Booing former players

Lets not pretend we don't do it either. The only reason there's not many ex city players around that we boo now is because we're a club constantly on the up and there's not been a vital player that has requested to leave us for ages. (Milner was different as he wasn't getting games)

If we were to suddenly drop back to being a midtable team and everybody jumped ship, we'd be booing a lot of ex players too. It's just their coping mechanism for coming to terms with being insignificant in todays game. Let them boo, we'll continue winning trophies.
 
BlueTG said:
Ill boo Barton everytime for being an utter ****, and a knob head.
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Seriously, why. What do you get out of it. Does it make you feel better. Does Barton hear you booing and suddenly repent of his sins and thank you for making him see the light.
 
I don't boo players but I can understand why some do boo players who have left because the manner of their leaving sometimes does leave a bad taste in the mouth.
The most obvious example being Sol Campbell who swore blind that he was going to sign a new contract for the team he was brought up playing for and loved and then promptly went on a free to their biggest rivals making himself a huge fee in the meantime.
Football generates emotions and no one likes someone who appears to disrespect their club. Barton was always a bit of a stupid twat but his comments about City when he went to Newcastle were never going to endear him to the City fans when he visited. I can't understand anyone abusing Milner who is a limited player( at the highest level) but who always gave everything when playing for the team but left because he wanted a bigger role, he never whinged in public when not selected.
The media got pretty heavily into the Sterling transfer and some of the reporting was dreadful but he is going to have to get used to some abuse when he plays Liverpool and try to thrive on it . It's the best way of answering back.
 
I don't boo players. However good receptions are reserved for those who left amicably. I have no problem with Milner for example, he made a choice and I have no issue with it. I appreciate what he did for us.
 
It's been going on for years. I remember some booing Paul Power when he scored for Everton against us in 87(?). My Grandad never normally swore (apart from about 'that Dirty B*stard Buchan) but he defintely swore at some that day.
 
Chippy_boy said:
Is it only me who thinks this is absolutely pathetic. Sad and pathetic.

A player who's a star for your club and who decides to leave is suddenly scum who should be booed all the time? Good god, get over it.

The shite Sterling had to put up with on Sunday was a bloody disgrace. We can expect the same again from the sad wankers. The pieces of shit aka fans at Arsenal have been booing Nasri for three years FFS. How fucking sad is that?

And when we played Liverpool on Sunday, or indeed in the league, did we boo Milner? No, we didn't, because we are not all complete arse holes.
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Milner got a lot of shit on Sunday! Sturridge always gets boo'd and given the "one greedy bastard" chant. We give it to Barton and Distin after they left. We even boo'd Dickov and chanted "fuck off Dickov" at him after he dared to celebrate a penalty he scored against us.
 
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:
I remember Peter Barnes getting booed after he left in 1979, however Gary Owen who also left in the same deal to WBA wasn't. I could never get my head round that, broke my heart when those two left and in their pomp as well.
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its a Barm said:
i had forgotten about that, you made me cry again, twat.
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Can't remember where but about a year or so ago I watched (or heard) an interview with Pete Barnes in which he clearly said he hadn't wanted to leave at the time, and neither had Gary Owen.
 
domalino said:
I was thinking about this and the semi-related topic of players celebrating against former clubs last night as I listened to the BBC podcast of the league cup day.

The commentator said he hoped Sterling didn't celebrate too much in front of his former fans.

I was dumbstruck. God forbid he look happy after vindicating a transfer which turned his life upside down. God forbid the 30,000 who booed him for 2 hours see him celebrate!

The fans who sent death wishes to his infant daughter, who crept past security to assault him after the game.

How awful it would be if he celebrated the first trophy of his career while they were present.

They'll say the same tomorrow night, they'll ask him if he'll celebrate if he scores and he'll say no, despite the fact 50,000 will spend the game abusing him, apparently it would be awful for him to celebrate a goal.

But if he did celebrate, even just a little, they'd crucify the kid.

I can't stand it - and IMO it's all related. Now it's not a good gesture to not celebrate if you're against an old club- it's just the minimum requirement.

Similarly unless you depart your former club to go to a smaller club with a lower pay check, or after wasting an amount of your career the fans seem acceptable - then you are a SNAKE! A traitor, a judas, and must be booed for the next 10 years.

Sorry for the rant but it winds me up.
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I absolutely hate it when players don't celebrate goals they score against former clubs. Get fucking celebrating!

If the shoot-out on Sunday did go down to the last Liverpool taker - which would have been Milner - and he'd scored it as a winner for the cup and he ran off celebrating in joy...then i'd say "fair fucking play" to him.

One of my favourite ever celebrations is the Adebayor one. He only ever did two really good things for us and both were in that match. One, when he raked his studs down van Persie's face, and then the goal he scored accompanied by the celebration which caused these twats to lose the plot:
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I would never ever begrudge an ex-City player to celebrate a goal he scores against us.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Football fans are fucking morons, in the main. The older I get the more I realise that. Why would you boo am ex player? We've done it ourselves, to Distin and Sturridge, but nothing like some of the club's we've co e up against. Liverpool's hypocrisy over Sterling was one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen in football.
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I totally agree with you. Its just so stupid. At the end of the day its a job. If you were offered the chance to work somewhere else, doing exactly the same thing, but at a better, more successful place, with a better salary, would you turn it down? Of course you wouldn't. The "there's only one greedy bastard" chant is the most pathetic chant in football, and I find fans of well established clubs, who have fallen on harder times, like Liverpool, Everton, Villa, etc. are the worst for that self entitlement attitude. The way they've hounded the likes of Barry, Delph, Sterling, Lescott, etc, has been embarrassing.
 
I never understood City fans who boo Boateng. I know the transfer didn't work out the way we hoped but I don't recall any bitterness on his side?
 
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