Why are we hated so much?

Bald fraud said:
Same. I’ve had people at work who have no interest in football whatsoever laugh in my face this week! they know that city is my life and have taken joy in knowing what is happening has hurt me. Basically shows them up for the utter wankers they are. let’s get in that ground Sunday my god I wish it was Saturday I wish it was tomorrow! And show the world what it is to be a blue loud and fuckin proud!
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Well said mate. I actually think it could be rocking on Sunday. We’ve always been at our best in the face of adversity.
 
BlueMoonAcrossThePond said:
We're hated because we're successful. We're envied and hated in equal measure because our owners have money to spend and they invest in our club. We're also disliked because there's a sense among some other club fans that we've "stolen" their players - Arsenal fans in particular feel this way.
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When Sky telly had a monopoly on the Premier League (before BT & Amazon coverage), Sky Super Sunday was the big day of 2/3 matches.
I remember them always having Arsenal, MUFC, LFC & Chelsea players on billboards and buses advertising the games.
This Big 4 was all they seemed interested in - I bet fans of other teams, apart from City, remember being ignored.
From 2011 we broke into this elite group and perhaps, didn't engage with Sky like other clubs did ?
City didn't have a charismatic, renowned ex-player, manager or celebrity (although Buzzer did try, once) to represent City ?
Unfortunately, City were in catch-up in getting positive publicity.
Perhaps we didn't pay or sponsor enough media people to put this right ?
However, I don't think City or their fans are "hated".
Jealousy is the main reason we are strongly disliked.
Remember, we have knackered LFC from regaining their supposed supremacy ?
 
Had lunch with a gooner and rag today which I wasn’t looking forward to as expected a few cheat digs. The gooner (really nice bloke) said no club would be able withstand the scrutiny City had been under. I was amazed the rag didn’t put the boot in but he did mention the time bar re Europe case. Maybe this was something to do with him losing his season ticket which he had had for 25 years as he missed the renewal deadline and they wouldn’t restore it. This is how fans are treated in modern day football.
 
We love the underdog in this country, right back to the days when we made a film star out of bumbling pratfall artists like Norman Wisdom, right up to Frank Spencer. There is a lovely warm homespun ethos about them, they present no threat to anyone and indeed, make us laugh. We even had a bumbling comedy PM.
City for a time ( most of us know first hand) were the Norman Wisdom of football. If there was a manhole, we’d fall down it, or anything with water in it, we’d get very wet. We were a comfortable, accident prone amusement of a club.
Then the sheik came (I hate to play the race-card but sometimes things look obvious) and suddenly we were a serious threat to the perceived balance of power, a force to be reckoned with for the long term. We were not welcome, and we’re still not and probably never will be.
A prefect example of the ‘tall poppy syndrome’ rampant in this country.
We are scared of outrageous fortune.
 
I wouldn’t worry about it too much; they can’t hate us more than we hate them. These days if I meet someone new and they start talking football, I won’t bother unless they’re a blue. I’ll only end up thinking “what a ****” when they open their mouth.
 
Sky and the rest of the media push an agenda that everyone loves Man Utd and Liverpool when the opposite is true the majority of fans absolutely despise those teams. Both you and Chelsea had the audacity to come along and upset the status quo, the media don’t like it, but genuine football fans don’t hate you. Most can see through the media lies.
 
Bald fraud said:
Same. I’ve had people at work who have no interest in football whatsoever laugh in my face this week! they know that city is my life and have taken joy in knowing what is happening has hurt me. Basically shows them up for the utter wankers they are. let’s get in that ground Sunday my god I wish it was Saturday I wish it was tomorrow! And show the world what it is to be a blue loud and fuckin proud!
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The older I have got the less time I have for wankers who try to taunt me over football. These days my circle of friends is dominated by City fans. I used to have friends who supported United and Liverpool (where I worked for seven years) but to be honest I just got fed up with the so-called banter so have cut them loose.
I have never really treated football as a joke. I attend most matches but have stopped watching games in the pub (in Lancashire) because of obnoxious scousers who create an aggressive unpleasant atmosphere.
I have even turned away freelance work because of it. I pulled out of one job simply because I didn't want to work for a particularly nauseating Liverpool fan. I am semi-retired and am in a happy position where I don't have to suffer fools gladly any more.
 
Bodicoteblue said:
We love the underdog in this country, right back to the days when we made a film star out of bumbling pratfall artists like Norman Wisdom, right up to Frank Spencer. There is a lovely warm homespun ethos about them, they present no threat to anyone and indeed, make us laugh. We even had a bumbling comedy PM.
City for a time ( most of us know first hand) were the Norman Wisdom of football. If there was a manhole, we’d fall down it, or anything with water in it, we’d get very wet. We were a comfortable, accident prone amusement of a club.
Then the sheik came (I hate to play the race-card but sometimes things look obvious) and suddenly we were a serious threat to the perceived balance of power, a force to be reckoned with for the long term. We were not welcome, and we’re still not and probably never will be.
A prefect example of the ‘tall poppy syndrome’ rampant in this country.
We are scared of outrageous fortune.
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I can't remember where I read it but the reaction among the PL big cheeses when Leicester won was 'yes yes, very nice but don't let this happen again'.

Bobbyowenquiff, I'm younger than you but I feel the same. I can't be arsed with shit football banter. HURR DURR 1995 HURR DURR HEYSEL HURR DURR CUCKOO CLOCKS HURR DURR shut the fuck up. I especially hate it when it's from strangers. You are not my mate. Go away.
 
