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

[jimmy2000]

I salute you mate, that made me cry. Good luck next season.

 

[richards30]

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!!!

Stunning post mate!! Thank you.

 

[irone]

Just like to second the good luck wishes - this from a West Ham supporter.

I never speak for anyone but myself but I do know that there's always been a soft spot for your mob in our corner of the world going WELL back - the famous relegation match in 1986 and the respective actions of both sets of supporters is still spoken about now (and how far away must that feel for some of your old timers this morning!) - so I'm sure East London will be cheering Blue come 3pm.

Good luck lads - and should it all play out as scripted today, enjoy it....it's been well earned

 

[fan446]

as an evertonian am rooting for city for pretty much the same reasons. fans who have stood by their team through some grim and desperate times and will hopefully get that loyalty rewarded later today. living down south amongst so many united fans ( use the term loosely as none ever seem to go ) it will give me great pleasure to see their sad little faces later on. and hear their bitter excuses for not winning it.
always had a soft spot for pompey also as lived there for many years, great working class fans who love their club and were shafted by the authorities and still support a club they love.

Thanks pal, good to get support from other fans....

 

[cibaman]

My next door neighbours are United fans. Some years ago the eldest son decided to adopt Bolton as his 2nd team, for reasons nobody understands.

Today he came down to breakfast and announced that, as its more important that Bolton stay up than United win the league, today he will be supporting City.

Mayhem!

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Just like to second the good luck wishes - this from a West Ham supporter.

I never speak for anyone but myself but I do know that there's always been a soft spot for your mob in our corner of the world going WELL back - the famous relegation match in 1986 and the respective actions of both sets of supporters is still spoken about now (and how far away must that feel for some of your old timers this morning!) - so I'm sure East London will be cheering Blue come 3pm.

Good luck lads - and should it all play out as scripted today, enjoy it....it's been well earned

thanx mate, i remember that day well, best of luck, hope to be playing the hammers next season in the prem

 

[oakiecokie]

Just like to second the good luck wishes - this from a West Ham supporter.

I never speak for anyone but myself but I do know that there's always been a soft spot for your mob in our corner of the world going WELL back - the famous relegation match in 1986 and the respective actions of both sets of supporters is still spoken about now (and how far away must that feel for some of your old timers this morning!) - so I'm sure East London will be cheering Blue come 3pm.

Good luck lads - and should it all play out as scripted today, enjoy it....it's been well earned

Thanks mate.Always enjoyed going to Upton Park in the 70`s,because I always ended up with a sore arse sitting on those planks of wood in the main stand.Honestly !!

 

[jimmy2000]

Just like to second the good luck wishes - this from a West Ham supporter.

I never speak for anyone but myself but I do know that there's always been a soft spot for your mob in our corner of the world going WELL back - the famous relegation match in 1986 and the respective actions of both sets of supporters is still spoken about now (and how far away must that feel for some of your old timers this morning!) - so I'm sure East London will be cheering Blue come 3pm.

Good luck lads - and should it all play out as scripted today, enjoy it....it's been well earned

Thanks mate. Good luck next week

 

[davymcfc]

Nice to hear good comments from other supporters.

I thinks it's shocking how the Pompey fans and club have been treated in the last few years. I hope they can bounce back.

 

[failsworthblueboy]

Thank you, Pete! brilliant post mate.