City become the most watched PL team in the US

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BlueMoonRisin’ said:
The answer is obvious. Yanks like winners. When our form drops off so will most of them.
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That isn’t a behavior that only exists in the United States. There are people in Britain that only support a team in good times as well. United’s fanbase has plenty of people that were “glory hunters” who faded away. For my part when I choose to support something it becomes a part of me and I always stick with it.
 
Yeah but wonder how we cheated to inflate those figures, I'm sure someone will come up with a theory on Twitter
 
bailey_wynne said:
Immense amount of piss boiling to follow on from that today. Shows you how much the tribal nature of fans stops them from seeing that of course this would be obvious. We play virtually always the most games, win the most and have a squad filled with stars for the past decade. The same decade that the US market has grown significantly.
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Khaldoon has completely demolished the Glazers and FSG in their own backyard. They were arrogant and complacent (and devious) and now they have been humiliated.
 
Odd socks said:
Great news for the club, like every thing it takes time to grow up to where we are today, same with the media, slowly the red shirt writers will be overtaken by new journalist who be blue but it will take time.
Bluemoon won't be welcoming for our friends across the pond as they will be ridiculed for not living within a stones throw of the ground just as the red shirt's always are.
But revenue is worldwide income and without it we will just be little old city who got lucky.
These 37 million are part of the city group's plans so need to be welcomed along with the rest of the world.
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I have bumped into US (and one Canadian) fans at many home and away games this season. They were more passionate and positive about City than some so-called legacy fans who I know. Anyone who follows City is good enough for me.
 
Ric said:
Pretty impressive for a club with no fans.

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Surely it’s not true the bin dippers tell me we’ve no fans and no global fan base the sheikh obviously bought all the tv’s it’s a myth we have fans, no one every attends a game figures are made up.
 
I`m City vs Real Madrid last year break some viewing figures record in the US last year.
 
As a Yank who felt quite lonely supporting City for much of the last two-plus decades, my observation is the divide between old and young here is stark.

Listening to SiriusFC on the radio, the gobshit(e)s like Tom Rennie, Eric Wynalda, et al still routinely lambast City in favo(u)r of Utd and (especially) Liverpool. I go to a bar last year for City v Arsenal and City fans are outnumbered 15 to 1. I still get questions from know-nothing parents at my kid's high school ("Now . . . you support Manchester United, right?").

But . . . ask my teenagers about THEIR friends . . . and ALL of them, whether they follow the sport closely or not, LOVE Erling Haaland. And many know Kevin DeBruyne too. My daughter says City shirts outnumber any other team displayed at her school save maybe Barcelona (and that was, of course, due to Messi).

So while winning and lots of exposure on the big stages has helped, don't underestimate the drawing power of our Nordic meat shield and our beloved ginger too. They are phenomenons. Americans love personalities as much as teams, especially younger ones.

That said . . . for lunch time my time matches when I can go to my "local" (which is a 15-minute drive from my house -- that's a "local" in California), a little group is starting to build of regulars who are there for City. So the spark has begun to spread a bit.
 
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FogBlueInSanFran said:
As a Yank who felt quite lonely supporting City for much of the last two-plus decades, my observation is the divide between old and young here is stark.

Listening to SiriusFC on the radio, the gobshit(e)s like Tom Rennie, Eric Wynalda, et al still routinely lambast City in favo(u)r of Utd and (especially) Liverpool. I go to a bar last year for City v Arsenal and City fans are outnumbered 15 to 1. I still get questions from know-nothing parents at my kid's high school ("Now . . . you support Manchester United, right?").

But . . . ask my teenagers about THEIR friends . . . and ALL of them, whether they follow the sport closely or not, LOVE Erling Haaland. And many know Kevin DeBruyne too. My daughter says City shirts outnumber any other team displayed at her school save maybe Barcelona (and that was, of course, due to Messi).

So while winning and lots of exposure on the big stages has helped, don't underestimate the drawing power of our Nordic meat shield and our beloved ginger too. They are phenomenons. Americans love personalities as much as teams, especially younger ones.

That said . . . for lunch time my time matches when I can go to my "local" (which is a 15-minute drive from my house -- that's a "local" in California), a little group is starting to build of regulars who are there for City. So the spark has begun to spread a bit.
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I think 2012 was when every Premier League game starting being televised on US television.

The club timed its ascension brilliantly. The team improved at an ideal time to capture market share.

A lot of United's glory years weren't really televised in the United States. The beauty for us is we don't have to put up with the red shirt dynamic domestic UK fans have to deal with. NBC doesn't play the game of making negative commentary about City to capture red shirt audiences.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
As a Yank who felt quite lonely supporting City for much of the last two-plus decades, my observation is the divide between old and young here is stark.

Listening to SiriusFC on the radio, the gobshit(e)s like Tom Rennie, Eric Wynalda, et al still routinely lambast City in favo(u)r of Utd and (especially) Liverpool. I go to a bar last year for City v Arsenal and City fans are outnumbered 15 to 1. I still get questions from know-nothing parents at my kid's high school ("Now . . . you support Manchester United, right?").

But . . . ask my teenagers about THEIR friends . . . and ALL of them, whether they follow the sport closely or not, LOVE Erling Haaland. And many know Kevin DeBruyne too. My daughter says City shirts outnumber any other team displayed at her school save maybe Barcelona.

So while winning and lots of exposure on the big stages has helped, don't underestimate the drawing power of our Nordic meat shield and our beloved ginger too. They are phenomenons.
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It's generational. The fans of the legacy clubs will age & pass on, to be replaced by a young, Internet & social media savvy set of TV presenters, pundits & football fans. They won't give a shit what ManUre or the Dippers did when the world was viewed through Black & white tellys.

The shift towards fans supporting who's dominating global football now, is EXACTLY what the Red Top Mafia are trying to halt, which leaves Sky caught between supporting their original Premier League partners, or giving the new generation of fans what they want.

Try telling a young kid (who'll soon become an adult with his/her own disposable income) to ignore the Viking Meat Shield, our Ginger Prince, or the Stockport Iniesta in favour of idolising Maguire, McTominey, TAA or VVD because of the success their clubs had in the 70s, 80s, 90s & early 2000s. The kids'll politely tell you to do one.

You can see the effect it's already having on Sky who've announced 1100 job losses, as they battle to retain/attract the new generation of young adults with disposable income, who're now watching more independent content on the Internet & social media than on mainstream subscription TV.

TV viewing figures continue to plummet, as younger watchers are opting for creating their own TV schedules by watching free online content where, when & how they want. The power Sky & the old Sky Four used to weild over football is rapidly diminishing by the season.

The kids of today will become the match attending, game watching, merchandising buying adults of tomorrow, who'll then go on to influence the choices their children will make.

Once this happens (our continued success willing), we'll finally begin to see public opinion shifting in our favour, whereby the whining Cartel Clubs & Spuds will look & sound like the bitter, twisted losers they are. Fuck the lot of em!
 
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