Re: How to recognise long standing and loyal supporters
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 4:00 pm
Just my $0.02 but Ive been going to City regularly since 1977 when I was age 6, hadn't seen us win a carrot until 2011 and personally speaking I thought the days in the third tier and indeed the years 1993 - 1999 were the absolute fookin pits and I don't look back on them with any fondness.
The football was god awful, the team was shite, the managers door was a revolving one, we became a bloody laughing stock and some of the shitehouse teams we lost to, and many of the shit players who wore our shirt still make me cringe. The shit that we had to watch for years was an endurance test but certainly wasn't an experience I long for ever again!
Give me the Sheikh Mansour years every time please, and twice on sunday. The footballs about 300 times better, the players we watch are among the best in the world and the core of fans remain the same with our gallows humour and incredible loyalty. City have a hardcore of about 35-40k who will go come what may and they remain there now, despite the successes and failures. They were there before the Swales shambles set the club back umpteen years, and they are largely still there now.
The football was god awful, the team was shite, the managers door was a revolving one, we became a bloody laughing stock and some of the shitehouse teams we lost to, and many of the shit players who wore our shirt still make me cringe. The shit that we had to watch for years was an endurance test but certainly wasn't an experience I long for ever again!
Give me the Sheikh Mansour years every time please, and twice on sunday. The footballs about 300 times better, the players we watch are among the best in the world and the core of fans remain the same with our gallows humour and incredible loyalty. City have a hardcore of about 35-40k who will go come what may and they remain there now, despite the successes and failures. They were there before the Swales shambles set the club back umpteen years, and they are largely still there now.