Why Does Ricky Hatton Want Us To Be Rubbish again?

Re: Why Does Ricky Hatton Want Us To Be Shite Again?

KippaxCitizen said:
I've got a number of mates who don't go to City anymore who say the same. Most don't go because of the ticket prices but to a few, ticket prices are one reason why it's not as good as it used to be.

One lad came to the FL Cup final on the coach with us last season, without a ticket, he just wanted the craic with all the lads on the coach and in the pubs like the old days. He didn't go to the game. But we don't get to do that all that often anymore because of how expensive away games are and people have just dropped off each year. We used to go home and away everywhere. Now we're lucky if we four of us go together three times a season. There is a few away games now where i just drive down on my own.

Of course they still want City to do as well as they can but they just don't enjoy it all like they used to.


In many ways i'm the same. I'm sick of the fucking price hikes year-on-year and i'm sick of all the family orientated/family theme park feel to the Etihad. Football culture is really lacking at City and the club are focusing on the wrong things when it comes to all the "matchday experience". Yesterday showed what an enjoyable football match should be like, but i honestly feel like City week-to-week don't want all that sort of stuff. They want Tarquin and his kids to have a nice day out and spend a load of money, get on their iPads (whether that be during the game or not) and get all the match info and all that guff.

I don't think anyone wants us to be shite again though. They've just not liked the way we're just heading to be another United or Arsenal. CL games have been fucking abysmal at the Etihad so far with tourists, away fans and UEFA corporates all over the ground. That's not what City have ever been about and it doesn't sit right with me that we've become like that and i am worried that Prem games are going in the same direction.

But even if City lose my custom because they've finally priced me out or i've just had enough of the family theme park and toursits, i'll never want us to be shite again
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There is a lot of stuff I agree with in here but its a pathway that I cant see changing.

I was watching people enter the main entrance yesterday before the game for 5 minutes and there were two girls being paid to wave a flag each. I felt sorry for them as it was clearly the shit job of the day straw that they pulled out of the workers hat in the morning!
 
Haha I understand what he's saying, and slightly agree in that We're getting loads of gloryhunters now watching City on tv/online and we are becoming this global Disneyesque brand, everything that we always ever hated.
I mean at the Supporters club dinner the other night there were branches from Toronto, Scandinavia, Stateside, many more I can't remember.

It kicked in with me ages ago now but I just know we're gonna become this huge brand that is fresh which people want to associate with, particularly over in the States.

Long serving Blues may find ourselves forming our own fan owned club or something and ditching ADUG's project.

Who knows, might even find MCFC eventually going.

Believe me, I'm not enjoying talking about this but it is a possibility and could happen :(
 
Malty said:
In the interview with massive City fan Noel Gallagher, he said Ricky Hatton has told him he preferred us how we was before..

Anyone agree or find it bizarre?
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Because City winning effects his friendship with his big buddy Wayne


but probably just down to the fact he has taken too many hard punches to his head and way too much of the white stuff up his hooter
 
Compulsive Rambler said:
Haha I understand what he's saying, and slightly agree in that We're getting loads of gloryhunters now watching City on tv/online and we are becoming this global Disneyesque brand, everything that we always ever hated.
I mean at the Supporters club dinner the other night there were branches from Toronto, Scandinavia, Stateside, many more I can't remember.

It kicked in with me ages ago now but I just know we're gonna become this huge brand that is fresh which people want to associate with, particularly over in the States.

Long serving Blues may find ourselves forming our own fan owned club or something and ditching ADUG's project.

Who knows, might even find MCFC eventually going.

Believe me, I'm not enjoying talking about this but it is a possibility and could happen :(
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Don't be a fool, of course it won't.
 
Poor old Ricky is too young to remember the really good days when City won things and football matches were an exciting experience too.

The match day experience these days is bland and commercialised, with a lack of atmosphere because the crowd is mostly middle class and middle aged.

If I was a boy these days I'm not sure watching City would appeal to me like it did in the mid/late 60s. For a start it's too expensive for groups of boys to go without an adult, you have to sit down and you can't just decide to go at the last minute.
 