I would not say we are loved i just don't think we are hated, i used to work with supporters of quite a few different teams during the title run ins with Liverpool in 14 and 19 to a man they all seemed more desperate than me that we won the league. The red tops are much more disliked.
 
i think money is at the root. Murdoch/rag coallition made billions, the rest of the media made many millions thru ads that had a captive audience of scouse arse and rag fans, the FA itself made millions off the back of the same chosen ones. Big big bucks. Keeping the gravy train running has been the driving force that has resulted in the destructive negative sustained attempts to smear our club at every opportunity. Very similar to the political landscape, instead of the apolitical disenfranchised, there is fans of teams from the football backwaters, non-entities but millions of them. From the very top, the whole shebang is corrupt, again a mirror of politics. Too much needs to change, the embedded cartel has almost limitless funds, a strangle hold on the traditional media/influencers, for there to be a bloodless solution, so buckle up peeps, it's gonna be war
 
We are hated so much because of the media they had there orders from the red shite and have from day one gone for every negative angle and most of the non city fans around the country have swallowed it all and believed it, I really am surprised that not one journalist hasn't stuck up for us and made a name for themselves by carrying our some proper journalism
 
BringBackSwales said:
Right through my life, and I am an FOC, I have generally felt that other clubs fans have a soft spot for us (rags excluded), I think due to some extent to our under achievement, partly due to generally being a team that tries to play football, and largely due to the loyalty of our fan base.

This never felt more so than after the qpr game in 2012, where after the match I was literally inundated with text messages from mates and colleagues from different places I’d lived and worked, fans of different teams. The general tone was that people were delighted that we had won the league, how we’d won it and who we won it over. Also there was a genuine appreciation of the fact they all knew I was a loyal fan of a likeable club, someone who had followed them home and away for decades, many of those decades empty of success and full of under achievement. I didn’t get the sense that anyone begrudged us our success.

Roll forward 10 and a half years and the feeling towards us is so different. Every premier league we have won has had the rags or dippers as runners up, teams that I reckon are generally disliked by all apart from their own (admittedly huge) fan bases. I would have thought that this would have enhanced our popularity, particularly when you think we have brought the likes of Kompany, Zaba, KDB, Yaya, Sergio, the Silvas, Haaland etc etc etc to the league, and all for fantastic prices. The Mancini, Pellegreni and Pep teams have all played beautiful football, and I am sure I’m not biased in saying that.

So why the fuck are we so widely unpopular, what have we done wrong?

Have we become horrible fans? I don’t think so. I get it that we aren’t as passionate as we once were, not alone in that. But I think we still have a fair bit of our typical City humour, and a large proportion of our fan base is still traditional.

Is it just plain jealousy? I think that may be part of it, but it wasn’t evident in the emotions expressed to me in 2012, so would winning another 5 premier league titles in 10 years cause that? Not sure it would.

Is it how our football club conducts itself? Well, our owners have invested millions in the area, have generally been low key and polite, we have CITC which remains best in class, we always treat people with respect and decency as far as I can see.

So I can only think it’s 10 years of constant digs at us, from all of the newspapers, from Sky, BBC (tv, radio and online), BT, Talk Shite etc. Why they do this is beyond me but can only because we are not united or liverpool, maybe also because we are Arab owned not USA owned. But I think 10 years of their snide and negative comments, aided by awful treatment from the premier league and uefa, has eaten into the consciousness of the general footballing public.

Since Monday I don’t think, in fact I know, that our football club has never been more alone. No one likes us, but I can’t say I don’t care, because I don’t really know why, and I know it isn’t deserved.

We are only just into an even longer and more sustained period of City bashing than we have ever known, the refs and VAR will feel even more at liberty to shaft us on the pitch, so let’s do one thing as CITY FANS, let’s get right behind our club and our players, for as long as it takes, win or lose, get behind the players and the management. I have ALWAYS been proud to be a Blue, and remain so as much today as the day I was born into a Blue family.

CITY TIL WE DIE
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The answer to that lies in this very thread... where you are posting – it's the internet, or more accurately, social media!

We live in a world now where news and opinion is on-hand 24-7, 365days a year... and it is exploited to push agendas and persuade people what their opinion should be... whether it be to promote a certain political leaning or what you should think about the latest movie it's rife... and then you have the Bot farms, who can be hired to promote/push a narrative.
And, sadly for us today's media relies on clicks and likes, so the appeal to the clubs with a bigger presence on social media... positive articles about us don't get much traffic, but negative articles go through the roof - City fans will rush to defend the club, and opposition fans (of 2/3 clubs usually) love to join the pile-in
 
its a Barm said:
We are hated so much because of the media they had there orders from the red shite and have from day one gone for every negative angle and most of the non city fans around the country have swallowed it all and believed it, I really am surprised that not one journalist hasn't stuck up for us and made a name for themselves by carrying our some proper journalism
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there is one mainstream journalist who has often called it for what it is, and took our side. Cant remember his name but he doesn't represent a red top ( comic ).
 
It’s two things: success and the media.

Until 2007 we were everyone’s second club. A bunch of clowns who still turned up despite being in the shadows of that lot. We had their sympathy and lots of people loved Oasis too.

The media has to sell papers or clicks. It has influence and people are too thick to challenge what they read.
 
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