Kaka, Colin Bell and the F.B.D

So the engine of an aged A.C Milan is to be transplanted into the body of team that actually meant something back in the days of genial Joe Mercer. In the mid sixties Joe motored up the road to Bury and for £60,000 bought Manchester City's best player ever...Colin Bell.
Inside the next few years, starting in 1968 ,City won the League, F.A cup, league cup and a European Cup winners cup.
Despite Joe being the brains behind City's success the swinging 60s set of Press and t.v made the flamboyant Malcolm Allison, City's coach, appear as the real guru behind the successes. Beware for what you wish for they say. Allison, cigar, fedora and champagne took over and City started a slump that has yet to finish. They bought the likes of Steve Daley and Kevin Reeves for millions when you could buy a top notch player for a £100,000. Both Daley and Reeves wound up playing in the backwaters of U.S soccer.
Kaka will arrive and we the petrol users of the West will pay for his keep. As the world melts down financially Manchester City stands as a monument to all the greed and excess that bloats the Premiership, a league rapidly starting to look like the sister league north of the border. Any team placed eighth down is in real danger of being relegated, meanwhile the big four plus this years interlopers Aston Villa play in a seperateleague.
Back at home Mayo draw with U.C.G and lose at home to Roscommon but manage to beat a disheartened Sligo Tech. No doubt O Mahony will put his political hat on and spin us a yarn about rebuilding, losing players to the colleges etc. STOP! Galway and Roscommon are as badly affected as we are by the college drain, Roscommon worse off in fact but both of those counties got on with it and reached the final of the F.B.D . No cursing the darkness in those counties, they lit the lights, we stagger on to Ballina where Derry will drill a hole in us and Johnno will spin another yarn.