Siege mentality

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these guys are, I mean, like you say, they have this siege mentality where they're like, "You know, it's us against the, the league and the whatever, the red cartel and the establishment and yada, yada, yada.

And we're, we're, you know, we're gonna fight till the end and, and we're gonna defeat all of them or whatever." Um, and I mean, yeah.

I mean, this is gonna go on for a while I imagine.

And I mean, no one put up a fight.

The, the fans didn't rally or anything.

So it did-- And yeah, like I said, like at the end watching the City players celebrate in their corner, th- that did feel jarring, you know, in, in, in just how they, like the siege mentality that they've created.

I mean, obviously like that, that is, I mean, from their perspective and from the club's perspective, like that is really the only thing they can do, right? Like the club hierarchy can only tell the players, "Oh yeah, guys, we haven't done anything wrong.

Yeah.

And, uh- You know, I'm sure we'll see a lot more of that in the, in the coming weeks and months because we are gonna have that kind of siege mentality now.

I'm sure Maresca will instill it when it comes to other difficult games.

But yeah, the, the players, they're all, they're all as one.

They're all, all one big unit here and all right, some of them have been signed years and years after the supposed period that these, the charges were, you know, are, are about.

But they're all still kind of under the-- They're all in part of this one big unit that will have that siege mentality, and they know how much it means to the city fans.

They know how much this club means to, to all of us.

They know how it's, you know, we live and breathe.

I'm sure any club would have done the same.

It's the siege mentality, backs against the wall kind of thing.

What are you expecting? City fans not to celebrate because Erling Haaland has scored against Liverpool at Anfield when the whole world has been pointing fingers at you, calling you cheese.

Now, City might well be cheats.

And look, I don't expect them to not enjoy the win.

I was the one who was saying to Charles last week, "Hey, listen, this could be a siege mentality, Jose Mourinho style thing, uh, for them now.

They could really get actually a bit of benefit out of it for a while." I s- I fully expected that to be the case today.

It has been the case, but it doesn't make it any easier to stomach, Harry, when you look at that and you know.

I think that's, they have to within, within a 12-week period or something like that.

Probably much sooner given how farcical the situation was with the commentators, uh, and every ground is gonna be like this effectively for them.

So, but yeah, siege mentality, trying to, you know, um, instill that amongst a group of very talented players who, you know, wouldn't have got to this stage if they weren't very talented but also had a sense of pride about them as well.

So wasn't altogether