Away end tonight

[Lavinda Past]

Couple of dickheads turned up next to my son after kick off, sharing one seating area, completely squeezing my son’s space.

When I complained to them they started swearing, spitting and were generally very threatening towards me.

Fortunately, before half-time one of the twats went to get the beers in (7 minutes still remaining, I might add). Other surrounding City fans nearby then complained to the remaining idiot and after a while he was led away.

Besides completely spoiling the match for my son and I, they had the audacity to question my support of City because of my southern accent. Now, I’ve been supporting City since my first match in 1971, have had a season ticket for the past 20 years and travel 580 miles to each home match, also doing over half the away games every season. How dare these idiots question my support. I’m still so pissed off by the whole episode.

The end result of all this is that my son, who has built up 9,000 points and still only 14, doesn’t want to go to any more away games. It was a horrible experience for him and I question myself whether I want to attend matches where I can come across such repulsive people.

£62 to be insulted, threatened and spat at by other City fans. Thanks

Dreadful. That's the price we pay for all-seater stadiums. I long for a return to the days when you could just walk away to another part of the stand to get away from idiots.

Tell your lad it's nothing new and that he was just unlucky to get a ticket next to a dickhead. For clarification, I mean the idiot, not you SB :-)

He won't want to miss the next few years. It's like riding a bike... You fall off, you get back on. Get him up to Anfield to see us turn the scallies over.

 

[ChichesterBlue]

Im a regular "awayer" but didn't bother with yesterday. Infact I cant be bothered with most London aways bar Fulham. Shit, expensive and full of mongs.

At least it gives people the chance to catch me up points wise

wtf?

Why WTF ? Hes right it was terrible in the ground on saturday yet the pub was fine with usual faces

Ahh yeah, the usual faces...you know all of the usual core of 3-5k travelling fans do you? City's fan base is growing...some of them may not wanna get lashed up before the game, other "plastic fans" may have brought their families and therefore not the usual 90-minute-singing-fans. Some foreigners may have spent a fortune on their one game per season and don't know the songs...how dare these plastic foreigners spend so much money over and above genuine other fans.

Some people on these threads want to keep the fan base to just anyone within a 20 mile radius of the Etihad Stadium, northern accent, like a drink before the game and have to prove they have 10000+ points before entering the stadium. Well that's fine if you want the Etihad to have 10-15000 less fans in every week. With some it's turning into a facist-like obsession. This "proper City fan" tag is BS. Keep knocking the minority corporates too...at home games it's 'potentially' those guys paying top whack that keep our season ticket prices at levels that we can just about afford every year.

Oh, and talking of plastic fans, it's been happening for years already....the City Supporters Clubs have been getting allocations for years now and people without season tickets just cherry pick their best 5 games per year and jump ahead of season ticket holders.

People need to accept new faces at the grounds and accept that the atmosphere isn't the same - you'll never get the same atmosphere as we did in the 80's because it IS a different fan base & situation, ie no standing, more families than ever, rather than 30000 guys with a few beers down our throats etc.

The new faces will allow City to grow as a club - I personally want to see us selling out a 60,000 stadium in 3 years time (or 54000 at first) - that'll only happen by bringing onboard new fans - hopefully that'll happen a lot quicker than normal because we're successful and kids growing up throughout the country (ie outside of Manchester) will want to be City fans.

Get fucking used to it.

 

[softlad]

wtf?

Why WTF ? Hes right it was terrible in the ground on saturday yet the pub was fine with usual faces

Ahh yeah, the usual faces...you know all of the usual core of 3-5k travelling fans do you? City's fan base is growing...some of them may not wanna get lashed up before the game, other "plastic fans" may have brought their families and therefore not the usual 90-minute-singing-fans. Some foreigners may have spent a fortune on their one game per season and don't know the songs...how dare these plastic foreigners spend so much money over and above genuine other fans.

Some people on these threads want to keep the fan base to just anyone within a 20 mile radius of the Etihad Stadium, northern accent, like a drink before the game and have to prove they have 10000+ points before entering the stadium. Well that's fine if you want the Etihad to have 10-15000 less fans in every week. With some it's turning into a facist-like obsession. This "proper City fan" tag is BS. Keep knocking the minority corporates too...at home games it's 'potentially' those guys paying top whack that keep our season ticket prices at levels that we can just about afford every year.

