Why I'm giving up on football, City and Bluemoon

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I would say part of this is because of the constant scrutiny the club always seems to be under,it becomes draining and you end thinking no not again,but this is precisely what they want fans/supporters to become totally fed up with it all and start moving away from the club,other factors like VAR and the incompetent/biased refs also push you over the edge towards giving it up..The game has changed now for the worst and it will only go further that way..I will still be backing the club regardless whatever happens with the premier league witchhunt,but one thing is guaranteed if we do win through it will only be a short while before something else crops up to try and stop us ..
 
Hart of the Matter said:
So this is my last post. 55 years after my first match seeing City. 10 years a season ticket holder 1985 to 1995 until work and family took me too far away. I was there in 2012 and was there for that Tuart goal. Been to many but not all recent cup finals.
I have been vocal about VAR, CAS and FFP.
So, today I have decided I have fallen out of love with this game, the trolls on this forum and the corruption hiding in plain sight both financial and governance. Refereeing and game manipulation and arguing the toss with morons and hypocrites.
My passion has faded with each passing year of vested interest interference, press compliance and journalistic spite.
And, yes, VAR has killed my excitement. Thank God we didn't have to wait for it in 2012. A moment that will never be repeated again in football history.
In truth, this has been coming for a while. I will sign off and find a new passion. City are not to blame. I watched football for the fun and passion. I now know more about global politics, financial compliance and sports governance than I do about our own under 18s. Something has gone drastically wrong with the game.
Our own forum has also become raggish and dipperish, misogynistic and trolled by posters who don't even support the club... And then the fans who love certain players rather than the club. Yes I'm old and I won't be missed but I already feel better letting go. Good luck fighting the good but ultimately doomed battle.
Thanks City for the best and worst times of my life but life is too short.
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That’s what they want
 
Hart of the Matter said:
So this is my last post. 55 years after my first match seeing City. 10 years a season ticket holder 1985 to 1995 until work and family took me too far away. I was there in 2012 and was there for that Tuart goal. Been to many but not all recent cup finals.
I have been vocal about VAR, CAS and FFP.
So, today I have decided I have fallen out of love with this game, the trolls on this forum and the corruption hiding in plain sight both financial and governance. Refereeing and game manipulation and arguing the toss with morons and hypocrites.
My passion has faded with each passing year of vested interest interference, press compliance and journalistic spite.
And, yes, VAR has killed my excitement. Thank God we didn't have to wait for it in 2012. A moment that will never be repeated again in football history.
In truth, this has been coming for a while. I will sign off and find a new passion. City are not to blame. I watched football for the fun and passion. I now know more about global politics, financial compliance and sports governance than I do about our own under 18s. Something has gone drastically wrong with the game.
Our own forum has also become raggish and dipperish, misogynistic and trolled by posters who don't even support the club... And then the fans who love certain players rather than the club. Yes I'm old and I won't be missed but I already feel better letting go. Good luck fighting the good but ultimately doomed battle.
Thanks City for the best and worst times of my life but life is too short.
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I might go back to being a Chelsea fan, or I might check the season ticket prices at Newcastle
 
Hart of the Matter said:
So this is my last post. 55 years after my first match seeing City. 10 years a season ticket holder 1985 to 1995 until work and family took me too far away. I was there in 2012 and was there for that Tuart goal. Been to many but not all recent cup finals.
I have been vocal about VAR, CAS and FFP.
So, today I have decided I have fallen out of love with this game, the trolls on this forum and the corruption hiding in plain sight both financial and governance. Refereeing and game manipulation and arguing the toss with morons and hypocrites.
My passion has faded with each passing year of vested interest interference, press compliance and journalistic spite.
And, yes, VAR has killed my excitement. Thank God we didn't have to wait for it in 2012. A moment that will never be repeated again in football history.
In truth, this has been coming for a while. I will sign off and find a new passion. City are not to blame. I watched football for the fun and passion. I now know more about global politics, financial compliance and sports governance than I do about our own under 18s. Something has gone drastically wrong with the game.
Our own forum has also become raggish and dipperish, misogynistic and trolled by posters who don't even support the club... And then the fans who love certain players rather than the club. Yes I'm old and I won't be missed but I already feel better letting go. Good luck fighting the good but ultimately doomed battle.
Thanks City for the best and worst times of my life but life is too short.
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Yep
agree with a lot of that ,but,
my 15 year old has balls
and when i told him he'd be out the fucking
door if he chose them or went astray,
he knew i meant it

his reaction to all of this " fuck them dad "

CTID doesn't come cheap.
 
