The damage done by 20 year's inferiority to Man United

[KPXBLN]

Admittedly I'm biased at the tender age of twenty-four, but I find City fans who grew up with failure are those who I'd rather be in the company of. Stoic, resilient and can find fun and humour anywhere, as we had to in those dark days. Meanwhile, it's the Main Stand moaners from Maine Road, aged 40+, now sitting in CBL3 and EL3, who are the most miserable, complain about everything and who I'd rather avoid.

twenty four? I bet you think a few dour performances under Pearce were the 'dark days', eh?

You were shitting green when my generation were demonstrating outside the main stand every week. You were still collecting conkers when we were trekking to brentford and gillingham.

Don't be a nob Dave. I dunno about Skashion but I had a season ticket from the age of 10 which was in 1996 so I think I saw a fair few of the 'real' dark days. To be honest I wish I had been old enough to trek to Brentford.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

They're not just like Chelsea though are they? If it was Chelsea who had dominated for the past 20 years we wouldn't have the same "paranoia", but because they're our local rivals, our derby game, we focus on what's happening with them nearly as much as we do with City, and that's got nothing to do with their status or the way they've dominated English football for 20 years, we do it in the same way that Sheffield Wednesday fans look at Sheffield United and Newcastle look at Sunderland.

There are a lot of people on here who go way over the top but I genuinely believe that the likes of Sky, the Sun, etc will show/write/print more pro-United articles because they know there are more United fans than fans of any other English club and realise their products/services will sell better with a pro-United slant. This isn't to say United are exempt from criticism or negative press though.

Your spot on with what you say here and whilst media outlets like Sky, the Sun, the FA, the premier league, UEFA and commentators give a media slanted bias that favours united they will continue to reap the financial rewards. FFS the premier league trophy on Sky still has the balck and red ribbons on when it flshing across the screen before they show a replay of the action.

I'm hoping this is ironic but I suspect it's not.

 

[whyalwaysLee]

I saw a documentary years ago about what the rags were like pre-sluralex, and at the training ground the press had their own mugs in the canteen and the journalists would be sat in Big Ron's office with their feet up on the desk. Baconface said that the press knew more about injuries and bust ups than he did, so he kicked them all out. For the next 5 years the press crucified him, until they started winning things, then they came back with their begging bowls. He has been in control of them eversince.

 

[Skashion]

twenty four? I bet you think a few dour performances under Pearce were the 'dark days', eh?

You were shitting green when my generation were demonstrating outside the main stand every week. You were still collecting conkers when we were trekking to brentford and gillingham.

I remember the despair, descending those Wembley steps, of being two-nil down facing a five hour drive home as well as you do. I think most City fans would say that was the darkest hour.

 

[The Colonel]

twenty four? I bet you think a few dour performances under Pearce were the 'dark days', eh?

You were shitting green when my generation were demonstrating outside the main stand every week. You were still collecting conkers when we were trekking to brentford and gillingham.

I remember the despair, descending those Wembley steps, of being two-nil down facing a five hour drive home as well as you do. I think most City fans would say that was the darkest hour.

Twas merely a dissapointing 10 minutes. I'd say 1983-1990, then 1996-1999...

 

[Citizen Green]

Brilliant post that, the only way this can be cured however is seeing City continually successful & a decline at the swamp.

 

[Skashion]

Twas merely a dissapointing 10 minutes. I'd say 1983-1990, then 1996-1999...

We were never in the third flight in 80s, never even close to it, much less facing another season in it. Believe it or not at the age of eight I was old enough to remember relegation from the Premier League, and then to the third flight. I'm pretty sure most City fans regard those minutes as our lowest ebb. The fact that the comeback is still so cherished by virtually all blues shows we know we faced if we stayed another season down there as was virtually certain in however brief a moment it was. It was the worst moment, after a culmination of the worst period in our club's history,

 

[Aguero_Element]

Insulting the younger fan base is a piss take, the amount of moanin old farts I have to put up with on match days .

OP....JOG ON!<br /><br />-- Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:37 pm --<br /><br />

Thread knocks me sick!!

CraP post imo

Explain as you seem to be very much in the minority

I don't care, the real minority is the people who can actually b bothered to post in this dumb thread.

Just cheer ur team on or fuck off

 

[1_barry_conlon]

Through spending far too much time on here I honestly think that a large section of our younger fanbase have become permanently damaged by the club spending the last 20 years playing second fiddle to Man United. Us older fans remember City being more or less equals to United in terms of success and fanbase. We remember when City had legions of fans in Manchester, and were acknowledged nationally as one of the country's biggest clubs.

But for fans under about 30 there are a large section who are totally and utterly insecure. Totally paranoid. They see bias in everything. Everyone is accused of being "a rag". Now City have become successful they have become obsessively concerned with comparing the club to United. They are frightened to death that even though we have a better team, United might continue to dominate the headlines.

So you get these "Reds Under The Bed" paranoid blues sitting with the remote control in their hand, counting the number of City goals on the Match of The Day credits and going mad if there aren't more than United. You get people watching Sunday Supplement purely so they can get outraged at a bunch of professional journalists being paid to give a contraversial opinion. You get accusations of pro-United agendas everywhere from the MEN to the BBC to Sky to FIFA to the referees. You get every signing, or non signing, looked at in regards to how it will be perceived by Man United fans.

I can't blame you I suppose. For twenty years in Manchester the majority of kids are United. Most of them are fucking wankers brought up on gloating about a team they only have a passing interest in. It can't have been easy being a blue in a school full of these shallow tossbags.

But can't you hold your heads up and be proper champions? All they are now are an equal footing rival, like Chelsea. Nothing more, nothing less. Stop comparing everything we do with them because the days of City fans needing to do that are gone. They have no Sheikh, they have a Yank parasite. They have no Silva, they have an ageing liar. They have a silent stadium full of tools and are supported around the world by idiots.

We are fucking City. We are fucking champions. It's time some of you young blues got your heads up and acted like it. Stop looking over your shoulders all the time. Stop fretting and feeling insecure about stuff that really doesn't matter.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

twenty four? I bet you think a few dour performances under Pearce were the 'dark days', eh?

You were shitting green when my generation were demonstrating outside the main stand every week. You were still collecting conkers when we were trekking to brentford and gillingham.

I remember the despair, descending those Wembley steps, of being two-nil down facing a five hour drive home as well as you do. I think most City fans would say that was the darkest hour.

You were 11 in 99. Your darkest hour was not getting the right Power Ranger for Christmas.