It’s not necessarily about sympathy for managers, it’s about being annoyed that the people who run our club consistently allow these situations to occur in the first place.
As I’ve said before, I believe we’ve won things in spite of how the club’s run, not because of it. The cracks have appeared in recent years as we’ve gone from being the best team in the country and one of the best in Europe to getting overtaken by clubs who’ve got good managers and let them build something (in City’s case, with the added bonus of unlimited financial backing), whereas the good managers we’ve had are always having to achieve things with at least one arm tied behind their backs. So to celebrate that success we’ve had on one hand but not give credit and respect to the managers who’ve achieved it on the other, makes no sense to me.