It's because the clock cannot and will not get turned back. Also, an awful lot of us can see right through this. They aren't doing anything for the good of football. Just the good of themselves. They never cared about the rest when they were top dogs and they don't now. All they care about is getting one capitalist out so they can get a bigger, more generous one in.
Football as we knew it was sold in 1992. The 'good old days' aren't coming back. This is what football signed up for in '92. What we have now was inevitable from that day on. I hate it. It's shite, but the clock can't be turned back and the genie cannot be put back in the bottle.
These Mancs are rioting for the chance to be, once again, the biggest Tory on the block, yet some in here have been hoodwinked into seeing them as the new The Guevara. It was riot based in pure self interest, dressed as an uprising of the people. Plenty in here can see right through it.
I refer to it as the day football was privatised.
You're right, it's not coming back. It's dead and gone and the mutated filth that remains is rapidly accelerating. Nobody is rising up to reclaim it.
Fans are taken for mugs because of their emotional investment into decades - centuries - of storied history in their clubs. 19/6 etc etc. The "Wall of Champions" is a hook with which to catch the new generation.
Oddly enough, I don't blame FSG for that. They are what they are. They may have pushed for the ESL, but there are worse offenders out there. In a footballing world where money talks, it's get on the boat or be left behind. Like when you're running but your momentum starts threatening to trip you over.
To quote the movie War Games - "The only winning move is not to play". The moment City came in, the game - which was already on life support - became brain dead. We've been loving a living corpse for the best part of 15 years, hoping against hope that every hand squeeze or eye twitch under the lid was a sign of life.
If we want football back, we have to stop caring. We have to stop caring what happens with these clubs, with our club. We have to give up on what the top tier has become, and abandon it. But we wont, because we know that
they know we can and will be easily replaced. And we're too stubborn to give them the satisfaction.
bit of a ramble there, apologies.