Eccles Blue
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Oh yes, I am sorry I should have mentioned it. :-)I'm pretty certain we were also introduced in a European Hotel too, EB. Remember that? Over a hungover breakfast IIRC.
Oh yes, I am sorry I should have mentioned it. :-)I'm pretty certain we were also introduced in a European Hotel too, EB. Remember that? Over a hungover breakfast IIRC.
Here, have a cuppa!I love it! I lurked for a while before I plucked up the courage to join and it was a little while before I posted anything. I was scared of saying something wrong!
But I remember you Bill (de Niro) ‘accosting’ :-) me at an away match and asking if I was Eccles Blue. I was gobsmacked that you would guess.
Then we were at a European away game and staying in the same hotel and after a drink I was walking away to the lift to go to my room and heard someone say ‘Excuse me’ and it was Ric. He made my year when he said he had wanted to meet me and Bill had pointed me out. He said something to the effect that he admired me because I went to the games & travelled on my own. I was super embarrassed because it was Ric, the boss! The big man being kind to me.
This place has been a lifeline especially this past year. The camaraderie, the ‘fights’, the jokes, the match day threads, everything about it is great.
Thank you @Ric and thank you Bill and everyone on Bluemoon. Long may you ‘reign’.
Crazy as it sounds I agree with you mate. When we was shit it was only the last few games that had you shitting a brick if you dropped points now it’s every game. Plus we kicked off at 3 on a Saturday.
Don’t get me wrong winning silverware was the stuff of dreams back then and I can’t see us getting a rendition of “stick your treble up your arse” going anytime soon but I still miss that City
maybe its just old school and proper football with players hungry and the love for the big game
its funny how city would turn up to some big games and turn them over home or away ? like blackburn leeds newcastle man united at home hahaha even liverpool we played better both home and away back then
i always remember a noel gallagher quote that he said man city are a great team of winning the great games like spurs away in the cup but never win silverware
Typical city. Even told myself that at 2-0 down in the playoffs - and at 2-2! Fuck they’ve put us through it over the years. From the sublime to the ridiculous in minutes but I’d not have it any other way and players seem to have genuinely loved playing for us.
We’re a funny lot. Never seemed to matter the score if it weren’t the scum, we always found a funny side to it. You’d always get the nod and a hello from a fellow blue anywhere in the world when you’d come across them - not sure that’s still be the case mind with our newer fans. Ah well price of progress
Same mate. Especially the old fuckers like mei still that today haha every blue i see. its all right blue