New supporters/interest in City.

[mcfc-mark]

its not new fans i, and i suspect others have a problem with. to me being a city fan is a great personality trait, one devoid of arrogance and expectance and thriving on every situation in life, expecting the unexpected('typical city' a perfect example.) regardless of when any said person starts supporting city, they are making a choice of not only a football club but adding a whole new dimension entirely to your personality. in contrast to the other choice of choosing the rags who lets face it, are as it stands guaranteed at least one trophy a season, decent cup runs and very little defeat. it would be the easy option by far, as even the most tactically unaware 'fan' can hide behind the brash, safety in numbers policy the rags have adopted. so i for one welcome any new fan for standing up to the perceived order of things. okay, so they haven't been through the hard times like most of us but as sure as i know city, there are bound to be bumps on the road to success. what i can't be doing with is masses of 'blues' coming out of the woodwork after we win something, wearing their shirts like they're proud. i've been a blue since birth and been loud and proud about the fact, getting alot of stick along the way as you can imagine, so i ALWAYS notice a city top/car/tat when i see one. unfortunately i've seen about 60% more lately and these are the fans i worry about personally, rather have somebody who was oblivious to the dark times rather than somebody who put their head down and chose to ignore them.

I think you are missing the point. It is the clubs and the owners ambition to grow this club to the levels of utd, real, inter, etc to do this we need to grow our fanbase. You talk about the fake fans, but what about their children and their children who might be born a true blue. Somebody has already talked about the kids and i cant agree more

i never mentioned fake fans pal, i agree that our fanbase needs to grow and expand globally ect, but what my point was the whole point of being a city fan is that it does test your resolve sometimes, theres almost a criteria to look out for. what i was trying to say is there will be blues who've supported us through the bad times and were very vocal about the fact, and there will be new fans who will be on a learning curve from now on. its these middle fans i have a problem with, who claim to have supported city for years and have only just crawled out of the woodwork now we are getting bigger as a club

 

[Why Always Ste]

City had the best uniforms

Americans..... :D

it's Kit Symons, not Uniforms

 

[acquiesce]

I normally do not post here I just read but feel I can have my say in this thread. I have been a Blue since I started watching English football in the mid-90's. I was drawn to City because I can't stand front runners which what all American born united fans are. They are arrogant and act entitled and are just plain the most annoying beings on this planet. Anyway I use to take all kinds of abuse and strange looks since 90% of premiere league fans here either support Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool, or Arsenal. Now that we are of that class I get called a title chaser like I just started supporting City this year. I remember 5 years ago I met another City fan and we would be at the pub just the two of us relishing in our misery and happy with middle of the table never dreaming of all we have now. He is a life long City boy originally from Sulford and living in San Francisco now. I learned so much of the clubs brilliant history from him and could never imagine supporting anyone else. So we are not all newcomers over here some of us have suffered right along with you, although not as long. Now American Utd fans won't even look my way at the pub when they see the shirt and I love it. For those of you unfamiliar with US football pubs all the supporters watch at the same places. The pub we go to at 5:30 in the morning for early matches is owned by a blue but is the official pub of the Northern California Arsenal supporters. When we play them its 100 of them and about 10 of us and we usually out sing them. Any blue coming for the match here in San Francisco please come up to Maggie McGarry's pub in North Beach we the San Francisco City Blues would love to meet you all and lift a few pints. Now I will go back to lurking and learning from you all.

Pretty much the same story as me. Mid 90's after the World Cup was over here I got into football. Looking for a team to support when Oasis started breaking. Them being City supporters so I thought hell, why not throw my hat into the ring. Little did I know we would be relegated twice and the misery that that entailed, let alone just the difficulty to even find a score for Division 2 matches. But perseverance pays off! It's always been great walking around Chicago with a City kit on. When you meet another Blue, you're family. Hell, most of the glory hunting rags didn't even know what a City kit looked like until recently. Always good for a laugh them lot.

 

[Greenjob]

I live in cannock, staffordshire and have been a blue all my life, (renewed 2 weeks ago) only a few blues i know around here. I just hate it though when people i meet knowing there is not a big city following in this area just think ime a glory hunter and have just started supporting them GRRRRRR...

I'm down the road mate and can concur. Had a pikey Villa fan have the audacity to call me a glory hunter earlier in the year. The daft cnut knew nowt about football otherwise he'd have realised we won fuck all since 1976!!! Obviously pre FA Cup win.

 

[mcfcliam]

Glory hunters are just vermin, end of.

Sad bastards with no moral fibre so they choose to 'support' whoever is winning things.

Blue, red or green, it doesn't matter to me, they're filthy scumbags and we don't want or need them.

When we do get them, I won't think of them as Blues, I'll think of them as a complete joke to society and laugh in their shithouse faces...we've been ridiculing United for having these morons supporting them, so why can't we ridicule our own glory hunters?

Most of us have been going home and away in the lower divisions and watching garbage for years...so what gives these people the right and who do they think they are to just come along, bang £400 down and say 'Hello, I'm a Manchester City fan and I found this club when they got rich, hell, I didn't know there was more than 1 club in Manchester 5 years ago!'

