To preface, I'm not wholly satisfied with the catharsis I've employed since Saturday. Seems my
best efforts to cleanse the memories of what transpired have failed and I'm extremely fucking
bitter. I'm usually glass-half-full, but I'd be lying if I said there was anything worth drinking
at the moment.
Anyone who was at Old Trafford on Sunday to see Manchester City annihilate their neighbours or
who watched the highlights on MOTD2 would have seen the same thing. United fans streaming out of a
ground a full 20 minutes before the end. Yes, their outplayed team were 3-0 down but so what? By
the time the sixth goal had been hammered in by Edin Dzeko, most of the stadium was about a quarter
full.
Written by GunnerN5
Part 1.
Home Crowd – When, oh when, will they learn just how important it is for our
players to have their supporters fully behind them? Our home crowd seem to be stuck in the
thinking that the team needs to entertain them in order for them to show their real support,
whereas I believe that if they gave unabashed support throughout the game then maybe the team would
react positively instead of reacting negatively to the silence followed by moans and groans and
boos.
There is plenty to say about sports in New England. Intimacy isn't necessarily what first comes
to mind. Not as much as, say, titles, playoffs, trophies, and the like. With six states sharing one
professional sports team for each of the top-tier sports, it can be a challenge to stand by your
team through the entirety of its season.
Roma have long been a club to polarise opinions, seldom does one encounter a fair-weather
Giallorosso fan or indeed an ambivalent foe – you're either fervently for or against. Then,
within Roma's very own fan base there exists that very same dynamic deeply passionate tifosi who
bicker amongst themselves, often furiously, in a bid to impose a personal vision of all things i
lupi.