Damocles said:RobbieBrewer said:Come on-we're better than this.
He was warned for it.
I'm disheartened when I see 'new fans' treated in this way.
My love for City comes from the fact that even though I was from a Red area and all my mates were Reds, City fans still took me in as part of the family, with random acts of kindness, generosity and respect. Nobody ever questioned my commitment, always gave me advice on handling the bastards I called friends, and silly things like teaching me songs when I couldn't get the words right because I couldn't hear from outside on matchday.
cheers Damocles,i've just started crying my fukn eyes out,cos of you :) CTID.
This attitude is what makes us such a great club, and why we are a breach apart from the rags. The rags look at each other and divide them into categories - Mancs, Cockneys, pre '92s, pre-00's, etc, etc. We shouldn't have any of that bullshit, we should attempt to bring new members into the City family by teaching them what it means to be a City fan. This way, our club grows, but our soul is unchanged.
Mancio4Ever, one of the things that you need to understand about City fans, is that our outlook on life is different to most. The Typical City tag isn't for nothing, it's because we've had years of heartbreak. This has taught us two things:
1. Always look at the negatives of something. Purely because the moment someone dares to mention a positive, it is sure to disappear.
2. Always have a sense of humour about yourselves. I can't remember any other team ever getting beaten 4-0 at home in the first twenty minutes of a game, then singing "It's like watching Brazil" because we made a pass that connected.
We do base ourselves in the reality as you suggest. The reality is that we have won nothing for 34 years, and are 5th in the league. We'll start celebrating once we have something to celebrate. We aren't Liverpool or Milano, we don't constantly talk about how great we were 10 years ago. We live in the here and now, this is what we have being taught to do over generations. Only 10 years ago, I wouldn't think about where City were going to be next season, because I wasn't even sure if City would exist at that point, and I didn't want to worry about it.
Damocles said:RobbieBrewer said:Come on-we're better than this.
He was warned for it.
I'm disheartened when I see 'new fans' treated in this way.
My love for City comes from the fact that even though I was from a Red area and all my mates were Reds, City fans still took me in as part of the family, with random acts of kindness, generosity and respect. Nobody ever questioned my commitment, always gave me advice on handling the bastards I called friends, and silly things like teaching me songs when I couldn't get the words right because I couldn't hear from outside on matchday.
Fuk knows what happened there.Anyway,was saying cheers Damocles,just started crying my fukn eyes out cos of you.CTID.
This attitude is what makes us such a great club, and why we are a breach apart from the rags. The rags look at each other and divide them into categories - Mancs, Cockneys, pre '92s, pre-00's, etc, etc. We shouldn't have any of that bullshit, we should attempt to bring new members into the City family by teaching them what it means to be a City fan. This way, our club grows, but our soul is unchanged.
Mancio4Ever, one of the things that you need to understand about City fans, is that our outlook on life is different to most. The Typical City tag isn't for nothing, it's because we've had years of heartbreak. This has taught us two things:
1. Always look at the negatives of something. Purely because the moment someone dares to mention a positive, it is sure to disappear.
2. Always have a sense of humour about yourselves. I can't remember any other team ever getting beaten 4-0 at home in the first twenty minutes of a game, then singing "It's like watching Brazil" because we made a pass that connected.
We do base ourselves in the reality as you suggest. The reality is that we have won nothing for 34 years, and are 5th in the league. We'll start celebrating once we have something to celebrate. We aren't Liverpool or Milano, we don't constantly talk about how great we were 10 years ago. We live in the here and now, this is what we have being taught to do over generations. Only 10 years ago, I wouldn't think about where City were going to be next season, because I wasn't even sure if City would exist at that point, and I didn't want to worry about it.
MANCIO4EVER said:Frankly, for what I see on the forum, It does not appear very clearly that most people hereon are supporting the Manchester City F.C., neither very much interested in the Club success, nor the enhancement of the quality of the players that will act for City in the future.
The genaral output is more close to a kind of xenophobic stronghold of the value of being "me and my lads at my cousin's pub only". Frankly these moods won't bring nothing better to the club perspectives.
