Manchesters blue areas?

[Deepest Blue]

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[charliebigspuds]

thats true Langley has a very big City following, also Hattersley. My Dad is from Gorton and my Mum Collyhurst and they both grew up on Langley. As far as I know when they moved everyone out of the "slums" in these areas they all moved to Langley or Hattersley. If you go into The Townley before and after each game you will find a load of Langley/Middleton blues in the room to the left as you walk in.

I grew up in Midd and still have Family there yet most from my generation weren't Blue. They were the other one. The older Football Fans were more often Blue and I'd imagine that might be the same for the younger ones now we're finally an attractive proposition to support but - I'd never consider Middleton as a big Blue area.

I can see the Langley flag inside the ground from my seat!

Midd is defo blue

At least 2/3rds

true, I did say about 70% further back in the thread, there are loads of "blue" boozers in Midd but only one "red" one.

 

[Skashion]

This is the report done in 2001:
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.e-space.mmu.ac.uk/e-space/bitstream/2173/12506/1/seasonticketreport%20-%20brown1.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.e-space.mmu.ac.uk/e-space/bi ... brown1.pdf</a>

Both City and the Rags capacities have increased since the report was done.
City by around 13k by the move to our new Stadium.

Big increase in capacities and season ticket holders. However, we've closed the gap percentage-wise so the numbers should be more in our favour now. Even in that report if you include only the areas of Manchester itself - Manchester Council areas, City wins. If you do that though the overall total is pretty pathetic and shows the overwhelming majority of support for both clubs is not in Manchester itself - although whether it's people who grew up in Manchester and then moved out to the 'suburbs' is another issue.

 

[maurizio]

In our traditional support a lot comes from where your dad or even his dad was from. My dad's family from the Whitefield area and I think there were loads of blues in the north of Manchester, he did well for himself and moved to Cheadle Hulme where I grew up and went to City matches in the late 60s / 70s with the neighbours kids and their dad who was originally from Ardwick, again he had moved to the suburbs. Slum clearances meant a lot of inner city support moved to estates dotted on the edge of Manchester like Hattersley and Wythenshawe. A lot of these places we all ended up in have an SK postcode and probably accounts for the "stockport" jibes of essex rags. The inner city generally belongs to newcomers now and they choose who to support based on recent success (the future is ours). I now live in Ashton (near the Broadoak) and there are loads of match going blues around here.

 

[The Northern Baptist]

In all fairness, no one has a clue where's more blue/red.
People are just picking figures out of thin air in this thread and saying 'so and so's 80% blue'

 

[peoffrey]

I grew up in Midd and still have Family there yet most from my generation weren't Blue. They were the other one. The older Football Fans were more often Blue and I'd imagine that might be the same for the younger ones now we're finally an attractive proposition to support but - I'd never consider Middleton as a big Blue area.

I can see the Langley flag inside the ground from my seat!

Midd is defo blue

At least 2/3rds

Glad to hear it. From my generation, most were U****d but then they were the most attractive propsition considering City were crap.<br /><br />-- Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:25 am --<br /><br />

If you do that though the overall total is pretty pathetic and shows the overwhelming majority of support for both clubs is not in Manchester itself - although whether it's people who grew up in Manchester and then moved out to the 'suburbs' is another issue.

Many areas of Manchester are not for Mancunians anymore. The City is really diverse with a huge Student population, new arrivals from overseas and Young Professionals from elsewhere. Football is also an expensive game so people who've made a few quid and been able to move out to leafy Cheadle Hulme, Lancashire or West Yorkshire have done so.

 

[stonerblue]

The Sheraton Hotel, Gambiia will be full of Blues today as i've converted all the staff

 

[bluemooncas]

There are quite a few of us from the Rochdale/Middleton/Heywood area
nothing like the amount in south Manchester tho. I work in Wythenshawe and the majority of supporters are Blue