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

[borassic]

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.

I'm 23 and grew up in a generation where 3/4 of the kids at school supported United. I loved that and still do, it's fucking mint seeing the Sky Reds go hiding now every time we get a good result or sign a good player or whenever they get a walloping, I held my head high for years at school knowing we were shit but knowing my old man was there taking me to the game every week rain or shine, win or lose I had more of an experience than those cunts will ever have. In 99 I was nearly sent home for singing, "You can shove your fucking treble up your arse!" around the school playground thinking what we had done at Wembley was bigger and better because it was City and to me it still is.

 

[Skashion]

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

Pokemon Dave, Power Rangers was mid-nineties. I built a paper mache version of Alan Ball and crushed him with Megazord after Liverpool. I bet you just went and had a pint or something. It was better to be eight years old on that fateful day.

 

[The Colonel]

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,

For the record I agree with you about moaning middle aged gits and this isn't a them and us, younger / older thing, but the OP has a point about some peoples obsession with and possibly an inferiority complex about the rags.

Being a hardened optimist it was clear to me that half way through the 3rd tier season we had turned the corner and were really taking things by the scruff of the neck and fighting back big style (big thanks to Andy Mozz). We'd done well to make that final given our position after York. (I know, I know - but that's what its significance is, and yes I was there)
I believed that we'd have stormed that division next year if we'd stayed - the comeback was under way. The three years before that however, yes.

And the thing with the eighties. Yes the stats and record books show that we were never likely to drop down to the 3rd tier but it was the longterm (7 years!!) chronic mire that we were stuck in with seemingly no end to it at the time. A chairman who was just watching his club fall and rot year after year and watching all the best players leave whilst replacing them with cheap dross. A couple of 1/4 final appearances, heroes like Neil McNab and Mark Lillis, some great humour in the hardly packed Kippax, some good local youngsters was all we had for 7 years!!! It was difficult to stay true in those days and many didn't - look at the attendences. Dark days indeed.

 

[KPXBLN]

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

Pokemon Dave, Power Rangers was mid-nineties. I built a paper mache version of Alan Ball and crushed him with Megazord after Liverpool. I bet you just went and had a pint or something. It was better to be eight years old on that fateful day.

When Dave was 11 all he got for christmas was a cup of tea, without sugar, or milk, or tea. He had to drink it out of a rolled up newspaper.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

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

Pokemon Dave, Power Rangers was mid-nineties. I built a paper mache version of Alan Ball and crushed him with Megazord after Liverpool. I bet you just went and had a pint or something. It was better to be eight years old on that fateful day.

you're probably right . Fair play ;-)

 

[1_barry_conlon]

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

Pokemon Dave, Power Rangers was mid-nineties. I built a paper mache version of Alan Ball and crushed him with Megazord after Liverpool. I bet you just went and had a pint or something. It was better to be eight years old on that fateful day.

When Dave was 11 all he got for christmas was a cup of tea, without sugar, or milk, or tea. He had to drink it out of a rolled up newspaper.

Luxury!!!

 

[southstandblue27]

RAG.






















;)

 

[SWP's back]

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!

-- Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:37 pm --

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

Grow up child and read the op.

 

[Aguero_Element]

Omg I actually read the whole op, horrible horrible shit.


Mods if you deleted this thread u would free us all from these ignorant fools

 

[Deleted member 14625]

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.

To be honest that's a load of rubbish. Many of the flappers over the "agenda" stuff weren't young lads, at all.

I'm 30 and all my mates are aged between 21-35. All of us are realistic wbout City, not overly anxious to succeed, don't come out with bullshit about sacking managers after six months/1yr/2yrs just because we weren't emulating United.