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

[BringBackSwales]

We now have 200 million fans and the rags have fallen to about 500 mil. Please keep up!

Where's the 200 million coming from Tim?

 

[Tim of the Oak]

We commissioned the same market research company who had come up with the rags 659m two years ago.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

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.

Excellent post Frank

 

[waspish]

Where's the 200 million coming from Tim?

Just how the scum got there's.

 

[Yaya_Tony]

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.

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.

 

[jrb]

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. ;-)

 

[Lancet Fluke]

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.

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.

 

[Phil1]

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.

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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I clicked "NO", just to make them think they're on to a winner when really it means absolutely nothing!

 

[Lancet Fluke]

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.

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.