Ducado said:
Blue Haze said:
I agree totally. We should never act like the rags or Real Madrid. No matter how much success might come our way, we should treat it as a blessing and not a God-given right. We are in this position because the best owner in the world decided to buy the club, we are so fortunate.
I hate that fucking chant. Whoever thought that was a good idea? :/
I don't want to appear rude here, but your an American are you not?
Perhaps the famous City sense of humour has by passed you by (and a few others as well), it's a piss take, a little bit of ironic humour, the rags have this "We're United and we'll do what we want" Can you see where it came from and can you see the ironic humour in it.
We are famous for out sense of humour, there really is not another club like City, from inflatable bananas to invisible men, just quit with the handwringing and try and understand, we will never become like the rags, totally different outlook, different set of fans with their own very distinct sub cultures
You speak for yourself and I respect your opinion and truly believe that you will remain as you've always been - good humoured, not arrogant, just as always was, respectful and fun.
However, what you need to appreciate is that our fan base will grow going forwards and the new fans coming in (and welcome all comers!) won't have the history that we have and will miss the tongue in cheek nature of much of what we've always done.
We do need to be careful in how we present ourselves and thereby in how we represent our football club or we will end up with arrogant twats being bloody minded and awfully disrespectful to fans who support teams who are where we were not so long ago.
I have no disrespect to you as I accept your position from your perspective but please wake up to the fact that we're a growing club and that we, the long-serving fan-base, now have a moral imperative to be mindful that what was a piss-take of a chant when we were shit can now portray us, in our present elevated position, as arrogant twats.
Let's keep it light, lets keep it funny, lets have a laugh and lets be City - all that 'when we want to' bollox is only good for rattling the rags from here on in or we'll end up like they are in the eyes of the football world and that's the last thing that any true blue would want.
PS. I'm 50+ yo, from Manchester (not America), I've been a blue all my days, I DO understand and treasure the City humour but I also want to respect what we are by being cognisant of how it will be perceived given our newly claimed position in the football heirachy.
PPS. Great thread, very valid subject matter and something that we need to nail now before we get labelled as the new rags. Let's do it our way, let's be respectful and let's be better than our quiet neighbours.
