It could've been us

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

I think it's quite clear that City had unrivalled good fortune when the Sheikh bought our club. City are a global "brand" but the heart of our club is still, and increasingly so, indisputably Mancunian. It is identified with Manchester more so now than ever. No City fan has been confronted with the question of what exactly it is that you support? I support the club I went to watch with my grandfather, my father, my uncles and then my sons and now my grandchildren as well. It is richer now and infinitely better run but it is still the same club but it articulates the values of the club and honours them far better than ever before. I don't know if I could feel the same about a club owned by someone who knew nothing and cared even less for the values and traditions of our club, who decided we'd play in red or wanted to change our name or stripped the club's assets. I suspect I'd still want us to win but I wouldn't be proud of us and I'd be profoundly sad. City wouldn't be fun anymore, and football should be fun.

 

[bluemc1]

would be really hard to watch us in red, don't think i would keep my season ticket anyway

 

[Skashion]

I have a lot of sympathy with the guy's argument. I would draw a line if we were no longer Manchester City or played in home colours other than blue. If an owner changed either, I wouldn't be a fan anymore. My club would be dead and I would hope there'd be enough of us to start a new club.

 

[panzer1311]

"I can now muck about as I want" kind of sums it up. For some that's more important than the match.

There's something irritating about these clowns who feel the need to hang themselves up on the cross and loudly and publicly harrumph about the fact that they are going to support someone else because 'their' team has been taken from 'them"'. Plenty of people stop going to the match for plenty of reasons, and if you make that moment the time when your club is at its highest point for 60 years, that's your choice. Defecting to some lower division club and jumping on the moral high ground over it is attention seeking and pathetic. You don't just choose a club to love: It takes a lifetime.

DD , i couldn't have put it better myself . like those clowns at pub team FCUK ( or whatever they're called ) ,

 

[East Level 2]

Any comment about City wearing red shirts is surely a red herring as Cardiff's local rivals don't wear red. Also, the national team is stupid enough to wear red and they too play home games in Cardiff.
Would we be happy wearing white shirts as first choice? I doubt it, but that is the better comparison. Would we want to be known as Manchester Blues, Manchester Citizens or even Manchester City Six? I hardly think so.
We really got lucky when Sheikh Mansour bought us.

 

[Balti]

I'm not sure a divorce would be called for but a trial separation might be no bad thing under those circumstances

 

[Paulpowersleftfoot]

I'm certain it would've had a devastating effect on our fanbase and created a real rift between rival factions given the same circumstances Cardiff are suffering from.
The mods on here would've had a devil of a job keeping the peace

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

"I can now muck about as I want" kind of sums it up. For some that's more important than the match.

There's something irritating about these clowns who feel the need to hang themselves up on the cross and loudly and publicly harrumph about the fact that they are going to support someone else because 'their' team has been taken from 'them"'. Plenty of people stop going to the match for plenty of reasons, and if you make that moment the time when your club is at its highest point for 60 years, that's your choice. Defecting to some lower division club and jumping on the moral high ground over it is attention seeking and pathetic. You don't just choose a club to love: It takes a lifetime.

Would you accept City adopting a red badge, red kit and red stadium? I wouldn't be satisfied and would probably stop going until the owner had gone, but I wouldn't support another team that's for sure.

Red shirts, red mentality, red stadium! Time for a sabbatical!

 

[Didsbury Dave]

"I can now muck about as I want" kind of sums it up. For some that's more important than the match.

There's something irritating about these clowns who feel the need to hang themselves up on the cross and loudly and publicly harrumph about the fact that they are going to support someone else because 'their' team has been taken from 'them"'. Plenty of people stop going to the match for plenty of reasons, and if you make that moment the time when your club is at its highest point for 60 years, that's your choice. Defecting to some lower division club and jumping on the moral high ground over it is attention seeking and pathetic. You don't just choose a club to love: It takes a lifetime.

Would you accept City adopting a red badge, red kit and red stadium? I wouldn't be satisfied and would probably stop going until the owner had gone, but I wouldn't support another team that's for sure.

Red is more emotive to city because it's the colour of our rivals, and so would never happen, but that isn't my point.

He's welcome to stop supporting his club at any time. People do it all the time. I know plenty who stopped going to city when we moved stadium because they couldn't identify with city any more. It's his trumpeting of his decision as some sort of of political act, and his insinuations that premier league fans are mugs who are being taken for a ride that I object to. If he wants to go and watch a bunch of fatties lump the ball up a muddy pitch every week, whilst he bounces around with his arm in the air and chants "who are ya?" at half a dozen away fans, thats up to him. I'm quite happy to watch games like yesterday's, to get a thrill in my stomach when players like silva and yaya produce their magic, to be gripped by the intensity and excitement of two brilliant teams going head to head. And having tickets to wembley in my pocket, and a flight to Barcelona booked isn't to be sniffed it.

That's not to say I don't feel sympathy for fans who can't afford to watch premier league football. But as far as I read it, his objections are not financial. Each to their own, I'm sorry for what's happening at Cardiff, but stick your moralising about non league football up your arse.

 

[Ban-jani]

"I can now muck about as I want" kind of sums it up. For some that's more important than the match.

There's something irritating about these clowns who feel the need to hang themselves up on the cross and loudly and publicly harrumph about the fact that they are going to support someone else because 'their' team has been taken from 'them"'. Plenty of people stop going to the match for plenty of reasons, and if you make that moment the time when your club is at its highest point for 60 years, that's your choice. Defecting to some lower division club and jumping on the moral high ground over it is attention seeking and pathetic. You don't just choose a club to love: It takes a lifetime.

Would you accept City adopting a red badge, red kit and red stadium? I wouldn't be satisfied and would probably stop going until the owner had gone, but I wouldn't support another team that's for sure.

Red is more emotive to city because it's the colour of our rivals, and so would never happen, but that isn't my point.

He's welcome to stop supporting his club at any time. People do it all the time. I know plenty who stopped going to city when we moved stadium because they couldn't identify with city any more. It's his trumpeting of his decision as some sort of of political act, and his insinuations that premier league fans are mugs who are being taken for a ride that I object to. If he wants to go and watch a bunch of fatties lump the ball up a muddy pitch every week, whilst he bounces around with his arm in the air and chants "who are ya?" at half a dozen away fans, thats up to him. I'm quite happy to watch games like yesterday's, to get a thrill in my stomach when players like silva and yaya produce their magic, to be gripped by the intensity and excitement of two brilliant teams going head to head. And having tickets to wembley in my pocket, and a flight to Barcelona booked isn't to be sniffed it.

That's not to say I don't feel sympathy for fans who can't afford to watch premier league football. But as far as I read it, his objections are not financial. Each to their own, I'm sorry for what's happening at Cardiff, but stick your moralising about non league football up your arse.

Great post.