City_rabin

Rabin,

Even if you did start supporting City in the Tevez era 10-12 years ago, that’s quite a few years now, and you’ve certainly earned your stripes with your defence of the club against the media onslaught of the last couple of years mate.
I think it’s clear from the messages of support on this forum that the vast majority of the fanbase are overwhelmingly appreciative of the work you’ve done.
Genuinely - there are 55,000 regular match goers in normal times, and hundreds of thousands of other supporters throughout the world now. Is it really worth letting a couple of wind up merchants get to you ?
This is the problem with most social media - it creates keyboard warriors.
Anyone could write on Twitter that Mike Tyson is a pussy, knowing full well he wouldn’t be able to find them to knock their lights out !!
Head up lad
For me anyone that supports City is a blue no matter where they are from or for how long. Rabin has gone into battle on our behalf with the Watsap group and the clubs ambitions are to expand our global fan base.
Why on earth would any blue feel the need to diss non manc supporters. We need them to grow our relatively small support and to fulfil the ambitions of our owner.
 

One of my favourite threads. Some great stories.
I bumped it in 2017.
Might bump it again and see if any new overseas blues want to share their story.

@Delphacito - just reading this thread and saw how back then you quickly mentioned how you set your alarm at crazy hours to always watch us.... take it you still never miss a single game mate? (Page14).

I love stuff like that. People madly dedicated to City in different ways no matter where they are from.
 
Same for me, except all my extended family were rags and now 1 sister is married to a rag and the other to a scouser!

I read an argument on Twitter where someone said that a foreign fan staying up late isn't as validated and as much a fan as someone who takes days off work and travels 3hrs to watch the game. I mean its an idiotic argument to gauge whos the biggest fan anyway, but i know someone who lives in Dubai and is a rag, he flies to Manchester and back to Dubai on the same day just to watch them. So i guess if we are using the 'Days off work + time travelled/miles =Biggest fan in the world' equation, that beats everyone.
Speaking of United, I remember reading an account on Red Cafe a few years ago by a United fan from Plymouth who regularly travelled up to Old Trafford for games. He said on one occasion he was in a club in Manchester one night and got talking to a local United fan. Turned out that the local fan didn’t attend matches because he said he couldn’t afford it, yet here he was spending a small fortune getting smashed and ranting on about how unfair it was that he couldn’t get to a game because he couldn’t afford it but clearly could and was probably using it as an excuse for the real reason - he simply couldn’t be arsed going, even though he more or less lived round the corner. It made me realise that when it comes to taking the piss out of United fans I’d been picking on the wrong targets for years. Their out of town match goers shit all over their local plastics!
 
Put simply if we weren’t winning titles every season these ‘so called’ fans claiming to support us would’ve never considered us. End of.

Real mancs are blues, real blues are mancs
 
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Speaking of United, I remember reading an account on Red Cafe a few years ago by a United fan from Plymouth who regularly travelled up to Old Trafford for games. He said on one occasion he was in a club in Manchester one night and got talking to a local United fan. Turned out that the local fan didn’t attend matches because he said he couldn’t afford it, yet here he was spending a small fortune getting smashed and ranting on about how unfair it was that he couldn’t get to a game because he couldn’t afford it but clearly could and was probably using it as an excuse for the real reason - he simply couldn’t be arsed going, even though he more or less lived round the corner. It made me realise that when it comes to taking the piss out of United fans I’d been picking on the wrong targets for years. Their out of town match goers shit all over their local plastics!
Back in the day when the pubs used to be hammered Saturday afternoon with Grandstand and World of Sport on we still had red mates that would give us loads constantly ripping us, that never went because of the wait list and it was too hard to get in but would regularly turn down tickets even freebies from others in the pub.
 
And if you’re from Bamber Bridge you should be supporting Preston North End ;-)

I know what you mean about Maine Road. I hope you find your experience at The Etihad different.

On your final point I have to disagree with you. There are foreign fans and there are foreign fans. Your average foreign fan who buys a shirt to wear whilst watching it on satellite tv and trolling on social media platforms, I have no time for. There are plenty of blues who moved abroad and still follow from afar.

There is another section of supporters who get marginalised. Guys in there seventies who have gone to City their whole lives who don’t go on the internet as they are scared of computer viruses and get their online transactions hacked. I sort out their season ticket renewals for a couple of them. I have participated in club surveys that want to know which social media platforms you are active on, the inference being you be a good blue soldier online.

Do I hold their opinions in more regard to the monosyllabic YouTube comments on the official club channel posting stuff such as “How many likes I get is how many goals City will win by” nonsense?

Short answer is yes. Hop over to the transfer forum and see the posts from FCBarca who writes dewy eyed about Catalonia when he’s from Switzerland. There’s something mentally wrong with these people. If I’d have brought up in Ireland I’d be supporting a Gaelic football team, if I’d been brought up in the States it would be my local American football or basketball team. I can’t understand latching on to stuff that sometimes is on a different continent.

