City "fourth most hated club" in the Premier League

[manimanc]

Fuckin fourth again......can we blame pellers?

 

[crazyg]

I must try that drive. You must get to see a lot of bushes if they have named it after the laurel.

Are you sure you just have the one in the Grove? You must be one of the youngsters in the left hand bar.

Fraid so. Right hand bar only. Nice of you to call me a youngster - I'm 66 and despite my user name, I'm sensible when it comes to drinking and driving.

I assume he's talking about Ulverston, nice little town, used to work there a bit

Is the correct answer. The home of the great Phil Jones!

 

[BringBackSwales]

Considering the character of our players (we genuinely have very likeable people playing for us) this is pretty much down to money + success.
Wonder just how important media narrative is in all this, whilst we certainly get a lot of shit, the rags are practically sucked off at every opportunity.

Exactly this, so many people believe the shit they read in the written press and hear from the twats on the likes of sky and bt sports, must have a huge impact

 

[mayo31]

I want to be the most hated after this season, that would mean we won a few things

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Bizzare that Bournemouth f all teams hate us the most. A club with a 10,000 seat stadium must've had significant owner investment to get to the PL. And isn't their chairman a City fan?

Hope we batter the twats next time we play em.

I'd take a guess saying a lot of Bournemouth fans will be glory hunters and most already supported a Premiership club. That's the only reason I can think of.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I'd take a guess saying a lot of Bournemouth fans will be glory hunters and most already supported a Premiership club. That's the only reason I can think of.

I very much doubt that's true of match-going fans, mate.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

The fuck did we do to bournemouth?

Put 9 goals past them?

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Put 9 goals past them?

Is that enough for them to hate us?

 

[moenchengladbach blau]

Fraid so. Right hand bar only. Nice of you to call me a youngster - I'm 66 .

That narrows it down to 90% of patrons on a matchday but I might claim my £5 soon.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

I very much doubt that's true of match-going fans, mate.

They're all secret Liverpool and united fans.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

They're all secret Liverpool and united fans.

That's a disgraceful slur. There are plenty of Chelsea fans on the South Coast.

 

[franksinatra]

Exactly this, so many people believe the shit they read in the written press and hear from the twats on the likes of sky and bt sports, must have a huge impact

We cannot say the press have that much influence to making fans of other clubs hate but then in the next breath ignore the fact that the clubs the media 'fawn over' are actually the clubs which are most hated.

 

[BringBackSwales]

We cannot say the press have that much influence to making fans of other clubs hate but then in the next breath gnore the fact that the clubs the media 'fawn over' are actually the clubs which are most hated.

Ok then, have it your own way, the media are really nice about us, and in any event what the media write/say about us has never had any effect, ever. Ok?

 

[BringBackSwales]

Or then again I think it's fair to say that the scum are hated because of the cunts who support them, rather than because of the vines who write about them

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

We cannot say the press have that much influence to making fans of other clubs hate but then in the next breath gnore the fact that the clubs the media 'fawn over' are actually the clubs which are most hated.

Frank, you're always keen to offer an opinion on anything 'agenda' related and yet you've been conspicuously quiet on the subject of Danny Mills' micro-penis. Is there any good reason for this?

 

[franksinatra]

Frank, you're always keen to offer an opinion on anything 'agenda' related and yet you've been conspicuously quiet on the subject of Danny Mills' micro-penis. Is there any good reason for this?

Sadly I think its lickle Cityitis. Im sure there are lots of people with micro-penises who like us.

Ive heard of agenderists measuring column inches but I genuinely hope thats where the measuring stopped.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

I very much doubt that's true of match-going fans, mate.

Having grown up in a similar sized West Country town with a resident lower league team, I'd dispute that (albeit not with real conviction). When I was at school in the 70's there were 7 or 8 of us who used to go and watch Exeter on a semi regular basis. All supported top flight teams to varying degrees, but perhaps only 2 or 3 would have declared themselves Exeter fans first and Liverpool/Arsenal/West Ham etc, fans second. I was probably the worst in the spectrum, being fanatical MCFC and only casual ECFC - although I still go and see them 3 or 4 times a season now. Maybe it was more true of older generations, but the more grotesquely huge the Premiership becomes, the more I would have thought that younger supporters would identify with its teams first and foremost. Can't say as I have any scientific evidence of course! I would ask what regulars at Gigg Lane and Spotland think, and I know Mark Hodkinson would disagree with me for one, but I'm not sure it'd be a useful yardstick given the geographical proximity of City and the rags. In places like Exeter, Yeovil and Bournemouth we had fuck all choice but to watch the local team......

 

[franksinatra]

Ok then, have it your own way, the media are really nice about us, and in any event what the media write/say about us has never had any effect, ever. Ok?

Thats why I wrote 'that much influence'. I think you got a bit carried away claiming I said something that I didnt.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Sadly I think its lickle Cityitis. Im sure there are lots of people with micro-penises who like us.

Name one.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Having grown up in a similar sized West Country town with a resident lower league team, I'd dispute that (albeit not with real conviction). When I was at school in the 70's there were 7 or 8 of us who used to go and watch Exeter on a semi regular basis. All supported top flight teams to varying degrees, but perhaps only 2 or 3 would have declared themselves Exeter fans first and Liverpool/Arsenal/West Ham etc, fans second. I was probably the worst in the spectrum, being fanatical MCFC and only casual ECFC - although I still go and see them 3 or 4 times a season now. Maybe it was more true of older generations, but the more grotesquely huge the Premiership becomes, the more I would have thought that younger supporters would identify with its teams first and foremost. Can't say as I have any scientific evidence of course! I would ask what regulars at Gigg Lane and Spotland think, and I know Mark Hodkinson would disagree with me for one, but I'm not sure it'd be a useful yardstick given the geographical proximity of City and the rags. In places like Exeter, Yeovil and Bournemouth we had fuck all choice but to watch the local team......

You could have said similar things about Stockport County and Tranmere Rovers fans a generation ago. I guess I just don't like denigration of fans who've taken, and stuck with, a difficult path, irrespective of the presence of a number of interlopers. We, of all supporters, should empathise with that.