We are NOT Man City..

IanBishopsHaircut said:
Nobody I know has ever said I support 'Man City'

We are City..there's only one City so why would they add 'Man' at the beginning!

Again..as I have explained a couple of times on this thread

Doesn't matter what fans call us

I'm talking about how the club refers to us..and I think using Man City doesn't come across as very professional
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Nail on the head. Especially the professional part. IMO it's akin to Apple referring to themselves as 'apl' or MS doing a bit of the old 'mcrsft'.
 
might be trivial - how trivial was it when Cardiff switched to red shirts to appeal to fans in China
yet we are having the same drip drip drip effect with the club name, badge, kit
 
ADegenerate said:
I know the city is blue. Don't pretend City is the bigger club here either. I'm just trying to share with you the thoughts of our fans abroad. They're indifferent. I understand why you're steamed. I could care less really but I understand why the website and twitter handle was changed.
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You could care less?
 
I don't like him, but Michael Mackintyre was right when he said "Man City" sounds like a gay nightclub.
 
To be fair, even back in 1934 we were known at "Man City":
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It's just an abbreviation, something easier to type into a URL bar. No big deal.

Not like the stupid "Cityzens" shit (we are the Citizens, there's no "y"!), or the overuse of the Moon/Blue Moon as a central theme of the club. Those two gimmicks I fucking hate the club using, but not really that bothered about "Man City".
 
IanBishopsHaircut said:
You're not getting it..I'm not talking about what fans call us..even our own fans

I'm talking about how the CLUB portrays itself

It's Manchester City Football Club

Man City just seems unprofessional coming out of the club
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It calls itself Manchester City. It's on the badge.

Mancity.com is easier to type from a marketing point of view and is catchier.

Lot of hot air over nothing this.
 
BlueKingEll said:
They could have registered a whole load of hyperlinks that point to the one website ie whatever you type took you to the same page

And no offence but with predictive searching who types out the full website

DOT COM is for yanks

And Ive never seen an arguement that wins over its Manchester City, because were from Manchester, the only football team to come from Manchester
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Dot com is not for yanks.
 
IanBishopsHaircut said:
Nobody I know has ever said I support 'Man City'

We are City..there's only one City so why would they add 'Man' at the beginning!

Again..as I have explained a couple of times on this thread

Doesn't matter what fans call us

I'm talking about how the club refers to us..and I think using Man City doesn't come across as very professional
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I say Man City.
 
BlueKingEll said:
might be trivial - how trivial was it when Cardiff switched to red shirts to appeal to fans in China
yet we are having the same drip drip drip effect with the club name, badge, kit
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Club name hasn't changed.

Badge has gone back to what the fans wanted.

Kits last a year and are down to Nike.
 
quiet_riot said:
Nail on the head. Especially the professional part. IMO it's akin to Apple referring to themselves as 'apl' or MS doing a bit of the old 'mcrsft'.
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It's nothing like that. In fact, mcfc.co.uk is far more akin to what you are suggesting above.
 
IanBishopsHaircut said:
Nobody I know has ever said I support 'Man City'

We are City..there's only one City so why would they add 'Man' at the beginning!

Again..as I have explained a couple of times on this thread

Doesn't matter what fans call us

I'm talking about how the club refers to us..and I think using Man City doesn't come across as very professional
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When talking with mates we use City. On the web, you do that you'll get all kinds of City's.

mancity is a suitable short identifier for Manchester City online. That's all there is to this.

In time, because of the influence of online activities I expect fans will start calling City, Mancity. There's nothing sinister in that, It's just a change in habits as technology changes how we relate and interact to stuff
 
If i,am in the north west talkin football i say city if i,am abroad or down south i say man city !!!
 
We should of changed it to ManchesterFc not sure here but wasn't Manchester City the first team to be called Manchester? And when the rags wanted to change there name to Manchester they had to ask our permission?
 
waspish said:
We should of changed it to ManchesterFc not sure here but wasn't Manchester City the first team to be called Manchester? And when the rags wanted to change there name to Manchester they had to ask our permission?
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We should HAVE changed it to that at all.
 
urban genie said:
I say Just City or from time to time gods own team, never use man city if honest, but not overly bothered if others do.

Think the original point is this is part of the clubs global marketing plan and dropping the full Manchester bit to a world wide audience has grated on some.

I mean how fucking annoying is it when people around the world refer to the rags as just Manchester, seems like we are letting them own that title, we know we are Manchester but to a new global audience we will be know as mancity while they are refered to as Manchester, it does make a difference in that aspect.

Mcfc man city manchester city City or the blues etc none of them bother me, we all know who we are.
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Actually, that used to wind me well and truly up when I would hear French commentators regularly refer to them that way right through the nineties and noughties. Now, to my amusement, several times last year I heard them do it with us!! Journalists are just fucking lazy, and know-nothings. Over and over again, I've patiently explained to French people over the years that nobody, absolutely nobody in the UK (and certainly not in Manchester itself) knows of any football club called "Manchester". Or indeed "Bristol". Or indeed "Sheffield". I've thought about why people in the rest of the world should be so lazy about this, and I think it comes partly down to this. The English Premier League (and the lower divisions) is one of the very few in the world where you have two major clubs in one town, that can only be distinguished by the second part of the name. No such thing in any other European league that I can think of, with the exception of Spain (Atletico and Real) and Italy (A.C. and Inter). And none that I know of in South America (even in Buenos Aires it's Boca Juniors and River Plate).
 
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