Your mistake is that, like a lot of rags, you are only capable of viewing football through the prism of Manchester United. Can you not conceive of the appalling arrogance of advising ANY other set of supporters upon how they should set about supporting their club?
Your assertion that our enjoyment of City's revival (and it is a fucking revival) is somehow tainted by the goings-on at Old Trafford is so wide of the mark, as to be borderline delusional. We're laughing our arses off at what's happening to your club.
As for City not being a traditional rival... what can I say? I'm Irish too and I get that the Jedwards of football fans, glory-hunting clowns that support United or Liverpool around this country have fuck all notion about the game bar the ya-boo "banter" that ye consider to be the only true expression of footballing rivalry. It's all ye know. It's all ye have. I get it. Just know that whilst ye are wanking each other off, there's a City fan... or a QPR fan... or even a Leeds or Wolves fan listening, who wholly understand what ye will never know - what it is to support a team that hasn't got a fucking prayer. Ye will never grasp that because ye can't conceive of what we've been through; what we're all about; what supporting a team means.
Trust me when I tell you that I got as much joy out of Shaun Goater scoring a flukey goal in a play-off semi-final v Wigan as I did watching Yaya rampage through Villa or (to coin a reference you might actually understand) Dzeko bang the sixth nail into the coffin at the Swamp.
It's simply not your place to advise any other fans upon how to go about their business and it may surprise you to learn that even if it were, you are supremely unqualified to do so.
