Good luck City we're all rooting for you!!!

[Cellarite]

So we are still loved in some quarters? Cheers Pompey.

 

[adrianr]

What a bloody good post. Cheers mate.

 

[BlueTony]

What drama to end the season!!! Down here in Pompey the sky is Blue and it's gonna be a barbecue, and we're all rooting for your boys. Over the season City have been discussed many times pre-match in the pubs here, and our group, and I'm sure 95% of our fans want your fairytale to come true. Reasons comes thick and fast...here are some:
1. City fans have been to hell and back but have stayed with the team in many dark hours.
2. With United as your successful neighbours it would be easy to jump on their bandwagon..or even give up going to football altogether,
3. The ungraciousness of Fergie over the years, a nasty vindictive hyprocrite.
4. Mancini an absolute gentleman who has kept his wits and control for the whole season.

But the main reason is for you fans who have kept the faith through a succession of regimes that have promised the earth and failed you. You are a big club, and with your support should have been at the top table decades ago.

I was lucky enough to see your last Championship team at Stamford Bridge as a teenager living in London in the 60's. I remember nothing of the game except a line from the Sunday papers that John Boyle was sent off for 'leaving a lump the size of an egg' on Colemans(?) leg. That was a lifetime ago.

I remember well the day of the Bradford fire. 8000 of us were at Huddersfield hoping against all odds you would fail at home to Charlton....some hope. At the end of the game sketchy reports of the fire began to filter through.

I remember well how you destroyed our run in for promotion in 1985...looking at this vid you guys seem to rather enjoy it!!!!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUUIBO_rxQI[/youtube]

Who can forget Ben Thatchers assault on Pedro? But things like that don't colour perceptions...players are transients but fans are constants and you guys have proved over the years you are a bit special.

Lucky enough to see both Napoli games (my mother is Neapolitan) I count myself lucky to have met quite a few of you out there, including Bilboblu. However one story from Napoli sticks out for me. I was dining in a small restaurant (Nennellas) in the very dodgy Spanish Quarters when 2 city fans suddenly appeared. One was in a wheelchair, and both sporting huge grins. It must have been very hard for the guy pushing the wheelchair UPHILL over the flagstones.

These guys got a great reception from the proprietor and I could hear the Neapolitans talking on adjacent tables...basically along the lines that these City fans were really special guys. Not only had a disabled fan made the long journey uphill but they had entered one of Napoli's heartlands with smiles on their faces. You should be really proud of these 2 guys!!!

I really believe Rudyard Kipling wrote 'If' specially for You guys!!!

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Go City and make the football world smile again!!!

Brilliant. Thanks!

 

[mansfieldblue]

Great post Pete from another set of passionate fans....hope you get back up soon

 

[Mike N]

Thanks Pal. It's funny how the real football fans have been on today, Pompey and West Ham. Real loyal fans who have been around for the past 20+ years through thick and thin. There's probably thousands of rags near where you live so can understand the dislike of United.

Good luck for the future.<br /><br />-- Sun May 13, 2012 10:28 am --<br /><br />Thanks Pal. It's funny how the real football fans have been on today, Pompey and West Ham. Real loyal fans who have been around for the past 20+ years through thick and thin. There's probably thousands of rags near where you live so can understand the dislike of United.

Good luck for the future.

 

[Blue Mist]

Sir, you are a true football fan. Thank you for your post it sums up what most of us wnat to say but can't. A touching tribute to us the fans, nice one.

 

[stavros]

cheers pete.

COME ON CITTTTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! CANT WAIT. GETTING TRAIN , MARY D'S SEASON CARD IN POCKET. NEVER BEEN THIS EXCITED. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO THIS CITY

 

[exiled-blue]

Top post mate, thanks for the support

 

[Ben888]

Thanks Pete, really good post.

 

[MCFC 4 EVER]

Thanks Pete nice to know not all football fans hate us!
Hope Pompey return to Premier League soon