New fans/tourists are embarrassing

[Cheesy]

Well this thread has made me think long & hard about a few things.

I've now decided to ban my Mrs from going to games. She's only ever been twice (the last two home games) and doesn't know the words to all the songs yet. She certainly wasn't there when we were shit either.

 

[SWP's back]

If we don't get new fans how will we fill a bigger stadium when we eventually extend?

Oh and I take photos at games, it's called creating memories.

No creating memories is what you do. Saving memories is taking the pictures. A memory isn't created in a photo.

Lol, Mr Pedantic, you know what I mean.

:-)

 

[erast fandorin]

Well this thread has made me think long & hard about a few things.

I've now decided to ban my Mrs from going to games. She's only ever been twice (the last two home games) and doesn't know the words to all the songs yet. She certainly wasn't there when we were shit either.

Possibly get her in on a medium rare breed bluecard?

 

[machiavellian]

Well this thread has made me think long & hard about a few things.

I've now decided to ban my Mrs from going to games. She's only ever been twice (the last two home games) and doesn't know the words to all the songs yet. She certainly wasn't there when we were shit either.

Hang her.

I'll provide the noose.

 

[SWP's back]

No creating memories is what you do. Saving memories is taking the pictures. A memory isn't created in a photo.

Owned by a posh kid!

he's really on a pedantic "no you're not technically right" role recently :P.

I'm not posh!

I'm just better than you

;-)

 

[york away to this!]

Well this thread has made me think long & hard about a few things.

I've now decided to ban my Mrs from going to games. She's only ever been twice (the last two home games) and doesn't know the words to all the songs yet. She certainly wasn't there when we were shit either.

wimmin shouldn't be allowed at footy - it's a working man's sport. always has been, always will be.

 

[glen quagmire]

Owned by a posh kid!

he's really on a pedantic "no you're not technically right" role recently :P.

I'm not posh!

I'm just better than you

;-)

You make me feel fuzzy inside, when you quote me.

 

[Bluebird1]

Well this thread has made me think long & hard about a few things.

I've now decided to ban my Mrs from going to games. She's only ever been twice (the last two home games) and doesn't know the words to all the songs yet. She certainly wasn't there when we were shit either.

wimmin shouldn't be allowed at footy - it's a working man's sport. always has been, always will be.

The attendance figures would be very low in that case ;-)

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

he's really on a pedantic "no you're not technically right" role recently :P.

I'm not posh!

I'm just better than you

;-)

You make me feel fuzzy inside, when you quote me.

you should leave fuzzy alone, she's told you enough times to stop touching her up.

 

[swblue]

I can understand fans who have put in the hard graft and supported the team through the bad times being a bit frustrated with new fans coming along now we are being successful.

But any success won't mean anywhere near as much to new fans as it does to longer term fans. That's not a dig at them whatsoever, it's just simply not possible to develop those emotions overnight. No matter what they do they can't buy the same feelings the longer term fans are going to have in the next few years (although perhaps City will find a way, Total Recall style!).

So with this in mind, they can't jump on the same bandwagon as you, that set off a long time ago. Just relax and let them enjoy it in their own way, they are not doing any harm.

 

[law74]

Can we get back to the important stuff please,
Is there a cricket ground in Cheivo?
Do they serve real ale or just fizzy crap lager?
Can you get a Hollands pie there?
I think we need to know.

 

[Fame Monster]

I'd like to say more on this, but I'm in a rush.

Anyone who wasn't born or currently resides in the North West should not be allowed to sit in the bottom tier. Put them in the corners of the third tier. Thanks.

Eh its comments like this that really piss me off. I was born and raised in Australia, but have been supporting City for over a decade. At the Wigan away game last year I just amount lost my shit (many of the other City supporters around me were moaning for a good percentage of the match) when Toure scored and tried to run over the fence, before a few other lads got escorted away. It was my second ever City game. Am I not allowed to sit in the bottom tier when I come back to Manchester next year?

You're free to do whatever you want. But I just can't understand why you wouldn't want to follow your local team.

For many of us (me included), supporting a football club is not about the quality of the football, more a community thing, going to the game with lads you grew up with and share identical backgrounds. That's where the solidarity comes from.

 

[Nevizade]

Totally agree with this. Last season at home to Liverpool I saw a Middle Eastern lad who'd clearly never been to the the stadium before, sat in the corporate seats in the Colin Bell stand (typical) and before kick off just stood up and starting waving at everyone. Must have thought he fucking owns the club or summat.

 

[LoveCity]

Totally agree with this. Last season at home to Liverpool I saw a Middle Eastern lad who'd clearly never been to the the stadium before, sat in the corporate seats in the Colin Bell stand (typical) and before kick off just stood up and starting waving at everyone. Must have thought he fucking owns the club or summat.

