we're not really here...

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Working in Sunderland today (2 days late!) and this Red balloon sees my City hi-viz from working on academy. Starts making out ive supported City 5 years max. (Live in Salford and always been blue, horrendous in school but reaping the rewards now)
Anyway..... starts quizzing me, sort of a test to see if im a bone fide blue and one of questions the fool asks me was
"why do you sing were not really here"
my answer was its to do with the brilliant support we still had in lower divisions ? He said im wrong. Am I ?
 
No he's obviously a idiot don't even bite just tell 28,000+ average in the third tier of English football never anyone been anywhere gear that figure and say no more I'm sure his silly head would be unable to accept it but not to worry. So yeah were all glory hunters lol
 
Well I googled my answer before putting a pointless post and got 5 different answers but was 4 years ago.
 
Bluep*ss said:
I would go with this.............Away fans banned by Millwall.or the Police not sure.......City score and 3 City players - one was SWP..waving to the empty Away stand.
Magic...........

http://www.millwall-history.org.uk/Press_Coverage2.htm
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The Milwall game was 3 years after, it was nothing to do with that.

The song does not make sense, and singing it did not make sense, just pretending we were not in the 3rd tier.
 
From Wikipaedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_City_F.C._supporters


The true and correct origin of the song is a City fan from the Prestwich & Whitefield branch died on a lads' trip to Amsterdam in the early 90s. The branch, led by City fan Don Price sung this song about their friend in their local pub, The Forresters Arms. The full version goes "if you're drunk you will die if you don't drink you will die so it's better to be drunk than be sober when you die...just like the fans of the invisible man...we're not really here" - it then took off on a pre-season trip to ireland in 1996 and was sung firstly at away games then at home games since that time.
 
If you're drunk you will die
If you're sober you will die
So its better to be drunk
Than be sober when you die
Just like the fans of the invisible man
We're not really here!!

Ireland tour and sang in the memory of a member of the Prestwich & Whitefield branch is yet another version of origin.

IMO the song is miles better when sang in full.
 
Marvin said:
From Wikipaedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_City_F.C._supporters


The true and correct origin of the song is a City fan from the Prestwich & Whitefield branch died on a lads' trip to Amsterdam in the early 90s. The branch, led by City fan Don Price sung this song about their friend in their local pub, The Forresters Arms. The full version goes "if you're drunk you will die if you don't drink you will die so it's better to be drunk than be sober when you die...just like the fans of the invisible man...we're not really here" - it then took off on a pre-season trip to ireland in 1996 and was sung firstly at away games then at home games since that time.
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That's the correct answer. Then it became an anthem in division 2. I can remember hearing it at Chesterfield away and a group of lads were singing 'we're in Milan watching city in the champions league, we're not really here'.

After a year of it representing our disbelief at how shit we'd become, it was flipped on its head about 2 minutes before the final whistle at Ewood in 2000 when what seemed like the whole ground gave a spine chilling rendition of the song and we all knew it meant the opposite all of a sudden. We couldn't believe we'd been promoted twice in two years.
 
nothing to do with millwall luton or journeying through divisions. its about pricey's (cyberblue) mate who died in Amsterdam and it got carried on from there couple of years later on pre season tour of Ireland 96. people can take it for what ever they like and represent it for whatever they like but has nothing to do with how badly or well we performed or what division we were in. it was a personal tribute which caught on.
 
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