I fully get the feeling and I have not read every response but add the cost, the stupid kick off times, champions league supporters filming everything that moves, the shit we get on social media, VAR, shit refs, pundits who do fuck all research and pluck what they have read on twitter as there expert opinion and it makes you think.

Then I remember the moments and not even the big ones recent games beating the dippers, Spurs, Aresenal and it’s still worth it.
 
Hart of the Matter said:
So this is my last post. 55 years after my first match seeing City. 10 years a season ticket holder 1985 to 1995 until work and family took me too far away. I was there in 2012 and was there for that Tuart goal. Been to many but not all recent cup finals.
I have been vocal about VAR, CAS and FFP.
So, today I have decided I have fallen out of love with this game, the trolls on this forum and the corruption hiding in plain sight both financial and governance. Refereeing and game manipulation and arguing the toss with morons and hypocrites.
My passion has faded with each passing year of vested interest interference, press compliance and journalistic spite.
And, yes, VAR has killed my excitement. Thank God we didn't have to wait for it in 2012. A moment that will never be repeated again in football history.
In truth, this has been coming for a while. I will sign off and find a new passion. City are not to blame. I watched football for the fun and passion. I now know more about global politics, financial compliance and sports governance than I do about our own under 18s. Something has gone drastically wrong with the game.
Our own forum has also become raggish and dipperish, misogynistic and trolled by posters who don't even support the club... And then the fans who love certain players rather than the club. Yes I'm old and I won't be missed but I already feel better letting go. Good luck fighting the good but ultimately doomed battle.
Thanks City for the best and worst times of my life but life is too short.
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See ya Sunday
 
Hart of the Matter said:
So this is my last post. 55 years after my first match seeing City. 10 years a season ticket holder 1985 to 1995 until work and family took me too far away. I was there in 2012 and was there for that Tuart goal. Been to many but not all recent cup finals.
I have been vocal about VAR, CAS and FFP.
So, today I have decided I have fallen out of love with this game, the trolls on this forum and the corruption hiding in plain sight both financial and governance. Refereeing and game manipulation and arguing the toss with morons and hypocrites.
My passion has faded with each passing year of vested interest interference, press compliance and journalistic spite.
And, yes, VAR has killed my excitement. Thank God we didn't have to wait for it in 2012. A moment that will never be repeated again in football history.
In truth, this has been coming for a while. I will sign off and find a new passion. City are not to blame. I watched football for the fun and passion. I now know more about global politics, financial compliance and sports governance than I do about our own under 18s. Something has gone drastically wrong with the game.
Our own forum has also become raggish and dipperish, misogynistic and trolled by posters who don't even support the club... And then the fans who love certain players rather than the club. Yes I'm old and I won't be missed but I already feel better letting go. Good luck fighting the good but ultimately doomed battle.
Thanks City for the best and worst times of my life but life is too short.
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Stop being a fanny wipe
 
Doesn't feel right to make an analogy about the war which is of course a much more serious matter, but just like Russia wants the West to tire and turn their backs on Ukraine eventually, the establishment wants us to tire and stop supporting City. I have almost lost faith myself and it's been going on since the first season with VAR, but doesn't feel right to stop now. I'm sure justice will prevail and City will come out on top of this.
 
You've paid your dues to the club, Hart, I salute you and hope you don't pack it in for good. But if you do your spot will be well looked after. There will ALWAYS be a City.

Told my eldest what was going on after school yesterday, and that relegation was a worst case scenario.

"We'll still go if we're in the Championship though, right daddy?", was all he said.

"Course we will, son", I said.

For every Blue who is jaded by it all, there's another who is being reminded, or finding out for the first time that the world really is against us - and is raring to go because of it, like my son, and couldn't care less what the PL does to us.

