Balloon Wavers

[Deleted member 77198]

You don't come to the home of the Champions to gloat when you trail City by 10 points, are on a run of 4 wins in 11 league matches, and your manager is in open conflict with his centre-forward. No wonder they slunk home with their tails between their legs whilst super Tommy Tuchel spent most of his post-match time commenting on their lack of quality up front.

That’s not correct, its actually exactly what you should do!
And then expect some banter back.

Chelsea fans were singing all the way back to Town after the game n’all. After one of their “Chsnpions of Europe, you’ll never sing that” I chanted “Champions of England, with a 13 point gap!” “Mind the gap, can barely see you 13 points away!”

All good fun really.

 

[Cellarite]

I thought it was quite funny from them. Nobody in the South Stand wanted to join in with my “Where’s your balloons you cockney cunts?” chant after we scored.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

You don't come to the home of the Champions to gloat when you trail City by 10 points, are on a run of 4 wins in 11 league matches, and your manager is in open conflict with his centre-forward.

Why not, if you’re European Campions (for the second time) and you’re playing the team you beat in the final who've never won it? Seems like an entirely reasonable and expected thing to do, especially if you trail that team by ten points. What do you expect them to do? Doff their caps?

Bizarre thing to suggest.

No wonder they slunk home with their tails between their legs

Not sure they did. Looked like it was getting pretty tasty after the game behind the South Stand.

 

[cookster]

You should work for BT, some of those values are inflated ;) but the point remains.

Well Ziyech was ~34m for starters and Werner nearer 50m. Havertz was a little more than 70m though.

 

[Blue Til Death]

We give out loads of shit to every set of fans we come across.. ive got no problem at all with the chavs giving it large at our place, that’s what it’s all about … They had their day out, got beat by the champions and I bet most of em couldn’t pop them daft blow up cups quick enough on their way home… Silly cunts :-)

 

[jrb]

Guardiola unlocks Sterling and De Bruyne, and Chelsea's fans deserve the credit

Unlike Chelsea's attempt to goad City fans, Kevin De Bruyne and Raheem Sterling did not fall flat on Saturday

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

[mancityvstoke]

If we win it this season we'll know what to take away next year eh.

We'll need a lot of different inflatable cups hopefully

 

[OneTonyHenry]

I remember hundreds of us waving Turkish delights at the United fans in the Platt Lane

I met a Cockney rag years later and we got talking about that game.
He told me he'd spent the night in Manchester Royal Infirmary after that game, as he'd been knocked out by something thrown into the away end.
His mates told him it was a Turkish Delight bar which was rock solid (and had no doubt been in somebody's freezer!)
Never condone such violence but have to say I had a bit of a chuckle - he didn't see the funny side of it!

 

[East Level 2]

It's not like we didn't sing "Did you cry when Yaya scored?" for about half a dozen games against Stoke following the cup final.
It's banter. The balloons looked pathetic from my seat but was banter nonetheless.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

We ended up in the Piccadilly Tavern after the game, started in the Waldorf but as usual poor beer so moved on.

Picc Tav was full of Chelsea lads (only 3 blues inside inc 2 of us that I saw), all having a singsong (sexist & religion based but meh it's a football crowd of lads 18-30), had a chat to a few, no hassles and no inflatable cups.