Other fans perception of us nowadays.

[roaminblue]

Having relocated to the south (bristol) in the last year I have been exposed to this numerous times.

The first barbers I went to was a spurs fan (he later explained he's a Bristol city fan but spurs is his "premier league" team). I walked in, with a city hat on, asked him how he was and his reply: "better than you if you're a city fan"

I watched the spurs game from last season in the local walk about. got asked why I support city by a guy next to me. I responded: "is that a trick question?" and he got a bit arsey. So I told him I was born and bred in manc to which he replied "no i meant whys one of your type supporting city" (i'm mixed race) it was only my level headed girlfriend who stopped the fat little hobbit from getting a bottle wrapped around his face.

at work I have two utd fans, a gunner, a spurs fan, a scouse fan, a swindon town fan, a chelsea fan, a leicester fan and a leeds fan. And of all of them, only me, the leeds fan and the MK Don's fan come from anywhere near our club. The only one who takes my side in any of the football arguments is funnily enough the leeds fan (and probably only because of our mutual hate for the scum). to the rest we are ruining football, making joke signings. even stranger most of it comes from the chelsea fan (from newport) rather than the utd fans.

anyway. ive yet to meet a city fan down here since I moved (although admitedly it was only the spurs game that I was down here for).

if you're from bristol, look me up.

 

[blueH1969]

40years man an boy following the blues an im just about sick of other fans pating me on the back saying wowwww ur fans are gr8 uv won fckall for 30odd years an you still turn up in your thousands,i cant wait till they say your all cnuts,but were champions,roll on the trophys please

 

[SWP's back]

Scousers are offensive in the fact that they steal oxygen from real people. I remember someone from chelsea posting <can't remember which site> a good luck message and a line that went, "When you go the games and suddenly see loads of new faces, your not going mad, don't worry, it happened to us." I think out of all the jealous types the funniest are the likes Everscum and Birmingscam....like they were somehow more worthy than us and therefore deserved a sugar daddy. Brum got a cut-price one and everscum wouldn't be bought by Aldi!

It's an attitude like that .. that makes fans hate every city fan ... Just look at the facts before you start shouting your mouth off ... in 3/4 years of having pots of money city have won nothing .. it was a massive achievement for city to finish 5th las year but Everton did that in the 2 previous seasons despite having no money .. Everton hammered city home and away last season and after having a disaster of a start they nearly caught you all up ... I have no problem in teams celebrating success ... but city have not had any .... shout your mouth off when you deserve it ... City are the classic case .. NO CLASS , NO DIGNITY ,
I know not all your fansare as ignorant as you .. some of them are decent dignified guys .. but they get tarred with the same dirty brush as you .... Rock > crawl back under it

Maybe you could mourn for the death of our class? Unless you're mourning anything else this week? Any chickens died?

How should we be more dignified? JOIN OTHER FORUMS and randomly abuse people with OCCASIONAL words in CAPS?

Well done for beating City last season (twice). You won your cup final. How's that stadium of yours? Fancy chatting about all of your big signings?

 

[cinnamon blue]

bollocks to them all . Whats rich is that the likes of chelsea , red scum , arsenal all complain about us spending big . Didnt hear them complaining when they did it. so called big club chelsea i remember going to stamford bridge to watch us play them in the old second division think the crowd was 11000 on a wednesday night. Fuckin cockney glory hunters , as for the red shite they are seriously worried about the noisy neighbour !!

I went to ibiza few weeks ago got on swell with liverpool , leeds fans , but got smart arse comments from chelsea , scum, arsenal etc.

buy your club and burn you down ! lets buy united scum , knock it down and make the biggest ncp multi storey car park you ha ve ever seen !

 

[roylefamily]

It's an attitude like that .. that makes fans hate every city fan ... Just look at the facts before you start shouting your mouth off ... in 3/4 years of having pots of money city have won nothing .. it was a massive achievement for city to finish 5th las year but Everton did that in the 2 previous seasons despite having no money .. Everton hammered city home and away last season and after having a disaster of a start they nearly caught you all up ... I have no problem in teams celebrating success ... but city have not had any .... shout your mouth off when you deserve it ... City are the classic case .. NO CLASS , NO DIGNITY ,
I know not all your fansare as ignorant as you .. some of them are decent dignified guys .. but they get tarred with the same dirty brush as you .... Rock > crawl back under it

Maybe you could mourn for the death of our class? Unless you're mourning anything else this week? Any chickens died?

How should we be more dignified? JOIN OTHER FORUMS and randomly abuse people with OCCASIONAL words in CAPS?