Oh, and talking of plastic fans, it's been happening for years already....the City Supporters Clubs have been getting allocations for years now and people without season tickets just cherry pick their best 5 games per year and jump ahead of season ticket holders.

People need to accept new faces at the grounds and accept that the atmosphere isn't the same - you'll never get the same atmosphere as we did in the 80's because it IS a different fan base & situation, ie no standing, more families than ever, rather than 30000 guys with a few beers down our throats etc.

The new faces will allow City to grow as a club - I personally want to see us selling out a 60,000 stadium in 3 years time (or 54000 at first) - that'll only happen by bringing onboard new fans - hopefully that'll happen a lot quicker than normal because we're successful and kids growing up throughout the country (ie outside of Manchester) will want to be City fans.

Get fucking used to it.

Great Post!

 

[Colins Bellend]

wtf?

Why WTF ? Hes right it was terrible in the ground on saturday yet the pub was fine with usual faces

Ahh yeah, the usual faces...you know all of the usual core of 3-5k travelling fans do you? City's fan base is growing...some of them may not wanna get lashed up before the game, other "plastic fans" may have brought their families and therefore not the usual 90-minute-singing-fans. Some foreigners may have spent a fortune on their one game per season and don't know the songs...how dare these plastic foreigners spend so much money over and above genuine other fans.

Some people on these threads want to keep the fan base to just anyone within a 20 mile radius of the Etihad Stadium, northern accent, like a drink before the game and have to prove they have 10000+ points before entering the stadium. Well that's fine if you want the Etihad to have 10-15000 less fans in every week. With some it's turning into a facist-like obsession. This "proper City fan" tag is BS. Keep knocking the minority corporates too...at home games it's 'potentially' those guys paying top whack that keep our season ticket prices at levels that we can just about afford every year.

Oh, and talking of plastic fans, it's been happening for years already....the City Supporters Clubs have been getting allocations for years now and people without season tickets just cherry pick their best 5 games per year and jump ahead of season ticket holders.

People need to accept new faces at the grounds and accept that the atmosphere isn't the same - you'll never get the same atmosphere as we did in the 80's because it IS a different fan base & situation, ie no standing, more families than ever, rather than 30000 guys with a few beers down our throats etc.

The new faces will allow City to grow as a club - I personally want to see us selling out a 60,000 stadium in 3 years time (or 54000 at first) - that'll only happen by bringing onboard new fans - hopefully that'll happen a lot quicker than normal because we're successful and kids growing up throughout the country (ie outside of Manchester) will want to be City fans.

Get fucking used to it.

Calm down young man, I meant it was a great friendly atmosphere in the pub but seemed to be full of idiots (mongs) and very moody in the ground. I wasn't talking about the families or foreigners who copped for most of the shit from these idiots. The usual faces are a mixture of young and old who seem to end up in pubs together near the away ground. I don't know all of them but recognise a lot of faces .
Next time you've got an opinion mighty mouth stick it on somebody elses post and fuck off quoting my post when you know fuckall about it

 

[the originalkippaxman]

Why WTF ? Hes right it was terrible in the ground on saturday yet the pub was fine with usual faces

Ahh yeah, the usual faces...you know all of the usual core of 3-5k travelling fans do you? City's fan base is growing...some of them may not wanna get lashed up before the game, other "plastic fans" may have brought their families and therefore not the usual 90-minute-singing-fans. Some foreigners may have spent a fortune on their one game per season and don't know the songs...how dare these plastic foreigners spend so much money over and above genuine other fans.

Some people on these threads want to keep the fan base to just anyone within a 20 mile radius of the Etihad Stadium, northern accent, like a drink before the game and have to prove they have 10000+ points before entering the stadium. Well that's fine if you want the Etihad to have 10-15000 less fans in every week. With some it's turning into a facist-like obsession. This "proper City fan" tag is BS. Keep knocking the minority corporates too...at home games it's 'potentially' those guys paying top whack that keep our season ticket prices at levels that we can just about afford every year.

Oh, and talking of plastic fans, it's been happening for years already....the City Supporters Clubs have been getting allocations for years now and people without season tickets just cherry pick their best 5 games per year and jump ahead of season ticket holders.

People need to accept new faces at the grounds and accept that the atmosphere isn't the same - you'll never get the same atmosphere as we did in the 80's because it IS a different fan base & situation, ie no standing, more families than ever, rather than 30000 guys with a few beers down our throats etc.

