Stories of meeting City fans in unusual places

[andyhinch]

Sat next to Ricky Hatton on a flight to Malaga once, he was in full City tracksuit mode.

 

[bluemooncas]

I was in Barcelona in 2006 in a harbour front bar watching England play Paraguay in the world cup,
I shouted come on England and got a tap on the shoulder, you’re not from round here this guy says,
Naa Manchester , same ere he says, turns out both City fans
Had a real good chat and watched the game, told him me and the missus were there for her 40th,
After that he wouldn’t let me buy any drinks, don’t worry about it im buying for all these guys over there as well
They all work for me on a boat, there where 7 or 8 Phillipino / Asian guys,
I turn to the wife and say this guy must be loaded,
Oh cool which one is your boat I asked , oh its too big to get into this harbour we have to dock in the other harbour a bit further down, jesus he must be really loaded.
Long and short of it was it wasn’t his boat he was the manager of the boat and he was on a day out with all his staff.
Wouldn’t tell us whose boat it was even after a lot of beer and numerous probing questions, fair play to him
went to have a look the day after, bloody huge with a helicopter on the back,
Great day and cheap, guess it was all on his expenses, must have had 5 or 6 beers plus cocktails for the wife.
Also told me he was allowed to fly home to go and watch City when not needed all at the expense of the boat owner,
What a bloody good job that was, maybe he frequents this forum and remembers
Great time but the wife never lets it slip we were supposed to go for a nice meal that night as it was her 40th,
we were that pissed we only made it to burger king, Happy Days

 

[Blue Mist]

The one I love is the City fan I, and hundreds of others met in Nice train station. We were all over for the Monaco game and had to get the train front Nice.
The scruffiest looking train guard was mithering everyone shaking hands, smiling and talking gibberish (OK French) in a fast unintelligible dialect. Suddenly he opened his uniformed coat to reveal a City shirt. Whilst all his colleagues carried on working he stood chatting (no one got a word in edgeways and we couldn't understand him) and having his photo taken.

 

[Blue Mist]

Wahey, fuck me, bookmark this day. Me, a foc has finally posted a photo, not exactly where I wanted it but come on.

 

[Blue Mist]

I was at an away game in York..............

And didn't see a soul.

 

[MCFCTrick]

I was in Japan back when Brother sponsored us. Naturally, I had to have my photo taken outside their head offices. As I stood there, another guy comes up to do the same, also wearing the shirt. Not even a local, but another 'gaijin' from Manchester ...

 

[nastyitch]

I was in Cambodia a few years ago at a circus and in attendance was a school trip of local kids with the entire class of about 20 kids dressed in city shirts. Turned out the teacher was a blue and she’d bought all the class city shirts and pointed them towards the right path!

 

[Half time draw tickets]

On the day of the CAS verdict clearing us I see a guy walking down the street in darkest South London wearing a full City tracksuit. I stopped him and said “exonerated! what a result!” he looked at me like I was some kind of escaped lunatic and didn’t have a clue what I was on about. Turns out he didn’t follow City or even watch football at all, he just “liked the tracksuit for the gym”… have to say I found that quite depressing.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

I was in Barcelona in 2006 in a harbour front bar watching England play Paraguay in the world cup,
I shouted come on England and got a tap on the shoulder, you’re not from round here this guy says,
Naa Manchester , same ere he says, turns out both City fans
Had a real good chat and watched the game, told him me and the missus were there for her 40th,
After that he wouldn’t let me buy any drinks, don’t worry about it im buying for all these guys over there as well
They all work for me on a boat, there where 7 or 8 Phillipino / Asian guys,
I turn to the wife and say this guy must be loaded,
Oh cool which one is your boat I asked , oh its too big to get into this harbour we have to dock in the other harbour a bit further down, jesus he must be really loaded.
Long and short of it was it wasn’t his boat he was the manager of the boat and he was on a day out with all his staff.
Wouldn’t tell us whose boat it was even after a lot of beer and numerous probing questions, fair play to him
went to have a look the day after, bloody huge with a helicopter on the back,
Great day and cheap, guess it was all on his expenses, must have had 5 or 6 beers plus cocktails for the wife.
Also told me he was allowed to fly home to go and watch City when not needed all at the expense of the boat owner,
What a bloody good job that was, maybe he frequents this forum and remembers
Great time but the wife never lets it slip we were supposed to go for a nice meal that night as it was her 40th,
we were that pissed we only made it to burger king, Happy Days

You've described Ric there

 

[Blue Mist]

You've described Ric there

No ric is the post above, the guy in the tracksuit.