The proof of the pudding is the number of City shirts you see kids wearing, and what I've read on here from people all over the UK shows that kids are following us in growing numbers. At my school it was 70/30 rag. At my daughter's school in the same area it's now about 50/50. A lot of those little blues will have rag parents as well. At the end of the day many will just follow the best team.
This. I work in crewe and there are quite a few arsenal fans in their early 20's who openly admit the invincibles are reason for their support. went to a kids birthday party yesterday at a bowling alley/trampoline park (in crewe again) and saw about 10 kids in city shirts, a couple of red scouse shirts, no rag shirted kids tho.
We are the future if we can sustain a significant period of success, in 10years time all the media could well be dominated by city articles