The new faces will allow City to grow as a club - I personally want to see us selling out a 60,000 stadium in 3 years time (or 54000 at first) - that'll only happen by bringing onboard new fans - hopefully that'll happen a lot quicker than normal because we're successful and kids growing up throughout the country (ie outside of Manchester) will want to be City fans.

Get fucking used to it.

Calm down young man, I meant it was a great friendly atmosphere in the pub but seemed to be full of idiots (mongs) and very moody in the ground. I wasn't talking about the families or foreigners who copped for most of the shit from these idiots. The usual faces are a mixture of young and old who seem to end up in pubs together near the away ground. I don't know all of them but recognise a lot of faces .
Next time you've got an opinion mighty mouth stick it on somebody elses post and fuck off quoting my post when you know fuckall about it

Think somebody (CB) needs to go for a wank and calm down

 

[zeddie]

wtf?

Why WTF ? Hes right it was terrible in the ground on saturday yet the pub was fine with usual faces

Ahh yeah, the usual faces...you know all of the usual core of 3-5k travelling fans do you? City's fan base is growing...some of them may not wanna get lashed up before the game, other "plastic fans" may have brought their families and therefore not the usual 90-minute-singing-fans. Some foreigners may have spent a fortune on their one game per season and don't know the songs...how dare these plastic foreigners spend so much money over and above genuine other fans.

Some people on these threads want to keep the fan base to just anyone within a 20 mile radius of the Etihad Stadium, northern accent, like a drink before the game and have to prove they have 10000+ points before entering the stadium. Well that's fine if you want the Etihad to have 10-15000 less fans in every week. With some it's turning into a facist-like obsession. This "proper City fan" tag is BS. Keep knocking the minority corporates too...at home games it's 'potentially' those guys paying top whack that keep our season ticket prices at levels that we can just about afford every year.

Oh, and talking of plastic fans, it's been happening for years already....the City Supporters Clubs have been getting allocations for years now and people without season tickets just cherry pick their best 5 games per year and jump ahead of season ticket holders.

People need to accept new faces at the grounds and accept that the atmosphere isn't the same - you'll never get the same atmosphere as we did in the 80's because it IS a different fan base & situation, ie no standing, more families than ever, rather than 30000 guys with a few beers down our throats etc.

The new faces will allow City to grow as a club - I personally want to see us selling out a 60,000 stadium in 3 years time (or 54000 at first) - that'll only happen by bringing onboard new fans - hopefully that'll happen a lot quicker than normal because we're successful and kids growing up throughout the country (ie outside of Manchester) will want to be City fans.

Get fucking used to it.

Excellent post sir!

 

[Kippaxstreetheadache]

wtf?

Why WTF ? Hes right it was terrible in the ground on saturday yet the pub was fine with usual faces

Ahh yeah, the usual faces...you know all of the usual core of 3-5k travelling fans do you? City's fan base is growing...some of them may not wanna get lashed up before the game, other "plastic fans" may have brought their families and therefore not the usual 90-minute-singing-fans. Some foreigners may have spent a fortune on their one game per season and don't know the songs...how dare these plastic foreigners spend so much money over and above genuine other fans.

Some people on these threads want to keep the fan base to just anyone within a 20 mile radius of the Etihad Stadium, northern accent, like a drink before the game and have to prove they have 10000+ points before entering the stadium. Well that's fine if you want the Etihad to have 10-15000 less fans in every week. With some it's turning into a facist-like obsession. This "proper City fan" tag is BS. Keep knocking the minority corporates too...at home games it's 'potentially' those guys paying top whack that keep our season ticket prices at levels that we can just about afford every year.

Oh, and talking of plastic fans, it's been happening for years already....the City Supporters Clubs have been getting allocations for years now and people without season tickets just cherry pick their best 5 games per year and jump ahead of season ticket holders.

People need to accept new faces at the grounds and accept that the atmosphere isn't the same - you'll never get the same atmosphere as we did in the 80's because it IS a different fan base & situation, ie no standing, more families than ever, rather than 30000 guys with a few beers down our throats etc.

The new faces will allow City to grow as a club - I personally want to see us selling out a 60,000 stadium in 3 years time (or 54000 at first) - that'll only happen by bringing onboard new fans - hopefully that'll happen a lot quicker than normal because we're successful and kids growing up throughout the country (ie outside of Manchester) will want to be City fans.

Get fucking used to it.

