Are we getting more popular at home?

[GY.Blue]

I'm actually from Grimsby but have supported City since I was a kid in the 60s,when you come from a small town you tend to pick a big team to support as well as your hometown club,round here it's always been Liverpool and united I work with 3 Liverpool fans,2 united and 1 Everton,I'm having a great time at the moment rubbing their noses in it.

 

[Marvin]

Don't know about school now

In the 70s and 80s it was 10 to 1 Utd to City. Overwhelming odds, but it made you a lot fiercer a blue.

Now I work in the Mcr City Centre. On my floor there are 7 match going City fans to 2 Utd. One of those 2 Utd fans has a season ticket but says that he's going to let it lapse. He's stopped going the last couple of seasons but kept it on to sell, but hasn't been able to. I think there are a lot of Utd fans who do this. They keep the season ticket in the family and use it to make money. When you hear what match tickets go for for the big games you can understand the logic.

 

[worsleyweb]

Beaver road in didsbury in the early 80s - we were all city. Didn't even know where United was. Honestly.

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

Went to school in the 90s. First one was in tyldesley and I was the only blue, maybe there were 1 or 2 covert others but I remember being the only one in our year, though there were 2 or 3 in the year below. High school there were about 7 blues or so out of 200+ in our whole year, the rest mostly rags and a few liverpool. I expect there's been a big swing in the last few years though I'd expect rags to outnumber us a bit still in the schoolyards

 

[worsleyweb]

Went to school in the 90s. First one was in tyldesley and I was the only blue, maybe there were 1 or 2 covert others but I remember being the only one in our year, though there were 2 or 3 in the year below. High school there were about 7 blues or so out of 200+ in our whole year, the rest mostly rags and a few liverpool. I expect there's been a big swing in the last few years though I'd expect rags to outnumber us a bit still in the schoolyards

In that neck of the woods maybe - not in South and East manchester.

 

[Big Yaya Wilko 12]

Went to St. Mary's in Denton in the 90's at primary school. About 65:35 were blue. I remember it being about 50:50 at Audenshaw when I was there, though I didn't think to count. I kept most of my mates from Primary school and they were all (bar one) blue.

 

[thesilvalining]

My school is about 90/10 to the rags still. There's probably just as many chelsea/Liverpool/arsenal fans as there is city. A couple of the rags have tried claiming theyre city fans though recently,gloryhunting wankers.

 

[goat boy]

Mrs didn't have a team, just a general ABU so had followed Liverpool and Chelsea from afar at points where they were the biggest threats to Uniteds dominance. She was a blue, just didn't know it until she met me. Her little lad was a red when we met but his soul has now been saved.

 

[nellyonthewing]

Beaver road in didsbury in the early 80s - we were all city. Didn't even know where United was. Honestly.

I grew up in Baguley, Wythenshawe there was one red in our school back then . Just like worsleyweb I'd never heard of them & wish I never had.

 

[casualdeyna]

I went primary school in a blue area (st cuthberts withington) late 80's & we used to play City v Un*ted in the playground. There was about 6 blues to about 20 rags in our year, but every blue played in the school team and went games whereas there were only a few rags you could call proper football fans. Even in the days before they were won anything they were the easy choice but all the proper football fans were blues. High school was similar story.

I do see a lot of City shirts on kids these days that always makes me smile but in Withington & Didsbury I've always seen City shirts but definitely fewer rag shirts in recent years