norfstander
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Both, but ultimately their success on the pitch effects the whole thing most. If they were in the Championship we wouldn't give a monkey's, so in that sense, the club, but their fans are awful. I used to work just by The Swamp, and had to work lates or Saturday's now and then. I know it's a bit of a cliche but it really was hard to pick out a Mancunian or Salfordian accent, mainly Irish folks or Cockneys, not that i'm against that, we've got plenty ourselves and they're all welcome, but you can walk down Sir Matt Busby way and not even know you're in Manchester/Salford.
Every club will pick up a certain amount of bandwaggoners when successful, indeed we will, but i'm just a bit old-fashioned in the sense than i support City because a) i was born near the ground, and b) because my old man and his old man both followed them. I could never say i admired Manchester United, but i appreciate that they've always been an important club in British football, but there's an attitude that seems to run right through the club, from the manager, to players, to fans, a sort of arsehole, look-down-on-you nature, and it's always been that way, even when they were shite, which i'm just about old enough to remember (people forget that until they won the league in '93 they hadn't for 26 years).
I'm happy that we're making huge progress as a club. We may never catch them up in regards to silverware or fanbase, but f*ck 'em, we're a great club in our own right, and the day will come where we're more than just rivals of theirs in a locational sense, might take years, but it will come, and when it does i'm sure our fans will conduct ourselves in a much better way than the muppets who follow Big Red do.
Every club will pick up a certain amount of bandwaggoners when successful, indeed we will, but i'm just a bit old-fashioned in the sense than i support City because a) i was born near the ground, and b) because my old man and his old man both followed them. I could never say i admired Manchester United, but i appreciate that they've always been an important club in British football, but there's an attitude that seems to run right through the club, from the manager, to players, to fans, a sort of arsehole, look-down-on-you nature, and it's always been that way, even when they were shite, which i'm just about old enough to remember (people forget that until they won the league in '93 they hadn't for 26 years).
I'm happy that we're making huge progress as a club. We may never catch them up in regards to silverware or fanbase, but f*ck 'em, we're a great club in our own right, and the day will come where we're more than just rivals of theirs in a locational sense, might take years, but it will come, and when it does i'm sure our fans will conduct ourselves in a much better way than the muppets who follow Big Red do.