Well done for beating City last season (twice). You won your cup final. How's that stadium of yours? Fancy chatting about all of your big signings?

don't need big signings ... and the response to my post has just re affirmed everything I said ..." waste of cytoplasm " oh dear , shall I just cry my eyes out because a citteh fan has asked a 9 year old to google him a word with more than 2 syllables ? As I've said .. shout your mouths off when you actually achieve something .. anything ... Fortunately you show no sign whatsoever of even matching last seasons nothing achievement .. You never know , a 7th place finish and an FA Cup quarter final is good for you lot ... lap it up ... oh yeah .. beating citteh was our FA Cup ? .. Nah beating Utd in the semi final at wembley and our ressies getting pipped in the final against chelski .. thats a real FA cup final ... you should try nit sometime .... in your dreams

 

[sam221985]

Maybe you could mourn for the death of our class? Unless you're mourning anything else this week? Any chickens died?

How should we be more dignified? JOIN OTHER FORUMS and randomly abuse people with OCCASIONAL words in CAPS?

Well done for beating City last season (twice). You won your cup final. How's that stadium of yours? Fancy chatting about all of your big signings?

don't need big signings ... and the response to my post has just re affirmed everything I said ..." waste of cytoplasm " oh dear , shall I just cry my eyes out because a citteh fan has asked a 9 year old to google him a word with more than 2 syllables ? As I've said .. shout your mouths off when you actually achieve something .. anything ... Fortunately you show no sign whatsoever of even matching last seasons nothing achievement .. You never know , a 7th place finish and an FA Cup quarter final is good for you lot ... lap it up ... oh yeah .. beating citteh was our FA Cup ? .. Nah beating Utd in the semi final at wembley and our ressies getting pipped in the final against chelski .. thats a real FA cup final ... you should try nit sometime .... in your dreams

How can a team 'show no sign whatsoever' of even matching last season, before a ball has even been kicked?

Your squad in terms of individual quality is far from on a par with ours, if you finish above us you will have punched above your weight.

If that happens then feel free to come back here and act like you're talking from a position of superiority - until then, the facts are that we finished comfortably above you last season - that's really all we need to 'achieve' to have the upper hand in this particular argument at this stage.

 

[club 18-94]

got my hair cut in liverpool yesterday. the barber said his second team was city. i asked even now an he said yeah. he's an everton fan. he's good mates with peter reid he was saying. had a soft spot for city when he joined us he said

 

[The 49ers]

I think most fans don't care about other clubs and more interested in what their clubs are doing, look at it this way, any negative comments probably stems from the fact that the fans are fed up with what their board/manager is/isn't doing to move their club forward.

Chelsea didn't win the league because of the russian more due to Mourinho being a freakishly good manager. Even if your owners buy all the strikers and defenders in the world, you will only win the league if Mancini is good enough. Once you win the league, do you really give a shit what a few cockney reds think........yeah, thought not.

 

[Ducky_]

The hatrid is like water off a duck's back to me these days.

 

[Blue Streak]

Afternoon Blues.
Just got back from a week in Newquay with the family, very interesting it was too.
Had the usual southern reds not knowing what they're on about, which is pretty much inevitable on any holiday, but the thing which I really noticed was the look of utter disgust on the faces of other fans from different clubs when I walked past them in a City top, or if my lad was in a City top. The first HOUR we were there me and my lad walked to the site shop and he had his City top on. This guy was there, (a Chelsea fan), with his dog and my lad asked what kind of dog it was, 'he doesn't like Man City fans', he said. Now I'm a good judge of how things are spoken, and this was now banter from the guy, he genuinely didn't want to talk to us, the dick. Then there was the shop assistant who said in the most twat-ish way, 'ah the old Man City fan eh, full of cash and still no trophy'!!!! Couldn't believe it but took that one as banter. It was the faces of the other fans which really struck me though, people almost sneered at me whenever I had a City top on, they looked physically pissed off at me, was never like that in the older days. I realise its jealousy etc, but I was really genuinely surprised at peoples views/opinions of us now. Anyone else noticed it?

On a positive note, I did bump into a Blue in Padstow, 'alright Blue', we both exchanged!

I live in the south west, and peoples perception of City has definately changed, at first I'd bite back, but now I dont bother worrying about it, just give them a wry smile, that seems to wind them up even more, fuck them, no fucker is spoiling this for me (us), like you said all just boils down to blatant jealousey. If you go down to Cornwall again and need a trim pop down to St.ives about half an hour further down than Newquay, pop in to the male hairdressers, aptly named "The Barber Shop", old fella that owns it, is a huge City fan, but lived down in Cornwall for the last 40 odd years, he still has plenty of stories to tell, you'll notice the shop its decorated in sky blue and white.

I've been in it mate about 5 years ago. I was stunned. Its quality.