Why are we hated so much?

Jack Hackett said:
Arsenal don’t hate City - we hate Spurs and to a lesser extent, Man Utd. Most Arsenal fans don’t have an issue with City though as we are currently challenging you for the title, we will want you to drop points, obviously.
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When we were taken over, I noticed Arsenal fans more than many others were taking the piss, saying no amount of money would make City successful and generally being fucking weird about it. How did that turn out!

Been a good few games over the years against Arsenal and your fans for whatever reason seem to think you are one of the ‘istree’ clubs, and you should have some divine right to be above us.

The Adebayor game your fans were racist and definitively full of hate for him and City, they definitely got what they deserved that day. The fact your fans were so racist in that game was very strange seeing as your fan base and team have such a strong multi racial following.

I personally dislike Arsenal the football club more than your actual fan base (don’t know too many Arsenal fans), as your club alongside the dickhead red shirt clubs here in the north have been constantly conspiring against City since day one of our takeover, pure fûcking jealously is the reason, and obviously we have taken 100s of millions from what your clubs board and in some degree your fans thought you had some never ending divine right too, you didn’t and hence this constant background noise City have had to face since your club and the other red teams realised our owner actually meant what he stated when he arrived.

You seem a decent poster mostly, and if your team wins the title then I expect that if you have any City supporting mates they will congratulate you personally, but not your actual club and it’s owners. They are fucking hate driven cunts who constantly conspire with others and feed the media and FA/EPL/UEFA their lies and hate about my club, just because we actually started to win and win consistently.

Our owner not only stated how they would make City successful as a club, but as an actual business (which football is and always has been for most owners), but actually have followed through with that promise to create a club and business model that these fuckers never could have dreamed up of in a million years, so fuck Arsenal and it’s owner/s and everything those complete cunts stand for.
 
John Wayne said:
I think, like us, your fanbase has changed a lot in the last 20 years. I've met a lot of "old school" Arsenal fans on England cricket tours and they're good lads. It might be a generational thing, but I think maybe it's your younger, newer fans that give the rest of you a reputation for being fickle and sulky. I really don't think Arsenal Fan TV does you any favours either.
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You might be right but I wouldn’t say all younger fans. There is an element like in all clubs of idiots. Don’t be taken in by AFTV. I stopped watching it years ago when it started to provide a platform for some of those idiots. I’ve never been in tour with the barmy army but I’d like to one day. Maybe our next Ashes tour down under or Sri Lanka (I’ve always fancied that).
 
Jack Hackett said:
You might be right but I wouldn’t say all younger fans. There is an element like in all clubs of idiots. Don’t be taken in by AFTV. I stopped watching it years ago when it started to provide a platform for some of those idiots. I’ve never been in tour with the barmy army but I’d like to one day. Maybe our next Ashes tour down under or Sri Lanka (I’ve always fancied that).
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Sri Lanka is incredible. Probably my favourite alongside South Africa. NZ and Australia are great, but I feel I'm wasting too much time at cricket when there's so much more to see and do.

Back to AFTV, I take your point. I think the latter Wenger years and hostility towards him also created a negative impression for the neutrals.
 
The perfect fumble said:
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United new stadium? -:)

The oil toilet?
 
balotellishaircut said:
You probably don’t but the majority of you’re fan base do hate City, like others have said social media plays a huge part in this.
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It might seem that way to you but I’d dispute there being a majority. Whatever animus comes your way is as nothing compared to that reserved for Spurs or United. If anything our distaste for Liverpool is much greater. You have to remember in recent years many Arsenal fans admire the football you play and see Pep as bringing style and class to English football, especially when bashing up United and Liverpool stopping them from dominating.
 
Jack Hackett said:
Arsenal don’t hate City - we hate Spurs and to a lesser extent, Man Utd. Most Arsenal fans don’t have an issue with City though as we are currently challenging you for the title, we will want you to drop points, obviously.
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Not true. I’ve had four or five significant issues with your fans in pubs, on trains and at the match. We stripped your club of players and beat you constantly. The hatred is there.
 
Journalists have got tired explaining how good we are in return for slim ‘like’ and retweet returns. The power exerted by the armchair couch-potato fan is huge. So what this means for journalists is that there are a guaranteed 5 gazillion Man Ushited fans, 4.5 gazillion Livarpool fans, and 4.5 gazillion Mardarsenal fans who’ve just got just enough functioning opposable thumbs to operate a smart phone, a TV remote and a bag of Kettle chips to generate a heck of a lot on online noise. City’s couch-potato crowd is nowhere near.

Manchester City’s on the pitch excellence in the last 10 years - taken to near-earth orbit under the Bald One, and translated into trophies, profits, and much boiled piss elsewhere - has not however yielded a proportionate surge in online City fans. Sure, we’ll have had an increase, but in PL terms, we’re no more than in the mix for the Europa league.

I suspect that the media somehow think we don’t as a fan base deserve the team we’ve got, because there aren’t nearly enough of us out there in the Twattersphere validating their content. A club’s base strength used to be measured by the size of the match day crowd. That doesn’t apply anymore. The average keyboard warrior in Lagos telling multiple PL winner and Champions League final scorer Ole Gunnar Solksjær to ‘get out of my club’ - a club whose home ground he hopes one day actually to visit - has got way more influence than any of us match-going normies want to acknowledge.

You can’t change a negative mindset towards a group you identify with; if it’s important to you, you can be the City fan that fans of other clubs would remember as “alright, for a City fan” - heavens, we all know United fans who aren’t out-and-out morons. As for the media, though, forget it. When we’ve grown into the global behemoth that would make us too big to belittle, we’d be unrecognisable as the club we fell for. Be careful what you wish for, and up the Blues.
 
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