Topic: General Manchester City thread

[rob1966]

Yeah, most City fans are just secretly jealous that they couldn't muster that sort of passion for a team. Same goes for most English clubs.

Could see it happening/has happened at Celtic and abroad in Spain/Portugal/Italy/Croatia/Poland/South America but then we're not English, we are Scouse !!

 

[Son of Spion]

They've contacted the police because they are scared of a good atmosphere

Joe Anderson must be a City fan now.

[dalarr]

There will probably be empty seats at the Ethiad anyway. It's only a quarter final, a bit beneath them now that they are a European heavyweight.

[RedSince86]

Last season Champions League game against Monchengladbach.

That was the game where Pep was moaning about how shit the fans are there.



But no doubt it was officially a sell out that helped towards their match revenues that bloated their absurd owner propped turnover,i  actually wonder how much Shiekh Mansour pays propping up their match day revenue every season

[Achilles Heel]

Last season Champions League game against Monchengladbach.

That was the game where Pep was moaning about how shit the fans are there.



But no doubt it was officially a sell out that helped towards their match revenues that bloated their absurd owner propped turnover,i  actually wonder how much Shiekh Mansour pays propping up their match day revenue every season

Great picture that. Just over 30,000 there that night.  I was surprised it was so many considering the circumstances.

How many do you reckon Liverpool would get if a midweek CL game was postponed at the last minute and then re-arranged for 24 hours later?  Curious really.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

It's funny you lot always have an excuse of not showing up at your own stadium, and having a crap atmosphere at your biggest matches.

[newterp]

Great picture that. Just over 30,000 there that night.  I was surprised it was so many considering the circumstances.

How many do you reckon Liverpool would get if a midweek CL game was postponed at the last minute and then re-arranged for 24 hours later?  Curious really.

Probably close to a sellout.

[Achilles Heel]

It's funny you lot always have an excuse of not showing up at your own stadium, and having a crap atmosphere at your biggest matches.

No denying the atmosphere is crap most of the time.

City had sold about 48,000 tickets for the night before so about 8000 below capacity. The game was literally cancelled very last minute. I was about a mile away from the ground when we found out it was off and had to turn round. Lot's of reasons why people had travelled one night wouldn't be able to do the same again the following night. That's why I ponder how would Liverpool do in the same circumstances.

It's not unknown for Liverpool to have crowds of just over 30,000 in Champions League group stages. Certainly it happened in the season you last won it and crowds often low for the early rounds of the European Cup back in the day. So what IMO.

[Achilles Heel]

On the crowd thing, I posted this here a couple of years ago:


I’m an “old-timer” mate and I’ve attended 95% of all City home games for many, many years and I’m not remotely embarrassed about our attendances now or before the lottery win. Are “old-timer” Liverpool fans embarrassed by historic attendances for European matches at Anfield?  I would have thought not a chance of that and I don’t blame them even though loads and loads of European games were played when Anfield wasn’t full based on the capacity at the time.  As an example just look at the home attendances at Anfield for the 5 years when Liverpool won the big one and I think some of you on here might be surprised:


1976/1977
R32:   22,242
R16:   42,275
QF:    55,043
SF:     50,611

1977/1978
R16:   39,835
QF:     48,364
SF:      51,500

1980/81
R32:   21,013
R16:   36,182
QF:     37,255
SF:      44,543


1983/1984
R32:   14,985
R16:   33,063
QF:     39,096
SF:      36,941

2004/2005
LG:     33,517
R16:   40,952
QF:     41,216
SF:      42,259

[Lush is the best medicine...]

It's not unknown for Liverpool to have crowds of just over 30,000 in Champions League group stages. Certainly it happened in the season you last won it and crowds often low for the early rounds of the European Cup back in the day. So what IMO.

lowest one the year we won it in the groups was around 33k v Monaco and after that deportivo was 40k and all the rest were sold out, only one I can remember being around 30k was boavista at home on 9/11.

As for the early rounds of the European cup being low attendances, have a look at who ran the country at the time

[Medellin]

Stupid fucking c*nts still think we are solely out to greet their team bus & fuckall else.
Victims before the event.

[clinical]

They want to create a rivalry. They aren't worthy of a rivalry. They can win what they like. They are always going to be a plastic club. When these or chelsea win anything doesn't hurt at all.

Different story when Arsenal, Utd and Spurs (they don't) win something, that hurts. Because like us they spend money generated from the club itself and not the owners. They are doing things the same way we are without pressing the cheat code. Well spurs try their best with diving but still.

[SpionBob]

Really funny thing about this bus thing is that we are already in their heads. They are running scared.

[elsewhere]

They want to create a rivalry. They aren't worthy of a rivalry. They can win what they like. They are always going to be a plastic club. When these of chelsea win anything doesn't hurt at all.

Different story when Arsenal, Utd and Spurs (they don't) win something, that hurts. Because like us they spend money generated from the club itself and not the owners. They are doing things the same way we are without pressing the cheat code. Well spurs try their best with diving but still.

This. Their only rivalry is with United and Wigan.

[Giovanni]

Really funny thing about this bus thing is that we are already in their heads. They are running scared.

This just reminds me of the ev 'their heads have fallen off' shite.

So cringey.

[clinical]

This. Their only rivalry is with United and Wigan.

Even Utd see us as a bigger rival for the very same reasons. They will never be respected in that way. They can't even fill their stadium.

[rob1966]

Last season Champions League game against Monchengladbach.

That was the game where Pep was moaning about how shit the fans are there.



But no doubt it was officially a sell out that helped towards their match revenues that bloated their absurd owner propped turnover,i  actually wonder how much Shiekh Mansour pays propping up their match day revenue every season

V TNS, CL Qualifier July 2005

[rob1966]

Great picture that. Just over 30,000 there that night.  I was surprised it was so many considering the circumstances.

