Indeed.
If I’m in a situation where I’m with people from different places, I hope that the conversation of football doesn’t come up these days. I never wear any City gear outside my own living room when I’m lounging about (or the first home game of the season, actually). Just doesn’t feel special to be a City fan and only really want to talk football with fellow Blues.
Whereas back in the day, in any situation, I’d start the football conversation and be the proudest person in the room about saying who my club was, no matter how shit we were (or how good we were at times, of course, it wasn’t always shit!) and I’d almost always at least have a City pin badge on.
That view you say is narrow minded is held by loads of Blues, including me. For me, the club team you support represents you as a person more than your country does. So where you were born, grew up, live, or where your family connection is from your parent(s), is where you follow your football team.
A little bit of my dies inside every time I see the bandwagoners at City, the half’n’half scarves, the smart phones out filming Pogba and Salah as much as any City player, the chunks of our away sections where groups of non-City fans have taken tickets from proper Blues... I genuinely hate it and it’s why it’s half embarrassing saying you’re a City fan these days and why that specialness has disappeared.
What’s special about City these days is watching special football, and it’s absolutely fantastic, don’t get me wrong, I just wish we still had that specialness to our fanbase n’all and that bandwagoners weren’t a feature.
