Ian Wright.

[carl_feedthegoat]

I found this and thought it was spot on - this is in response to Wright going on and on and on about City.
By the way - Ian Wright is Banned from COMS and no City player is allowed to go on his shitty talk football show.


OK, we get it, you are not particularly fond of Manchester City, but as it would seem, they are not particularly fond of you either, because you are now banned from the stadium, and, on top of that, no one associated with the club is allowed to talk to you on your radio show. However, you can't help yourself can you? Because on Tuesday morning, reports surfaced that you, once again, had something to say about Manchester City.

“But what we saw on Saturday was an embarrassment to the manager and ultimately for the whole club.”

Is this so, Mr Wright? A substitution in the 90th minute is an embarrassment? I would actually have thought that at every chance you get to slate the club, you do, would be the bigger embarrassment.

But how did this all start? Well, we need to go all the all the way back to 2005, when your son, Shaun Wright-Phillips, left for Chelsea. Now go don't get me wrong, as much as I hated to see him leave, the club simply could not turn down that much money for one of their players, and I knew it. However, his father, you, were very instrumental in this move, and I suppose one could accept that you were only thinking of what was best for him - I guess any father would be the same.

In 2008, he returned, and the fans rejoiced. I can't remember what you thought of it all after pushing him for the move in the first place, but that is all by-the-by.

Something else happened in 2008. Remember that? ADUG arrived, and turned the sleeping, three-decade long unsuccessful giant, into a true force to be reckoned with. But that's where your real problems began, wasn't it?

Players, the likes of which the fans had only ever dreamed of, began to arrive, and the 'old guard' who were deemed not good enough were pushed aside. Your son, however, wasn't one of them, instead he was simply told to up his game and be part of history in the making.

Trouble is, he didn't quite manage it - as he good as he was (is) - and then all of a sudden, he started demanding a pay-rise, and, naturally, you joined in. Not clever. Not at all.

This was a matter for your son, his agent, and the club, but you took it upon yourself to add your voice to it all via the airwaves and the printed media. This caused extreme tension in the club, and the fans were obviously not happy about this.

But now, it seems, that at every opportunity you come across, you have those sly little digs about the club, the players, the manager, or whoever will fit your 'embarrassing' agenda. As I said at the beginning, Mr Wright, we get it, you don't like Manchester City - there are plenty of things I don't like, but I don't go on about them incessantly.

So what is your agenda? Annoy the club so much that your son has to leave? Make life as difficult for him as possible? Does Shaun not have a voice of his own? Can he not say what he thinks? This is nothing but playground antics, which I would expect from kindergarten kids, not from someone who was a true great in football.

By all means, Mr Wright, support your son, but know your boundaries. You may say that as part of today's football media, you have an obligation to speak up about certain things, but you also have an obligation towards your son, too. And if it is true that your main aim is to cause instability and remove your son from this most evil and heinous of clubs, then man-up and say so.

Yours sincerly
A Manchester City fan.

[9secondlegend]

the other thread is much better

[Beefymcfc]

I think I've had too much to drink, my post has disappeared!