Anyone Who Is Or Know A Manchester City Supporter?

[anders t]

I'm not (duh...) and I don't know anyone who is (at least noone that's open
about it).

I mean, in Sweden there are many supporters of Tottenham, Arsenal,
Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Wolverhampton, Leeds, West Ham,
etc... but Manchester City?


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[Werner Pichler]

On Sunday, 8 April 2018 11:00:40 UTC+2, anders t wrote:
> I'm not (duh...) and I don't know anyone who is (at least noone that's open
> about it).
>
> I mean, in Sweden there are many supporters of Tottenham, Arsenal,
> Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Wolverhampton, Leeds, West Ham,
> etc... but Manchester City?

No, I don't either, but think back to what the situation was like when you
became a Man United fan, how you became one and where Man City were at that
time.

In my corner of the world 20 years ago you couldn't find almost any Barcelona
supporters either, and look around today.


Ciao,
Werner

[Chagney Hunt]

On 4/8/2018 5:00 AM, anders t wrote:
> I'm not (duh...) and I don't know anyone who is (at least noone that's open
> about it).
>
> I mean, in Sweden there are many supporters of Tottenham, Arsenal,
> Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Wolverhampton, Leeds, West Ham,
> etc... but Manchester City?
>
>

Casual fans and droves of 10 year old.

Their football is imposing and swashbuckling, easy to admire.

[Futbolmetrix]

On 4/8/2018 6:06 AM, Werner Pichler wrote:
>
> No, I don't either, but think back to what the situation was like when you
> became a Man United fan, how you became one and where Man City were at that
> time.
>
> In my corner of the world 20 years ago you couldn't find almost any Barcelona
> supporters either, and look around today.

Exactly. I'm sure there are plenty among the younger generations. By the
way, how many of you have watched this movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238660/

[a.test]

Moin Moin :-),

Re: Sun, 08 Apr 2018 11:00:30 +0200 / anders t:

> I'm not (duh...) and I don't know anyone who is (at least noone that's open
> about it).
>
> I mean, in Sweden there are many supporters of Tottenham, Arsenal,
> Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Wolverhampton, Leeds, West Ham,
> etc... but Manchester City?

When I was studying in the north of England in 2004, I actually came across
a City supporter. He was part of the student society that offered some
trips for the new Erasmus students, and he organized a trip to see City vs
Everton in the pretty new stadium. He told me that every time he went to a
match, City lost. And yes, they lost (0-1?)
I imagine he might have seen them win at least once by now.

Cü,
Hermann Hippen.

[MH]

On 2018-04-08 3:00, anders t wrote:
> I'm not (duh...) and I don't know anyone who is (at least noone that's open
> about it).

Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) was.

According to Wiki:

"In a 2007 Premier League survey, Manchester City fans had the second
greatest proportion of long-serving supporters after Everton with 55% of
those Manchester City fans questioned having attended games at City for
25 years or more (versus Everton's 57%), both above the Premier League
average of 44%.[4] Despite the club's wealth, Manchester City have very
strong working class roots which still remains today.[20][21]"

I personally don't know a city fan, and don't remember any from RSS.
But then I did not know any Chelsea fans before the mid 2000s either.

I do remember fans of West Brom (Hugh Morris) Wolves (Steve someone),
Partick Thistle (John Rose), Wigan (Chopsy), Perugia (Jackie Tellier)
and various other smaller teams from RSS.

[alka...@hotmail.com]

On Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 5:00:40 AM UTC-4, anders t wrote:
> I'm not (duh...) and I don't know anyone who is (at least noone that's open
> about it).
>
> I mean, in Sweden there are many supporters of Tottenham, Arsenal,
> Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Wolverhampton, Leeds, West Ham,
> etc... but Manchester City?

10 years ago you wouldn't meet a Chelsea fan outside of London either. Now they are all over the place. Keep in mind that City trails Chelsea by 5 years of sugar-daddyism. Give it another 5 and you'll see plenty of global City fans coming of age.

[Insane Ranter]

After the last debry they all look like

https://media.front.xoedge.com/images/9a259b67-c991-49c8-a75a-8a90a7bfcff7~rs_1080.h

[alka...@hotmail.com]

On Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 12:18:48 PM UTC-4, MH wrote:

> I do remember fans of West Brom (Hugh Morris) Wolves (Steve someone),
> Partick Thistle (John Rose), Wigan (Chopsy), Perugia (Jackie Tellier)
> and various other smaller teams from RSS.

