Do you mind us being called "Manchester"?

Manchester City have always been "The Manchester team", the other lot having done a moonlight owing the council rent to set up shop on an ex salford ( They rented it from stretford) tip in a place called dumpington over a hundred years ago, thats a fact people ;0)
 
A lot of my Continental friends refer to us as the Citizens, as in "good result for the Citizens the other night", which I find particularly funny. I noticed when I was in France on Thursday that all the post-match media coverage consistently referred to us as Manchester City, a good thing in my view.
 
RichardDunneOwnGoal said:
Mate, it should fucking delight you that foreigners are referring to us as "Manchester" now, shows how far we've come.

Always used to pain me that you'd go abroad and the locals would describe United as "Manchester", or you'd hear an interview with a high profile player from abroad and they'd describe them the same way also.

Don't hear it anymore.

And the fact that we're now being referred to as "Manchester" truly is a sign of how much our stock has risen.

We represent this city abroad now, not the scum.
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We say Manchester for both, (here in Madrid), depending on who is playing. If we need to make clear in a conversation we say Manchester United or Manchester City, we don't say United or City alone, unless the conversation gets deep and we want to make it short. Otherwise we'll always say Manchester United and Manchester City, fully. The TV guys need to vary so they will say the sky-blues, the mancunians, el City, el Manchester, etc, but in the streets we say the full names, as long as they are. In the past it was easier because Manchester meant only United, now it is both.
 
As long as its mentioned that we're "city" aswell, i'm not arses. I do remember Mancini once refered to the rags as "Manchester" while he was here which pissed me off abit
 
I seem to recall a commentary on a derby, not too long ago when one of the commentators referred to the rags as 'Manchester' and the other commentator said something like 'which one?'

I was living in Stockholm around 5 years ago, popped out of the local hostelry for a smoke (don't do that any more, smoke, that is) and there was another Brit visiting, between drags he asked were I was from, I replied 'Manchester', he then asked whether I was red or blue, I replied 'City', he then proceeded to go off on one, called me arrogant, said we aren't the only club with City in their name. I replied that as we had already established that I'm from Manchester, there wasn't any need to clarify the fact any further. Turned out he was a Norwich fan, I suspect he had a multifunctional green and yellow scarf.

P.S. I'm from Salford...
 
shemnel said:
So I had the pleasure of watching the CL semi final in the wonderful city of Barcelona last night on me hols and, fair to say, whilst most of the spaniards in the bar weren't actively supporting City they were adamantly against Real Madrid getting anything at all.

So, the TV pundits over there, the game commentators and the people in the bar referred to us, nearly without exception, as "Manchester". A couple of times they called us City or Manchester City.

This riled me at first cos of the way Utd were always called "Manchester" but then i realised they have no right to take our city's name considering we're the only club from manchester. and it was always those penises on ITV who should know better.

got me to thinking, do euro types always refer to the opposition as the city where they come from, despite other clubs? i hate it personally, being called simply "Manchester". (but i hope it really fucks off scum fans)
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Riled you? I think it's great. All those years we used to get riled up when people referred to Scum as Manchester all the time and no **** had ever heard of us. Boot on the other foot.

Fact is it's Spanish and Italian way of speaking so we shouldn't really take any notice.
 
I love when we're just referred to as Manchester. We're the football club of Manchester. Don't see how that would annoy any City fan unless your not from Manchester?

I make a point of always referring to Real Madrid as Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid as Atletico Madrid (or Atleti, like if just saying City). Just because it's a bit disrespectful otherwise, plus Real are the spanish rags.

Man City and Man Utd is annoying. Typical of cockney rags.
 
CitizenTID said:
I love when we're just referred to as Manchester. We're the football club of Manchester. Don't see how that would annoy any City fan unless your not from Manchester?

I make a point of always referring to Real Madrid as Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid as Atletico Madrid (or Atleti, like if just saying City). Just because it's a bit disrespectful otherwise, plus Real are the spanish rags.

Man City and Man Utd is annoying. Typical of cockney rags.
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Is it fuck
 
mancityvstoke said:
Is it fuck
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We should embrace the "Manchester" "Mancunian" thing far more than we do. We should sing more songs including those words and have more advertising and merchandise associated with it instead of shit like Moonchester, a sky blue moon on the big screens, Blue Moon soundwaves on kits, Moon print on the sleeves of kits, Blue Moon plaques on the floor outside the ground and Blue Moon tifos. The overuse of the Moon shit does my head in. We're Mancunians from Manchester, Great Britain. Not some rock 250000miles away.
 
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