That's just football fans' mentality, like Sunderland fans laughing at United losing the league to us. For every Blackburn fan who hoped we would lose, there would have been some who were happy for us and even more who simply didn't care. The QPR fans joined in our celebrations because of how we did it, but had we trounced them 5-0 they wouldn't have cared, infact some would probably have mouthed off a bit, had they gone down duw to that and other results. That's just football but not every fan is the same.TGR said:I have very little sympathy for the Blackburn fans. I will never forget their hate, spite & bile during our 4-1 promotion game at Ewood Park in 2000.
I with a very lot of other Blues could only get a ticket by buying one in their Main Stand for that game. I was genuinely shocked by the spite of the Blackburn fans against City in that game. They would have absolutely loved it had they beaten us and stopped us getting promotion and for why I will never know, they had absoulutely nothing riding on the game at all. They just turned up to see us lose out on promotion that day and enjoy our demise. Well we all know what happend that glorious day (how we were not at least 3-0 down at half time I still just don't know!) and the pitch invasion and City celebrations were legendary!
Sorry Blackburn fans - drink it in!
As usual you're bang on pidge. It's a weird trait of some football fans where they can quite casually throw an entire fanbase into one box, and somehow give them a 'character'. It's obvious that the majority of clubs have a similar kind of demographic following them and therefore if they have any kind of group 'character' it's largely the same. I've got empathy for any true football fans who have to watch their club destroyed and mismanaged because it happened to us.Pigeonho said:That's just football fans' mentality, like Sunderland fans laughing at United losing the league to us. For every Blackburn fan who hoped we would lose, there would have been some who were happy for us and even more who simply didn't care. The QPR fans joined in our celebrations because of how we did it, but had we trounced them 5-0 they wouldn't have cared, infact some would probably have mouthed off a bit, had they gone down duw to that and other results. That's just football but not every fan is the same.TGR said:I have very little sympathy for the Blackburn fans. I will never forget their hate, spite & bile during our 4-1 promotion game at Ewood Park in 2000.
I with a very lot of other Blues could only get a ticket by buying one in their Main Stand for that game. I was genuinely shocked by the spite of the Blackburn fans against City in that game. They would have absolutely loved it had they beaten us and stopped us getting promotion and for why I will never know, they had absoulutely nothing riding on the game at all. They just turned up to see us lose out on promotion that day and enjoy our demise. Well we all know what happend that glorious day (how we were not at least 3-0 down at half time I still just don't know!) and the pitch invasion and City celebrations were legendary!
Sorry Blackburn fans - drink it in!
Didsbury Dave said:As usual you're bang on pidge. It's a weird trait of some football fans where they can quite casually throw an entire fanbase into one box, and somehow give them a 'character'. It's obvious that the majority of clubs have a similar kind of demographic following them and therefore if they have any kind of group 'character' it's largely the same. I've got empathy for any true football fans who have to watch their club destroyed and mismanaged because it happened to us.Pigeonho said:That's just football fans' mentality, like Sunderland fans laughing at United losing the league to us. For every Blackburn fan who hoped we would lose, there would have been some who were happy for us and even more who simply didn't care. The QPR fans joined in our celebrations because of how we did it, but had we trounced them 5-0 they wouldn't have cared, infact some would probably have mouthed off a bit, had they gone down duw to that and other results. That's just football but not every fan is the same.TGR said:I have very little sympathy for the Blackburn fans. I will never forget their hate, spite & bile during our 4-1 promotion game at Ewood Park in 2000.
I with a very lot of other Blues could only get a ticket by buying one in their Main Stand for that game. I was genuinely shocked by the spite of the Blackburn fans against City in that game. They would have absolutely loved it had they beaten us and stopped us getting promotion and for why I will never know, they had absoulutely nothing riding on the game at all. They just turned up to see us lose out on promotion that day and enjoy our demise. Well we all know what happend that glorious day (how we were not at least 3-0 down at half time I still just don't know!) and the pitch invasion and City celebrations were legendary!
Sorry Blackburn fans - drink it in!
wireblue said:But what about their human rights record?
You're generalising. It's funny as tomorrow I am going with Mrs P to her mates house in Blackburn, and her fella is a staunch Rovers fan. I was there at New Years and to say he loathes United would be an understatement. Wigan I can accept as it is predominantly a Rugby town, however to say Blackburn fans ,a very historic club along with Burnley, have United as their second team is bollocks i'm afraid, and if anything is very typical of how some of our fans think.TGR said:Didsbury Dave said:As usual you're bang on pidge. It's a weird trait of some football fans where they can quite casually throw an entire fanbase into one box, and somehow give them a 'character'. It's obvious that the majority of clubs have a similar kind of demographic following them and therefore if they have any kind of group 'character' it's largely the same. I've got empathy for any true football fans who have to watch their club destroyed and mismanaged because it happened to us.Pigeonho said:That's just football fans' mentality, like Sunderland fans laughing at United losing the league to us. For every Blackburn fan who hoped we would lose, there would have been some who were happy for us and even more who simply didn't care. The QPR fans joined in our celebrations because of how we did it, but had we trounced them 5-0 they wouldn't have cared, infact some would probably have mouthed off a bit, had they gone down duw to that and other results. That's just football but not every fan is the same.
