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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Great post matr but it was what it is. You can't be the biggest most successful club in the world without attracting a few fans from elsewhere. Same thing would happen to Wolves.
 
‘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.
 
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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Regarding Bahia .. there's been loads of things on official site about it being a "Bahia" week/end.
 
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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I saw a bloke behind South stand with a Bayern shirt on
 
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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This is football as Pick 'N' Mix.

The Etihad is now a must visit attraction in Football World.

Think on this, in Disney World not everyone feels obliged to wear a Micky Mouse T shirt, coz there's lots of characters to choose from. So why should a football tourist visiting an attraction in Football World feel obliged to wear a City shirt? Other clubs shirts are easily available.
 
My son works at Aiglon College in Switzerland and they have teamed up with City's academy. School has full time City coach. All the pupils have City kits for PE etc and he was saying the town is now full of blue shirts. We are expanding worldwide for sure.
 
The perfect fumble said:
This is football as Pick 'N' Mix.

The Etihad is now a must visit attraction in Football World.

Think on this, in Disney World not everyone feels obliged to wear a Micky Mouse T shirt, coz there's lots of characters to choose from. So why should a football tourist visiting an attraction in Football World feel obliged to wear a City shirt? Other clubs shirts are easily available.
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Cunts
 
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