Little reminder from before all our time - a lot of us may know it, but I like to repeat it because it does put things in context. Back in the day, not long after we won our first FA Cup, the League found against us and we had to sell Billy Meredith and three other players in an auction at the Queen's Hotel in Collyhurst. Must have felt like the end - even worse when the Rags bought all four and won their first title with them.

They were awash with the brewer Davies' money of course, so much that everyone was calling them Moneybags United. Two years later they ended up being done for financial irregularities themselves.

Moral of that 115-year-old story, money has always been part of the game, sharp practice and scandal has always happened in football, the red clubs have always been hypocrites who have profited at our expense, there's nothing new under the sun, and the boys in blue never give in. We just come back stronger. CTID.
 
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give it to gordon said:
I totally understand your view but trust me I havent bought a newspaper in over a decade. I dont watch any football programme. If I cant make the match I turn the match on at ko. Half time I make a brew.

Life is so much better when you cut all that crap out of your life.

I have about it but I love my home town to much to let the fuckers win. Take a break hopefully you will be back
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Ref your first two paragraphs.. me too.

Nothing against the OP here. I and many, many Blues share the frustrations you elucidate.

But, if I may..

..my Old Man taught me to always stand up against bullies, especially those attacking weaker chums.

He also taught me all about the great players and people who've served our club from the time my Grandad arrived in Manchester from N Wales at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries, searching for work and becoming a City supporter, just like the rest of the family that has followed since.

And he also taught me about the bullies at Old Trafford, Anfield and Highbury (now the Emirates) and their shenanigans with regard to United avoiding relegation with Liverpool's corrupt help and Arsenal's elevation to the First Division at expense of Tottenham, both around the time of the First World War.

And further, he taught me about how other bullies conspired to undermine emerging City (and indeed Sheffield Wednesday) in 1906 when the 'newer' clubs based in the industrial North threatened the existing 'old order' of Aston Villa et al which had held sway over the Football League.

'Never trust any of them' he would say. He was correct.

We stand up to bullies. Every time. Just bring it on, says I..
 
I’m just back form the UK after putting my dear ole mum to rest who passed away suddenly 2 days after Christmas
I went to the Wolves game and all the old truly City feeling we’re in me the moment I got in the ground, I literally felt that I’d been away! Everyone around me was chatting as they’ve always done since I can remember and I fkin loved it
Went out in town after the match and watched the Arse vs Rags game in the Lassie O’Gowan with blues and rags, loads of banter some of it typically raggish from the Manchester Rags but not one sign of it kicking off and I fkin loved it!
One overriding factor I remember was when watching Sly Sports is just how fkin biased they are now, to the point of it being laughable which I did constantly with my BIL who is a huge Red Dipper fan but admits to loving watching City and how they play the game
It’s time to dig in boys like never before, trips to Luton, Chesterfield, Colchester, Grimsby and the like will seem like a cakewalk in comparison to what lies ahead but as always I go forward supporting my great club as I’ve done since around 1967 as they are my true and only love who right now need and deserve my support more than ever!!
Fook em all and CTWD !!!
 
Don't do it mate. Don't let these jealous bastards kill your joy.

If one of us chucks the towel in, just one, then they have won, job done and that is exactly what they want.

I used to watch sky sports news, listen to phone ins and the radio in general, read papers but all that has turned bitter. I turned sky sports news on for a minute today, maybe not even that, and that was enough.

I don't do half the things i like in what i call my football routine anymore and i feel better for it.

If i don't go to a game i turn on the tv as we kick off, mute it half the time, it's simple, i feel better for it.

Honestly mate don't do it, i know this place is infiltrated with rags and scouse tramps, just put people on ignore, easy.

Take a breather from things for a couple of weeks, you'll feel better for it but if you let them get to you it feels like they've got to all of us.

Fuck them. We don't need anyone else, we don't need any help or any paid joutlrnalist shills.

If we get relegated to league 2 i'll still turn up because i love city and they are in my blood.

Keep fighting the fight brother.
 
City till I've had enough...


Fair though, no point putting all the time and effort into something you are ultimately falling out of love with. Like you said life's too short, find new passions, bring forth things you've wanted to do with your new found time and money and build different memories.

And most of all look after yourself.
 
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