Confessions of a Glory Hunter.

[pominoz]

Alcohol helped greatly before the take over.

 

[Petetheblu]

For me, City has always been that pssed up alky uncle. The one that gets pissed up at a family wedding and falls over on to the cake whilst dragging the brides veil off, then gets up with cake from head to toe and tells everyone the cake tasted shite anyway.

What made it worse was that your neighbour or mate would have this fooking fantastic uncle that everyone seemed to like, well apart from you, who couldn't stand the c▪▪t.

To say they're an embarrassment would be hiding the truth. They made leaving your house, whether it was a trip to school, shopping or work very difficult and uncomfy. The slagging off, the piss takes would come from every corner of the building you were in. This hapened more often than not, not just evey blue moon like the current City.

Anyone that tells you they've always been proud to be a blue are talking shite, the truth is 'they've always been proud of themselves' to always believe in something that other didn't have the balls to believe in and stick by that constant failure by offerings of their hard earned cash in exchange for more ridicule.

But in all honesty, City have let us down a fair bit and occasionally still do, but just like that pissed up uncle, there family and I'll stick by them.

Kings of cock ups, we've lived everyone.

 

[BimboBob]

Years of living down south or in foreign climes having everyone smile in a shy way at you or grimacing as another defeat/ relegation is revealed in all it's glory.

For years I was proud to be the only City fan in the village.

This was tempered by moments of pure brilliance from the cultured feet of Kinky, The Goat, Ali, Keegan in Div 1 etc etc.

The early glory days of the 70's had been long forgotten until Frank took over.

 

[carlos tevez is a blue]

I was a Chelsea fan from 2003-2009, between 1992 and 2003 I was a United fan, fast forward to 2009 until 2013 I was a City fan, I now support Arsenal as their top of the league.

 

[davymcfc]

I can't really say what it was like on bluemoon because I only joined in 2008. What I will say that being a city fan before we got bought out was frustrating but also a proper laugh. Back in division 2 and 1 we used to go to places and completely take over. We were the 12th man back then. When you saw another city fan in the street you would put your thumbs up. We would laugh in the face of adversity. I have spoken before about losing 4-0 at Wigan in a shameful performance but the fans were singing and dancing all the way home.

Success has changed us and to some degree it kind of has to. There are some proper miserable bastards on here. The expectations are incredibly high which I think has led to poor atmospheres at home matches. Fans have become less patient as well. It's not all doom and gloom though at times city fans still really make me laugh, on our day we can be the best fans in England.

 

[babua_blue]

I was a Chelsea fan from 2003-2009, between 1992 and 2003 I was a United fan, fast forward to 2009 until 2013 I was a City fan, I now support Arsenal as their top of the league.

if thats a sarcasm on city fans , u r wasting ur time mate..go back to redcafe ..u had an unsuccessful attempt of irritating or taunt us :grin:

 

[andyhinch]

Because I've only been a follower for about 4 years now and what always drew me to this club was a sort of "acceptance" or perhaps "humility". And I'm not sure those are even the right words. And "typical City" - while charming in its own way seems to be a throw back to an era we can forget.

I see you're in the states,i'm interested to know what made you aware of our club? were you even aware we existed prior to the money?

Yes. I was aware of the club.

I have a group of friends that follow football and so did I. When we were kids we all followed the Tulsa Roughnecks (try Wikipedia for that team). But that was years ago. My interests were mainly the US national team and the Kansas City Wizards (now Sporting KC). This was around 2006/2008.

When we would gather for drinks or dinner they always talked about their favorite English team and told me I should pick a side. This is the truth: one is a ManU fan, one a Spurs fan, one a Arsenal fan, one a Chelsea fan and one a Liverpool fan (but he likes Barca more than Liverpool - typical). Anyway, they each lobbied me non-stop to start supporting and following their team - especially the Spurs guy.

During this time was the change in ownership and their collective moaning about City intrigued me. I was aware of the limited success in the past and for some reason decided this was the team for me. Don't ask me how that final decision was made other than it was made for me I guess.

And I don't pretend to enjoy the success as much as someone that has followed the team for 40+ years. That would just be silly. And probably a bit insulting to the folks that were there way before me. I'm genuinely happy for the long time fans and curious about their stories.

Hope that explains it.

Your doomed, there's no turning back, it's like an addiction.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

are they like the ardwick roughnecks?

They were called the Ardwick Ramblers. My dad played for 'em!

 

[andyhinch]

Years of living down south or in foreign climes having everyone smile in a shy way at you or grimacing as another defeat/ relegation is revealed in all it's glory.

For years I was proud to be the only City fan in the village.

This was tempered by moments of pure brilliance from the cultured feet of Kinky, The Goat, Ali, Keegan in Div 1 etc etc.

The early glory days of the 70's had been long forgotten until Frank took over.

Clarke?

 

[rick773]

I was a Chelsea fan from 2003-2009, between 1992 and 2003 I was a United fan, fast forward to 2009 until 2013 I was a City fan, I now support Arsenal as their top of the league.

I'm so pissed I since arsenal were last good I got too fat to wear any of the merchandise of theirs I own!

I think people kind of underestimate how "big" city were pre money. Obviously more total fans in the states now but I think there were proportionally more then. I used to travel around the states pretty frequently for work and music shit and in most major cities there was almost a subculture of people that loved oasis, 24 hour party people, had joy division tattoos , and would have probably amputated limbs if they thought that was what was cool in Manchester in the 80s and 90s. Among them were always varying degrees of city fans. It seemed before I left that spurs were getting all the "glory hunter" types I would have thought were headed here.