Introducing The Citizens Trust - Manchester City Supporters' Union

Donmcfc said:
No. It's a genuine question. To me Citizens is a generic term whereas Cityzens is unique to City.
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We've been the citizens since the 1890s. I believe because the club saw itself as being a team for the true citizens of Manchester.

We became the cityzens a few years ago when someone came up with it, presumably for marketing and membership reasons.
 
Donmcfc said:
No. It's a genuine question. To me Citizens is a generic term whereas Cityzens is unique to City.
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Bollocks lad. Our nickname is ‘The Citizens’. The version you refer to is a modern twist on it for marketing purposes. Fuck me, how long have you supported City? Here’s my scarf from the 70s.
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Why do you think our hospitality suites are named as below?
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And why do we have Cityzens Matchday Memberships? And why do we change our shirts every season? And why do we change the club's badge from time to time.? And why did we move from Maine Road to the Etihad? And what happened to the dinosaurs?
 
Honestly, I have never once in conversation with a fellow blue heard them naturally use the word “citizens” (still less cityzens, which was cooked up by the boys in the marketing section) to refer to us.
Only my elder brother uses it. He's not really a City fan, and it's entirely because he's attached to me that he follows City on and off, very irregularly. It's just a word that he's read somewhere and uses, without ever noticing that I never do. He's never been to a match, except the one, when I took him and his girlfriend to White Hart Lane in, I think, about 1973. (We were in our glorious red and black strip — God but Colin looked good in that…)
On another subject, which is distantly related to this thread. Anybody else on here contacted by the club to put forward their name as a candidate to represent blues on City Matters? I imagine that hundreds were, but I was mildly surprised to be contacted. (I suppose it's random, generated by an algorithm or something).
 
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CitizensTrustCommunity said:
Just a reminder, its the last day to join for a fiver.
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I received an email to attend a meeting on Thursday at 7pm but cant see where the meeting is to be held?

Ps Just seen its a Zoom meeting when I registered, ffs :) .
 
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levets said:
Bollocks lad. Our nickname is ‘The Citizens’. The version you refer to is a modern twist on it for marketing purposes. Fuck me, how long have you supported City? Here’s my scarf from the 70s.
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Why do you think our hospitality suites are named as below?
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Although…. I tend to agree with you about Citizens and Cityzens but surprisingly Cityzens was also used over 100 years ago to refer to the club or it’s fans (as this cartoon shows):

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Manchester City Nicknames

Ever wondered what nicknames have been used for the Blues through the generations? Well, here for subscribers to my site I cover the story of various names used by fans, the media and others for the club since they first entered the League. Subscriber Content Club Nicknames For most Manchester...
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Personally I prefer Blues anyway.
 
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