I hope you told the arrogant so-and-so he's not wanted or needed at the club!

 

[stony]

I'd like to say more on this, but I'm in a rush.

Anyone who wasn't born or currently resides in the North West should not be allowed to sit in the bottom tier. Put them in the corners of the third tier. Thanks.

Eh its comments like this that really piss me off. I was born and raised in Australia, but have been supporting City for over a decade. At the Wigan away game last year I just amount lost my shit (many of the other City supporters around me were moaning for a good percentage of the match) when Toure scored and tried to run over the fence, before a few other lads got escorted away. It was my second ever City game. Am I not allowed to sit in the bottom tier when I come back to Manchester next year?

You're free to do whatever you want. But I just can't understand why you wouldn't want to follow your local team.

For many of us (me included), supporting a football club is not about the quality of the football, more a community thing, going to the game with lads you grew up with and share identical backgrounds. That's where the solidarity comes from.

Does that mean if all your mates had been rags you would be too? Interesting way of looking at it.
It's easier being a blue if all your mates are too. It takes some dedication to support a team that everyone else takes the piss out of and you have to go to games on your own or travel hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles in doing so. Good luck to em.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Totally agree with this. Last season at home to Liverpool I saw a Middle Eastern lad who'd clearly never been to the the stadium before, sat in the corporate seats in the Colin Bell stand (typical) and before kick off just stood up and starting waving at everyone. Must have thought he fucking owns the club or summat.

I hope you told the arrogant so-and-so he's not wanted or needed at the club!

Should of slapped the arrogant bastard. How dare he come and support are club he was never at York away

 

[machiavellian]

Eh its comments like this that really piss me off. I was born and raised in Australia, but have been supporting City for over a decade. At the Wigan away game last year I just amount lost my shit (many of the other City supporters around me were moaning for a good percentage of the match) when Toure scored and tried to run over the fence, before a few other lads got escorted away. It was my second ever City game. Am I not allowed to sit in the bottom tier when I come back to Manchester next year?

You're free to do whatever you want. But I just can't understand why you wouldn't want to follow your local team.

For many of us (me included), supporting a football club is not about the quality of the football, more a community thing, going to the game with lads you grew up with and share identical backgrounds. That's where the solidarity comes from.

Does that mean if all your mates had been rags you would be too? Interesting way of looking at it.
It's easier being a blue if all your mates are too. It takes some dedication to support a team that everyone else takes the piss out of and you have to go to games on your own or travel hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles in doing so. Good luck to em.

Most of my mates were rags.

Personally though, I have moral fibre (and a good father).

 

[element_mcfc]

dont see how new fans / tourists can be any more embarrasing than half the wankers in the stands anyway tbh

 

[law74]

dont see how new fans / tourists can be any more embarrasing than half the wankers in the stands anyway tbh

Some of them don't even know how to boo correctly ffs, and others don't realise that after 75 - 80 minutes you are supposed to leave your seat and stand beside the exit, and if a steward asks you to move then just give up and go home.

 

[Fame Monster]

Eh its comments like this that really piss me off. I was born and raised in Australia, but have been supporting City for over a decade. At the Wigan away game last year I just amount lost my shit (many of the other City supporters around me were moaning for a good percentage of the match) when Toure scored and tried to run over the fence, before a few other lads got escorted away. It was my second ever City game. Am I not allowed to sit in the bottom tier when I come back to Manchester next year?

You're free to do whatever you want. But I just can't understand why you wouldn't want to follow your local team.

For many of us (me included), supporting a football club is not about the quality of the football, more a community thing, going to the game with lads you grew up with and share identical backgrounds. That's where the solidarity comes from.

Does that mean if all your mates had been rags you would be too? Interesting way of looking at it.
It's easier being a blue if all your mates are too. It takes some dedication to support a team that everyone else takes the piss out of and you have to go to games on your own or travel hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles in doing so. Good luck to em.

Let's not use United as they're scum. There's never an excuse to support them.

Say, when I first took an interest in football, and all my mates were match-going Bury fans, I'd be a Bury fan. That obviously assumes we all live close enough to the ground to be match-going fans.

Going to the games wouldn't necessarily be about watching the football, more a celebration of community values enjoyed by people from that community, and also an opportunity to spend time with your mates.

Having created so many memories at Bury, it would represent more than football. It would be an institution that's been there throughout some of my greatest times and obviously the lows as well. There throughout every development of my personality and there as me and my friends come of age.

That to me is what supporting a club is all about. And that's what City is to me.