Southerners Who Support City

[Citytillidie69]

do people who live north of manchester get the same dis respect as people who live south of manchester, ie does a geordie city fan get more respect than a cockney city fan

Not as much dis-respect - I reckon thats more to do with North/south divide than football matey.

 

[Weston Blue]

I have supported MCFC since around 1969. At that time City were actually winning things, but so were a lot of other teams ie newcastle, Leeds, Liverpool, Everton, The Scum, Derby County etc etc.

I originally come from Bucks. None of my family were into football. I chose MCFC on the basis that I saw Franny Lee on the TV pplay for England. If my family had have been into football, I am sure Luton or one of the London teams would have been the team i would have supported. As others have said though, once a blue always a blue and in no way can anyone cliam that the last 40 years have been to do with glory!

My saving grace however, my wife comes from manchester and so I enede up marrying into a Blue Family. This ensures my kids are Blues.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Friend of mine is a confirmed Londoner and the only time he's lived away from there is when he was a student at Mcr Uni. He lived in a house in Moss Side and was puzzled to see loads of people with yellow plastic bananas walking past on Saturday afternoons. He ended up following them and of course they were going to Maine Road. He went and was hooked from then on. He'll be in Copenhagen tomorrow.

 

[droylsdenblue]

Oh dear... what about German City fans (like me) ? :(

mmmm German City fan living in Holland!???

Confused of Rotterdam.

 

[Blip]

Guys - just out of interest - How and why did you become blues?

(I reckon you must all be masochist's or have some other perversion)

My support of City is bore out of a fairly deep-seated and somewhat disturbing hatred of Manchester United. As a youngster I hated their players, I hated the manager (same tosser in charge now) and I hated the fact that almost all the kids in my Southern school supported them for seemingly no other reason other than they win all the time.

Man City seemed the natural choice.

My support for the club quadrupled when I moved to the city aged 18, I was a regular at Maine for many years, those were the first football matches I’d ever been to.

The nearest vaguely half-decent team to where I grew up is Cheltenham, currently sat at the very bottom of the old Third Division, a lofty position when compared to their league position when I was a kid growing up (not even sure they were in the league at all).

Sounds similar reason to Nick (Rogue Trader) Leeson's reasons for being a Blue. From Watford, but just chose City cos all of his colleagues were rags, and he wanted to be different.

Probably explains why we've got so many awkward buggers in our ranks!!

 

[avoidconfusion]

Oh dear... what about German City fans (like me) ? :(

mmmm German City fan living in Holland!???

Confused of Rotterdam.

I do live in the Netherlands (since about 2.5 years now) because I work for an international company here and because my (now) wife lived here already (she's a blue). :)

 

[sput the wonder pig]

I remember being in Charloi for england v romania a few years back and there were 2 rags with us who i took the piss out of for all there southern fans... anyway when we got into the main square there was loads of blues about... and not a single one was from Manchester.. not a one..... and im talking 10-15 blues over the course of the day.... i was firmly put back in my place that day !!!!

 

[lovecityhateunited]

have to admit i do cringe when following city in the south you hear the accent. (the only reason being i give my rag mates so much stick on this subject). but if u follow the blues with all your heart thats fine by me.

 

[Cheltblue]

Take the 'big 4' out of it and Cheltenham is mini-Manc, fantastic support for City down here. the supporters branch has been run by a blue named Pat Higgins (top bloke, and never misses a game if he can help it) as far back as i joined which was 1976 and he will fill at least 1 coach most weeks and there are also a fair few other blues who travel up by car as well.

With what i have been through since i started supporting em in 1970, there is no way that anyone will tell me that the passionate City fans of the South are any less bluer than the passionate City fans of Manchester. How many times has been said on the forum that Blues are chosen? There has never been a truer saying.

Yes, Cheltenham have a club and i always hope they do well and will go and watch em with my boy prob 4 or 5 times a season, but i dont believe anyone has to support a team cus they are local, you support your team because they take you in emotionally and then the fuckers proceed to control the rest of your life. Next to my kids (or at least alongside!!) City are in my thoughts almost all day everyday and as you all know its like we are kindred spirits with our team.

And how did this start for me???

All because Franny Lee was given Englands Man of the Match by the Sun, in the 1970 World Cup game against brazil and they had his picture on the back page. That was it.................the day i was chosen, and fuck havnt i paid the price since!!!

City Southerners, Northerners, Easterners & Weterners, creeds, colours..............................kindred spirits my friends!

 

[Jnr Kisby]

doesnt matter where your from as long as your blue through and through