danburge82 said:Only Everton and Spurs brought over 2800 last season (apart from United and Liverpool in the cups). I'm much happier when there's a full away end and they're singing all game. It adds to the occasion. It's just a pity we don't add to the occasion in 90% of our home games. The South Stand were outdone by the North Stand today.CITY FOR LIFE said:True statement, I thought they were good today and give their team great backing, we on the other hand were shite to say we were at home.danburge82 said:Wankers as they were, to be fair to them at least they sold out their allocation and sang all game.
It's about time there was a full away end as it rarely happens these days.
They can sing what they want, doesn't bother me. We should be loud enough to drown them out and we fucking weren't.
No problem, there's old family ties to Newton Heath and i tbh i completely forgot about the United links so the hostility doesn't surprise me now. It's easy to forget United were part of Manchester and not Trafford once upon a time.jimharri said:If, repeat IF, you are a Bolton fan, my apologies. However, with a username like that, I remain dubious.newton heath said:Sorry, misread it, i'm a BWFC fan not a rag. Didn't think it'd be this hostile on here.jimharri said:Never said you were an Arsenal fan. Read my post again, ''buddy''.
Didsbury Dave said:We went round the lower divisions singing 'you're only here coz its city', 'small town in blackburn', ' shit ground no fans' . 'who the fucking hell are you' and all that to all and sundry. Yet you're all getting uppity because some fans had the cheek to sing songs about us?
Get some perspective. That's what football fans do, take the piss. We've been doing it for years.
Take it as a compliment and get used to it because it means we've arrived. And to classify an entire fan base based on a few songs is idiotic. Arsenals away support probably isn't dissimilar to ours in its makeup: a bunch of pissed up blokes having a laugh.
Sadly i can't help but feel they've got a right to be a bit self-righteous. They are one of few clubs who are run as it used to be, where success was dependent not on who had the richest owner but on the people running the club day in day out. Objectively that's a far more moral way for a sport to run.Damocles said:Didsbury Dave said:We went round the lower divisions singing 'you're only here coz its city', 'small town in blackburn', ' shit ground no fans' . 'who the fucking hell are you' and all that to all and sundry. Yet you're all getting uppity because some fans had the cheek to sing songs about us?
Get some perspective. That's what football fans do, take the piss. We've been doing it for years.
Take it as a compliment and get used to it because it means we've arrived. And to classify an entire fan base based on a few songs is idiotic. Arsenals away support probably isn't dissimilar to ours in its makeup: a bunch of pissed up blokes having a laugh.
Personally, it's less about that and more about the fact that I don't know a single Arsenal fan who isn't a completely self-righteous ****.
They believe that they are "better" than us, not on the pitch, but as a club because Wenger has unsuccessfully brought through youth, and they blame us for "ruining the game" in the most hypocritical way possible.
Say what you want about City fans, but in my experience at least, we do not feel that we are "above" other clubs.
we did when we were in the lower divisions . All the songs I've listed above, which were sung every week, are testimony to that.Damocles said:Didsbury Dave said:We went round the lower divisions singing 'you're only here coz its city', 'small town in blackburn', ' shit ground no fans' . 'who the fucking hell are you' and all that to all and sundry. Yet you're all getting uppity because some fans had the cheek to sing songs about us?
Get some perspective. That's what football fans do, take the piss. We've been doing it for years.
Take it as a compliment and get used to it because it means we've arrived. And to classify an entire fan base based on a few songs is idiotic. Arsenals away support probably isn't dissimilar to ours in its makeup: a bunch of pissed up blokes having a laugh.
Personally, it's less about that and more about the fact that I don't know a single Arsenal fan who isn't a completely self-righteous ****.
They believe that they are "better" than us, not on the pitch, but as a club because Wenger has unsuccessfully brought through youth, and they blame us for "ruining the game" in the most hypocritical way possible.
Say what you want about City fans, but in my experience at least, we do not feel that we are "above" other clubs.
newton heath said:Sadly i can't help but feel they've got a right to be a bit self-righteous. They are one of few clubs who are run as it used to be, where success was dependent not on who had the richest owner but on the people running the club day in day out. Objectively that's a far more moral way for a sport to run.Damocles said:Didsbury Dave said:We went round the lower divisions singing 'you're only here coz its city', 'small town in blackburn', ' shit ground no fans' . 'who the fucking hell are you' and all that to all and sundry. Yet you're all getting uppity because some fans had the cheek to sing songs about us?
Get some perspective. That's what football fans do, take the piss. We've been doing it for years.
Take it as a compliment and get used to it because it means we've arrived. And to classify an entire fan base based on a few songs is idiotic. Arsenals away support probably isn't dissimilar to ours in its makeup: a bunch of pissed up blokes having a laugh.
Personally, it's less about that and more about the fact that I don't know a single Arsenal fan who isn't a completely self-righteous ****.
They believe that they are "better" than us, not on the pitch, but as a club because Wenger has unsuccessfully brought through youth, and they blame us for "ruining the game" in the most hypocritical way possible.
Say what you want about City fans, but in my experience at least, we do not feel that we are "above" other clubs.
I'm not sure if you're reference to Arsenal fans being hypocritical is about their chairman's investment those years ago but i've seen it on here so i'll talk about it anyway. In their defense the Fiszman £50m is hardly similar to the situation these days and really isn't being hypocritical.
The Arsenal fans stick by the club being run as a business and what Fiszman did was in keeping with that. There were still intentions to make profits, not posting continual losses like with the modern sugar daddies, the spending was not continual but an injection to hold club assets and to improve revenue through competition. Companies in every industry do, have done and will continue to do what Arsenal did with Fiszman however i can't think of an instance in which a business is run similar to you or Chelsea. So tbh it isn't being hypocritical at all.
danburge82 said:Only Everton and Spurs brought over 2800 last season (apart from United and Liverpool in the cups). I'm much happier when there's a full away end and they're singing all game. It adds to the occasion. It's just a pity we don't add to the occasion in 90% of our home games. The South Stand were outdone by the North Stand today.CITY FOR LIFE said:True statement, I thought they were good today and give their team great backing, we on the other hand were shite to say we were at home.danburge82 said:Wankers as they were, to be fair to them at least they sold out their allocation and sang all game.
It's about time there was a full away end as it rarely happens these days.
They can sing what they want, doesn't bother me. We should be loud enough to drown them out and we fucking weren't.
Didsbury Dave said:We went round the lower divisions singing 'you're only here coz its city', 'small town in blackburn', ' shit ground no fans' . 'who the fucking hell are you' and all that to all and sundry. Yet you're all getting uppity because some fans had the cheek to sing songs about us?
Get some perspective. That's what football fans do, take the piss. We've been doing it for years.
Take it as a compliment and get used to it because it means we've arrived. And to classify an entire fan base based on a few songs is idiotic. Arsenals away support probably isn't dissimilar to ours in its makeup: a bunch of pissed up blokes having a laugh.