Present Day Football, Fans and Any Other Stuff You Hate About It!

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

I miss the days when you could just turn up and pay at the gate.
I moved down to the south west in the 70's for a job which involved working most weekends.
When given a rare weekend off, it was great just to be able to turn up at Maine Road and and queue at the turnstile.

 

[bluemurray]

If I'm being completely honest, and I dare say someone will accuse me of xenophobia (I trust that I am not), but I could live without the international brigade of followers, by and large. I'm not interested in how many fans we have in the far East or Africa, the States or the Arctic, let them build and follow their own clubs and celebrate their successes as we all do. Of course I fully accept that people from wherever can follow whatever they like, and all power to them in that regard. But English football, for all it's many faults is (or was!), at heart a parochial game, where local identification and affiliations matter - we have had a cosmopolitan crowd for many years and that's fine by me, they were/are for the most part, Mancunian's or at least northern folk regardless of background. And frankly, to be honest, when the curtain does eventually fall on Peps reign and our dominance ends (and it may already be doing so!) how many of these overseas followers/'fans' will be with us when we face the mighty Stockport once again..? A wet Tuesday night in York..? I don't think so.

In a similar vain, I hate seeing kids in my local area wearing City shirts... just as I hated seeing them once of a day wearing rag, dipper, gooner or chelski shirts...

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

I'm 36.

Season ticket since 03 with a few years not able to go as I was banned for a number of years.

I have to say, I lost interest in football completely around 2010 to 2013 whilst I still had the other brain attracting me to football.

What really helped with my love of the game coming back was watching non-league football, so when I did come back to watching City my love was back.

The 115, no fans, no history crap we have to deal with certainly makes me not want to bother any more but generally, I'm still appreciative of the game.

Rarely watch us on tv, unless of course I'm with my father or friends, ticket prices and how fans are treated need to drop quick.

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

Was sure a thread like this had been posted before, around the time the charges came out or maybe just a little afterwards, and thankfully my hunch was right. Fair play to Hart of the Matter as well - he logged out in February 2023 and has never come back.

Why I'm giving up on football, City and Bluemoon

So this is my last post. 55 years after my first match seeing City. 10 years a season ticket holder 1985 to 1995 until work and family took me too far away. I was there in 2012 and was there for that Tuart goal. Been to many but not all recent cup finals. I have been vocal about VAR, CAS and...

forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk

I made this post at the time.

Magnificently put. Of course everything you say is done so that more and more income is generated for everyone involved in the gravy train. Income seems to be the holy grail.
What I also hate from all this media shit, mostly redshirt shit, is that they render other clubs almost meaningless and even more so when they go on about ‘istree’. All clubs, have histories and all deserve respect but to the media only 4/clubs matter - why? - because they generate the cash for them. They are not interested in greater appreciation of the game, they want to divide and conquer. It’s a real joy to have a chat with another fan away from the media bias and lies and manufactured agendas and share each others experiences and views but that’s becoming more difficult for City fans these days.

 

[MCFCFanTX]

So what you are saying is, you're not happy.

Seems like a lot but honestly corporate greed might just be the main reason. New/changed competitions, pricing fans out, etc.

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

I h8 the fact that i will never again enjoy the walk down the magical dogshit alley and on to the Kippax carpark.

Where you dodge horse shit from.GMP horses, did they make the horses wait til they got to the ground before letting them have a dump?

 

[dickie davies]

I wonder if there’s a thing in attention spans too.

Without going into the early leavers black hole (but I still don’t believe 25,000 people walking out on Sunday evening had a longer drive home then we did) but I just don’t get leaving early at all.

20/30/40 years ago you’d stay. You’d definitely not be going when it’s close, yet thousands do. Are they bored? Is their boredom threshold that low that the prospect of waiting 20 minutes for a tram/bus without entertainment is just anathema and they need to get out to prevent that happening?

Maybe it’s that modern (if that’s a thing) fans are only after entertainment and support is a different thing.

So that. That’s what I don’t like.

Supporters have always left early
Maine road in the 70's was notorious for it as supporters wanted to be first on the bus

 

[deano ou812]

Has become to Americanised and will only get worse..

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Noise Annoys ; )

Pretty girls, pretty boys......

 

[mayo31]

It’s more about the social element for me now

The match can get in the way of a good day especially on Europe trips

I run a bus to all home games and quite a few away games and it is all about meeting the people who come on those.

Have a drink and a chat, help each other out if required.

My son and his mates are in their mid 20s, they have grown up going on these buses. A good 8 of them regularly on the trips. Season ticket holders since the age of 5 in the main. We did that in Middleton when you could, got your kid a season ticket asap to ensure they a blue. Much more difficult if nigh impossible now. That is a disgrace.

Seeing them grow up has been great, obviously there the occasional fall out or whatever but it keeps me young I think.

What I do hate is seeing these local lads struggle at times to get tickets for the big games and you then see what we did at Clanfield and will see at OT.

Anyway on to Villa.