samzilla

pressure's on us now...please let us start of the new year with a win

had to be lampard...why do i even bother having hope? it only ever gets taken away

of course i start watching the city game and within 5 minutes they score

We all knew City were going to find another FFP loophole. First their sponsorship deal, now NYCFC. Just buy players as NYCFC then loan them to Man City Of course now it's being said it was never a loan after being billed that by all involved for the past 8 months. Just shady business all around. Wonder how long FIFA allows that to continue? They'll actually probably give Man City a trophy for their creative corruptness, after all, who knows corruption better than FIFA. Also, how is the Mansour group allowed to do this whilst owning multiple teams? Mike Ashley, for example, was just denied a larger stake in Rangers because of owning Newcastle. But the Mansour group can just do whatever they want? You'd think the FA or US Soccer would have rules against this very thing. Especially after the debacle that was Chivas in the MLS.

yeah, not like you'd want the league assist leader in the team or nothin'

How does City's second half schedule stack up to ours in terms of difficulty?

i'm going to sing songs about burnley to my future children and grandchildren one day

well i feel a lot better now. bet city fans feel a helluva lot worse than we do right now.

so fucking frustrating. of course city goes on a club record winning streak when we go on a poor stretch of form. fuck all.

oh my fucking god, costa pulled a gerrard! nooooooooooooooooo!

fuuuuuuuuuuuuck off

Honestly, I think fatigue will be more of an issue against Spurs.

dare to dream

has to be. in his few minutes, he's done quite well.

Yeah, I'm in Vancouver, Canada. It's great living on the west coast, but the time zone sucks. The world revolves around eastern time zones.

boxing day is amazing...so many sales!!!

God, I hate when we're the early game. 4:45am is brutal. The 7am games I can deal with.

Fair play. I don't think we disagree all that much. We're basically on the same page. But again, New York has a population of 20 million. From a quick google search, I see England has a population of ~54 million. If one team is enough to satisfy 20 million people, then we could argue the premier league only needs 2.7 teams.

Okay, if a fan can't exist until after the team has kicked a ball, then let me change the word from fan to person: If I'm a person who plunked down thousands of dollars for season tickets on the promise of seeing Frank Lampard, I'd be pissed off if I didn't get to see Frank Lampard, fan or not. I'd feel cheated and ripped off. ps- Sounds like we're just disussing the definition of fan, rather than the issue at hand for people that plunked down hard earned money based on certain promises from the MLS and NYCFC. On the topic of the definition of a fan, I would still say someone can be a fan before a team has taken the field. For example, when I was a kid, I was a huge fan of basketball. Vancouver was announced to be getting an NBA team. You better believe I was a fan of that team before tip-off had ever occurred. When the new owner lied about keeping the team in Van and moved it to Memphis, I hated the Memphis Grizzlies with a passion before they had ever done anything either.

They are, but of course they already have fans. 1.) New York has a huge population of 20 million (for example canada's entire population is ~35 million). 2.) They've been promoted heavily. Would an MLS club wait until the season opens with an empty stadium to start gaining fans?

Naturally. But speaking from a strictly MLS perspective.

If he stays at City for the rest of the season, if I was a NYCFC fan I'd be pretty pissed. I imagine a lot of season tickets were sold based on his name.

If only that were true. Sadly, MLS officiating can only hope to be as incompetent as premier league referees one day.

fucking stoke. making sure if they're gonna lose, they're gonna injure one of our star players. fucking joke. dock them points.

laser beam, bottom corner :-p