[drucurl]

You know, I find such statement very pretentious. You think we are a special club or something, due to moral values and beliefs? Who do you think you are? We are not special. We are just another football club, which happens to be the most successful one in the world, which has always surfed on the peaks of Italian and European football for decades, and which has enjoyed the services of some of the best football players in the world. Yet, this doesn't make us special. It makes us important! We are an important football club, the most important in the world, alongside Real Madrid. And this is what should make us proud of being rossoneri.

well bro some of us think Milan is special and some don't. I know you think iBra is special though (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[kurtsimonw]

well bro some of us think Milan is special and some don't. I know you think iBra is special though (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Every fan of every club thinks their club is special.

[acid911]

Spoken like a true Han. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Yeah well, I don't know about you, but a whole lot of the "classy club" comments I heard from other football followers for Milan were because of the players we had playing for us through the years. Not exactly the management, but fine chaps like Maldini, Kaka, Van Basten, Boban, Gianni Rivera and (countless other) friends. Of course, the management (mostly B&G) played their part, but the legend was built by the sweet and blood of those who wore the club colors.

As for the term being abused by the management, totally agreed. Where was the class when they ruined Paolo's last match. Same goes for respectively sending off players. Everyone wants to play as much as they can, not all players have the eyes to see that they are past it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif) And then there is the recent overall aura coming out of both the Milan clubs, I frankly feel we are the new inter, and the blue guys are the new Milan. Truth be told, this something that I have been feeling for a few years now:

inter team applauding us in the first derby match after our 2007 CL win, we signing egotistical maniacs at wholesale rates, getting beaten by EPL sides three times in a row and falling at the first hurdle in the CL, while this year they have left us in the dust literally after locking horns with Bayern. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) We surely look like a club that is going for the title by hook or crook (both it seems). I would never have thought I would see the day MvB 2.0 played in our shirt, so on and so forth.

It's not like we are 100% the new inter, and vice versa, but I have been sensing the winds of change for a while now. Partly because we have done some things that we wouldn't have say, at the start of the decade, and also inter got a new coat of personality after their consistent league wins, the good showing in Europe, topped with the treble last year. This probably irked B&G to no end, IMO, and we seem to have sold our soul, or part of it, at least.

[drucurl]

Spoken like a true Han. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Yeah well, I don't know about you, but a whole lot of the "classy club" comments I heard from other football followers for Milan were because of the players we had playing for us through the years. Not exactly the management, but fine chaps like Maldini, Kaka, Van Basten, Boban, Gianni Rivera and (countless other) friends. Of course, the management (mostly B&G) played their part, but the legend was built by the sweet and blood of those who wore the club colors.

As for the term being abused by the management, totally agreed. Where was the class when they ruined Paolo's last match. Same goes for respectively sending off players. Everyone wants to play as much as they can, not all players have the eyes to see that they are past it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif) And then there is the recent overall aura coming out of both the Milan clubs, I frankly feel we are the new inter, and the blue guys are the new Milan. Truth be told, this something that I have been feeling for a few years now:

inter team applauding us in the first derby match after our 2007 CL win, we signing egotistical maniacs at wholesale rates, getting beaten by EPL sides three times in a row and falling at the first hurdle in the CL, while this year they have left us in the dust literally after locking horns with Bayern. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) We surely look like a club that is going for the title by hook or crook (both it seems). I would never have thought I would see the day MvB 2.0 played in our shirt, so on and so forth.

It's not like we are 100% the new inter, and vice versa, but I have been sensing the winds of change for a while now. Partly because we have done some things that we wouldn't have say, at the start of the decade, and also inter got a new coat of personality after their consistent league wins, the good showing in Europe, topped with the treble last year. This probably irked B&G to no end, IMO, and we seem to have sold our soul, or part of it, at least.

This post sums up exactly how I feel about the recent changes Milan has undergone. I call it Interization