mancboy123 said:
What you find is that the vast majority of united fans attach their own personal sense of success and wellbeing onto the club, if united win they think it is a personal achievement by them that they win, when united lose or fail to win it is a personal failure on their part and they cannot handle that. It must be a horrible feeling to be a sheep like that to put such stock in something that does not care about you, the fear of united losing is crippling alot of their fan base as they have nothing else, they have no sense of humour to come back with, to them their response is well we win all the time they literally have nothing else it means everything to them.
Win lose or draw ill always be a city fan and ill be able to take whatever anyone dishes out with good humour because i support city because they are city and my dad supported them and I have a connection with the club, i wonder how many united fans can say that.
I love posts like this. THANKS FOR THIS.
I've probably told this story before, but I got into City in 1996 when I got into Oasis. I had actually grown up a Nottingham Forest fan because Trevor Francis (Brummie git) was traded to a team in my city Detroit, from Forest in 1977 and I grew up loving Trevor after he started scoring goals like crazy for our club in the States.
Anyway, I got into Oasis after "Definitely Maybe" came out and I decided that I was going to be a Manchester Untied fan, since Noel, Liam, Guigs and Boney were from Manchester. I mentioned this to my mate, Patrick Sullivan. Sully is a first generation American, as both of his parents were born and raised in Liverpool and he LOVES English football. I told him I was going to start following Man United and he looked at me very seriously and shook his head.
"If you are going to follow Oasis, Tim, you will NEVER be a Man U fan. The guys in Oasis HATE United. They are Manchester City fans".
Then he told me all about City, and how City were the team that REAL Manchester fans supported. He told me how City fans were seen more as "salt of the earth, pints in the pub, best mates forever" kind of fans who really lived and died with their side. City fans sang their lungs out at matches and threw their support behind their side regardless of the score, their place in the league table or anything else. City fans had lived through hard times with their club, Sully said. Being a guy born and raised in a shithole like Detroit where everyone I knew and loved was as working class as I was, the things Pat said to me that day about Manchester City made me think that City was the better team for me.
Then, being a Bin Dipper, Sully told me all about how United were the scum of the earth and how much he hated them and how arrogant they were and how their fans were GLORY HUNTERS and often not even from Manchester, but just along for the ride on the gravy train.
Seventeen years later, everything that Sully told me that day has been brought into sharp focus for me as a City fan. He was right about United - and about City. I could never have been a United fan. I could never wear that shit kit and sing those shit songs and look down on everyone else the way they do. Here in America, easily 6 to 8 out of every 10 footie fans you meet are United fans, and they are the most ARROGANT, POMPOUS, WHINY fans you can imagine.
On the other hand, when I read posts like the one I quoted above and read you guys post about all the SHIT you have all put up with over the years, it makes me even more proud that I made a conscious decision NOT to follow United and chose City instead. Win or lose, good times or bad, I want to stand shoulder to shoulder with Blues and support a real club with real fans. That sense of humor mancboy123 mentioned is, for me, one of the cornerstones of being a City fan. You gotta have a sense of humor when you have lived through the shit that City fans have. I hope we never lose that grounding as fans of this club. I hope we never become like THEM.
Anyway, BaconFace has until Thursday to respond to the FA. In light of the fact that this is his SECOND major outburst directed at FA officials after a match this season, I'd like to see a fine
and a touchline ban for the old fat pissed-up ****. Lord do I hate that man. He's almost as disgusting as the fans who hang on his every whiskey-soaked slur of words.
