Young fans in Asia turning to City - "Why support a team that loses?"

burning blue soul said:
It only matters if we claim these transient fans as our own.
No disrespect to them. They use foitball for pure entertainment. They pay their money, they take their choice.
Theirs is conditional support.
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When you live thousands of miles away and have no connection to the area you might as well choose a side that that has good players to support. And if that side turns shit, why stick with them when you can sepnd your money elsewhere, especially when the original choie was based on picking the best team to support? Probably not the majority view on here but seems logical to me.
 
MCFCTrick said:
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That's true but the only way to stop it from happening is to be shit again.

Fans from distant lands are only going to support a successful team, that is the nature of football, young boys/girls here and abroad the same.
I've never seen as many City shirts floating around on view, as I do now.

They cause me no harm tbh
 
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personally I love it as the wifes family are from Malaysia and for years when visiting I had to put up with billboards and adverts of rag propaganda selling everything from noodles to rice cookers and being asked about them every time I said I was from Manchester. I even had difficulty buy a dodgy City top from petaling street in the early days, Which in stark contrast last time we went to Singapore the flagship puma store had a giant city badge covering the window and was full of kids buy city stuff. Thr wifes relatives kids have only ever known City success and were obsessed with city wanting to know everything about the club which was brilliant to hear after years of being asked about the rags.

I did warn them that supporting City is not all about the glory as some of the best times of being a city fan was watching us being absolutely shit. The wife told them I was less stressed watching a shit City than I am watching a City who know dropping a points on the 1st day of the season could cost us the league.

Thankfully they put me on the young lions, the Singapore development team who play in league and mainly finish near the bottom and having watched and the league you can understand why they want to watch a successful team like City.

I do have to say watching the young lions did give me a warm mid.90s sort of heartwarming especially as the centre forward missed a sitter that danny allsop would be proud of
 
MCFCTrick said:
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I think that fundamentally our match-going support is considerably different to United's. Since 1958 they've attracted fans from all over the UK. In Old Trafford, there isn't an affinity with Manchester or the local area. You hear accents from everywhere. They've had ~70 years with a delocalised fanbase, so I don't think we'll be at the same level for at least another few decades (of prolonged success).

Even if we do reach Old Trafford levels (of non-local fans), I don't really care as long as the people in the ground contribute to a good atmosphere.
 
Etihad said:
When you live thousands of miles away and have no connection to the area you might as well choose a side that that has good players to support. And if that side turns shit, why stick with them when you can sepnd your money elsewhere, especially when the original choie was based on picking the best team to support? Probably not the majority view on here but seems logical to me.
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I have no issue with that. Fans in the wider world owe our club nothing.
It's great if they buy into it, but I know that football is an entertainment industry.
If the entertainment isn't there anymore they will find it elsewhere.
 
What the OP put up (written by whoever) is just stating the obvious, it's exactly the same everywhere. At school in the 80's the most popular team in Southampton was Liverpool, in the 90's was Rags. I probably knew upwards of 90% of City fans here. I was in the Wessex supporters club, run by people from Poole (close to Bournemouth) which was the closest branch, next was London. There were 4 (if i remember) including me who were members living in Southampton, 3 of us attended games. There were more City fans, mostly met by chance, but all adults, next to no kids........
But now, City tops are as popular as others with young adults here. My youngest (13) has many friends who 'support' City, we regularly go bowling/play Pool in Southampton, 9x out of ten there's is a kid there in a City top, usually 2 or 3, and it's not a particularly big or busy place. Success brings support, whether those 'fans' are long or short term.
 
Marvin. said:
I don't think fans who strongly identify with a football club ever change colour, but they might lose enthusiasm.

Man Utd have muddied the water on overseas fans claiming a global community of 1.1 billion fans and followers based on market research by Kantar Worldpanel who sampled 54,000 people in 39 countries. That's clearly nonsense.
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The question asked was ‘have you heard about any of the following clubs?’ or something like that. If they said yes to a club, it went down as a fan of.
 
Gremlin said:
It is also, of course, a salutary reminder that success is fickle and if City don't continue to win (i.e. this season is the aberration) then we will also be discarded by global fans. There will be some that don't care about that, of course, but remember that global fanbase = global exposure = better sponsorship deals = more money for players and continued success. A vicious circle of decline lays in wait if we don't stay on top of the pile - as United may be finding out as there is only so long that they can trade on their past glories.
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Well let’s face it - many of those “United supporters” were only fans because they were winning.
 
We beat United 6-0 in the footie shirt stakes at Hyde baths yesterday. So the not so Far East definitely is blue.
 
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I spend a significant amount of time in Singapore and its unbelievable the amount of city shirts being worn and posters of Haaland and City in general posted all over the place
 
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