He’s just being silly, and knows it in his deeper mind, but he also would like to believe it, so keeps peddling the myth and feeding the self delusion. So it’s just complex, if being a total fuckwit can be that complex.
It really is a uniquely CAPITOL ailment too. They all seem to have it in various degrees of severity. It’s nuts. No other place has such low self esteem and so little real confidence that it has to pretend so much and the residents have to lie to themselves to boost their fragile egos. Not even Leeds folk (“capital of the North”) are as needy, despite having a much bigger claim on being a ‘giant’ of the game.. Cardiff City FC are simply a sleeping minnow.