With all due respect, you would be of that opinion though, wouldn't you? Given you're from Sussex and likely a new blue - or what we'd have called a 'gloryhunter' prior to our takeover.

The one thing that always separated us from United was our fanbase. When I was a kid that's the only thing we had to shout about, our support and our loyalty.

So it irks a bit to see people with little or no relation to Manchester or our club claiming an affinity with City now that we're successful. These are the kind of people who would've otherwise supported United or Chelsea had we never been taken over. These are the kind of people we used to despise when we were shit, these are the kind of people who 'supported' United and loved mocking City when we were shit.

Now we're expected to welcome them with open arms now that we have the glamour necessary to attract such bottom feeders?

With respect, I know not everyone who has taken up supporting City post take over is of this kind of character, but I think you get the point.

We know it's part and parcel of becoming a 'top' side. We've come to accept that. But the problems arise when the genuine blues who were here in the thin times are missing out on tickets to our 'new' fans.

The problems arise when our match going support changes. That was one of the things that made this club so special to me when I was a kid, it was what made kids like me - a blue in a predominately red Manchester school - proud to be blue.

I'll speak for myself here, even though I'm confident I speak for others when I say this.. But I don't want to see our match day support go the way of Chelsea's.

I don't want to see our core support decesimated by price increases (brought about by an increase in demand from people who couldn't have given a shit about us when we were managed by Pearce for example) and our match going support to change beyond all recognition.

I make no apologies for saying what I've said, I hope I haven't offended anyone, but if I have I just hope you recognise my sincerity, my intentions aren't to offend.

But like I've said, our support was a core part of what made City, City, to me, when I was a kid.

And I don't want to see that change.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Band wagon jumpers...happened at Utd ...will happen at ours now too.




The price of success.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Why WTF ? Hes right it was terrible in the ground on saturday yet the pub was fine with usual faces

Ahh yeah, the usual faces...you know all of the usual core of 3-5k travelling fans do you? City's fan base is growing...some of them may not wanna get lashed up before the game, other "plastic fans" may have brought their families and therefore not the usual 90-minute-singing-fans. Some foreigners may have spent a fortune on their one game per season and don't know the songs...how dare these plastic foreigners spend so much money over and above genuine other fans.

Some people on these threads want to keep the fan base to just anyone within a 20 mile radius of the Etihad Stadium, northern accent, like a drink before the game and have to prove they have 10000+ points before entering the stadium. Well that's fine if you want the Etihad to have 10-15000 less fans in every week. With some it's turning into a facist-like obsession. This "proper City fan" tag is BS. Keep knocking the minority corporates too...at home games it's 'potentially' those guys paying top whack that keep our season ticket prices at levels that we can just about afford every year.

Oh, and talking of plastic fans, it's been happening for years already....the City Supporters Clubs have been getting allocations for years now and people without season tickets just cherry pick their best 5 games per year and jump ahead of season ticket holders.

People need to accept new faces at the grounds and accept that the atmosphere isn't the same - you'll never get the same atmosphere as we did in the 80's because it IS a different fan base & situation, ie no standing, more families than ever, rather than 30000 guys with a few beers down our throats etc.

The new faces will allow City to grow as a club - I personally want to see us selling out a 60,000 stadium in 3 years time (or 54000 at first) - that'll only happen by bringing onboard new fans - hopefully that'll happen a lot quicker than normal because we're successful and kids growing up throughout the country (ie outside of Manchester) will want to be City fans.

Get fucking used to it.

With all due respect, you would be of that opinion though, wouldn't you? Given you're from Sussex and likely a new blue - or what we'd have called a 'gloryhunter' prior to our takeover.

The one thing that always separated us from United was our fanbase. When I was a kid that's the only thing we had to shout about, our support and our loyalty.

So it irks a bit to see people with little or no relation to Manchester or our club claiming an affinity with City now that we're successful. These are the kind of people who would've otherwise supported United or Chelsea had we never been taken over. These are the kind of people we used to despise when we were shit, these are the kind of people who 'supported' United and loved mocking City when we were shit.

Now we're expected to welcome them with open arms now that we have the glamour necessary to attract such bottom feeders?

With respect, I know not everyone who has taken up supporting City post take over is of this kind of character, but I think you get the point.

We know it's part and parcel of becoming a 'top' side. We've come to accept that. But the problems arise when the genuine blues who were here in the thin times are missing out on tickets to our 'new' fans.

