Thread: Man City boycotting Thai tour

Shitman lives there and is a Man City supporter, and former Thaksin era employee at Man City.

Any comments?

I imagine his Thai style of hi-so persuasion doesn't win him many fans there.

Just days after Thaksin took over at city i got the following e-mail from a good friend who is city through and through, he lives in Thailand and so has a much better understanding of the square headed one than the average-joe manc.

It may be of an interest to some of you so here it is:


Before I could even see, my vision was tainted sky blue. Hours after I was born my Dad's mate registered me as a junior blue (Man city junior supporters club). One of my first images is of a poster on my wall as a young boy. I remember a black guy with an afro who stood out on the team photo (I think his name was Dave Bennett?). There are plenty of picture as me as a small boy, beaming in my sky blue kit, sponsored by Phillips, or was it saab?

Throughout all of those 26 years It's never been much fun to be a city fan. We're the team that gets relegated, that always manages to mess everything up, that employed such footbal luminaries as Alan Ball, Frank Clarke, Phil Neal, Alfons Gronendike, Laurent Charvet and Gerry Creaney. At school it was cool to support United, but for me that made it much cooler to support City. I went even when we were in the third division and getting beat by Lincoln and Barnet. In spite of all the shit I never wavered from my dedication to the cause. We were the family club, the real manchester club. We didn't care if we lost as long as we played with heart. While we were falling through the divisions our local rivals were cheating and moaning their way to countless trophies. Not once did I ever wish I was a United fan. They won trophies by employing players like Roy Keane, Paul Ince and Mark Hughes and having a whingeing manager with a stopwatch and a frown.

Today that has all changed.

I should be delighted. Twenty six years might be finally coming to an end. Twenty six years of no trophies, hardly any good players and public ridicule may be over as our night in shining armour has rolled into town. Thaksin Shinawat, former Prime Minister of Thailand has bought out the controlling stake in the club and promised to spend big on renovating the squad, most fans are delighted. After all of these years we may be able to compete with the big boys and win something, that should make me feel great. It doesn't. Quite the opposite in fact.

I lived under Thaksin's rule and saw first hand the kind of person he is and how he has made his money. I'm not sure what my favourite 'Thaksin moment' is, perhaps the death squads roaming the streets during his infamous 'war on drugs'? Perhaps it was when he gave government aid to the burmese military junta in order for them to buy satellitte acess from his personal company? The destruction of democracy? The mess of an airport that stands as monument to his corruption? Mass media manipluation? Or was it him using the country as his own personal piggy bank in oder to further the wealth of him and his family? There are so many examples of that final one it's untrue. Selling government land to his wife at a massively reduced price, subsidising his private television station with governmet money, buying a 50% stake in AirAsia in order to grant them a license to fly within the country. There are plenty more......

I can't support him. I can't watch Manchester City knowing that everything that I am seeing is funded by him. I won't pay for another piece of merchandise or a ticket until he's gone. I know it's a big statement but I just can't support what he stands for. If that means cutting off a part of my life which has been me since birth, then so be it. I can't imagine watching a game and seeing that smug square faced wanker in the stands while he is wanted for arrest over here. If a man has no morals how can he truly be a man?

So that's it. I'm an official football widower. I can never remarry, there will be no other, but my one true love has turned into a cheap whore on the arm of the local crook and I can't overlook it. It's like the man who raped your wife (she was a cheap hussy but that's not the point) offering to pay for a night on the town for you to make up for it. Or the man who robbed your life savings giving you a 100 quid back to ease the pain.

I hope for all my friends and family that the team go on to do great things, win the trophies that I have dreamed about us winning, sign the players I have dreamt about us signing and thoroughly stuff United every time they play them. Maybe this is just an initial reaction and it will become easier with time. I doubt it.

David

David sounds like a closet United fan.

Originally Posted by Shitman

David sounds like a closet United fan.

Originally Posted by English Noodles

i got the following e-mail from a good friend who is city through and through, he lives in Thailand

That exact same "e-mail" appeared on a guardian blog here and was reproduced Citeh Citeh on the Manchester City bid

Oh my god... English Noodles ain't spouting bollox again... shock/horror

^ah, yes, that looks like an email from a close friend... I've got loads of Nigerian friends and a lot of freinds who want to make my penis bigger.

^It's CC to everyone in his address book, your point being?

^my point being that you are a bullshitter and you know you are

EgalitarianDreamer, June 22, 2007 6:33 AM, Bangkok/tha
Before I could even see, my vision was tainted sky blue. Hours after I was born my Dad’s mate registered me as a junior blue (Man city junior supporters club). One of my first images is of a poster on my wall as a young boy. I remember a black guy with an afro who stood out on the team photo (I think his name was Dave Bennett?). There are plenty of picture as me as a small boy, beaming in my sky blue kit, sponsored by Phillips, or was it saab?

Strange that he waited until 2 months after he had posted it on his blog before he "forwarded" it to all his best friends

Originally Posted by Thetyim

That poster is a disgrace. It must be banned. Putting Sven's head on the swedish flag is an insult to the King Carl XVI Gustaf

We could always discuss to whom it is an insult.
The Swedish king is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Originally Posted by lom

Originally Posted by Thetyim

That poster is a disgrace. It must be banned. Putting Sven's head on the swedish flag is an insult to the King Carl XVI Gustaf

We could always discuss to whom it is an insult.
The Swedish king is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

And intelligence is part of the discussion when discussing Samak?

I'd like to hear where you come by this bit of trivia, never heard anything similar.

. . . studying political science, sociology, history, financial law and economics at the University of Uppsala. He then read economics at Stockholm University.

Doesn't sound too thick to me.

Originally Posted by panama hat

studying

Originally Posted by panama hat

read

doesn't mean a lot

Well, it's a UK term, isn't it; reading law/economics etc . . .

Always wondered about that, though:

Lawyers, Dotors etc . . . practice their profession . . . weird! I'd like these guys to have finished practicing by the time I need their services.

Nothing of any interest happened.

City lost 0 -1

Dammit.

Still, plenty of time for Mr T to further provoke several thousand Mancunian fanatics.

I'm sure we haven't seen the last of this.

We have for a while.

Season's over after next week.

Everything will depend on how we start next season now.

I read somewhere today that he's looking for investors, as it's costing him a bit more than he reckoned to run the club [into the ground] & he hasn't recieved the ticket money or anything yet.

Will you be chipping in a few quid?

Bastard owes me money

There was a chant abot Toxin last nite, I couldnt make out all the lyrics but it was to the rhythm of Pink Fl;oyd ' another brick in the wall' the only line I could make out was:

HEY TOXIN LEAVE OUR TEAM ALONE

did anyone else figure out the lyrics????

Originally Posted by Shitman

I read somewhere today that he's looking for investors,

Samak has just pocketed 500 million from the sugar cartel.
He could be your PR man