The "Brand" is growing ;)

[moomba]

Re: The "Brand" is growing ;)

So why do people take the piss out of United's plastics but revel in ours by saying some shite like 'City chooses you'?

Bollocks and very hypocritical.

Because rags can't take it, and its funny.

 

[xbuddyx]

Guess I stirred up a shitstorm. Just woundering jma must one be so rational? Feelings aren't rational, they make no sense most of the time, but they are still there. I cried like a baby when the counter was reset to 00 years just like im sure you did. I agree that's not rational, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

This is why I'm embracing this new U-21 Premier League, I plan on taking advantage of The EDS and this will be my second team, tickets are cheaper (FREE on Friday night) and I can watch a glimpse of the future of "my" club for a small fee... and if they make the big league, those of us with big money can watch the finished product (ell suppose I can on a internet stream)

Wherever you are, support this club.
Whoever you are, support this club.
Hopefully one day I will be in a better financial situation to continue cheering the blues :-)

Steven
Chairman, North Bury MCFC Supporters Club

This is very sad and I feel for you. I hope you won't be priced out. I can only imagine how heartbreaking it must be to live in Manchester but being priced out. The U-21 PL does sound extremly interesting. I hope there will be streams availible for the games and I hope the youngsters new stadium will be packed with blues cheering them on when its free fridays.

 

[S04]

Well, this is really what I cannot get my head around.

You would go and watch a team play 10 times a year. A team that was set up to and does represent a place that you have some connection to. You would watch that team struggle to win, draw and lose and not really give a shit. Yet, a team that is from a random, unrelated, far away place -somewhere that you may, if lucky, get to once a year or so - you would say that you are ridiculously passionate about that team?

Despite every rational indicator pointing towards you surely having much more feeling for the team you actually watch. The team that you can see, feel and touch. The team that was part of your locality growing up. The team that you can physically touch/see. The team that was deliberately set up to represent that area and community. Despite all that, you are much more passionate about the other team?

If that is the case then surely you have to admit, the only thing that would cause you to be more passionate and 'a supporter' of the English team is that it is more glamorous and there is more 'glory' involved (whether that is winning trophies or just being a 'bigger' team)? In fact, you admit as much anyway.

So, yeah, I freely admit, I cannot get my head around that. I can imagine a kid doing such a thing but I would have thought that when that kid becomes a rational adult they would ask themselves serious questions about their motivations and reasons for doing so and feel just a little bit silly about the whole thing.

(Although I know that I am the weird one in this respect as so many people do just that)

(Can I just add that the above sounds a little like a personal attack. It's not meant to be, it's just addressing what is raised. I have no issue with you doing whatever you want to do. It has nothing to do with me. You just happen to have responded, that's all)

Teams don´t really represent areas and communities anymore surely, för 9 out of 10 footy fans football exists in their living room on the telly wherever they live.
As for supporting your country, well, just look at the threads on here during a competition..not much support at all

Perhaps that is what you and others would like to think.

Personally I find it grossly insulting that you seem to suggest that MANCHESTER City does not represent Manchester - as would most football fans if you suggested a similar thing about other teams.

As I've already stated, this is an 'opinion' that only really has a growing popularity in football.

The reason that this nonsense (cos it is nonsense) opinion that football clubs don't represent the areas they are from gains some (incorrect) credibility in the mind of some is football is that football contains two groups that aren't anywhere near as prevalent in other sports.

a) football has attracted many more gloryhunters than other sports, who have pushed all sorts of reasons to disguise their gloryhunting over the last 20 years

b) football has clubs that are 100 times more aggressive and interested in exploiting and getting money out of shallow gloryhunters and therefore encourages them more than any other sport.

You cannot back up the opinion that 'football clubs don't represent areas' with anything like serious argument because the 'argument' (if you can even call it that) is based only on the aims of the two groups mentioned above.

(PS: what would be your opinion of City moving their ground to London or Cornwall if they determined it was more economically viable? Presumably it would be a good thing, given that they do not represent Manchester, in your opinion)

Do Celtic fans in Glasgow with their Irish flags and banners represent Glasgow or something else...?
What if in the future Liverpool and Manchester become on big urban community and we move to where Warrington is now, would City have lost its roots?
Will Spurs loose theirs if they move to south London? Same distance actually..

 

[KansasCITY]

Someone asked why we dont support our local teams. The answer being: I dont have a local team, the closest MLS team is 4 hours away, i watch them when i can, but it is easier to watch Premier League than it is MLS. You can see why people are drawn away.

 

[FlashHutch]

When I was at school in Poynton in the 80's roughly half supported City and half United. By the mid 90's, all my mates that weren't bothered with football suddenly supported United. But for the first time I can remember I saw a United convert who now supports City, he's 8 years old and changed the day we won the league... We're going to get them but I suppose we need the revenue from somewhere.

 

[FlashHutch]

Also I don't mind at all People choosing City from anywhere else in the world, it's just what anyone would do. I supported SF 49ers because I didn't have a clue about the NFL and they were succesful and on the tele. It's a sign of success.

 

[lita69]

Mate who went to Anfield text me to say there were blues all over Anfield today, anyone confirm this?

 

[Anonymous]

Mate who went to Anfield text me to say there were blues all over Anfield today, anyone confirm this?

I thought i spotted a few arms go up to the left of the goal at the kop end today when Tevez equalised.

 

[lita69]

Mate who went to Anfield text me to say there were blues all over Anfield today, anyone confirm this?

I thought i spotted a few arms go up to the left of the goal at the kop end today when Tevez equalised.

Cheers mate, I can see this happening at many away games this season when tickets are hard to come by.

 

[Anonymous]

Mate who went to Anfield text me to say there were blues all over Anfield today, anyone confirm this?

I thought i spotted a few arms go up to the left of the goal at the kop end today when Tevez equalised.

Cheers mate, I can see this happening at many away games this season when tickets are hard to come by.

I've just seen the Tevez goal again on the news .... there are more city fans in the kop celebrating it than i first thought!