Blues Everywhere

[Ribble73]

European away games against a foreign club are the acceptable time to buy a half and half scarf. Fuck knows why they started making them for derbies.

Agreed -and I ended up buying one in Dortmund back in 2013 after walking past a BVB Club Shop literally next door to my Hotel for a couple of days before the game and it grew on me more and more as the Blinkhoffs No 1 kicked in

 

[Ribble73]

Our atmosphere is becoming , or has become in my opinion the best in the league ,we are on a roll , but they have to carry on when us old twats can’t lift them , they’re doing a great job , but the dark days are never far away , will they go the hard yards like we did , part of me doubts it , but we are still around to kick them up the arse if they have to visit Port Vale on a Weds night !

Yes they will -I have no doubt about that

 

[horlock_was_super]

I had a couple of pint’s before the Chelsea home game and sat on the row of seats next to entrance 134.
4 different Dads with their little lads showing them the pitch for the first time was just so touching to see. Every one of the little ‘uns looked thunderstruck. The Dads beaming with pride.
Caught every single one of the Dads eye and nodded approvingly they looked back with sheer pride everyone of them. All in their early/mid 30’s.
50 years of following this club, this family the future looks so bright and the more our Blue Moon eclipses that shower of shite in trafford the gladder my heart feels.
Stay humble young Blues never become what they are.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Barring a few coked up pricks, one of whom was an utter nuisance behind me on Saturday, I second this.

I hear you. Identical problem at Stamford Bridge a few seasons back. Three of them. Turned up at least ten minutes into the match. Sort of no awareness that there might be anyone around them. Barely interested in watching the match as such. Doing the billy-big-bollocks breast beating thing with the arms thrown out wide (i.e. in front of my face) all the fucking time. And absolutely hyper. Left at least ten minutes before the half-time whistle, to snort some more in the bogs, I suppose. Came back a good fifteen minutes into the second half. Left a few minutes before the end. All the time, the hyped-up behaviour that you can read a mile off.
That powder has a lot to answer for.

 

[paulchapo]

I hear you. Identical problem at Stamford Bridge a few seasons back. Three of them. Turned up at least ten minutes into the match. Sort of no awareness that there might be anyone around them. Barely interested in watching the match as such. Doing the billy-big-bollocks breast beating thing with the arms thrown out wide all the fucking time. And absolutely hyper. Left at least ten minutes before the half-time whistle, to snort some more in the bogs, I suppose. Came back a good fifteen minutes into the second half. Left a few minutes before the end. All the time, the hyped-up behaviour that you can read a mile off.
That powder has a lot to answer for.

It's fucking irritating mate to say the least. I like a laugh as much as anyone but the loon behind me had decided for some reason to target me.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I can’t go to a match, even on the hottest days, without a scarf. I even wear my scarf at home on match day!

Half and half scarves… I used to buy one at all the Euro away games I attended and gave it to the son of my car mechanic who loves City. He now attends our home matches so my encouragement I hope helped him become a Blue. So they come in useful sometimes. :-)

I sort of understand that. As a memento of a foreign match, and given to someone who starts as a neutral, with a view to eventually reeling him/her in as blue. Yes, I understand that.
I'd never wear the other team's colours, myself, though. There are no circumstances in which I can imagine doing it.
Very tickled by the image of you wearing your scarf at home, I'm afraid! Although my granddaughter takes the micky out of me when she sees me put on my City top merely to follow the radio commentary on the OS. Well, she did at first, now she merely sighs and rolls her eyes. We've got a problem coming up, because she's got a soft spot for Inter (because of her dad, she knows no better I'm afraid). We are going to be enemies on Saturday evening, when I take her out to watch the match.
And yes, I will admit I pick out one of my scarves, and drape them over the back of my seat while listening to Alistair Mann and reading the text feed. So I've got nothing to chortle about, really…

 

[blue by birth]

You make me laugh mate , you sound like a mid 50’s like I am !

Bloody youngsters lol

 

[flb]

Me and my mates used to be very frustrated when we were that age (in the 00s) because we felt that there were hardly any groups of lads our age going to City. We had a good firm of about 25 of us. We once filled a double decker coach to an away with lads we’d got mates with from Miles Platting, about 70 of us in-all, and it felt at the time that we were one of the few group of lads of that age following City home and away.

When I was at school, I even had classmates who were from City supporting households who were turncoating to the Rags, never mind those whose parents weren’t bothered about footy who just easily became Rags.

We lost a generation of fans thanks to the mismanagement of our football club.

Even now, have a good look around our support and we have loads of older blokes, loads of families and loads of groups of young lads… but try and pick out big groups of 35-45 year olds and you’ll be struggling. In the 90s and 00s I used to think that the 35-45 age group was the biggest.

Thankfully we’re getting them back now and we have a top generation coming through.

Pep has transformed our support IMO , winning one league title doesn’t get things stirring , it’s sustained success that grows a support , our kids are lucky as we have drummed into them our blueness , and I agree on one particular point - after Swales we lost our way with young supporters coming through , those cunts over the road cornered two generations of fans that maybe never came from football supporting families - our young support ( through us older fans also) is growing massively in Manchester and beyond-Pep will never realise I think what he’s done for this club locally,and it’s that that I will remember him for the most - he awoke the sleeping giant that is Manchester City,we will smash 60000 capacity no problem, he will have a stand named after him , there is no doubt about it.

 

[Stockport mackem]

Maybe the wrong thread for this , would just like to say how good our young support has become , all of you young teenage , twenty somethings are the future of this clubs support , excellent song books developing , proper young blues driving this support forward , I’m old school like many on here and our traditional song book (although important to know where we have come from) has been surpassed by young , hungry blues , but all of you , just remember, this is peak - stick with this club in the downs, I’ll thank my old fella who is 80 this year for my allegiance, and you younger fans , don’t forget who made you blue - and just remember, we can drink you fucking kids under the table , but absolutely brilliant, we lost 2 decades of fans with the cunts over the road , it’s our turn now , up the fucking blues !

To be fair....you've always had a fantastic family fan base, that has been able to pass the City baton to the next generations...not just since you've become the force you have....

You've always been loyal..... which is why you lads and lasses deserve all the success, joy, and happiness you are getting....

 

[Berts Neck]

Me and my mates used to be very frustrated when we were that age (in the 00s) because we felt that there were hardly any groups of lads our age going to City. We had a good firm of about 25 of us. We once filled a double decker coach to an away with lads we’d got mates with from Miles Platting, about 70 of us in-all, and it felt at the time that we were one of the few group of lads of that age following City home and away.

When I was at school, I even had classmates who were from City supporting households who were turncoating to the Rags, never mind those whose parents weren’t bothered about footy who just easily became Rags.

We lost a generation of fans thanks to the mismanagement of our football club.

Even now, have a good look around our support and we have loads of older blokes, loads of families and loads of groups of young lads… but try and pick out big groups of 35-45 year olds and you’ll be struggling. In the 90s and 00s I used to think that the 35-45 age group was the biggest.

Thankfully we’re getting them back now and we have a top generation coming through.

Great post PC..for the life of me though I just can not ever fathom switching from Blue to rag..even when it was shit..some rules in life should never be broken... ever.