Apologies to CuteMancs for hijacking his idea, but I've been nosing around some Plzeň forums for what their fans think.
Plzeň's history, at least in the last 20ish years has been similar to ours: A proud club with passionate support yoyoing the divisions, then a change in ownership and domestic success. Of course without millions of pounds of investment.
Plzeň are held up here as an ideal of good football governance. A team put together for comparatively little (a lot of their most important players were Sparta rejects), playing nice football, scoring a lot of goals.
Anyway, their fans unsurprisingly don't expect to win (though maybe Javi Garcia will have something to say about that).
'It'll be a tactically defensive game and 0-3 wouldn't be so bad.'
'Our only chance is if they underestimate us'
'Look at how they played against Newcastle and Hull to see how quickly they attack' (not sure Hull is the best example myself...)
'At home against City we have a chance, away it will be tough'
'They've dropped points for the second time in the league and they're not playing well. Kompany has been injured and will play against us but won't be fully fit. If Jupiter and Saturn line up with Petrzel the bricklayer we may have a chance.' (I don't know if this is an idiom or not. Or the guy's a poet.)
'City generally score less away that at home. I like Rodwell from his Everton days and I'm looking forward to seeing Aguero'
'Man Shitty (his words) have been complaining about our ticket prices, that how dare we seen as we've never achieved anything. Well neither had they before the sheiks arrived on camels. If we get in their faces early doors then defend well we'll have a chance for a point.'
Also they seem a bit worried that their U19s will be also playing our U21s on Tuesday. That they'll get crushed. 'Their U21s could get a game in our A team!'
Anyway, I'll add more tomorrow as the Sports papers will have a lot to say about the game.
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