City football shirts everywhere

Essex blue said:
We live in Essex and today I took a half day and took the kids upto London for a day out.

I was surprised by the number of kids wearing the latest home shirt. Today I counted at least 7 kids wearing city shirts and only saw 2 arsenal shirts and 1 West Ham shirt!

My sons under 11 team has a squad of 13 and 4 of them including my son are city fans. Not unusual in Manchester but in Essex it is!

How times are changing as it was always Utd or Liverpool shirts if it wasn’t a London team.

Is anyone else noticing the large number of kids outside of Manchester wearing the famous blue
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Where abouts in Essex are you?
 
shevtheblue said:
My missus has relatives in Norway, when we won the league the first time i couldn't believe that their kids over there had become City fans because of it. Then some more of her relatives came to England to visit earlier this summer, and they had also become City fans because of Haaland.

I was in Paris last week and there were a few City shirts dotted around there as well.

I remember going to Tunisia in 2014 and looking to buy a fake City shirt, but they had none anywhere of any quality. When i asked the guy, he just laughed and said City were a small club and would never be big enough to have shirts being sold there. It was hot and tiring in the sun and that got the better of me, so i told him he would be begging to order City shirts due to demand in future because we were gonna take over. Who's laughing now you stupid **** (assume he obviously reads this forum).
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Love this mate, made me chuckle.
 
Still 80% (ish) 'red shirts' in North Lancs area I live in(mostly 30/40 something 'geezers 'who've never been anyway near 'their' respective grounds) Over the 20 odd years I've been here there have always been a few City shirts about, most City fans I know do and always have been to matches(even if only a couple of times a season). When my daughter was at school she said the same, she said the blues in her year were outnumbered but generally went to games with their parents.
Quite a few kids in City shirts now. Sometimes see a few Leeds, Everton and Newcastle(?) shirts around, plus the Real Madrid, PSG ones (probably because they look smart) very few of the Lancashire clubs though (Blackpool, Burnley,Preston etc.) only really Morecambe.
 
kippax123 said:
This thread reminds me of camel mouth saying he didn't see a city top until Aguero's goal all those years back. Times have DEFINITELY changed since then. What a time to be a blue!
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He wouldn't of done because he would of been too busy face deep in some extra marital minge at the time.


Have it!
 
Hart of the Matter said:
My wife thinks I am a sad old fkr. 60 years old and I still go into snide kit shops abroad and make sure City shirts are on top of dipper and rag shirts throughout the shop... Sad but true...
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Yes,but you're not really doing a proper job unless you stick United/Dipper shirt down the back of your jeans first, and give your sweaty arse a quick wipe first.
"If a job is worth doing,it's worth doing well" !!!
 
Zapcity said:
Still 80% (ish) 'red shirts' in North Lancs area I live in(mostly 30/40 something 'geezers 'who've never been anyway near 'their' respective grounds) Over the 20 odd years I've been here there have always been a few City shirts about, most City fans I know do and always have been to matches(even if only a couple of times a season). When my daughter was at school she said the same, she said the blues in her year were outnumbered but generally went to games with their parents.
Quite a few kids in City shirts now. Sometimes see a few Leeds, Everton and Newcastle(?) shirts around, plus the Real Madrid, PSG ones (probably because they look smart) very few of the Lancashire clubs though (Blackpool, Burnley,Preston etc.) only really Morecambe.
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The big change in my part of Lancashire (Wyre) has been the vanishing of Rags shirts. It seems to be mostly Liverpool with an increasing number of City shirts, especially the youngsters. There are also quite a few PNE and Blackpool shirts (both these clubs have loyal hard-core supports).
The signing of Haaland is a game-changer for City. He is the biggest box-office star we have ever signed and already has a huge personal fanbase across the world which will only get bigger. Grealish and Foden are also very commercially valuable to City and will be even more important if England do well at the World Cup.
 
I went on a trip to the rainforest in Borneo in 2012.
There was a camp we stayed at in the heart of the rainforest, only accessible via boat through alligator infested waters.
In the camp they had a little sand pitch which the local children were playing on.
To my surprise at least two of the kids with city tops on!
Couldn't believe it.
 
Beckenham Blue said:
Mentioned this on another thread about a year ago.

It's a generational thing and City have been attracting the latest generation of kids who are getting in to football over the last 10 year, not just in the UK, it's everywhere.

Like it or loathe it, the good thing is that it likely secures their support for the next 50+ years along with the long term future success of the club.
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Considering most of us don't get our first big memory of football until we are 7 or 8. So by the end of this season nearly all school going kids will have never seen the Rags win the league
 
Let’s face it. We have only had 10 years from that aguero moment which in itself would have brought us thousands of new fans 8yo to say 15yo. Continued success and our playing style will be attracting those age groups also. So if we didn’t win another thing you would still see more increase in shirts over next 10 years.
It’s why the owners want that champions league.
I’m not fussed myself. I’d rather be part of a small exclusive fan base. We used to bump into a city shirt on holiday and 99 times out of 100 they would have been to games.
Now many haven’t been to England let alone Manchester.
The likes of rags and dippers talk about the history. Yes we had some in past but we are making big history now.
In 15 years we can tell our grandkids we watched the city team smash the league 100 points 100 goals.
Shirt sales will grow for sure cos we ain’t finished yet.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
The big change in my part of Lancashire (Wyre) has been the vanishing of Rags shirts. It seems to be mostly Liverpool with an increasing number of City shirts, especially the youngsters. There are also quite a few PNE and Blackpool shirts (both these clubs have loyal hard-core supports).
The signing of Haaland is a game-changer for City. He is the biggest box-office star we have ever signed and already has a huge personal fanbase across the world which will only get bigger. Grealish and Foden are also very commercially valuable to City and will be even more important if England do well at the World Cup.
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City shirts aplenty in Fleetwood, smattering of dips & rag ones too but definitely more blue.

Got told off by Mrs Moon for laughing & talking too loud when seeing a raggy second strip shirt with ronaldo on the back. Wonder if PR37 will ever actually be on the pitch in it?
 
Yeah. Quite a few City shirts here in Perth, Australia (now). My folks emigrated out here with me and my sister in 1981 (just before the FA Cup final - my father was at the Semi Final and contemplated delaying our migration). Barely a City shirt anywhere in ~30 years. Over the last decade definitely see more and in particular the last 3-5 years.

It’s the Kids that like football/soccer and pick a team. It makes sense that they pick a team that’s successful, plays attractive football and has some stars in their lineup. Iconic moments help too. As another poster said it’s a generational thing and out owners have/will continue to play the long game in this regard.
 
Walked through buxton last Saturday counted 5 or 6 city tops .
One rag idiot.
I had my city top on.
The rags mate said to me what do you think to his shirt.
I just laughed and said they're fucking shite.
 
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