If you're already fed up with the Obama rhetoric you might enjoy this...
From 4thegame.com...
In our ongoing series, President Barack Obama gives us his (entirely made-up) thoughts on football's big issues. Today, President Obama aims to ease Man City's bruised pride...
My fellow citizens. Manchester City come to us today humbled by the events of the last week. Their club is in meltdown, their talisman lost in Tenerife, their brave bid to reignite the Milanese economy with a £100 million cash injection failed. City remain the most prosperous, powerful football team on earth. Their players are no less productive than when this crisis began. Their minds are no less inventive, their skills no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Their capacity remains undiminished. But that they are in the midst of a crisis is now undeniable. What is required of them now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every City fan, official, player and staff member, that they have duties to themselves, their game, and the world of football as a whole, duties that they must not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit than giving your all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of Citizenship. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting dogmatic loyalties above human compassion is also over. Starting today, we, the common football fans of the world, must help City pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and begin again the work of remaking Manchester City. On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our Premier League. On this day, I call upon the city of Manchester, more than any other, to unite behind this common goal. Because Manchester is not a city of blue teams and red teams, but of one team. A City United. That is our goal - and it is achievable. Thank you. God bless you. And God bless Manchester City.
From 4thegame.com...
In our ongoing series, President Barack Obama gives us his (entirely made-up) thoughts on football's big issues. Today, President Obama aims to ease Man City's bruised pride...
My fellow citizens. Manchester City come to us today humbled by the events of the last week. Their club is in meltdown, their talisman lost in Tenerife, their brave bid to reignite the Milanese economy with a £100 million cash injection failed. City remain the most prosperous, powerful football team on earth. Their players are no less productive than when this crisis began. Their minds are no less inventive, their skills no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Their capacity remains undiminished. But that they are in the midst of a crisis is now undeniable. What is required of them now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every City fan, official, player and staff member, that they have duties to themselves, their game, and the world of football as a whole, duties that they must not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit than giving your all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of Citizenship. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting dogmatic loyalties above human compassion is also over. Starting today, we, the common football fans of the world, must help City pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and begin again the work of remaking Manchester City. On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our Premier League. On this day, I call upon the city of Manchester, more than any other, to unite behind this common goal. Because Manchester is not a city of blue teams and red teams, but of one team. A City United. That is our goal - and it is achievable. Thank you. God bless you. And God bless Manchester City.