Wainy316 Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 (edited) "Why are we hated so much?" - answers on a postcard folks Quote Right through my life, and I am an FOC, I have generally felt that other clubs fans have a soft spot for us (rags excluded), I think due to some extent to our under achievement, partly due to generally being a team that tries to play football, and largely due to the loyalty of our fan base.This never felt more so than after the qpr game in 2012, where after the match I was literally inundated with text messages from mates and colleagues from different places I’d lived and worked, fans of different teams. The general tone was that people were delighted that we had won the league, how we’d won it and who we won it over. Also there was a genuine appreciation of the fact they all knew I was a loyal fan of a likeable club, someone who had followed them home and away for decades, many of those decades empty of success and full of under achievement. I didn’t get the sense that anyone begrudged us our success.Roll forward 10 and a half years and the feeling towards us is so different. Every premier league we have won has had the rags or dippers as runners up, teams that I reckon are generally disliked by all apart from their own (admittedly huge) fan bases. I would have thought that this would have enhanced our popularity, particularly when you think we have brought the likes of Kompany, Zaba, KDB, Yaya, Sergio, the Silvas, Haaland etc etc etc to the league, and all for fantastic prices. The Mancini, Pellegreni and Pep teams have all played beautiful football, and I am sure I’m not biased in saying that.So why the **** are we so widely unpopular, what have we done wrong?Have we become horrible fans? I don’t think so. I get it that we aren’t as passionate as we once were, not alone in that. But I think we still have a fair bit of our typical City humour, and a large proportion of our fan base is still traditional.Is it just plain jealousy? I think that may be part of it, but it wasn’t evident in the emotions expressed to me in 2012, so would winning another 5 premier league titles in 10 years cause that? Not sure it would.Is it how our football club conducts itself? Well, our owners have invested millions in the area, have generally been low key and polite, we have CITC which remains best in class, we always treat people with respect and decency as far as I can see.So I can only think it’s 10 years of constant digs at us, from all of the newspapers, from Sky, BBC (tv, radio and online), BT, Talk Shite etc. Why they do this is beyond me but can only because we are not united or liverpool, maybe also because we are Arab owned not USA owned. But I think 10 years of their snide and negative comments, aided by awful treatment from the premier league and uefa, has eaten into the consciousness of the general footballing public.Since Monday I don’t think, in fact I know, that our football club has never been more alone. No one likes us, but I can’t say I don’t care, because I don’t really know why, and I know it isn’t deserved.We are only just into an even longer and more sustained period of City bashing than we have ever known, the refs and VAR will feel even more at liberty to shaft us on the pitch, so let’s do one thing as CITY FANS, let’s get right behind our club and our players, for as long as it takes, win or lose, get behind the players and the management. I have ALWAYS been proud to be a Blue, and remain so as much today as the day I was born into a Blue family. Apparently it's all the media, Premier League and UEFA's fault. Waaaa waaaa waaah. They really don't get it do they. Edited February 14, 2023 by Wainy316 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 They're the Tories of the football league. **** them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted February 14, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 14, 2023 On 13/02/2023 at 11:00, The Fun Factory said: But Pep says he hardly spends any money. Pep has his own valuation on transfer fees. Even as the ink was drying on the grealish contract he was denying that the fee was any more than 40 million (after a bit of transfer economics). Head in the sand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AJ Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 2 hours ago, Wainy316 said: "Why are we hated so much?" - answers on a postcard folks Apparently it's all the media, Premier League and UEFA's fault. Waaaa waaaa waaah. They really don't get it do they. How about not referring to other clubs as "rags", just for a start. Dickhead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 18 minutes ago, AJ said: How about not referring to other clubs as "rags", just for a start. Dickhead. He’s talking about City’s main rivals. I’ve read worse about Birmingham City on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 57 minutes ago, LondonLax said: He’s talking about City’s main rivals. I’ve read worse about Birmingham City on here. Let alone heading into the Liverpool thread here - not one of our rivals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 What does the term 'rags' for Man United actually relate to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 something about them being proper skint back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 Oh I assumed it was to do with periods and the colour of their kit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Zatman Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 I am really enjoying the Guardiola backlash, has been coming for a while and good people are seeing that he is a piece of shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Keyblade Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 5 hours ago, Wainy316 said: "Why are we hated so much?" - answers on a postcard folks Apparently it's all the media, Premier League and UEFA's fault. Waaaa waaaa waaah. They really don't get it do they. Everybody wanted them to lose to QPR that day I don't know what kind of echo chamber he lived in. Because we all knew if they won that first title, the floodgates would open, and sure enough they did. The only saving grace was the manner in which they won it which softened people's stance a bit. Everyone hated them from day 1, they represented everything that was wrong, or was going to be wrong with football. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 29 minutes ago, Keyblade said: Everybody wanted them to lose to QPR that day I don't know what kind of echo chamber he lived in. Because we all knew if they won that first title, the floodgates would open, and sure enough they did. The only saving grace was the manner in which they won it which softened people's stance a bit. Everyone hated them from day 1, they represented everything that was wrong, or was going to be wrong with football. A lot cheered them that way because of who they beat for the title 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 9 minutes ago, Zatman said: A lot cheered them that way because of who they beat for the title Yeah same I'd take city over Liverpool too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 1 minute ago, villa4europe said: Yeah same I'd take city over Liverpool too Like even now? I know people were tired of United winning everything at the time, but they weren't cheating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 To be fair to them they do get the shirty end of the stick compared to the old boys, I'd maintain man utd along with sky and the PL did more damage to football in the 90s, they laid the foundations both in their global expansion and their chasing of turnover resulting in them effectively becoming a business rather than a sports club, easy to point at city in 2008 ruining football, it was already gone just no one wanted to admit it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 Just now, Keyblade said: Like even now? I know people were tired of United winning everything at the time, but they weren't cheating. I honestly don't know a man City fan, they're irrelevant to me, as is the PL largely and especially the CL, utd and Liverpool on the other hand Kidderminster is still full of the bastards and they don't half like telling you I'm a Villa fan, I'm not really a football fan anymore, beyond the QPR game I know and remember very little about man City, hardly ever watch them, do you remember that famous man City FA Cup win? Nope, absolutely not, do you remember Chelsea beating man City in the CL final? I watched it in a pub with mates and got blind drunk, can't even remember who scored (Chelsea won 1-0?) City can be ignored and avoided 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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