Blue Since 76 wrote:Think it may be a Guardian thing - David Conn today: "The community facilities for which Manchester is genuinely grateful have been built on 5.5 acres of City’s 80-acre academy, at a cost of £20m – a tenth of the £200m total cost and just over half the £38m that City paid for one player, Sergio Agüero, in 2011."
Serious question - is it that the owners are Arab? Would we get the same if they were Russian Oligarchs, American, Jewish or all three? I'm beginning to think not - if the Glazers gave £20m to the local community (Kent?) would anyone complain that it wasn't enough or would they be knighted?
That is fucking horrendous from Conn. He's been on record saying that we've lost our roots with the local community and when City address this in an almighty way he then tries to denigrate what fabulous work they are doing to bring something back to East Manchester and the areas around. Does he mention the local workers who were afforded the ability to buy their families Christmas presents, or those that were used for local products to fit and equip the new facilities?
Pompous fucking arse, gets on my fucking tits thinking he's holier than thou just because he once had a piss under he tin-lined roof behind the Kippax.
That's what I liked about the CFA opening, these cunts weren't called in for the story and their freebies were curtailed.
Vermin.