City have always had their fare share of people willing to knock the club. The only trouble I ever had at Maine Rd was so called City fans booing our own players.
Being a City fan is something that you cannot explain or rationalise. Why else would we have got the attendences we had in the third tier of English football. It's almost a way of life, a calling. Other fans simply don't get how you can be so passionate about a team that has consistently failed to achieve. True fans have never been glory hunters but, this is something we will have to get used to.
One of my proudest and fondest memories of City was when I was at a match sat in the Main Stand with my Dad and my 82 year old Grandad. That summed it up for me. We went because simply we love the club, it bonded us and we had a common interest. My Grandad could wax on lyrically about the old days at Hyde Road, the players, how he used to walk from Grey Mare Lane to Hyde Road to watch the match, the players, the bus rides to away grounds. He even showed me a programme from the 30's when the club asked the City fans behind the goal not to bee opposing players as there had been complaints.
So don't tell me we have no history. I have become part of the history of City, I have even made part of the history of City just as all of you have done.
History is what happened in the past. It doesn't have to be all trophies and success but, it is still history none the less.
