Happy clappers / losing mentality

[Rascal]

Calm down Rasc, Swiss cheese pulling our pissers mate; )

I know pal, I am doing it back by being contrary

 

[Chief Tactician]

I am the sort of fan who is just happy to go to the match, meet the lads, have a few beers and have a good day out. I have done that for over 50 years and 1000s of games home and away and although I want us to win I really couldn't give a fuck if we win or lose, because i don't support City because we are good, i don't support City because we are rubbish, i support City because its in my blood and my Grandad saw the King at Hyde Road and brought me up on stories about City good and bad. I treasure the bad as much as the good because its my club. If you want to ditch me because i am content when we get to 40 points or i am happy with a proper relegation battle then so be it, you could upgrade me for a glory hunter from Immingham who has just realised City used to have a ground called Maine Road and players who appeared in escape to victory because that will make fuck all difference to Ederson spilling a soft shot or Raheem missing an open goal.

Because the thing is when all the good things come to an end as they surely will, i will still be meeting my mates, having a few beers and going to City whilst the glory hunters will have moved onto to the next big thing whilst we back the lads in a scrap to get out of the Manchester Sunday league 4th divison.

Being a fan isnt about success, its about love, passion, its family on a grander scale, you love them, you hate them but you will never forsake them until the day that you die.

This is a wonderful post. There are decent people like you all over England, in all cities, for all clubs, poor or rich, successful or not. People like you are the ones who make football to what is in this country, the most beautiful sport in the world.

My hat off to you, sir!

 

[give it to gordon]

I am the sort of fan who is just happy to go to the match, meet the lads, have a few beers and have a good day out. I have done that for over 50 years and 1000s of games home and away and although I want us to win I really couldn't give a fuck if we win or lose, because i don't support City because we are good, i don't support City because we are rubbish, i support City because its in my blood and my Grandad saw the King at Hyde Road and brought me up on stories about City good and bad. I treasure the bad as much as the good because its my club. If you want to ditch me because i am content when we get to 40 points or i am happy with a proper relegation battle then so be it, you could upgrade me for a glory hunter from Immingham who has just realised City used to have a ground called Maine Road and players who appeared in escape to victory because that will make fuck all difference to Ederson spilling a soft shot or Raheem missing an open goal.

Because the thing is when all the good things come to an end as they surely will, i will still be meeting my mates, having a few beers and going to City whilst the glory hunters will have moved onto to the next big thing whilst we back the lads in a scrap to get out of the Manchester Sunday league 4th divison.

Being a fan isnt about success, its about love, passion, its family on a grander scale, you love them, you hate them but you will never forsake them until the day that you die.

Same here but still last nights midfield not only the slowest in the CL league but probably the slowest in professional football lolol

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

Yeah I don‘t have a lot of time for them.

I was one of the few who didn’t cry when we went out to Real under Pellegrini, saying there was no shame losing to that team 1-0 over two legs, and some said I was a happy clapper. I wasn’t, I was being realistic.

But our failures this season need to be measured against the heights we’ve reached in recent years and we’ve fallen well short.

There’s no pride in this season, this was failure.

Yes, we all remember where we’ve come from, but the measuring stick is different now.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Is it time for the club to ditch some of our less successful fans in order to progress? It still seems there is a significant number of fans that think staying up, CL qualification year after year and 8 out of 12 domestic trophies, centurions and the quadruple is what success looks like. These are the sort of fans who think just finishing comfortably second, winning just one domestic cup and getting knocked out in the later stages of the CL is acceptable. Does this undermine the 'winning mentality' of our team and undermine our attempts to have legendary European nights in our quest to become 'European royalty''? Maybe we need to upgrade some of the older fans as well as get a decent manager?

thinkn
our fan base has come slightly arrogant over time winning things

becoming like them in stretford

 

[Marvin]

thinkn
our fan base has come slightly arrogant over time winning things

becoming like them in stretford

The arrogance is just accepting defeat and ineptitude. Criminal to let opportunity to slip through your fingers.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

The arrogance is just accepting defeat and ineptitude. Criminal to let opportunity to slip through your fingers.

good point

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

The arrogance is just accepting defeat and ineptitude. Criminal to let opportunity to slip through your fingers.

No, that would be defeatist, 'small time', or unambitious - not arrogant. Arrogance with regard to football is having a sense of entitlement and expecting to win everything - like either set of red shite. This may also be more kindly described as a 'winning mentality'.

 

[havefaith]

Sam Allardyce football tatical genius was in the papers wasn't he saying he would drink wine from a normal glass for the chance to manage us. Get him in NOW. Give him this transfer window and a 10year contract. 100% international win record. We need to move fast

BFS is the man for me, I,m sure he has a roadmap already planned (whilst he's had fu*k all to do last couple of years) to take us to the next level. If he could convince Warnock to be his nu2 - dreamland

 

[mick10]

I am the sort of fan who is just happy to go to the match, meet the lads, have a few beers and have a good day out. I have done that for over 50 years and 1000s of games home and away and although I want us to win I really couldn't give a fuck if we win or lose, because i don't support City because we are good, i don't support City because we are rubbish, i support City because its in my blood and my Grandad saw the King at Hyde Road and brought me up on stories about City good and bad. I treasure the bad as much as the good because its my club. If you want to ditch me because i am content when we get to 40 points or i am happy with a proper relegation battle then so be it, you could upgrade me for a glory hunter from Immingham who has just realised City used to have a ground called Maine Road and players who appeared in escape to victory because that will make fuck all difference to Ederson spilling a soft shot or Raheem missing an open goal.

Because the thing is when all the good things come to an end as they surely will, i will still be meeting my mates, having a few beers and going to City whilst the glory hunters will have moved onto to the next big thing whilst we back the lads in a scrap to get out of the Manchester Sunday league 4th divison.

Being a fan isnt about success, its about love, passion, its family on a grander scale, you love them, you hate them but you will never forsake them until the day that you die.

Smashing post that