might have been a sheep fan) who got the ball Chris Waddle booted into oblivion in the 1990 world cup semi. It's a bit of a fun story and good on him. I remember in 1995 getting on the pitch after we played Man City and grabbing a clump of the turf and sticking it in my scrap book. People who are talking of things like this as theft and a criminal offence really show how society and especially football has gone. Nil fun allowed, nil youthful exuberence and it just shows how football has gone when a team can spend £1bn on a team and wages but get a minor arrested and threatened with pressing charges, issuing banning orders etc.. unless they get their ball back. Pathetic. If they really wanted it back that much I'm sure they could have dealt with it in a different manner especially given the lads age.

:yes:

The fact that they even gave a shit where the ball had gone in the first place shows how tightly wound and sour they are. Let someone have their moment for a change Citeh you shits.

To be fair to city, i think they probably said the ball has been stolen can we get it sorted via ringing the police without knowing it was a 17 yr old lad, and obv when all was sorted they didnt press charges. I know its bad, and im all for fan and youth exuberance, but id guess some player or someone at the club wanted the ball as a momentum and they couldnt find it so persisted with police involvement.

The very fact they even noticed it was gone just shows how sad they are though, and the getting the cops involved is just laughable.

Like I've said, they're everything that is wrong about football.

 

[Alvar Hanso]

It's better off being on display at the Ethihad or being auctioned for charity than sitting on some scally's mantelpiece.

Do we know what happened to the balls from the 79 and 80 European cup finals?

 

[Alf-engelos Mindminackers]

It's better off being on display at the Ethihad or being auctioned for charity than sitting on some scally's mantelpiece.

Do we know what happened to the balls from the 79 and 80 European cup finals?

You think? Lord knows how many charities are just business rackets and City should be displaying trophies, not apparatus IMO.

It's totally against what's magic about football IMO, but it is only my opinion.

 

[Hurricane Fly]

It's totally against what's magic about football IMO, but it is only my opinion.

It's mine too. The whole episode is the kind of public relations clusterfuck I'd have associated with Garry Cook's tenure at the club. I'd always considered City to be the 'people's club' to United's borgeois prawn sandwich eaters, although that sentimental twaddle appears to has gone by the wayside in the name of 'progress'.

 

[Alf-engelos Mindminackers]

It's mine too. The whole episode is the kind of public relations clusterfuck I'd have associated with Garry Cook's tenure at the club. I'd always considered City to be the 'people's club' to United's borgeois prawn sandwich eaters, although that sentimental twaddle appears to has gone by the wayside in the name of 'progress'.

Bang on. I even know people who support City just because they were into Oasis in their teens and they supported them - a connection with the people (whether it's a genuine one or well-sold one - or both - is up for debate, but it was a connection none-the-less)

It's a far cry from that now.

 

[goatboy]

(plus his support of the club probably started when the new owners came in anyway

Where were City 17 years ago? If he's from Manchester that's how long he'll have been a fan.

I'd have let him keep the ball and used another one in the museum. It's a cheeky kid with a ball, not some larcenous villain.

 

[goatboy]

Do we know what happened to the balls from the 79 and 80 European cup finals?

I'd hope sme kid robbed them. We've got trophies, the players have medals, we've two stars on the shirt. That's all we need.