He did look a bit unsure when I asked what if they strip all the titles from them.
I do get it myself, years of fuck all to everything and then back to nothing - reminds me of Only Fools and Horses really - is better than years of nothing, but Abu Dhabi have the money to have done it properly over a longer period and to have gotten respect and made it more permanent.
This is what I've thought about recently too. Abu Dhabi could have actually done it in the right way and built something, in time, that could actually be respected and admired. Instead, their sheer arrogance and disregard for the sport has spawned a leech that, if given free reign, will suck the life out of the game and kill it.
As it stands, and if they get the punishment they clearly deserve, what they will have had was a relatively short boom then bust cycle that is respected and admired by no one at all. A club that once had some dignity will be reduced to a laughing stock that is forever known for being tainted beyond redemption. The odd thing is, their fans don't even seem to have enjoyed their boom. They just turned angry, bitter and basically lost their heads totally.
In many ways I do get why so many of their fans would abandon any moral, ethical code they may once have had once the blood money came in. They've lived in their neighbours considerable shadow seemingly forever. Without cheating, there is simply no way on earth that they could challenge the status quo, so they became open to it because it was their only chance.
It's the same with Everton. OK, we know their fans talk utter shite about being ''dignified'', ''Moral'' and ''classy'' but they actually believe that stuff. Despite that, they are all bent over with arse cheeks spread hoping and praying that Uncle Uzzy comes in and injects his dodgy cash into them. They couldn't care what kind of person he is, where his money comes from or whether or not he intended to cheat the sport for his own ends. In fact, many of them have been pondering over how he could help them by getting around the rules. They'd actively encourage him to cheat just so long as they 'won' something and got one over their far bigger neighbours. Much of their hopes going forward revolve around this fella coming in to basically help them cheat, because they know without cheating they are toast. They can't even dream of challenging us on a level playing field, so they pin their hopes on a dodgy dealer coming in and a weak UEFA and PL letting the likes of him get away with killing the sport.