Sorry for the rant and if I've offended anyone, but it's just the way I feel

Stay away.

 

[Greenjob]

Glory hunters are just vermin, end of.

Sad bastards with no moral fibre so they choose to 'support' whoever is winning things.

Blue, red or green, it doesn't matter to me, they're filthy scumbags and we don't want or need them.

When we do get them, I won't think of them as Blues, I'll think of them as a complete joke to society and laugh in their shithouse faces...we've been ridiculing United for having these morons supporting them, so why can't we ridicule our own glory hunters?

Most of us have been going home and away in the lower divisions and watching garbage for years...so what gives these people the right and who do they think they are to just come along, bang £400 down and say 'Hello, I'm a Manchester City fan and I found this club when they got rich, hell, I didn't know there was more than 1 club in Manchester 5 years ago!'

Sorry for the rant and if I've offended anyone, but it's just the way I feel

Stay away.

No problem, you haven't offended me. I've been coming since I was a young lad. Been to the Wycombe Wanderers on a wet night in January and lost, been to Swindon Town, Port Vale and the other shit houses. Your opinion pal and your entitled to it, It wont stop me coming to the games or supporting City. But I also don't wanna see untold City shirts all over the place it isn't right if they haven't been through the dark, desperate days like 'we have'. ;-)

 

[ChorltonAzzurro]

What really matters at the moment are the kids. We lost a generation to united. Are we reversing that trend yet? I don't know, anyone with kids in Manchester schools?

Not got my own kids in a Manchester school but I recently worked at a primary school in Clayton. Whilst there were probably more kids who said they supported "united" there were a decent number who claimed "City" as their team and actually went! At this age though kids are pretty fickle, and, following visits to the stadium as part of the City in the Community scheme, plenty would come back pledging their allegience to the Blues!

The club also send free tickets to the schools in the area for league cup matches, which again plants the seed. On the flip side it is going to be extremely difficult for some kids in Clayton to be able to afford to go and watch Premier League football. The free tickets are a fantastic gesture by the club and genuinely put smiles on faces. It's something the club need to keep up in order to increase it's support and I'm sure winning trophies wont do any harm.

 

[bluevengence]

Glory hunters are just vermin, end of.

Sad bastards with no moral fibre so they choose to 'support' whoever is winning things.

Blue, red or green, it doesn't matter to me, they're filthy scumbags and we don't want or need them.

When we do get them, I won't think of them as Blues, I'll think of them as a complete joke to society and laugh in their shithouse faces...we've been ridiculing United for having these morons supporting them, so why can't we ridicule our own glory hunters?

Most of us have been going home and away in the lower divisions and watching garbage for years...so what gives these people the right and who do they think they are to just come along, bang £400 down and say 'Hello, I'm a Manchester City fan and I found this club when they got rich, hell, I didn't know there was more than 1 club in Manchester 5 years ago!'

Sorry for the rant and if I've offended anyone, but it's just the way I feel

Stay away.

No problem, you haven't offended me. I've been coming since I was a young lad. Been to the Wycombe Wanderers on a wet night in January and lost, been to Swindon Town, Port Vale and the other shit houses. Your opinion pal and your entitled to it, It wont stop me coming to the games or supporting City. But I also don't wanna see untold City shirts all over the place it isn't right if they haven't been through the dark, desperate days like 'we have'. ;-)

You can allways tell a veteran blue by the
hangdog wore out look and the hunched shoulders

 

[Didsbury Dave]

What really matters at the moment are the kids. We lost a generation to united. Are we reversing that trend yet? I don't know, anyone with kids in Manchester schools?

Not got my own kids in a Manchester school but I recently worked at a primary school in Clayton. Whilst there were probably more kids who said they supported "united" there were a decent number who claimed "City" as their team and actually went! At this age though kids are pretty fickle, and, following visits to the stadium as part of the City in the Community scheme, plenty would come back pledging their allegience to the Blues!

The club also send free tickets to the schools in the area for league cup matches, which again plants the seed. On the flip side it is going to be extremely difficult for some kids in Clayton to be able to afford to go and watch Premier League football. The free tickets are a fantastic gesture by the club and genuinely put smiles on faces. It's something the club need to keep up in order to increase it's support and I'm sure winning trophies wont do any harm.

This is exactly what City should be doing. I've always thought there could be some way to get the kids from the local area into the ground. Especially when we've got a family stand where literally thousands of kids with season tickets aren't being brought for many games. I don't know the solution - cheap family tickets for anyone in the immediate vicinity for certain games?

Worldwide new fans are all well and good but what we need are local kids who will be matchgoing Blues for life.

City certainly seems to be doing their bit on this front but I'd like to see more.

 

[SF City Blue]

We can't win here in the states. We were laughed at for supporting City during the dark times and now we are called glory hunters for supporting City now. I was wearing my City top the other day at the store and this guy in a Chelsea jacket called me a glory hunter. After reminding him how ironic it is to be called a glory hunter by a Chelsea supporter I told him he was right. I said I have been hunting glory since 1994 and its finally in sight. He walked away with a stupid look on his face. Actually the same look Abromovich had when he got knocked out of the Champions League again this last season.