Strangely I actually agree with Hatton's view. I've certainly fallen out of love with football over the last 18 months or so.

It's a completely different vibe around the place these days, personally I don't enjoy it half as much. Don't get me wrong, I've always wanted to see City winning trophies, that's why we're fans after all, but now we've done that, won the league, the FA Cup, the League Cup (couldn't honestly give a shit about the CL) it feels to me like the chase is over so to speak.

Any fans of Only Fools and Horses may remember the 'Time on our hands' episode, where Del Boy finally becomes the millionaire he always dreamed of, only to suddenly realise that his race had been run, after buying the big houses, flash cars etc...what else is there left to do? That pretty much sums up my feelings now that I've been to Wembley and seen us lifting cups, seen us lift the League title twice and firmly cement ourselves as the top dogs in Manchester in the process.

I'm not expecting alot of people to share my view on this one, but now we've been there and done it in my life time, I honestly miss the days when we didn't know whether at the start of a new season we'd be challenging for Europe or be in a relegation battle. Watching football and EXPECTING to win virtually every single game, isn't as fun for me as not having a clue what might happen, victories and scraping draws used to feel alot sweeter when we were crap anyway.
 
Lots of people look back at Maine Road with rose tinted glasses, like it was a carnival atmosphere and everyone was stood up singing for 90 mins, but the same old miserable gits that people complain about now, were at Maine road as well. They're just a whiter shade of grey now. There were countless games that I recall at Maine road where the atmosphere was as flat as a pancake. My uncle used to sit in the main stand and the people sat around him were like Statler and Waldorf from the muppets. One time he took me to a stockport county game on a friday night, and it was all the same blokes. They were like misery junkies! Now they are at the Etihad, jumping out of their seats only to complain when Dzeko miss controls a pass.
 
I'm one of the fortunate oldies that was lucky enough to start watching them when they were a top top side in the late 60's early 70's so I've travelled the GREAT / SHIT / GREAT route ha I fully concur with a lot of what's been said in earlier post on this subject there was a certain siege mentality and camaraderie between fans who met up every week spent thousands of pounds travelling hundreds of miles a month getting drubbed on a weekly basis but we didn't give a shit because being a city fan meant more than following success it was a religion non dependent on results. I and many others followed them blindly we went through it for years and I for one am happier with where we are now.
 
dan.j.mcfc said:
Strangely I actually agree with Hatton's view. I've certainly fallen out of love with football over the last 18 months or so.

It's a completely different vibe around the place these days, personally I don't enjoy it half as much. Don't get me wrong, I've always wanted to see City winning trophies, that's why we're fans after all, but now we've done that, won the league, the FA Cup, the League Cup (couldn't honestly give a shit about the CL) it feels to me like the chase is over so to speak.

Any fans of Only Fools and Horses may remember the 'Time on our hands' episode, where Del Boy finally becomes the millionaire he always dreamed of, only to suddenly realise that his race had been run, after buying the big houses, flash cars etc...what else is there left to do? That pretty much sums up my feelings now that I've been to Wembley and seen us lifting cups, seen us lift the League title twice and firmly cement ourselves as the top dogs in Manchester in the process.

I'm not expecting alot of people to share my view on this one, but now we've been there and done it in my life time, I honestly miss the days when we didn't know whether at the start of a new season we'd be challenging for Europe or be in a relegation battle. Watching football and EXPECTING to win virtually every single game, isn't as fun for me as not having a clue what might happen, victories and scraping draws used to feel alot sweeter when we were crap anyway.
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You're entitled to your opinion, mate, but it really isn't one I share. I never for a moment tire of City having a good team: not only is the football more exciting then it ever was (nearly every game is thrilling now), but we get trips around Europe, weekends at wembley etc.

I honestly think some of you have forgotten how it felt to get hammered by United every time. To draw 0-0 and be bored to tears; to go home despairing and accepting that we'd never win anything again.

Fuck the old days. They make us what we are but all they do for me is make the highs even sweeter.
 
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