HSV (Sven Mishckies)
Burnley (Paul C)
Torino (Ammammata)
Leicester (Bruce Scott)

[RED DEVIL]

They mostly can be found in Stockport



The RED DEVIL

[alka...@hotmail.com]

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/manchester-derby-map-men-survey-687267

From this it seems that City fans are concentrated in Manchester proper, Stockport, Tameside, and Oldham. Mostly the eastern parts of greater Manchester + Wigan.

[alka...@hotmail.com]

Talking maps, here's an incredibly detailed one. It outlines EPL support in every country of the world. You can even zoom into specific regions and filter by club. Pretty cool.

https://interactive.twitter.com/premierleague/#?mode=team&teamId=all&country=SDN

[alka...@hotmail.com]

https://interactive.twitter.com/premierleague/#?mode=team&teamId=all

Better link, first one was accidentally zoomed into Sudan.

[MH]

Three of those are still with us, and Leicester, I assume, comes well
behind Bayern in Bruce's affections (which also include Benfica, was it
?). Torino and HSV are clubs with a strong tradition, but I guess you
could say the same about Wolves. It was Steve Jones I think.

[jvazquez]

Frank Gallagher, Chatsworth Estate, Stretford, close to Old
Trafford.

Almost all neighbourhood are City fans.

[Murat Bey]

On Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 12:00:40 PM UTC+3, anders t wrote:
> I'm not (duh...) and I don't know anyone who is (at least noone that's open
> about it).
>
> I mean, in Sweden there are many supporters of Tottenham, Arsenal,
> Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Wolverhampton, Leeds, West Ham,
> etc... but Manchester City?
>

Interesting question. I'll support them for you, I like how they're run as a club, but I also like Athletic Bilbao, Bayern and Altınordu in Turkey (although I don't follow their games, results, or have ties with the city or local area). I also used to support Fenerbahçe but I stopped following Turkish league after the matchfixing scandal and how they do their business doesn't appeal to me, otherwise they're my local team which I've supported since I was a kid.

I read reddit/r/soccer and most City fans there seem to be from Manchester and some of those from Manchester seem to be fans before takeover as I've seen posts about worst day as a City fan being relegation in 98 and even saw one that cited the relegation in 83 I think.

Then you have City fans from the US and other countries who's been following City only recently, probably with the promise of them being glorious as they don't really have any glory yet.

Other fans (fans of Man United, Liverpool, Bayern, RM etc) call them "plastic fans" or "gloryhunters" but they seem to have a loyal fanbase which followed them in those days compared to fans of other big clubs most of which are from outside of England, like American, Asian, etc..

Size of a club's fanbase tends to correspond to their exposure and glory. The more glory there is, the more people support them. Then you have fanatic American Dortmund fans who signed up with the premise that Dortmund have always been Bayern's bitter title rivals and they're now bitter upon realizing the truth.

Why did you become a Manchester United supporter? Have you lived in Manchester or the UK, did you support them before their serial title wins began with SAF?

[Murat Bey]

My cousin lives in London since 2010 and he supports Chelsea. But he also supports Beşiktaş as his main club, I doubt he'd support Chelsea if they were like Crystal Palace. I should support Crystal Palace simply for "The Crystal Girls".

Why do you support Liverpool?

[Murat Bey]

Real Madrid and Barcelona seem to have the biggest online fan base, closely followed by Manchester United..

I also had a thing for Juventus in early 80s when they had this team with Rossi, Platini, Boniek, Tardelli, Tacconi, etc.

[alka...@hotmail.com]

We lived in Dubai for a few years when I was a kid in the early 80s. Went to a British school and Liverpool was of course the team of that time. Young, impression, and always football mad, so took to them very quickly. Their football was also very easy on the eye. I also remember how quickly the hate of Man U set in, even though they won f-all at that time.