Sorry if that opinion offends.
" There’s something mentally wrong with these people. If I’d have brought up in Ireland I’d be supporting a Gaelic football team, if I’d been brought up in the States it would be my local American football or basketball team. I can’t understand latching on to stuff that sometimes is on a different continent. Sorry if that opinion offends".
I found much of your post reasonable until the offensive and confused phrases I quote. Perhaps you should have put a greater thinking hat on. I was born in Ireland interested in playing an participating in Gaelic Games, local soccer, Rugby Union, Tennis, Cricket, badminton some local, some, quite distance. I was a fan of Henry Cooper, Lester Piggot, England '66 "latching on to stuff that sometimes is on a different continent". do you struggle with imported food,, latch on to Indian & Chinese food, Irish Stew, Haggis, tea, coffee, loo rolls,,Yorkshire pies, diesel, heating oil, petrol, motorvehicles, foreign made clothes Seems there's something insular troubling and sad about people who cannot look outside their own little bubble. No appreciation of Cruyff, Pele, Maradona, total football Ajax, Usain Bolt, Tiger Woods, Muhammad Ali. You really miss so much by not lookink outside your little box.
 
There are Blues all over the world who supported us when we were shit, I know I've met plenty.
You need to get out more.
I started following City in 94 from my hometown of Washington, DC. Went to California for grad school, then lived in Korea and Hong Kong for 10 years before moving back to California. No matter where I lived, I always met some fellow Blues and found a way to follow City. I used to wake up at 3 am in Korea or Hong Kong to listen to an internet radio feed of the match, let alone be able to watch it. And, yes, we were shit back then. And I loved it somehow.

Will be waking up at 4:30 am tomorrow to watch the West Ham match, as I do 4 or 5 or 6 times a season.
 
‘Real Blues’ Haha.

Wow, what a relief! Looks like I’m a real blue... Manc, live in Manc, family all blues, we watch every game together, I’ve seen us shit and good etc.... whoopee dooo!

Don’t make me laugh, I have it easy to be a ‘real blue’ then.

I don‘t set my alarm at 3am/4am just to watch us every week.
I don’t have to save thousands for the trip of a lifetime just to watch us.
I don’t have to explain myself to other fans about why or how I came a blue - coz I’m from Manchester.
I don’t have to worry about my accent in or around the Etihad.

Its easy for me, but in my view some of these fans from overseas or around the UK are just as dedicated and just as obsessed as I am.

If you love City and City is part of who you are, that’s all that matters.
Other people can’t tell you what you are or what ’type of blue‘ you are haha. Madness.

Enjoy the game today, EVERYONE :-)
 
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Put simply if we weren’t winning titles every season these ‘so called’ fans claiming to support us would’ve never considered us. End of.

Real mancs are blues, real blues are mancs

What a load of cods. A few year ago we were on holiday in Hawaii and I met a guy and his wife in a car park both wearing City shirts. They were from Seattle. I asked them why City? They said that they had loved footie and wanted a team to support and looked at all the teams in the PL but had chosen City because, at the time, we were not winning everything! They were coming over for their very first trip to City to see the Liverpool game and a couple of others. They watch every game they can on TV. Are they less a City Fan? What about people like Kiwiblue who gets up at God knows what time to watch us? I now live in near Boston, UK and I go to every home game and it is a 10 hour trip for me to get 'home' and back am I not a 'true blue'? I am now 71 and supported City all my life am I not a 'true blue'?
 
Put simply if we weren’t winning titles every season these ‘so called’ fans claiming to support us would’ve never considered us. End of.

Real mancs are blues, real blues are mancs
So, what youre saying is that the nearest football team to where you live, is the only team you can support?

implicitly saying that anyone outside the immediate environs of Maine road, shouldn’t have been a city supporter from 1926-2003, because there are (any type of) football clubs that are closer to their homes?

and that when city moved to Eastlands they should have changed to their new nearest local team?

give over.

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Think he's talking about post 2008 City fans. Exiled blues are real mancs in my book.
If we only count pre-2008 fans will run out of fans I guessing in 2040. It’s all bollocks, I don’t care who, when and where city fans come. Not lived in Manchester for 35 years, my sons have never lived in Manchester, but have been bluer than I ever was when they were kids, and there 20ish now so started with sven.
 
I remember walking down Denmark Road from Hulme to Maine Road. I used to love the fact that coaches came from all over to follow us. Maybe not as many as United, but we still had supporters clubs in other countries FFS and I was proud of that.

The fact that we now have fans in America, Africa and Asia is absolutely fine by me.
100%

When I’m walking to the ground and see city coaches from the midlands, down south etc and fans from all over the world round the ground I get a tremendous feeling of pride that OUR club is reaching so many people.

They have to make the same level of commitment to a home game as most of us would for an away game (setting off at 7am, ticket, coach, food, beer, getting home late, missing social events, etc) which is a massive commitment.

Makes me feel incredibly grateful, proud and lucky to be from Manchester.
 
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