City football shirts everywhere

Crewelad said:
Fascinating situation.

City have always been my 2nd team (since 1976?) when they thrashed Man Utd 4-0 (glory hunter maybe?). Loved that. Lived in Crewe then, quite a few City but mostly Rags or Scousers and Stoke.

Have posted occasionally on here, but sorry I was brought up in Wolverhampton and family from there too so unfortunately as I grew up I plumped for Wolves rather than City. What a mistake that was eh (:-.

What I have always admired about City is their (by comparison) local support. Everyone admires this. Even the FA Cup final last season emphasised that this was still the case. It was a tremendously satisfying game to watch as an outsider and see clips of cockneys supporting London-Irish and Mancs supporting the Blues.

When Wolves were in the lower leagues, and I am sure this was replicated in every town, it seemed like the place was infested with Man Utd and Liverpool glory hunters, to the point that Wolves fans in Wolverhampton were in the minority. Especially impoverished inner city areas, BME concentration too. To some degree that is still the case.

But now 90% of kids support Wolves. One huge change though is the apparent decline of man Utd fans locally. If they were on Sky for a game, 15 years ago a pub locally would be packed out with them. These days we watched a game last season, and one lad gave an little cheer amongst perhaps 50 watching. Man Utd are definitely on the decline which is great, but I don't want City to go that way even if it is perhaps inevitable. Having said that, when me and my son, went to watch Wolves away at Fulham last year (bless him he has never seen us win away in 21 attempts), we were stood at Euston waiting to catch our train back. The Manchester derby train pulled into Euston, and around 1,000 Man Utd fans got off. Not a single City fan. We just stood there laughing at them. Love it when Wolves play them and the South bank sings "You only live round the corna", or "Mourinho's right, ya fans are shite".

Its great that City are now appealing to more and more with no links to Manchester, but I also really don't want this to happen. But it is inevitable of course and can't be controlled by anyone. Either way, Man Utds decline outside London and Ireland is a joy to see, at least at present.

In all fairness, I know Man Utd have strong support in Manchester, but City must really be turning the tide these days. You deserve every lovely moment of that.

Loads of mixed messages in my post, just random thoughts. Sorry to intrude.
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Nice post mate and you’re definitely not intruding (more positive than many City fans who post in here)
 
MadchesterCity said:
Up in Aberdeen (a previous rag stronghold) we are seeing the same, Ive converted a fair few at our kids school, it ain’t that difficult these days though. At the football summer camps City tops were second most popular with the kids after Aberdeen tops, was only one rag shirt on show and over ten City shirts
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Used to live in Aberdeen in the late 60's & 70's...my chum Gordon Anderson & me were the only City fans in town...[emoji38][emoji38], clearly it's changed days now.
 
noblelord said:
I live in Essex and go into London a couple of times a month and for the past few weeks the Puma shop in Carnaby Street has had City kit showing as its main and virtually only display
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Been a very long time since I was in Carnaby Street. Used to love the Mod shops there.

Is soccer scene still there? Was absolutely brilliant for football shirts, you could even get away shirts for non-league teams there back in the day, they stocked everything!
 
working in Bromsgrove this week, seen about 6, few of them saying Haaland. hes clearly seen as the next Messi/Ronaldo amongst kids
 
Holidaying on Ile de Re, a small island on the west coast of France, accessible via a bridge from La Rochelle. Camping on the far end of the island, at the lighthouse, La Phare des Baleines. 5 restaurants grouped around the lighthouse, and in 2 of them waiters with City tops.

Too many pints of strong Belgian beer last night, fell into the tent singing un, deux, trois, quatre, Ederson and Ake .......

They call this place the end of the world, and we are conquering it!
 
Crewelad said:
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Psychedelic Casual said:
‘City football shirts everywhere’, yet not necessarily at City games.

Yesterday I saw Dynamo Zagreb shirts and one bloke in their crew who had a Hajduk Split shirt. Loads of Bahia shirts. Two England shirts. One bloke had a a Celtic shirt on!

That’s just from what I saw.

I wouldn’t fucking dream of daring to wear a City shirt at another team’s ground in the home end (even if we were the away team, never mind if I was there as a neutral). I actually don’t think it should be allowed. Much like they can enforce a rule which states you can’t take an umbrella in when it’s raining, people shouldn’t be wearing other club colours in our home section at all.
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Ha this post has just reminded of those hats in the 80s that were 2/3 city and 1/3 Celtic or rangers

Think the trend was to cut the bobble off as well
 

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Exactly, everywhere I go I see City shirts and it used to be rare enough. Remember on hols in early 2000s in Spain and the sports shops with all the jerseys above or around the signage, used crack up they would never have City
 
Bilboblue said:
Been a very long time since I was in Carnaby Street. Used to love the Mod shops there.

Is soccer scene still there? Was absolutely brilliant for football shirts, you could even get away shirts for non-league teams there back in the day, they stocked everything!
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I work right next to Carnaby street, afraid it’s not. Handy for getting my lads Xmas and Birthday presents from the Puma shop though :) London is full of kids in City shirts, my boys class alone there’s 3-4 other City fans.
 
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