[Murat Bey]

On Monday, April 9, 2018 at 12:18:07 AM UTC+3, Murat Bey wrote:
> On Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 8:46:09 PM UTC+3, alka...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > On Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 5:00:40 AM UTC-4, anders t wrote:
> > > I'm not (duh...) and I don't know anyone who is (at least noone that's open
> > > about it).
> > >
> > > I mean, in Sweden there are many supporters of Tottenham, Arsenal,
> > > Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Wolverhampton, Leeds, West Ham,
> > > etc... but Manchester City?
> >
> > 10 years ago you wouldn't meet a Chelsea fan outside of London either. Now they are all over the place. Keep in mind that City trails Chelsea by 5 years of sugar-daddyism. Give it another 5 and you'll see plenty of global City fans coming of age.
>
> My cousin lives in London since 2010 and he supports Chelsea.

Correction: Since 2000

[sven.mi...@gmail.com]

On Sunday, 8 April 2018 22:15:33 UTC+1, Murat Bey wrote:

> Why did you become a Manchester United supporter? Have you lived in Manchester or the UK, did you support them before their serial title wins began with SAF?

I think you are underestimating Anders' age here. ;)

[MH]

Who is the senior citizen among regular RSS contributors anyway? I
assume Red Devil. Not sure about the rest - I figure Bruce and I are
pretty close, based on dates of studies etc. I turn 60 towards the end
of this year.
>

[HASM]

MH <MHno...@ucalgary.ca> writes:
> Who is the senior citizen among regular RSS contributors
> anyway? I assume Red Devil. Not sure about the rest

Even though I'm not sure if I qualify as a regular contributor, I will
officially become a senior citizen, as far as USA Medicare is concerned,
later this year.

-- HASM

[RED DEVIL]

I'm 68. Been a United fan since 1956 when I went to Old Trafford for
the first time (with Father).



The RED DEVIL

[RED DEVIL]

Not at all true!

Manchester is and always has been a Red City. There have been studies
on this and the fans with the most Manchester area postal codes were
dominantly United.
When United went into Div 2 in 1973 they still had the largest
attendances in the nation. Measure this against City's relegations and
you'll see that City had attendances in the 8,000 to 15,000 area.





The RED DEVIL

[jvazquez]

Well, Frank Gallagher is a fictional character, as well as Chatsworth Estate.

Shameless, TV series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shameless_(UK_TV_series)

I was surprised, watching the series, that all the neighbourhood is predominantly blue.

I asked here a few years ago about that:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.sport.soccer/frank$20gallagher%7Csort:date/rec.sport.soccer/ZQpbKgdzdK0/l1o8nORCCCEJ

[ixion martin - GdBx]

anders t avait soumis l'idée :

> I mean, in Sweden there are many supporters of Tottenham,
> Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United,
> Wolverhampton, Leeds, West Ham, etc... but Manchester City?

Oh, you have in Sweden some clubs named Arsenal, Liverpool,
Chelsea, Manchester United, Wolverhampton, Leeds or West Ham
too ?

OK ->[]

--
Ixion
Paris sort piteusement de la Coupe d'Europe.
Pas de doute, c'est bien un club Français

[Hartmut Wieczorek]

Am 09.04.2018 um 23:11 schrieb ixion martin - GdBx:
> anders t avait soumis l'idée :
>
>> I mean, in Sweden there are many supporters of Tottenham, Arsenal,
>> Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Wolverhampton, Leeds, West Ham,
>> etc... but Manchester City?
>
> Oh, you have in Sweden some clubs named Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea,
> Manchester United, Wolverhampton, Leeds or West Ham too ?

Maybe this is the right time to ask a question i always had about the
distinction between fan, follower and supporter. I always get them mixed
up, so when is it appropriate to call myself what?

20 years ago, you could have seen me wearing a ManUnited jersey (which I
bought in London, never made it to Manchester yet). I don't really know
what draw me to like this club, it probably was that Cantona guy.
If I look up the french league table I want to know where Toulouse FC
and St Etienne are. I'm not a fan nor do I remember ever seing them
play. The latter is a name I probably remember from the 80s, the former
I've actually visited because my sister used to live there.
Even more random is my favourite swiss team FC Yverdon. They were my
fist carreer option in a FIFA Manager game I played and we were destined
to win the Champion's League (we didn't). But I still remember and check
in from time to time.

So when can i say "this is my favourite team of $randomcountry's
league"? I just pick one and stick with it?

