Overseas support

[Paulpowersleftfoot]

We should be embracing overseas support,it's precisely what we will need to get to the next level and be a force worldwide which Sheikh Mansour has given us every opportunity to be which iwas beyond our wildest dreams not too long ago
If anyone wonders whether it's worth it or not simply picture Gerry Creaney and the pointer Mcmanaman in a City top

 

[Questy]

Met Finnish fan on train from Scotland going to game yesterday at Leucester, he was meeting his friend in leicester who had flown from Finland. Fair play to these guys

 

[bowp]

My dad once got a load of abuse from a rag on the train up from London after an FA cup semi final against them as he lived in Wigan and therefore wasn't a manc even though he was born and raised in Hulme. I apparently was a manc as I lived in Victoria Park even though I was born and raised in Wigan. I couldn't quite get my head around this concept....... what was clear though was he was born, raised and lived in Bolton and was a tit.

 

[Corky]

Tourists not fans. The same who 'supported' Liverpool in the 1980s, United in the 1990s.

Teams are named after places for a reason, and it is a cultural thing. I can't understand anyone supporting a team from a different country or even county just because the standard is higher than their country. "You have to have an English team" from a new City fan of two years at the Hearts game was baffling.

I blame the television companies.

 

[Stretfordian_Blue]

There were anti IRA and anti german songs on a bus transfer to the Stadio Olympico and also on the train to Leicester yesterday- mainly 'fans' in their teens/early 20s I must say.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Just a quick question.. Is there an element of the city following who doesn't welcome support from outside Manchester particularly overseas and Ireland? Or is there just so little between their ears that they consider all Irish citizens to be bomb throwing terrorists? I am referring to some fuck the IRA and fuck Dublin chants/songs on the bus out to the ground which I guess we're triggered by the overhearing of Irish accents, supported city for decades and find this behaviour disgraceful

Of course there is an element with this moronic outlook within our support, there will be at every single club in the country. It's just a representation that within out society there are a lot of complete dullards with very impressionable personalities.

As a kid they probably had an uncle who came out with this kind of shit and now, as an adult, they get a bit brave after a drink and come out with it too.

They probably sat at the back of the classroom picking their nose and fell asleep during their exams at school and they probably now vote BNP as an adult. And they probably think it's cool and they're impressing their mates when they come out with this kind of bollocks.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

On the other point being made in the thread, like Corky's here:

Tourists not fans. The same who 'supported' Liverpool in the 1980s, United in the 1990s.

Teams are named after places for a reason, and it is a cultural thing. I can't understand anyone supporting a team from a different country or even county just because the standard is higher than their country. "You have to have an English team" from a new City fan of two years at the Hearts game was baffling.

I blame the television companies.

...this is my exact outlook on these tourist fans.

But they are different from other fans who aren't Mancunians and aren't tourists. I know a Midlander City fan and met a bloke from Swindon, both have been everywhere with City over the decades.

I love rugby league and think the NRL is the highest quality league in either code of rugby and am an avid watcher of it; yet I don't have a team I "support" in that league. I wouldn't dream of supporting a team in any sport where I don't have a long family history of supporting, I don't have a local interest in or the accent of that place.

However for those who want to do that, I have absolutely no problem with them doing so. If some bloke from Olso or Ohio thinks City are great and buys our kits and come over once every five years for a game, then good for him. And good for the club as he's briging more revenue in for us! Even though I'd never feel comfortable doing it, myself, it doesn't mean I disagree with others doing it.

One thing I have always wondered over the years though, is: wouldn't Ireland have a decent thriving football league without at the United Liverpool and Celtic glory hunters? (Not a dig, a genuine question I've thought of from time-to-time.)

 

[buckshot]

The most important rule to sports fandom is to pick a team and stick with them forever. The minute you change who you support you can no longer be taken seriously.

The only caveat is if a family member/friend ends up playing for somebody else. Unless of course they play for the scum, then you must sever all ties and do media interviews that make every sordid detail of their past public knowledge.

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

You blues in and around Manchester have it easy, my son and I come down for 4/5 home games every season from Edinburgh (not a lot I know but it's expensive for us as we stay overnight) and by god we treasure those trips, being at the stadium, mixing with other Blues, seeing City....it's fantastic...it's painful for us not being able to go to very home game.
Half the trouble is trying to pick the games and organising the train and hotel, you can't book too early because the games that you plan to go to get moved for TV and that can bugger up the train etc etc...we end up having to watch the likes of Hull/Norwich because you know those types of games won't get switched by BT or Sky for TV purposes.
Plus, as he is at school still we can only really go to games on a Saturday.
Love coming down for the games and have always been treated extremely well by the locals..
Thanks to De Niro for his kind words...

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

We should be embracing overseas support,it's precisely what we will need to get to the next level and be a force worldwide which Sheikh Mansour has given us every opportunity to be which iwas beyond our wildest dreams not too long ago
If anyone wonders whether it's worth it or not simply picture Gerry Creaney and the pointer Mcmanaman in a City top

how does having a load of tourists in the ground take us to the next level ?? we are already winning the league, cups and probably soon the champions league. All it would do is make us more money. I want people to actually support us, not just when we are winning.

And imo the majority of people especially in the ground should be local. As thats who the club is primarily for. I accept we have some great loyal fans who aren't from manchester, just dont want the types of fans united or liverpool have i.e. glory hunters.