The 2010 experience proved they have not regained their former expertise (although it is worth remembering that, had the unions not decided to destroy the Callaghan administraton and, ultimately, their own power, in the winter 1978/79, Thatcher might have struggled to beat a tired and discredited Labour administration with an unelected leader ). But I can't help suspecting that it might.īefore the disaster of 1997 and the subsequent humiliations of Hague and IDS, it was said even grudgingly by Conservative Party detractors that the one thing that organisation was good at doing was winning elections. Whether more money and more scumbags on the playing staff makes you less engaged, less raw when the results go against you and, in particular, less exultant in the good times.įor the sake of the honest, long-suffering fans of clubs like Man City, I hope not. My query is whether, as a fan, you start to care less. But the transformation of Manchester City, for example, or Blackburn or Chelsea is clear. But I don't feel that this investment has changed the ethos or overall feel of the club.
I'm a Spurs fan and I accept that our present relative success has been made possible in part by the backing of Joe Lewis' money. Notwithstanding the irony that the new regime probably isn't especially Jewish-friendly (although I've nothing to suggest the Abu Dhabi royals are particularly anti-Zionist), it must be a strange concept for the long-standing Citeh fan to go from being widely warmly regarded by the general football supporting populace for their devotion to a long-running joke - albeit while still getting the same sort of jibes as all Newcastle and Leeds supporters that their claims to unusual loyalty while in the doldrums don't really stand up to any great scrutiny - to being adherents of a rather depressing splurge of unearned wealth on some of the greediest and most despicable of the generally unprepossessing current generation of footballers. Yes, I know it's a '90s classic of the intellectualisation of the football fan, and I've read other Shindler books, but for some reason never his first.Īnyway, while I'm enjoying it, I can't help but admitting that the most fascinating thing I'm finding with it is wondering whether this fan who grew up with Trautmann and came of age in the Summerbee-Bell-Young-Lee era still holds such a depth of feeling for Man City under the Al-Mubaraks. The game also features larger boss-class fish, as well as a bottomless mode for score challenges.I've finally got round to reading Colin Shindler's "Manchester City Ruined My Life". Shooting down fish earns you money so you can buy better equipment to reach greater depths, catch more fish, and blast them into a bloody spray. Then, once the fish reach the surface, they are flung high into the air, and you blast them out of the sky with a shotgun, like any ridiculous fisherman would.
At this point, the lure begins reeling back in, and your goal is to hook as many other fish as you can on your way back up, avoiding jellyfish along the way. In the first, you attempt to get your lure as far down in the water as possible, avoiding fish (or smashing through them) until you manage to hook one fish. Fortunately, fans motivated the developers to continue work on their own game, and the official Ridiculous Fishing release outshined the clone in every possible way.
but unfortunately, they were beaten to the punch by another developer who cloned their design – a now-common problem in mobile development – and released it well ahead of Ridiculous Fishing. Vlambeer would later go on to revisit Radical Fishing with an updated mobile version called Ridiculous Fishing, released in 2013.