Trophy Parade | Sunday 26th May, 19:30

Tbilisi said:
Whenever I see them at home games I think tourist. Had a chat with a couple of them on matchday when they get lost or something and always interested to see where they are from.

The ones I saw at the Catherdral Square were students I think, going bonkers, felt ashamed as a Blue of too many years who was looking miserable just cos hes wet.
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We're just not impressed by a lot melancholy Mancs. It's our nature.
 
I'm Blue said:
I see the screen shotters are out in force this morning.
For a club ‘no one cares’ about we certainly are living rent free in their heads.
Sat there watching our parade with their finger hovering over the pause button.
‘No fans, 115, oil club, no history’
Hahahahahahahahaha
We can even boil piss in the rain.
Ickle City ruining football and its fans.
Fucking glorious.
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This is why I don't engage in social media. There's rarely any objective take on an event when it comes to football. Grown men pushing an anti city narrative for what gain? You can understand it when people try to push a political agenda but going online once you've grown a pube to try and show that you support a team that has a better fanbase than City is embarrassingly immature: imagine showing your missus a screenshot of your twitter post saying 'NO fans im crying (laughter faces)' before sex. You'd need the tears from a thousand of those emojis to get her even slightly wet after emasculating yourself like that.

A bloke at work said I bet not many turn up to your parade. I said, ok [Alan Partridge style shrug]. No other feelings to have on that. Not sure why I need to be concerned with any of that?

But again, the issue is it's not objective. Because regardless of how many turned up or how great an atmosphere it was or if even any of that matters no one wants to sit and have a discussion about what happens before an event, a game, a final and so on. For example, some went last year, before that, before that, first one and so on - Same with the final - couldn't afford trains this time as I'm seriously skint but I was ok with that as I thought ah well I've been before. A lot will have been in similar positions.

But if I was in the position of Utd or Arsenal where I'd not won the league for so long that there's grown adults old enough to work and pay train fares who've never seen a league win in their life I'd be lending money to get to that parade. So there's already a slight difference in cause and affect of numbers.

Passion would be affected by winning the league for the first time in your life, or half of it, or for so long. Beating City by 1 point on the last day and so on. Wondering the chances of ever winning again.

Losing an FA CUp final to your rivals puts a slight damper on the potential for atmosphere even if the rain doesn't.

There's lots of factors to consider before even starting to look at parade numbers, atmosphere, pure and unadulterated unbridled passion etc.

But then even with that - if there is, or isn't a million people all running the inner streets of Manchester naked and painted blue with flares up their arses 3 days into an inner city takeover THIS DOES NOT MATTER TO THEM. They would rather scour for a clip of a half empty street, or find a section of entertainment which looks shite - or in the face of anything that is against the narrative they're pushing they'll experience cognitive distortion as they put their hands over their eyes an ears saying nope nope no fans no atmosphere. Then they'l' carry on posting OMFG I'M DYING NO FANS LMFAO - Grown men.

So I don't engage because it's not debate or discussion it's pushing an agenda, trying to wind people up, a coping mechanism for their pain or creating a false sense of feeling where if all of this was a war they're winning - cups don't matter at this point if you can create a new game where you make up the rules.
 
Don’t they normally make up or guess crowd figures for football parades?

The average crowd figure is usually anywhere from 150,000 to 300,000?

Of course in United’s case it was 1,000,0000 in 1999 when they did the treble, and for Liverpool it was 750,000 when they won their one and only (COVID) PL title in 2019-20.

Of course those red shirt parade figures are genuine and truthful. ;-)
 
jrb said:
No website name.
No link.
I’ll leave it at that.

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It doesn’t bother me in the slightest but I’ve noticed this ‘style’ of reporting a lot recently.

The bit in quotes in the headline is lifted from a Tweet by some random Irish Liverpool fan.

He goes on to quote Mark Goldbridge claiming there were 12,000 at the parade.

No mention of the dozens of replies from City fans, with photos, proving they are both talking total shite.

So you just pluck some nonsensical Tweet by an anonymous random guy on Twitter. Write the words…. ‘People are saying’ followed by the quote. And this apparently passes for serious journalism these days.

I said I wasn’t bothered. But it’s all a bit sad really.
 
jrb said:
Don’t they normally make up or guess crowd figures for football parades?

The average crowd figure is usually anywhere from 150,000 to 300,000?

Of course in United’s case it was 1,000,0000 in 1999 when they did the treble, and for Liverpool it was 750,000 when they won their one and only (COVID) PL title in 2019-20.

Of course those red shirt parade figures are genuine and truthful. ;-)
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The one and only time that there’s genuinely been a million fans on the streets is City FA cup parade around Manchester town centre, after winning the cup in 1934.
 
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