Can We As City Fans Learn...

Its been a baffling experience in recent years i was so used to being called the shity city fan for a few decades now i have the uneasy pleasure of being called the glory hunting city fan by many.
 
have a few mates who support various lower league North West teams and they really do not mind our success , they respect what our supporters have been through over the last 20 odd years , where as Rags,Dippers,Chelski and Goon fans have an attitude of entitlement , no doubt our "new" fan/supporter/bandwagoner may well bring a different aspect to our supporter base , but unfortunately that goes with the territory of becoming a global entity in football, we will attract a minority of right knobheads.
 
I got over 35 years in the bank of those arrogant rag twats giving it the big I am.
Am going to give it them anytime I can.
Whilst they are down I will kick them in the bollocks in a heartbeat.
Fuck them.
 
manimanc said:
I got over 35 years in the bank of those arrogant rag twats giving it the big I am.
Am going to give it them anytime I can.
Whilst they are down I will kick them in the bollocks in a heartbeat.
Fuck them.
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I hear you brother, I really do. It was the same for me. However I know how I felt at the time and it was shite if I'm honest. It also shaped the way I see football and City and our fans today and for that I'm grateful. I'm absolutely buzzing at the moment and kind of feel like the waiting has ended. We are now brilliantly run football club. The Rags will be feeling horrible. What I enjoy the most though is the fact that a lot of their supporters don't know how to handle this. They are in territory unfamiliar to them. They were bread differently to us. They were bread on a successfull club winning constantly, their lives shaped by it. Their characters shaped by it. Watching them now like fish out of water struggling to cope with the head fuck that is actually going on is all the joy I need. I'm not stooping to their level of mockery and arrogance. I pitty them because they are lost on a path I've already tread.
 
theres only one carlito said:
I hear you brother, I really do. It was the same for me. However I know how I felt at the time and it was shite if I'm honest. It also shaped the way I see football and City and our fans today and for that I'm grateful. I'm absolutely buzzing at the moment and kind of feel like the waiting has ended. We are now brilliantly run football club. The Rags will be feeling horrible. What I enjoy the most though is the fact that a lot of their supporters don't know how to handle this. They are in territory unfamiliar to them. They were bread differently to us. They were bread on a successfull club winning constantly, their lives shaped by it. Their characters shaped by it. Watching them now like fish out of water struggling to cope with the head fuck that is actually going on is all the joy I need. I'm not stooping to their level of mockery and arrogance. I pitty them because they are lost on a path I've already tread.
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Amen brother.
 
theres only one carlito said:
I hear you brother, I really do. It was the same for me. However I know how I felt at the time and it was shite if I'm honest. It also shaped the way I see football and City and our fans today and for that I'm grateful. I'm absolutely buzzing at the moment and kind of feel like the waiting has ended. We are now brilliantly run football club. The Rags will be feeling horrible. What I enjoy the most though is the fact that a lot of their supporters don't know how to handle this. They are in territory unfamiliar to them. They were bread differently to us. They were bread on a successfull club winning constantly, their lives shaped by it. Their characters shaped by it. Watching them now like fish out of water struggling to cope with the head fuck that is actually going on is all the joy I need. I'm not stooping to their level of mockery and arrogance. I pitty them because they are lost on a path I've already tread.
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fuck em.....
 
Hesh said:
We should take the piss out of the rags and particularly the scousers a hell of a lot more than we currently do.

At wembley there should be non stop choruses of you nearly won the league and the gerrard song. Let's really rub the cunts noses in it.
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All fine and well, but if we're losing it'll look a bit stupid, why not just support City, and avoid sinking to their level.
 
bluemoon risin' said:
How those rags used to rub it in when we ere lickle owd Ciddy. Bertie maghoo bitter massives. We were no threat to them, Like a flea ridden dog with distemper, they would kick us when we were down, and boy was we down! I hated Monday mornings at work when they would queue up to gloat and take the piss, especially after they'd thrashed us in Derby games!

They never ever thought we would be a threat to them, especially when Fergie was winning everything whilst we languished(at best) mid table, and let's not forget all those relagations/promotions we had under numerous managers. We were almost forever in transition from the Mercer/Allison era to Thaksin buying us. Constant managerial changes, a new manager would come in, be given a transfer kitty, weed out the deadwood to be then sacked, and the next manager would do the same, we were forever in transition as a club.

Nothing really changed till 'Thickskin Shitorwhatra' bought us, that's when we started to play catch up. Really got the media sit up and take notice in '08 when Sheikh (Willy Wonka) Mansour awarded us his last golden ticket! Owd Slugworth Wenger and the purple nosed piss can really hated us as did their fans for our newfound nouveau riche wealth. Our opulent council house didn't look right to the toffee nosed cartel that was once the constant top 4. Just think, if Sheikh Mansour wanted, he could pimp it up and paint the place in gold leaf, that would fuckin' sicken 'em!

I always said to any rag that would care to listen that when Fergie retired, that's when they would lose their dominance and be in transition as the successor(Moyes) had to rip up Fergie's magic mantle of success and instil his own ways, to gain any credibility whatsoever from the media. Same goes for Van Gall, and he too is equally fucking them up as Moyes did! lol.

I'm taking our up rise and success in my stride, and even nowadays, I have to pinch myself on how far we've come. It is not too long ago when Dikov rescued us from possibly being forever in a football wilderness, and i'll never forget that and many other moments of joy and sorrow following the blues before the moneymen came.

Here's to the future, let's drink and be merry!
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Do you get this more in central manc and the surrounding M postcodes as I have never had anyone call me a bitter, a Bertie, use the word massive, citeh, lickle old ciddy etc etc.

