We have one of the most negative fan bases in football

Well said. I'm a staunch City fan and have been since 1962. I hate all other city fans they really are moaning twats. I'm not saying this to be funny or controversial it's just the truth. Most if them are arseholes who know next to fuck all about anything.
 
quiet_riot said:
Bluemoon does not represent the entire fanbase.
Click to expand...

is the correct answer - as an out of towner I get most of my city info from this and other websites etc

I usually get to a couple of games a year and its always been my experience that on the whole those attending the games on the day are pretty positive
 
ManCityX said:
The amount of negativity from our fans about City at the moment is absolutely staggering, and during a time where we're literally living the greatest era in the club's history.

I can think of only Arsenal at the moment where the fans talk about their own club with such distain. I rarely ever see or hear United fans talk about their club with the venom and malice which has developed amongst a large section of our support. I've never heard a United fan say a bad word about Mourinho since he joined.

You think all those negative media articles and news stories have no impact but they do. They create a mood of negativity, something which festers in the back of the mind. It means you'll be set alight more easily at the slightest mishap or mistake.

The club isn't perfect and it never will be. They make mistakes and they will make mistakes in the future as well. I find a lot of the problems I have about City are the results of my problems with elements of modern football. We're not alone with a lot of our concerns about prices, corporates, fan engagement etc.

Unfortunately it seems that some of us have become professional Manchester City critics rather than Manchester City supporters.

People can't wait to have a moan about the slightest thing, and it's sad. I even saw people on this forum yesterday saying we've had a shit transfer window yesterday after we've spent £200 million+ on several top class players. Some plonker on Twitter saying we've ruined Denayer's career because we made him sign a contract and then loaned him out. The only reason he's not better than Van Dyke right now apparently.

Comments like this after the CL draw "Forgive me for not jumping with glee at not being in a group of death, but I'm still not convinced Pep knows his best XI from game to game" - After we've played 2 matches with 1 change where the number 1 left back is out injured. How on earth that could be your instant reaction or thought to a CL draw is well beyond my way of thinking.

The way some of us speak about the manager, players and people behind the scenes is frightening. It's almost hatred and resentful at times. Every mistake by manager, player or club isn't an excuse to go straight for the throat

The bottom line is that if you're not happy now then you will never ever be happy.
Click to expand...
quiet_riot said:
Bluemoon does not represent the entire fanbase.
Click to expand...
This is a downright lie.
 
I definitely think this forum has become almost unbearably impatient with the team, certain players and the management.
 
The phrase "typical City" was around long before oil wealth. Negativity is ingraved in our club. Its just part of life. We are so desparate for true sucess, it doesnt mean we cant remember the very bad times. Actually my favourite memories of being a City fan are from the late ninties when we were at our worst.
Honestly I think its a pressure thing, as a fan i feel scrutinised by everything the media and other fans say about the club I love. I honestly do love city like a family member, but just like a family member I get pissed off at City and with City but love them all the same.

Look at the songs we sing as well. We never win at home and we never win away.. and the invisible man. Both a tongue in cheek look at the fortunes of Manchester City football club. CTID no matter what league no matter what result CTID.
 
I remember travelling to Bournemouth on the old City "Special" train for a night match in Bournemouth, around December 1987. We won 2-0, and the train pulled into Piccadilly around 4am.

1987-88 remains one of my favourite seasons, yet looking back, we averaged less than 20,000, and dropped all manner of stupid points, conceding the promotion race, around mid March.

Nowadays, we average 54,000, and the players have won 5 competitions in the last 7 seasons. However, if we don't beat Bournemouth tomorrow it will be viewed as an unmitigated disaster.
That's the reality, regardless of whether we moan, or always see the positive side.
 
it's the expectation of instant success, it makes normally rational people lose all sense of proportion. The internet gives a platform that didn't exist before, to all and sundry , from school kids to old-timers like me, armchair heroes to hard-core home-and-away fanatics, scientists to, er not-scientists. Give them all a place like BM and this is the outcome..... City fans are by no means unique in this respect, a trip round other forums will bear this out. I see nothing on here that is worse than the normal abuse that rained down from the Kippax, the difference is that nowadays it is 24/7 instead of a couple of hours at the weekend. It would be totally unrealistic to expect anything much different than what we have , imho of course.
 
Gallows humour I'm afraid Op
Cut many a blue in half and you'll see it running through them like a stick of Blackpool rock!!
 
I don't think Mancs or northerners in general are the happy clapping type.

On the pitch, there's probably not much to moan about, especially when you consider what most have been used to for most of their football watching lives. However, being as poor as we have been in the past has no doubt been engraved into our mindset and that will never change for most. It's really hard for city fans (well I think so) to come across as positive. I personally shy away when in general chat with a supporter of another club. I seem to take a backward step and play down city as not to come across as privileged or expectant while they bang on about who they're signing or how they're going to do.

I do believe tho that for your general Seasoncard holder there's a lot going on that is hard to ignore and even harder to be positive about. Away ticket allocation, being moved out of your seats, lack of engagement with supporters by the club and ticket increases are all things that are negative and really matter to your average season card holder or supporter in general. That kind of negativity can make you feel bad towards the club and being decent on the pitch doesn't make those things ok.

We're also not living a California lifestyle either are we. We're northern English blokes, we will always moan.

But I do agree with the sentiment that on the pitch at least, we've never had it so good.
 
I don't think as fans we are negative, just honest, realistic and best of all humorous. Most fans of my age, early to mid forties followed the club through thin and thinner and for long periods had to make do with sparce moments of enjoyment.

I was having a chat with some fellow blues the other day and we were discussing the bleak times and came to the conclusion that even if we pulled of the quadruple every year for a decade, we'd still all have the same nervous hard wired mindset from the darker days. Its ingrained into blues of a certain era and even my Dad who's eighty and witnessed the teams of the sixties and seventies eventually succumb to this way of thinking. Its like we expect the worse, but when it doesn't happen that way it makes success all that much sweeter, Augero's goal against QPR being the finest ever example of typical City, not being typical.

In days gone by I'd do twenty Embassy Number One per game and lived on my nerves, but watching us win away at Blackburn in 95 on the Friday night and Gaudino scoring the winner against Liverpool on the Monday probably brought us as genuine fans more pleasure than other teams plastic fans winning trophies.

We are a unique set of fans in that we have tasted both extremes. This I believe keeps our feet on the ground and makes us realise that despite our wealth we do not have a divine right to steam roll the opposition week in week out (Scum aside) we are not the be all and end all and that no matter how much success we have on the field we don't become engulfed with entitlement.
 
Bilboblue said:
You must lead a sheltered life then, they were slating him all over the place last season, until they won the Europa League.
Click to expand...

I can remember radio phone ins where rags gave Ferguson no end of abuse after a poor result, even when they were on their way to winning yet another league title. It's how football fans react in general.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top