Why I'm giving up on football, City and Bluemoon

[blue44]

I hate these fucking slack bastards for making a long serving fan pack it in, it's not on and i know where OP is coming from it does grind you down.
But...City needs us and we must answer the call with gusto, up the fucking blues.

Is the correct answer

There is nothing on earth like us.

 

[vmsuhail]

If City are relegated or stripped off titles, then that's the end of Premier League for me. Back to Euros, World Cups and interesting CL knockout games.

 

[Weavers run]

When you have enough posts mr Bluemoon for 20 years you can start your own.

We’ve crossed paths before Mr Jonny come lately, member since 2021 ;)

When I have enough posts I won’t be asking everyone to beg me to stay on a forum, I claim to not want to be on anymore. I’ll bet anything that this poster and yesterdays won’t disappear

 

[Bluefen]

I've contemplated it a few times... I don't find football no where near as fun any more... I thought that was an age thing (similar age to the original poster) but the constant duplicity of the media and governing bodies, the absolute farce that VAR, being treated like a revenue stream by the clubs, but the last to be thought of when it comes to the media/authorities and generally the match day experience is no where close to where it was...I enjoy away days (the few I can get on) as I think it has the tantalising reminiscence of being what it was like years ago. I think I would feel the same being a fan of any club as the away day experience at other grounds has been equally sanitised for home supporters (Celtic away in CL a few years ago aside).

I will be damned if I turned my back now... no matter what.. this is the point of time our club needs us and the next generation of fans need us... I won't let the cretins, sycophants, and out and out cheating cartel drive me out on their terms... I'll tune out of the phone-in shows, select the threads I read and chose to respond to carefully and listen to balanced podcasts and the rest I'll make up and judge in my own head... I'll own the narative not them

 

[plattlanebenches]

So this is my last post. 55 years after my first match seeing City. 10 years a season ticket holder 1985 to 1995 until work and family took me too far away. I was there in 2012 and was there for that Tuart goal. Been to many but not all recent cup finals.
I have been vocal about VAR, CAS and FFP.
So, today I have decided I have fallen out of love with this game, the trolls on this forum and the corruption hiding in plain sight both financial and governance. Refereeing and game manipulation and arguing the toss with morons and hypocrites.
My passion has faded with each passing year of vested interest interference, press compliance and journalistic spite.
And, yes, VAR has killed my excitement. Thank God we didn't have to wait for it in 2012. A moment that will never be repeated again in football history.
In truth, this has been coming for a while. I will sign off and find a new passion. City are not to blame. I watched football for the fun and passion. I now know more about global politics, financial compliance and sports governance than I do about our own under 18s. Something has gone drastically wrong with the game.
Our own forum has also become raggish and dipperish, misogynistic and trolled by posters who don't even support the club... And then the fans who love certain players rather than the club. Yes I'm old and I won't be missed but I already feel better letting go. Good luck fighting the good but ultimately doomed battle.
Thanks City for the best and worst times of my life but life is too short.

Don’t give up mate. Small excerpt from a famous speech below to keep us going.


And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

 

[blueinsa]

We’ve crossed paths before Mr Jonny come lately, member since 2021 ;)

When I have enough posts I won’t be asking everyone to beg me to stay on a forum, I claim to not want to be on anymore. I’ll bet anything that this poster and yesterdays won’t disappear

No doubt we have crossed paths.

Let’s see if you have the balls to tell us your past username(s)?

 

[davyhulme blue]

The only issue I have is var it’s killed the game

 

[Weavers run]

No doubt we have crossed paths.

Let’s see if you have the balls to tell us your past username(s)?

Yeah, that would be sensible wouldn’t it.

 

[Ghostofmerlin]

We aren't making it any easier to stay interested with our horizontal, methodical play style....

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Will this be a nightly theme? A new poster creating this kind of thread every day for attention?

Goodbye cruel world!