Shit team great days

[Corky]

Rest assured i do get it..
Simple question do you prefer to watch/go City in the 1990's or 2020 ?

Early 90s with my direct play at exciting counters, and less predictable.

Now it is like watching Deep Blue win.

 

[dad1971]

Rest assured i do get it..
Simple question do you prefer to watch/go City in the 1990's or 2020 ?

Watch city in 2020 but no brainier go city in the 90s.

 

[trumpton]

I was there, stood 2 rows in front of Kevin Kennedy and his other half, with my pal shouting squatters out at him. For those not old enough curly watts was on a brief respite from Corrie and a squatter had moved into his house.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

There is a certain amount of our fan base that prefers them days.

I know loads of lads who’ve preferred it back then to now. Many don’t come anymore.

Some preferred the day out back then compared to now. Some preferred how going to the game had more of an edgy feel to it, with some thinking there’s too many families and not enough “lads”. Some think our fanbase has lost its identity and we’ve lost the fan culture we used to have.

Some loved Maine Road and can’t be doing with the Etihad (they think it’s in a a shit place for our ground to be, no pubs around the ground, no buzz about the stadium, and most of all we don’t have a proper stand to be proud of being part of).

Some also hate the razzmatazz bullshit of the match day experience these days.

Some just can’t afford the pricing and wished they could go but can’t justify paying for it

My Uncle stopped going when the Kippax was knocked down in 1994, he said a part of the club died that day and we’ve never got it back. He went a few times post-Kippax and said it wasn’t the same so stopped going.

I know about two dozen lads who’ve stopped going and a good dozen who still go but preferred the old days.

Im 50:50. I preferred going to the game, the day out, the experience of being a City fan, City fan culture and being proud of our fanbase back then; I prefer what we see on the pitch now.

 

[metalblue]

Watch city in 2020 but no brainier go city in the 90s.

Spot on mate. Still go, still love my club but it’s lost a bit of the “family” feel about it.

Back in the “day” you’d bump into any blue miles from Manchester and you’d nod and have a natter, saw a blue in a bit of mither you’d help out, no questions. Not sure I would nowadays.

 

[Stevieatlasblue]

I know loads of lads who’ve preferred it back then to now. Many don’t come anymore.

Some preferred the day out back then compared to now. Some preferred how going to the game had more of an edgy feel to it, with some thinking there’s too many families and not enough “lads”. Some think our fanbase has lost its identity and we’ve lost the fan culture we used to have.

Some loved Maine Road and can’t be doing with the Etihad (they think it’s in a a shit place for our ground to be, no pubs around the ground, no buzz about the stadium, and most of all we don’t have a proper stand to be proud of being part of).

Some also hate the razzmatazz bullshit of the match day experience these days.

Some just can’t afford the pricing and wished they could go but can’t justify paying for it

My Uncle stopped going when the Kippax was knocked down in 1994, he said a part of the club died that day and we’ve never got it back. He went a few times post-Kippax and said it wasn’t the same so stopped going.

I know about two dozen lads who’ve stopped going and a good dozen who still go but preferred the old days.

Im 50:50. I preferred going to the game, the day out, the experience of being a City fan, City fan culture and being proud of our fanbase back then; I prefer what we see on the pitch now.

I’m same as you. Love what’s going on the pitch now but miss Maine Road and the standing Kippax so much. The away days were an amazing experience everywhere we went very edgy feel to them and we travelled in great numbers. Leeds, Newcastle and boro In particular always gave us a warm welcome as did Millwall and Stoke

 

[bluebanana83]

I think a lot of is tinged with nostalgia and being younger.

Pros of Maine Road the atmosphere, the edginess, the fact I could walk home to Didsbury. However, what we have now is unparalleled but a lot more sanitised. I do like going in to town and having a mooch about but the 8pm games are a nightmare. When I worked in town it was handy to just stroll in for the evening games but getting back at near midnight isn’t fun.

I also think a lot is to do with the pricing and the whole ‘Premier League’ as it has evolved with every game on TV everybody can consume it at any time. It was a bit more special going to a game as if you didn’t go all you had was the highlights.

 

[Big gay Al]

Yes York away..I'm sure they scored early on...my Mrs. Went shopping (should have gone with her) stayed over in some hotel next to the racecourse

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I’m same as you. Love what’s going on the pitch now but miss Maine Road and the standing Kippax so much. The away days were an amazing experience everywhere we went very edgy feel to them and we travelled in great numbers. Leeds, Newcastle and boro In particular always gave us a warm welcome as did Millwall and Stoke

City could sort it out so easily by giving us a proper end at the North Stand and calling it the 93:20 Stand or The Wonderewall or something. Price all adult season tickets at £300 and junior/OAP at £100, and all adult matchday tickets at £30 and junior/OAP at £10 in the stand. Have absolutely no corporate areas in it at all and no tickets going to the ticket tout/tour sites…

There’d then be a stand that gives our fanbase and stadium some identity and would bring back some football fan culture and create a new City fan culture.

If we had that I don't think I’d ever think about the old days, and I know a load of lads who’d come back and support us because we’d have a large number of fairly priced tickets where lads could stand together in a stand everyone would be proud to be part of.

This football club is really missing this. As good as everything on the pitch is, the football fan culture side of things feels like I’ve potentially got the best shoe collection of anyone I know but I only have one shoe in every pair of shoes I own. It all just doesn’t feel right, feels like I’m walking around with one mint shoe on all the time. Give me the other shoe for each pair, for fuck’s sake City!

 

[eastmanc]

I think a lot of is tinged with nostalgia and being younger.

Pros of Maine Road the atmosphere, the edginess, the fact I could walk home to Didsbury. However, what we have now is unparalleled but a lot more sanitised. I do like going in to town and having a mooch about but the 8pm games are a nightmare. When I worked in town it was handy to just stroll in for the evening games but getting back at near midnight isn’t fun.

I also think a lot is to do with the pricing and the whole ‘Premier League’ as it has evolved with every game on TV everybody can consume it at any time. It was a bit more special going to a game as if you didn’t go all you had was the highlights.

You’re right that’s what it is nostalgia, why would anyone want to go back and watch the shit we used to dish up. Surely it’s about the football. Had a lot of great times going away with City in the eighties but had a lot of bad ones too with results and getting relegated a far to often Fuck that give me the way we play now all day long.