Was your faith ever tested ?

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LoveCity said:
After the loss to the rags this season I considered going back to being a Chelsea fan.

In all seriousness, the Pearce era had some of the worst football I've ever seen, I was living abroad but found it painful to even watch on telly. It's a testament to City fans and our willingness to suffer that our average stayed around 40,000.
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I got to the point where I just called these fixtures 'matches' - we never got into a gear that would produce 'football'!
 
Never tested but many times where i have had real life issues and we have just done "typical city" and i have ignored footy for the week and such.

In my head i am blue and thats that, there is no stopping following us or changing teams, i can't comprehend that or how people do it.
I am not saying those who do are idiots it'd something i just can't relate to.

Maybe after growing up the only blue in a sea of red and having to always fight my corner through the 90's and take the ribbing it doesn't get much worse so if that didn't knock me nothing ever will.
 
... everytime Balotelli wears the shirt

In all seriousness the Ball era was pretty bleak, and for me the only time I ever questioned why I support the club.
 
The whole Pearce thing (with which I concur) is interesting.

It must have something to do with the journey being more enjoyable than the destination. After hauling ourselves back from the brink as a club and getting ourselves back in the top flight and the excitement of moving to our new stadium, the ongoing reality of the ever widening gap between us and united was dispiriting to say the least. They were playing some pretty great football at the time (Ronaldo/Rooney/Tevez) which brought the abject fare at Eastlands into even sharper relief.

It seemed to diminsh our revival as a club a little bit, to me at least, as the story seemed to end so unhappily. I now cherish those times in the lower leagues just as much as I ever have, yet another reason to be thankful for the takeover.
 
Pearce's last season sapped all the enthusiasm I had for City and the game in general. God knows how we avoided relegation scoring just 11 goals at home all season!
I decided not to renew my season card unless the club spent some money and made changes to the squad. Thaksin came in spent some money and a week before the season started I took the plunge and renewed my season card and bought one for my son!
 
Walking out of Maine Road at 0-0 having watched the most shit of games v Wimbledon. November 1995, a cold fucking night to boot. Quinn scored in extra time to secure a win but any cheers were half-hearted because it was absolutely fucking shit. Gerry Creaney played too that game, or for part of it at least. Shocking stuff.
 
Started taking my lads to the match during Pearce's last season. They were 7 and 5 at the time. They went to SEVEN league games on the bounce without seeing City score. I was severly tempted to give up my season ticket. But, my lads wanted a season ticket so I renewed and got them one too.

When the oppostion fans sing "where were you..." I rib my kids and say "Yeah, where were you" to which they reply that I'm only there cos of them. Little bit of truth in that.
 
I was very tempted not to bother after Pearce. I was sick of the football and sick of the way the club was being run. I'd even fallen asleep at a game as did the bloke next to me.

It was only when they offered interest free season ticket finance that I reluctantly decided to renew but I really couldn't see the point at the time, other than blind faith.
 
nothing to do with city performances, i'd still go if we were in the conference.

but there were 2 occaisions when i considered jacking it.

1) the rooney rumours, i would stop going if we ever signed him.

2) the referee performances last season, the rags getting everything and us getting nothing, i thought "they'll never allow us to win the league, so why should i bother forking out?".
 
i seem to remember sitting in a half finished lower tier of the kippax mid week in biblical rain watching phil neal's team lose to ipswich (2-0 i think) and thinking it couldnt get any worse - how wrong was I?

but i stuck with them and as they say good things come to those that wait!
 
After a Reading defeat at Maine Road. Think we lost 1-0 and Danny Tiatto got sent off. Said to my mates after the game in The Gardeners that's it for me. I was back 2 weeks later!
 
The worst era was not under the management of 'beanie'.....

I recall sat in the pissing down rain at Barnsley... getting dicked by them, hearing their fans sing 'just like watching Brazil' (it wasn't)... Phil Neal as caretaker manager (the 3rd manager that month.... seriously), The chairman Lee on holiday in Barbados...

Now that was shit....
 
Coming back from lincoln after a night match lost 2-1 driving up m1 thinking we are done for and feeling very low but i was at next game and the one after that suckers all of us, thats what makes us different from them wankers and the rest.
 
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