City and Religion

Tim of the Oak said:
I’ve estimated mate. It’s not a perfect science.

In addition, I was a regular on the match bus from Stretford to Maine Road for many years. Halve the Blues I knew were Catholics.
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I don't think there is any link to any religion that I have experienced. Matt Busby was Catholic I think and a lot of Ireland support Utd. However virtually every Catholic I know from Manchester supports City so I don't believe it's in issue at all. Probably not for City or United in all honesty.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
It was more than a minority
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That chant was heard every game back in the day. I had a City Bob hat with rangers on it as I liked Rangers and I wasn't catholic. My dad said I was born a protestant and my mother protested with him that I was christened in a Baptist Church and I grew up going to Sunday school there.

I told my parents i was neither and all religion is a crock of shite. I no longer prefer Rangers over Celtic. If I had to choose I'd say Celtic because of the mess Rangers fans left Manchester City centre in after the 2008 UEFA Cup final.

But religion should have no bearing on what team you support and I'm just glad that secrarianism doesn't affect English football like it like it does in Scotland.
 
Went to the monestary, gorton was alway full of blues who were irish/irish decent and catholic, many in my school were city fans but also would if asked about scottish football be favourable about celtic.

City had more links to celtic than the rags ever had also, this stuff was some myth they started in the 70s as the only 2 clubs to win the european cup at the time so the rags latched onto them and city fans then went for the opposite team, being one of tge otger was never linked to the clubs St Marks roots of us being a proddy club.

The half n half city/celtic and city/rangers bobble hats were just as prominent as each other in the early 90s on the kippax.

all modern bullshit much like how red scouse nobs like tony evans claim to be some offshoot of the irish disapora even though liverpool has a lower number of people with irish roots than us, burnley, preston, leeds, etc
 
urban genie said:
Went to the monestary, gorton was alway full of blues who were irish/irish decent and catholic, many in my school were city fans but also would if asked about scottish football be favourable about celtic.

City had more links to celtic than the rags ever had also, this stuff was some myth they started in the 70s as the only 2 clubs to win the european cup at the time so the rags latched onto them and city fans then went for the opposite team, being one of tge otger was never linked to the clubs St Marks roots of us being a proddy club.

The half n half city/celtic and city/rangers bobble hats were just as prominent as each other in the early 90s on the kippax.

all modern bullshit much like how red scouse nobs like tony evans claim to be some offshoot of the irish disapora even though liverpool has a lower number of people with irish roots than us, burnley, preston, leeds, etc
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Most popular Scouse surnames are all Welsh.
 
It wasn’t just religion it was geography, but United’s success shook that up a bit. All the areas near Maine Rd were City from Moss Side to Didsbury - but a lot of those areas back then had working class Irish communities and support for United was stronger with them, though obviously you had the Gallagher brothers and other Irish Manc Blues, but that made sense because if you grew up in Burnage or Withington or Levy or Longsight they were Blue areas. Similarly Black lads and Asian lads supported City because that was the club associated with Moss Side, Rusholme, Longsight, Fallowfield etc. Sikh lads followed United being from Old Trafford. This had little to do with what was happening on the pitch or even got in the ground, it was what you felt was yours, saw and related to. There was definitely a period when United were seen as not actually that popular in inner south Manchester unless you were Irish, and more of a Salford thing. I was a kid then but that was the way I knew things until United got sexy in the early 90s and we moved out of south Manchester ten years later, so that story has been forgotten by folk but for many the old ties are still there. I always heard we had Masonic ties as well - with sky blue being the colour of heaven!
 
All that nonsense can stay north of the border.

Proud that City has always been a totally welcoming, open club, black, brown, green or from Mars.

From Bert Trautmann, to being one of the first ‘big’ clubs to give local black lads like Alex Williams, Steve Bennett & Clive Wilson their breaks, to the first alien in David Silva. We’ve always been a bastion of inclusivity undefined by religion or anything else.
 
Citizen Green said:
All that nonsense can stay north of the border.

Proud that City has always been a totally welcoming, open club, black, brown, green or from Mars.

From Bert Trautmann, to being one of the first ‘big’ clubs to give local black lads like Alex Williams, Steve Bennett & Clive Wilson their breaks, to the first alien in David Silva. We’ve always been a bastion of inclusivity undefined by religion or anything else.
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Not forgetting Steve's brother, Dave!
 
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