Do foreign fans understand the hatred?

[Humlannitton]

Just made the mistake of celebrating Henrik Larsson in another thread in the general fooball forum...

As a long time sports fan (icehockey and Skellefteå AIK; <a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCvV7xAlgk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCvV7xAlgk</a>) I know everything about rivalry. Our main rivals have always been a team called Björklöven, and even now when we haven't played in the same division for almost a decade we still genuinly hate each other. For me, it is not difficult to transmit this feeling to supporting City and hating the rags.

I feel genuinly sick every time I see them win, and I love it everytime I see them drop points. I can sit down and watch a Rags game, just to see them lose. I have friends who are long time rags, and I could never ever sit down with them to watch the derby. Because I know that if we - god forbid - would lose, I would break something.

My son in law gave me United note book at Christmas just to tick me off, and I could actually barely touch it.

At the same time it makes me feel a little embaressed, since I don't have any actual connection to Manchester as a city and shouldn't be able to love/hate as much as I do.

 

[Ducado]

Hate is a very strong word and it's a word I would try not to equate with football, dislike may be, but hatred is taking it all a bit too far in my opinion.

When all said and done it's a game of football, the operative word being GAME, to hate one set of people because they support another club, is taking it all a bit too far

 

[Dribble]

Hate is a very strong word and it's a word I would try not to equate with football, dislike may be, but hatred is taking it all a bit too far in my opinion.

When all said and done it's a game of football, the operative word being GAME, to hate one set of people because they support another club, is taking it all a bit too far

Mmmmmmm......................... Nah speak for yaself mate. In football terms hatred just about sums up how I feel about the Rag bastards! When we were shit they made my life a fuckin misery and I don't forgive or forget that easily.

An enemy is for life not just until we're at their level.

 

[Rammyblues]

TBH 'foreign' should apply to anyone outside of the confines of Manchester!

I am getting there, taken thirty odd years but I am starting to appreciate the difference between us.

 

[acquiesce]

Been supporting City since 96 here in Wisconsin/Chicago. Most people hadn't even heard of Manchester City until a few years ago, so going to a bar for a derby (or any match for that matter) it would be about a 10:1 ratio and they would just rub it in incessantly. They would almost be condescending towards me, like "Look at the poor City fan." And then pat you on the head like you're a homeless dog. Most are arrogant and know fuck all about their own history. Delusional and they think its their divine right to win everything. God was the 6-1 an amazing day.

 

[fablue]

Just a question to our foreign based City fans..

Do you get the hatred we have for the rags?

Yes, but probably not so much as you that live there.

Anyway, the rags are not now what they used to be.
Just think how Barça humiliated them. This would have been unthinkable 10 years ago.

I usually watch PL and, unlike City, for me the football the rags are playing now is a bit boring.

The referees are lately "erring" too much in favor of the rags , and to see, for instance, Shrek giving advise to the referee is not something unbiased football fans anywhere like to see.

 

[Laurent Charvet]

Judging on the number of people I saw with the pathetic City/United scarves... I'd say most don't.

 

[Alex the Blue]

I have City friends who are Swedish, Ghanian and Italian. I can't use the word hate but they definitely dislike the rags as much as any Mancunian.

 

[bluesouthwales]

i can only speak from my own experiences but I feel there is a BIG difference between us UK based "Foreign" fans (I was born in S London & grew up in S Wales, but my Grandfather was Mancunian & City through & through) and our more recent "plastics".

In some ways, as someone else touched one, we get it more as we are surrounded by plastic fans of the rags & looserpool and always have been.

The funny thing is, is has bonded us blues in the area together more! I have a number of friends who I met purely because they spotted my shirt, or the other way round.

Trust me, we get it! :)

By the way, I'm not saying that non UK based fans haven't had similar experiences, as I said, I can only comment on my own experiences! CTID

 

[thomasobDK]

oh, we get it..... and feel the same way.
many of my best friend are rags, and when it comes to football most of them are every bit as arrogant as an english based united fan, and i want nothing more than for them to be humiliated. the 6-1 was fantastic for teaching them a lesson, and i hope there is a couple of meore coming their way.