Back when they were successful (I know it all seems to be in black and white in our collective memories) my stock answer was ‘no, I didn’t watch it, don’t really get football on the telly’ That always got the Bitter Blue rise because always that was how they had watched the game.
These days there are still idiots who haven’t moved on and still think nytid are the bestest ever. Bizarrely City’s last 12 years don’t seemed to have happened.
One fuckwit in work today ( early 30’s ) tells me:
”Can’t wait to batter City next week, got loads of mates coming round to watch it. What you doing, are they showing it at the emptyhad?”
” I will be at Wembley.”
Nothing.
The dickheads in their late 30’s now grew up with rag entitlement.
I am 58 and, this is what pisses me off more than anything else, rags my age grew up watching the same shit that I did, yet the minute they won the Premier League they became Uber arrogant overnight. People that I regarded as mates turned into twats, relatives became pariahs, work colleagues suddenly turned into enemies the list went on.
This arrogance led to the television fan. Suddenly putting your hand in your pocket became stupid. Something only Citeh fans do.
Us FOC’s kept on going, keeping the faith, being there when we were shit and laughing at the whole absurdity of it all.
I love seeing our young uns who know nothing but success keeping the typical City culture alive.
Stay true Blues to the values that those fallow years emboldened in us, never forget that fucking banner and remember as Cheesey tells us:
It’s great to be a Blue.