Confessions of a Glory Hunter.

[Alex the Blue]

I say "welcome aboard" basokla, you don't sound anything like a glory hunter to me. People decide to support a team for all sorts of different reasons and you've got your own reason, enjoy the ride and hope you miss the bumps some of us old farts have hit in the past.

he started supporting us when we ran into some money, with the possibility of silverware on the horizon. How is that not being a glory hunter?

His 2nd post on the first page of this thread explains why he chose us to support. Perhaps it's a matter of opinion of what makes a glory hunter.

One fact is that any successful team in almost any sport worldwide attracts lots of new supporters. I for one wont be too upset if in the future we have a 60,000 plus stadium that's full for most games.

 

[BlueBearBoots]

One thing unites us - we are all blue!! Doesn't matter if you became a fan last week or 40 odd years ago like me. We are all in this together

 

[NorCalBlue]

OP before I reply I need to know whether you would ever wear a half and half scarf ?




Just askin'

No. I would not.

But I did buy one for my Chelsea friend (his request) at the friendly in St. Louis earlier this year.

Good lad. Now to answer your question which is slightly misleading.
If you are asking what was it like supporting City.. it was shit
If you are asking what it was like on Blue Moon, it was shit.

In the relegation years away games were drink, funny cigarettes and a laugh interrupted by football. It was a little surreal, I remember going to some crap mid week away match whilst on the same night the rags were conquering Europe but it was as though they didn't exist. It was as if you had to go, you had no choice. The football was shit but so what.
In more recent times but before the money things were not much better. The brilliant tactician Stuart Pearce devised a playing system that meant we didn't score at home from Christmas until the end of the season. If it hadn't been for alcohol I think I would be in an institution !
But we still turned up. It is in our blood, we are pessimists, worriers, miserable bastards but we are blue. I am sure there are City fans who would like those days back.

Any way welcome on board, anyone that doesn't wear a half and half (or take photos half way through the match - ask which is the Stretford End or call it soccer) is welcome.

Slightly off topic, but can everyone get over this 'soccer' phobia. As has been mentioned on here by several posters, 'soccer' is an English term used to differentiate association football from rugby football. It's been around since the beginning and was used quite frequently and interchangeably with 'football' until fairly recently (possibly since the English started watching American football in the 1980s). My dad frequently called it soccer throughout my childhood in Ashton, where he was born and raised and from where he'd been going to City games since the 1950s, and from where his dad had been going since long before that (including the 84,000 game against Stoke, where there were probably tons of people calling it soccer). It may have more recently become associated with America, but (a) they didn't start it, and (b) so f**king what?

 

[shakermaker85]

I'm only a blue because I had a glory chasing dad in the late 60's. We all start somewhere. Welcome !

 

[S04]

How odd..2nd time today I randomly found people talking about Tulsa Roughnecks, there was a Sheff United fan talking about them at work as well with his mate this morning.

 

[adrianr]

We had it bad, but we had no money so our expectations were limited to either surviving or getting promotion

Just about sums it up. Didn't make the rag hoards at school any more bearable though.

I remember so many of my weekends being dictated by the City score. Lost and my mum would be in a foul mood, win and we'd get ice cream or an afternoon out. Would love to be a City fan back at my old school now, tables will have turned somewhat I'm sure.

 

[blueste41]

Alcohol helped greatly before the take over.

And for some days after it to!
Or that may be just my excuse....

 

[DortmundDummy]

I was a late starter as I was circa 14/15 (1974/5) when I first started going to football, I went to old trafford first with mates and f@@king what a load of bellends the crowd were then and yes now too, even then as a kid I wondered why was the bus full of pissed up cockneys and irish going to the match, I simply did`nt get it !! Then I alternated with some CITY supporting friends and it became obvious as the nose on your face that CITY are the true team in manc, as a wet behind the ears teenager though I did ask often of the nited fans from all points west WHY support united..... ??? MUNICH INNIT

so not only were the feeble minded twats GLORY HUNTERS
they are even worse they are SYMPATHY SUPPORTERS............hmmmm they could give the mock tearful scousers a run :))

 

[Ronnie the Rep]

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.

This describes me exactly

 

[Kippax.]

I know I'm new and that's what is whispered about the likes of me behind my back but I've just got to know...what was it like before 2009ish around here?

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.

Anyway, the day of the FA Cup Final debacle last year I was never more proud to be a Blue. Gotta stick with your side even in defeat. Especially in defeat.

So, I'm rambling I know but I would just like a historical perspective on expectations and reaction from the past. Are we being too hard, about right or too easy on these guys?

And take it easy on my naïveté .

rag