Sorry Dismal - I am not buying that. Blackburn fans are typical small towners who's 'second club' is the Rags. Very similar to Boton or Wigan in that respect.
Not sure if you were at Blackburn that day? If you had been sitting in the main stand then you would understand. They never had any sympathy for us when Uncle Jack was bank rolling them to the title and we were on the verge of collapse. What goes around comes around.
Pigeonho said:You're generalising. It's funny as tomorrow I am going with Mrs P to her mates house in Blackburn, and her fella is a staunch Rovers fan. I was there at New Years and to say he loathes United would be an understatement. Wigan I can accept as it is predominantly a Rugby town, however to say Blackburn fans ,a very historic club along with Burnley, have United as their second team is bollocks i'm afraid, and if anything is very typical of how some of our fans think.TGR said:Didsbury Dave said:As usual you're bang on pidge. It's a weird trait of some football fans where they can quite casually throw an entire fanbase into one box, and somehow give them a 'character'. It's obvious that the majority of clubs have a similar kind of demographic following them and therefore if they have any kind of group 'character' it's largely the same. I've got empathy for any true football fans who have to watch their club destroyed and mismanaged because it happened to us.
Sorry Dismal - I am not buying that. Blackburn fans are typical small towners who's 'second club' is the Rags. Very similar to Boton or Wigan in that respect.
Not sure if you were at Blackburn that day? If you had been sitting in the main stand then you would understand. They never had any sympathy for us when Uncle Jack was bank rolling them to the title and we were on the verge of collapse. What goes around comes around.
TGR said:Didsbury Dave said:As usual you're bang on pidge. It's a weird trait of some football fans where they can quite casually throw an entire fanbase into one box, and somehow give them a 'character'. It's obvious that the majority of clubs have a similar kind of demographic following them and therefore if they have any kind of group 'character' it's largely the same. I've got empathy for any true football fans who have to watch their club destroyed and mismanaged because it happened to us.Pigeonho said:That's just football fans' mentality, like Sunderland fans laughing at United losing the league to us. For every Blackburn fan who hoped we would lose, there would have been some who were happy for us and even more who simply didn't care. The QPR fans joined in our celebrations because of how we did it, but had we trounced them 5-0 they wouldn't have cared, infact some would probably have mouthed off a bit, had they gone down duw to that and other results. That's just football but not every fan is the same.
Sorry Dismal - I am not buying that. Blackburn fans are typical small towners who's 'second club' is the Rags. Very similar to Boton or Wigan in that respect.
Not sure if you were at Blackburn that day? If you had been sitting in the main stand then you would understand. They never had any sympathy for us when Uncle Jack was bank rolling them to the title and we were on the verge of collapse. What goes around comes around.
Bang on the money.Didsbury Dave said:TGR said:Didsbury Dave said:As usual you're bang on pidge. It's a weird trait of some football fans where they can quite casually throw an entire fanbase into one box, and somehow give them a 'character'. It's obvious that the majority of clubs have a similar kind of demographic following them and therefore if they have any kind of group 'character' it's largely the same. I've got empathy for any true football fans who have to watch their club destroyed and mismanaged because it happened to us.
Sorry Dismal - I am not buying that. Blackburn fans are typical small towners who's 'second club' is the Rags. Very similar to Boton or Wigan in that respect.
Not sure if you were at Blackburn that day? If you had been sitting in the main stand then you would understand. They never had any sympathy for us when Uncle Jack was bank rolling them to the title and we were on the verge of collapse. What goes around comes around.
Yes I was there that day. The Main Stand was probably nearly half City fans who stood up, sang, invaded the pitch and generally acted as if we were at home. In fact I've sat in Blackburn's end at least 8 times over the years when they play us and never had a cross word said to me.
Football fans are just football fans who want their team to win and at a game take the piss out of the opposition fans. We've been doing it for years. When City fans sing "Going down" or "you must have come in a taxi" or "where's your XXXX gone?" or "you're only here coz it's City" or "Small town in Burnley" or whatever we are doing exactly the same.
And of course to claim they all have United as a second time is paranoid nonsense.
Football fans take the piss out of the opposition. Blackburn are no different to anyone else. In fact they probably have a lot less idiots following them than many clubs.