Gruß
Hartmut

[Bruce D. Scott]

MH <MHno...@ucalgary.ca> wrote:
|> On 2018-04-08 3:00, anders t wrote:
|>> I'm not (duh...) and I don't know anyone who is (at least noone that's open
|>> about it).
|>
|> Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) was.

Dr Lazarus!

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ciao,
Bruce

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[Bruce D. Scott]

MH <MHno...@ucalgary.ca> wrote:

|> Three of those are still with us, and Leicester, I assume, comes well
|> behind Bayern in Bruce's affections (which also include Benfica, was it

Yes, though it is from 1996 not 2016! But I am a Bayern fan since 1977
and member since 1995. Though I have in fact seen LCFC away in Reading.

|> ?). Torino and HSV are clubs with a strong tradition, but I guess you
|> could say the same about Wolves. It was Steve Jones I think.

Wolves was Jones, we had a West Brom guy as well. Jesper is if course
Aarhus, which is pretty small, though he's another Bayern fan.

[Bruce D. Scott]

MH <MHno...@ucalgary.ca> wrote:

|> pretty close, based on dates of studies etc. I turn 60 towards the end
|> of this year.

I go in September... we are closer than I thought!

[Bruce D. Scott]

anders t <anthu_001@-nospam-hotmail.com> wrote:
|> I'm not (duh...) and I don't know anyone who is (at least noone that's open
|> about it).
|>

|> I mean, in Sweden there are many supporters of Tottenham, Arsenal,
|> Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Wolverhampton, Leeds, West Ham,
|> etc... but Manchester City?

I have a colleague from Manchester with whom I commiserated shortly
after the 1999 Final. He is City, not United, and likes to remind
people there is only one Manchester team, the other one being from
Trafford up the road.

[Bruce D. Scott]

look for that old Glory Hunter Test (IIRC it was Are You a Glory Hunter)
from around 1993/4 posted on r.s.s ...

[Chagney Hunt]

On 4/9/2018 10:34 AM, Bruce D. Scott wrote:
> MH <MHno...@ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>
> |> Three of those are still with us, and Leicester, I assume, comes well
> |> behind Bayern in Bruce's affections (which also include Benfica, was it
>
> Yes, though it is from 1996 not 2016! But I am a Bayern fan since 1977
> and member since 1995. Though I have in fact seen LCFC away in Reading.
>
> |> ?). Torino and HSV are clubs with a strong tradition, but I guess you
> |> could say the same about Wolves. It was Steve Jones I think.
>
> Wolves was Jones, we had a West Brom guy as well. Jesper is if course
> Aarhus, which is pretty small, though he's another Bayern fan.
>

Huw Morris

[MH]

On 2018-04-09 8:38, Bruce D. Scott wrote:
> MH <MHno...@ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>
> |> pretty close, based on dates of studies etc. I turn 60 towards the end
> |> of this year.
>
> I go in September... we are closer than I thought!

Early October for me.

>

[alka...@hotmail.com]

Joint birthday party with all of RSS invited?

[RED DEVIL]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 14:30:01 +0000 (UTC), "Bruce D. Scott"
<b...@gateafs.rzg.mpg.de> wrote:

>anders t <anthu_001@-nospam-hotmail.com> wrote:
>|> I'm not (duh...) and I don't know anyone who is (at least noone that's open
>|> about it).
>|>
>|> I mean, in Sweden there are many supporters of Tottenham, Arsenal,
>|> Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Wolverhampton, Leeds, West Ham,
>|> etc... but Manchester City?
>
>I have a colleague from Manchester with whom I commiserated shortly
>after the 1999 Final. He is City, not United, and likes to remind
>people there is only one Manchester team, the other one being from
>Trafford up the road.

You need to explain to him that Trafford is in Manchester and has a
postal code to proof it



The RED DEVIL

[sven.mi...@gmail.com]

On Sunday, 8 April 2018 10:00:40 UTC+1, anders t wrote:
> I'm not (duh...) and I don't know anyone who is (at least noone that's open
> about it).
>
> I mean, in Sweden there are many supporters of Tottenham, Arsenal,
> Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Wolverhampton, Leeds, West Ham,
> etc... but Manchester City?

Van Dijk? ;)