"Will the Etihad ever sell out?" - Metro poll

franksinatra said:
I have never believed there was not any United fans who come from Manchester or that all their are from the home counties and there favourite pre-match meal is prawn sandwiches. But I would say it continuously as I knew how sensitive they were about it.

Sadly some City fans have fallen in the same trap. Most United/football fans know the crowds we get and the ones who dont are not football fans of any substance to worth bother discussing the beautiful game with.

We smash our season ticket sales every season, the crowds are an upward curve, Peps arrived and the knockers are scraping myths and half-truths to get a pointless dign in. Life could not be better, enjoy it.
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Excellent post Frank
 
Lancet Fluke said:
Maybe. It used to be us versus united fans now it feels like it us versus pretty much everyone, especially the UK media. I don't always feel that Blues are "tight" like we were a few years ago though but that might just be my perception of things. We should be because without wanting to sound paranoid the whole fucking world is against us these days.
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It's so much easier to be a blue now. I'm early thirties, i dealt with so much shite in the 90's. Our club now is the envy of the world. CFG, the academy, hrh, Guardiola, well priced season tickets, sergio, silva,.yas marina. The futures blue baby.
 
Like I keep on saying, they've got nothing else left to take the piss about.

Hell, even the '3 stars' have gone, along with the old crest.

Be happy that we've got Pep, the Manager every United fan really wanted. ;-)
 
Yaya_Tony said:
It's so much easier to be a blue now. I'm early thirties, i dealt with so much shite in the 90's. Our club now is the envy of the world. CFG, the academy, hrh, Guardiola, well priced season tickets, sergio, silva,.yas marina. The futures blue baby.
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I'm 45 so believe me I know all about the shit times. I know it would sound ridiculous to say it is more difficult to be a City fan now than it was before the takeover but being a City fan feels so different now, I find it almost impossible to compare the experiences but obviously most of it is infinitely better. I wouldn't want to go back to how things were that's for sure. The only point I was making was that I personally don't feel that as a supporter base we are as close knit as we were. Others may not feel the same but it is definitely how I feel and given how we seem to have gone from lots of people having a soft spot for us to genuinely being hated in both the media and with many football fans, we still have good reason to have that backs to the wall mentality that we had throughout the 90s.
 
Lancet Fluke said:
I'm 45 so believe me I know all about the shit times. I know it would sound ridiculous to say it is more difficult to be a City fan now than it was before the takeover but being a City fan feels so different now, I find it almost impossible to compare the experiences but obviously most of it is infinitely better. I wouldn't want to go back to how things were that's for sure. The only point I was making was that I personally don't feel that as a supporter base we are as close knit as we were. Others may not feel the same but it is definitely how I feel and given how we seem to have gone from lots of people having a soft spot for us to genuinely being hated in both the media and with many football fans, we still have good reason to have that backs to the wall mentality that we had throughout the 90s.
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Agree with you completely. I'm 39 and used to love chatting football to other fans when we were in the doldrums. Everyone you spoke to (other than supporters of the gobshites from across the road) would talk glowingly about the club and wish us well.

These days I tend to tell strangers who ask that I'm not a football fan. It's easier than wanting to punch their skulls in for repeating cliche after cliche.
 
I clicked "NO", just to make them think they're on to a winner when really it means absolutely nothing!
 
Pablo1 said:
Agree with you completely. I'm 39 and used to love chatting football to other fans when we were in the doldrums. Everyone you spoke to (other than supporters of the gobshites from across the road) would talk glowingly about the club and wish us well.

These days I tend to tell strangers who ask that I'm not a football fan. It's easier than wanting to punch their skulls in for repeating cliche after cliche.
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It is probably worth not mentioning being a City fan just to avoid having to carry out a violent defence of Raheem Sterling on some **** who has probably never been inside a football ground in their life.
 
Lancet Fluke said:
It is probably worth not mentioning being a City fan just to avoid having to carry out a violent defence of Raheem Sterling on some **** who has probably never been inside a football ground in their life.
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Thats just to other blues, never mind opposition fans! Haha!
 
Pablo1 said:
Agree with you completely. I'm 39 and used to love chatting football to other fans when we were in the doldrums. Everyone you spoke to (other than supporters of the gobshites from across the road) would talk glowingly about the club and wish us well.

These days I tend to tell strangers who ask that I'm not a football fan. It's easier than wanting to punch their skulls in for repeating cliche after cliche.
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absolutely spot on. People liked us and felt sorry for us before the money came along.
i went to Greece on holiday in 2000 and i met some great football fans there, one was united, one newcastle and one Celtic. they were buying me drinks coz city were so shite. full of praise for the fans and how loyal we were and how big a club city could be. I often wonder what they think of us these days.
 
Lancet Fluke said:
I'm 45 so believe me I know all about the shit times. I know it would sound ridiculous to say it is more difficult to be a City fan now than it was before the takeover but being a City fan feels so different now, I find it almost impossible to compare the experiences but obviously most of it is infinitely better. I wouldn't want to go back to how things were that's for sure. The only point I was making was that I personally don't feel that as a supporter base we are as close knit as we were. Others may not feel the same but it is definitely how I feel and given how we seem to have gone from lots of people having a soft spot for us to genuinely being hated in both the media and with many football fans, we still have good reason to have that backs to the wall mentality that we had throughout the 90s.
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I tripped over to Jakarta, Indonesia a few years ago, +8 time difference and caught a Sunday match at midnight there. Pure coincidence, it was in the City Indonesian supporters club venue. They were so chuffed to have an actual Manc with them for the game. All the stuff that gets talked about in here, they knew about. They knew about Meredith, Trautmann, kinky, bell, lee and summerbee, lakey, one had even heard of Gary James!! After the match i Kareoked don't look back in anger :-)

That would not have happened 20 years ago.
 
Lancet Fluke said:
It is probably worth not mentioning being a City fan just to avoid having to carry out a violent defence of Raheem Sterling on some **** who has probably never been inside a football ground in their life.
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To be fair on scousers and West ham, 2 lads i worked with said us winning the title in 2012 was, and i quote "the most electrifying thing ever seen in sports", that includes Liverpool's cl final comeback, ayrton senna in the wet, and Mike Tyson.
 
Yaya_Tony said:
I tripped over to Jakarta, Indonesia a few years ago, +8 time difference and caught a Sunday match at midnight there. Pure coincidence, it was in the City Indonesian supporters club venue. They were so chuffed to have an actual Manc with them for the game. All the stuff that gets talked about in here, they knew about. They knew about Meredith, Trautmann, kinky, bell, lee and summerbee, lakey, one had even heard of Gary James!! After the match i Kareoked don't look back in anger :-)

That would not have happened 20 years ago.
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Lovely stuff. Next time I'm irritated by the relentless anti-City bullshit in the media, I will pop over to Jakarta.

Yaya_Tony said:
To be fair on scousers
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I have no desire to be fair on scousers, fucking hate them these days. Never thought I'd hate a set of fans as much as I hate united fans but Liverpool fans are more or less neck and neck these days, I reckon.
 
Haven't we already established that the whole media thing changes as soon as you leave Blighty? Abroad we get at least equal if not much better press.
 
Eeee,i remember after the Gillingham Play off Final.
The amount of congrats i got in the nightclub that night still in my City shirt,we were everyone's second team.
Now all i get is,Fckn Glory hunter....haha
Let them have a go,we will carry on winning trophies and taking over the world.
 
I don't know whether it's just luck of the draw but i meet fans of other clubs at away games and on holiday now who are absolutely sound with me and still like City and City fans.
 
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