Some of us ( those of a certain age anyway) remember the rags pre-pisscan , and remember that they were a relatively well supported , and reasonably successful club, but nothing like the monster they became after our Glaswegian friend took over.
That is the problem for them now . They have 650 billion fans (or whatever ludicrous number you want to come up with) and for the huge majority of their undoubtedly world-wide fan base,they are defined by the "Ferguson years" which did bring them a great deal of success and attracted most of the huge global support that we see today.They were , if you like , born and raised as "fans" on the prospect of infinitely continued success. But , as we all know as City fans , the other side of the coin is failure, and that is a concept alien to most of their fans, and we now witness their inability to deal with it.