I always wondered why one of the world's best football managers - Sven Goran - wasn't able to deliver success hereon: perhaps now I starting realize some clues...
I never been interested in running popularity contests, so I m not afraid to result unpopular:
like every part of the world, even Manchester I suppose, is fed by a good blend of genius, smart people, brillant people. good people, everage people, ignorant people, xenophobics and idiots,
my very passionate plea to the most gifted City supporters is to wake up and start work harder to improve the average output of the City's environment
untill a very very strict mentality will affect the majority of the fans, the result will be invariably:
- increased difficulties for the Club's Officiers to revert the Club status
- an easy platform for the "sportman" SAF to joke on City.
Football is not difficult like quantum maths, so that it should not be so difficult for any single City fan to start separating personal loves and feelings from the reality of facts.
I m proud to be a new City fan and want the Club to succeed more than to make useless points on my personal feelings: my heartedly suggestion, to all those seriously interested in the success of M.C.F.C. is to start acting the same and think wider.
TTTCITYBHOY said:im a Jock,supported City since jan 68 (fukn gloryhunting,bandwagon jumping prick,i know),doesn't make me any better than our Italian newcomer does it ?.He supports City,so what's the problem ?.Better than looking out for a certain team that's close to Manchester.
bananamilksheikh said:football forums are notoriously fickle because they need something to discuss or argue about. They are not a good representation of all the MCFC fans who are recognised as being extraordinary in the face of zero success and very annoying neighbours. I understand the point the OP makes and would probably make the same observation if I spent time on the Sampdoria forums. I am sure his meaning is genuine so thanks for your concerns.
Prestwich_Blue said:The problem is that the genius, smart, brilliant and average people don't post on here my friend.MANCIO4EVER said:like every part of the world, even Manchester I suppose, is fed by a good blend of genius, smart people, brillant people. good people, everage people, ignorant people, xenophobics and idiots,
Subtlety and intelligence shown yet again from our convict friend down under.Aussie! said:Hey Mancio - STFU.
Damocles said:RobbieBrewer said:Come on-we're better than this.
He was warned for it.
I'm disheartened when I see 'new fans' treated in this way.
My love for City comes from the fact that even though I was from a Red area and all my mates were Reds, City fans still took me in as part of the family, with random acts of kindness, generosity and respect. Nobody ever questioned my commitment, always gave me advice on handling the bastards I called friends, and silly things like teaching me songs when I couldn't get the words right because I couldn't hear from outside on matchday.
This attitude is what makes us such a great club, and why we are a breach apart from the rags. The rags look at each other and divide them into categories - Mancs, Cockneys, pre '92s, pre-00's, etc, etc. We shouldn't have any of that bullshit, we should attempt to bring new members into the City family by teaching them what it means to be a City fan. This way, our club grows, but our soul is unchanged.
Mancio4Ever, one of the things that you need to understand about City fans, is that our outlook on life is different to most. The Typical City tag isn't for nothing, it's because we've had years of heartbreak. This has taught us two things:
1. Always look at the negatives of something. Purely because the moment someone dares to mention a positive, it is sure to disappear.
2. Always have a sense of humour about yourselves. I can't remember any other team ever getting beaten 4-0 at home in the first twenty minutes of a game, then singing "It's like watching Brazil" because we made a pass that connected.
We do base ourselves in the reality as you suggest. The reality is that we have won nothing for 34 years, and are 5th in the league. We'll start celebrating once we have something to celebrate. We aren't Liverpool or Milano, we don't constantly talk about how great we were 10 years ago. We live in the here and now, this is what we have being taught to do over generations. Only 10 years ago, I wouldn't think about where City were going to be next season, because I wasn't even sure if City would exist at that point, and I didn't want to worry about it.
AlgarveBlu said:Does make me laugh how you can get away with using the word w*p
and if it had been anything asian or black related the whole pc armarda would of decended upon the purportrator and the quote pulled, hey but there you go...