Apart from all the friendlies we used to play them in didnt we virtualy give them 50 odd gran once when we singed William"Bill" Williams from them then give him back for free i week or so later
I can assure you I am not generally a petty, bitter person or even football fan without good reason, but I have a long memory as do all us Stockport blues. The best way to describe it is a really good mate (not your best mate of course) or at least someone who you thought was a good mate showing their true colours and being verbally abusive to you. It is worst than the scousers in 2014 because they weren't exactly mates with us before, we just didn't realise how vile they could be to us.Me neither. Seems a bit petty to me, tbh.
I can assure you I am not generally a petty, bitter person or even football fan without good reason, but I have a long memory as do all us Stockport blues. The best way to describe it is a really good mate (not your best mate of course) or at least someone who you thought was a good mate showing their true colours and being verbally abusive to you. It is worst than the scousers in 2014 because they weren't exactly mates with us before, we just didn't realise how vile they could be to us.
Don't really get the hate for the Hatters. I used to go watch them friday night and then see City on the saturday. Hardly their fault we were crap and I'm sure they weren't the only set of fans laughing at our misfortune. It's unlikely but I'd like to see them back in the league. They did brilliantly to get to the old second division and if I remember right a league cup semi. We should remember football isn't just for the benefit of the "big" clubs and their fans.
Lived in Heaton Chapel for many years and I too viewed them as my second team for a while. The 2 mates I've been going to City games with for over 25 years always had a different view though and warned me even when there were 3 divisions separating us that it could get ugly if we both ended up in the same division, partly because they'd witnessed some pretty hostile behaviour from their fans at a couple of the pre-season friendlies. Maybe in my naivety I never expected us to be in the same division as them so I pretty much dismissed what they were telling me.
Well I have to admit that they were right and I was wrong, and when the time finally arrived in 1997 their fans behaved like utter twats. I've nothing against them taking the piss out of us - they deservedly wiped the floor with us that day - but plenty of stories emerged of innocent City fans being attacked after the match.
To think, in addition to all the help City gave them our fans - and United's to be fair - pretty much propped their shithouse of a club up in the 70's and 80's by boosting their gate receipts at Friday night home games long before Danny Bergara rocked up and produced a team that was challenging for promotion rather than re-election. It wasn't just Stockport based reds and blues either - another mate of mine is Wythenshawe born and bred and he used to attend their matches too.
Very similar story to me other than I grew up in Burnage. We often went on a Friday night, I even remember one of their ends was just a raised field.I'm a typical massive Citeh fan, in that I was born (no longer live) in Stockport and I used to watch County every now and again on a Friday night.
I also remember back in the 70's when County were totally on their arse, applying every season for re election (no relegation from the 4th division then) and being absolutely skint, so skint that City sent their first team down to Edgeley Park TWICE to play Stockport in friendlies so they could get some money through the gate
Roll on twenty odd years later and County are doing very well in the second tier, holding their own and we are struggling like fuck in the same division
I went to watch County with my two brothers and a friend on Boxing day 1997. City were away at Crewe.
At half time when reading out half time scores from around the country, the compare screeched " and in the relegation battle at Gresty Road, it's Crewe 1 Manchester CITY NIL" and he whipped the crowd up into the biggest cheer of the day
All that went through my head was, you fucking short term memory twats.
And from that day fuck em