The problems arise when our match going support changes. That was one of the things that made this club so special to me when I was a kid, it was what made kids like me - a blue in a predominately red Manchester school - proud to be blue.

I'll speak for myself here, even though I'm confident I speak for others when I say this.. But I don't want to see our match day support go the way of Chelsea's.

I don't want to see our core support decesimated by price increases (brought about by an increase in demand from people who couldn't have given a shit about us when we were managed by Pearce for example) and our match going support to change beyond all recognition.

I make no apologies for saying what I've said, I hope I haven't offended anyone, but if I have I just hope you recognise my sincerity, my intentions aren't to offend.

But like I've said, our support was a core part of what made City, City, to me, when I was a kid.

And I don't want to see that change.

Spot on.

Unfortunately on here a lot of people will say to you that you need to get with the programme, we're a big club now and new fans should be welcomed with open arms, no matter who they are.

I know for a fact if you came and spoke to me and my mates you'd get a 100% positive response to your post.

 

[ped]

Why WTF ? Hes right it was terrible in the ground on saturday yet the pub was fine with usual faces

Ahh yeah, the usual faces...you know all of the usual core of 3-5k travelling fans do you? City's fan base is growing...some of them may not wanna get lashed up before the game, other "plastic fans" may have brought their families and therefore not the usual 90-minute-singing-fans. Some foreigners may have spent a fortune on their one game per season and don't know the songs...how dare these plastic foreigners spend so much money over and above genuine other fans.

Some people on these threads want to keep the fan base to just anyone within a 20 mile radius of the Etihad Stadium, northern accent, like a drink before the game and have to prove they have 10000+ points before entering the stadium. Well that's fine if you want the Etihad to have 10-15000 less fans in every week. With some it's turning into a facist-like obsession. This "proper City fan" tag is BS. Keep knocking the minority corporates too...at home games it's 'potentially' those guys paying top whack that keep our season ticket prices at levels that we can just about afford every year.

Oh, and talking of plastic fans, it's been happening for years already....the City Supporters Clubs have been getting allocations for years now and people without season tickets just cherry pick their best 5 games per year and jump ahead of season ticket holders.

People need to accept new faces at the grounds and accept that the atmosphere isn't the same - you'll never get the same atmosphere as we did in the 80's because it IS a different fan base & situation, ie no standing, more families than ever, rather than 30000 guys with a few beers down our throats etc.

The new faces will allow City to grow as a club - I personally want to see us selling out a 60,000 stadium in 3 years time (or 54000 at first) - that'll only happen by bringing onboard new fans - hopefully that'll happen a lot quicker than normal because we're successful and kids growing up throughout the country (ie outside of Manchester) will want to be City fans.

Get fucking used to it.

With all due respect, you would be of that opinion though, wouldn't you? Given you're from Sussex and likely a new blue - or what we'd have called a 'gloryhunter' prior to our takeover.

The one thing that always separated us from United was our fanbase. When I was a kid that's the only thing we had to shout about, our support and our loyalty.

So it irks a bit to see people with little or no relation to Manchester or our club claiming an affinity with City now that we're successful. These are the kind of people who would've otherwise supported United or Chelsea had we never been taken over. These are the kind of people we used to despise when we were shit, these are the kind of people who 'supported' United and loved mocking City when we were shit.

Now we're expected to welcome them with open arms now that we have the glamour necessary to attract such bottom feeders?

With respect, I know not everyone who has taken up supporting City post take over is of this kind of character, but I think you get the point.

We know it's part and parcel of becoming a 'top' side. We've come to accept that. But the problems arise when the genuine blues who were here in the thin times are missing out on tickets to our 'new' fans.

The problems arise when our match going support changes. That was one of the things that made this club so special to me when I was a kid, it was what made kids like me - a blue in a predominately red Manchester school - proud to be blue.

I'll speak for myself here, even though I'm confident I speak for others when I say this.. But I don't want to see our match day support go the way of Chelsea's.

I don't want to see our core support decesimated by price increases (brought about by an increase in demand from people who couldn't have given a shit about us when we were managed by Pearce for example) and our match going support to change beyond all recognition.

I make no apologies for saying what I've said, I hope I haven't offended anyone, but if I have I just hope you recognise my sincerity, my intentions aren't to offend.

But like I've said, our support was a core part of what made City, City, to me, when I was a kid.

And I don't want to see that change.[/quote thankfully its not for the little hitlers in the stadium,to decide who can watch city and who cant