How many do you reckon Liverpool would get if a midweek CL game was postponed at the last minute and then re-arranged for 24 hours later?  Curious really.

Probably a couple of thousand wouldn't be able to make it due to the travelling, but a lot of those tickets could and would be passed on.

[mc_red22]

https://twitter.com/VintageLeroy/status/976188750576410624

[ghost1359]

Got some very short memories this lot haven't they?

"our lads won't be arsed" "Otamendi and Aguero have played in Argentina" "we've played at Anfield before"

They went to pieces at 4-1 earlier in the season and that atmosphere wasn't a patch on what it'll be like by the time this game rolls around.

There's a reason we have a reputation and I can't wait to show them exactly why.

[puroresu_kid]

They want to create a rivalry. They aren't worthy of a rivalry. They can win what they like. They are always going to be a plastic club. When these or chelsea win anything doesn't hurt at all.

Different story when Arsenal, Utd and Spurs (they don't) win something, that hurts. Because like us they spend money generated from the club itself and not the owners. They are doing things the same way we are without pressing the cheat code. Well spurs try their best with diving but still.

Well in theory this would all be fair but not sure how its a fair game if the clubs with the biggest fanbase, biggest commercial income get to spend the largest amount of money while everyone else has to pick up the scraps.  Football is no level playing field even if you do remove the sugar daddy owners.

Would anyone begrudge what Jack Walker did with Blackburn?  Spending his own money and seeing his club fulfil a dream of winning the title?  I certainly wouldn't.

 

[Mighty Zeus]

https://twitter.com/VintageLeroy/status/976188750576410624

Sorry but it's a tragedy what's happened to Manchester City. I know if you're a Manchester City fan you can say 'Well, at least we're winning things now'. And that's true. But 'football culture' (whatever that used to be, for better or worse) is... just a little bit more shit.

If we lose to them, we're just losing to people rich on oil money. The victory won't belong to the fans. It'll belong to people rich on oil money.

[stewy17]

Weird that people are sniping about attendances and atmosphere and history and all that to be honest. All a bit wool.

Just let them have their daft opinions about their lads not being arsed and the atmosphere being a myth and all the best on the 4th April.

[Giovanni]

Got some very short memories this lot haven't they?

"our lads won't be arsed" "Otamendi and Aguero have played in Argentina" "we've played at Anfield before"

They went to pieces at 4-1 earlier in the season and that atmosphere wasn't a patch on what it'll be like by the time this game rolls around.

There's a reason we have a reputation and I can't wait to show them exactly why.

The 2-1 under Rodgers had them shook. Bluemoon was crying after the game that all the whistling and boo'ing was unsportmanlike

[Qston]

All they have achieved with this nonsense is for the amp to now be turned up to 11 ala Spinal Tap (please someone post an image or GIF of that - epic). Talk about back firing

[So… Howard Philips]

This. Their only rivalry is with United and Wigan.

More likely Stockport than Wigan.

[rob1966]

[capt k]

Talk about back firing

OK...
Backfiring through the carb (spitting or coughing) usually occurs in the morning when a carb's air/fuel mixture is a bit too lean. This usually goes away once the engine warms-up. It is also commonly caused by the accelerator pump inthe carb not squirting enough fuel before the main jets start working.

[MerseysideBrum]

The 2-1 under Rodgers had them shook. Bluemoon was crying after the game that all the whistling and boo'ing was unsportmanlike

3-2

[Giovanni]

3-2

My memory must be getting worse every day. You are correct, 2-1 was the following year.

[Medellin]

Usually have a few songs for other teams when they start being relevant..
City..pfft.
When they win 2 or 3 CL's we may roll out a song for them..until then. .

By the way..are they using Chelsea's faded old plasic flags?

[RedSince86]

Choppers excellent post has got City fans on Twitter riled up.


https://twitter.com/AndrewWolf88/status/974786711166373889

[ScottScott]

Choppers excellent post has got City fans on Twitter riled up.


https://twitter.com/AndrewWolf88/status/974786711166373889

The responses to that are pathetic. The one fella who's posted his notes app with a made up message he apparently received from a Liverpool fan 

[dalarr]

Choppers excellent post has got City fans on Twitter riled up.


https://twitter.com/AndrewWolf88/status/974786711166373889

It struck me while reading that Twitter thread that every football forum is the same. We accuse each other of exactly the same things: delusion, bitterness, irrelevance etc.

[iamnant]

Anyone else already incredibly bored of this whole back and forth? Seeing nothing but "Ye but you haven't won the league for 29 years" / "Your atmosphere is shit" everywhere is boring as hell now.

Let's just get stuck in, give the team the best and most pyro-laden welcome possible, get Anfield absolutely rocking all match and smash these lottery winning c*nts back to their mums and sisters' beds.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

If they only worried about their atmosphere at their own ground as much as they do about our bus welcomr and what we think of them

[diegoLFC7]

Every single game at Anfield since the 3-2 they've come scared. I dont know what it is but something about Anfield is intimidating for those players. They dont play the same, their passes are off, they get flustered by the press, and they crumble.

[Skeeve]

On the crowd thing, I posted this here a couple of years ago:

I’m an “old-timer” mate and I’ve attended 95% of all City home games for many, many years and I’m not remotely embarrassed about our attendances now or before the lottery win. Are “old-timer” Liverpool fans embarrassed by historic attendances for European matches at Anfield? 

A crucial difference with those historic attendances is that ours wouldn't have been claimed as being sellouts using the tickets 'sold' metric that can be readily abused by a club with a rich owner. 

[QR350]

Scared of a bit of noise, bless em

[SpionBob]

V TNS, CL Qualifier July 2005

That's the difference between a real club and an oil club.