All of my mates and people I know locally are either rags, Liverpool, Everton or City and the only thing I do get is empty seats. The rags I know who go hate what they are becoming and the shit they serve up weekly but they don't begrudge what we have generally. The scousers generally have been fine because they hate the rags.

I tend to only ever find the real bitterness and stuff on forums mostly posted by people who don't go. However having never lived in the centre, I can't vouch for that. Is it completely different?
 
I agree with Cleavers - we had class when we had nowt, and I intend to keep it now we're on the up.
I won't stoop to the levels they have over the years. Just give them a nice little wave as we pass them by. We know what's awaiting them in mediocrity land - but they have no clue ;-)
 
I'll just keep quiet and never give it the big 'un, treat them with the contempt they deserve and ignore them.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Do you get this more in central manc and the surrounding M postcodes as I have never had anyone call me a bitter, a Bertie, use the word massive, citeh, lickle old ciddy etc etc.

All of my mates and people I know locally are either rags, Liverpool, Everton or City and the only thing I do get is empty seats. The rags I know who go hate what they are becoming and the shit they serve up weekly but they don't begrudge what we have generally. The scousers generally have been fine because they hate the rags.

I tend to only ever find the real bitterness and stuff on forums mostly posted by people who don't go. However having never lived in the centre, I can't vouch for that. Is it completely different?
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I think in person most tell a very different story to on a forum or behind people's backs.
Face to face, few begrudge us, but I'd damn sure they'll slag us off amongst themselves.
My own experience is that United fans have coped slightly better than Liverpool fans. For Liverpool, the 20 years of glory have been replaced with 20 years of bitterness and they're just spreading it to City as well as United.
 
wagonman said:
As we grow remorselessly into one of the world's most powerful and successful clubs, can we, as City fans, learn how to handle ourselves with class and dignity?

Despite all the triumphs that will be coming our way over the years, can we avoid becoming arrogant gits like all the ones we have faced ourselves for decades?

Or would we all rather be loud mouthed, abnoxious twats, taking the piss out of the Scum and Scouse fans et al and gloat non stop for a decade or so?

Just wondering...

JJ
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I wonder if the OP can see the irony in his post?
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Do you get this more in central manc and the surrounding M postcodes as I have never had anyone call me a bitter, a Bertie, use the word massive, citeh, lickle old ciddy etc etc.

All of my mates and people I know locally ar e either rags, Liverpool, Everton or City and the only thing I do get is empty seats. The rags I know who go hate what they are becoming and the shit they serve up weekly but they don't begrudge what we have generally. The scousers generally have been fine because they hate the rags.

I tend to only ever find the real bitterness and stuff on forums mostly posted by people who don't go. However having never lived in the centre, I can't vouch for that. Is it completely different?
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They've been calling us all that shit for years mate, and they still sing the "Citeh are a 'massive' club" song. Having said that, the match going rags I know locally are generally ok, it's the ubiquitous rag Sky s/c holders that come from anywhere except Manchester that are the real wankers!
 
cleavers said:
All fine and well, but if we're losing it'll look a bit stupid, why not just support City, and avoid sinking to their level.
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I agree that most songs resonate more when we're winning but even if we're losing we can take solace in the fact that failing to win the league hurt them way more than failing to win the league cup would hurt us.

Sinking to their level ? I think generic songs about how much we hate the rags or scousers might come into that category but songs crowing about specific victories are fair game. When we play L'pool we should sing about beating them to the title just as much as we would sing about the 6-1 when playing the rags
 
In Gorton 5-1 was painted on a roof in big numbers from the 90s. Times have changed. We won't be like them, but we'll remember their antics.
They deserve something back. It isn't like they made a banner out of our misery... or held up boards about us etc

Hold back completely? Refrain from responses? Or give it back with humour? Each to their own...

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Oh and they thought it was theirs that season...

 
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bluemoon risin' said:
They've been calling us all that shit for years mate, and they still sing the "Citeh are a 'massive' club" song. Having said that, the match going rags I know locally are generally ok, it's the ubiquitous rag Sky s/c holders that come from anywhere except Manchester that are the real wankers!
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I have been working all over mainland UK for over 14 years and drank in many a pub with supporters of many clubs. Before the money came we seemed to be a club that many of those supporters liked, acknowledging the fact that we were/are proper supporters whilst (mostly) being in the shadow of Man-ure. A few have given it the 'glory hunter' remark to which I usually quip "I've been a glory hunter since the early 70's!" Like I say, the rags with no connection to Manchester or real affinity to United are the ones that are the most gobby. Quite a few times I've shut them up in fron of their mates with "i bet I've been to Old Trafford more than you and i'm a blue"!

Generally, even though our fortunes as a club have changed, we as supporters are still generally liked in my experience, as many of them wish us success over United. But, that could change in the future...
 
Where I live virtually all the neutrals wanted us to win in 2012. In 2014, people were backing Liverpool as if they were a tortured underdog who had scraped their way to the top on a pittance and looking to do justice against us 'filthy rich'. And this was the same team they were as bored as hell with in the late 80s for winning everything!

Question is, will the same sympathy be felt for the rags after a few years in the wilderness?
 
If opposing fans want to dish it out then they better sit back and prepare to have it thrown back at them!

The shit we get from Everton fans and Villa fans made it all the much better knocking Everton out the semi-final and it'll make it even more sweeter seeing Villa go down.

Other than that on the off chance I meet a decent football fan of any supported club then I too will be decent with them!
 
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