[Albion] City fans reaction

[GT49er]

Not really true - except the keyboard warriors shit. I worked up in Manchester for six months, and, have gone up there for Albion away days. I found that most people that live in Manchester are City fans, United draw their “local” fans from around Stretford, Salford, Torquay, Singapore and other places close by within a 3,000 mile radius.

The City fans like to emphasise how they are the complete antithesis of United fans - local and have supported their club through all the bad times. I suppose that is why I was so surprised about their reaction on forums and social media to last Tuesday’s game.

Is that why they let United supporters (and supporters of Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs) protest against the ESL while they themselves were remarkably quiet? Presumably they fancied a closed super league where they wouldn't sometimes lose to teams they felt had no right to be on the same pitch as them.

 

[GT49er]

My experience too, growing up in Worthing. I chose Liverpool because no one else supported them at the time, and partly because of the 1965 Cup Final, which I went in to wanting Leeds to win and then they started kicking Liverpool off the pitch.

Same with me - I chose Liverpool - Beatles, and the Mersey music scene. Went to Uni there (chosen for the same reasons!) Happy times on The Kop (the real one) with sometimes being able to lift both feet off the ground at once! ............. whilst also watching Brighton regularly lose at Tranmere, Southport, Oldham, and doing slightly better at Preston and actually winning once at Gay Meadow.
Still have a soft spot for Liverpool - both the team and the wonderful city - but Brighton's still my one and only team.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

^ an extremely lazy and laidback friend of mine also chose Liverpool Uni purely for footballing reasons because he couldn’t be arsed to do proper research into UK Unis. It worked out quite well for him, he’s lived on Park Avenue for the last few decades and works on Wall Street.

 

[LamieRobertson]

^ an extremely lazy and laidback friend of mine also chose Liverpool Uni purely for footballing reasons because he couldn’t be arsed to do proper research into UK Unis. It worked out quite well for him, he’s lived on Park Avenue for the last few decades and works on Wall Street.

Bit of a commute though

 

[MJsGhost]

I’ve always had a soft spot for City and I’m a massive Pep fanboy but wow, these keyboard warrior City fans are something else!

I can’t believe how much they’re whinging about us fouling all match. Anyone that knows anything about a Pep side knows they are always totally cynical, committing countless fouls every match to break down the oppositions flow, spreading the fouls around the team so as not to pick up too many cards. Fernandinho is the absolute master of this, he’s got the cynical foul down to an absolute fine art.

Some of these City fans are totally classless and lack any self awareness.

Absolutely this. It’s hardly a secret either - here’s an excerpt from a Jonathan Wilson piece recently:

And then there are the fouls: 335 of them in his Premier League career, and that is just the ones that have been detected, which represents only a fraction of his output. Fernandinho is the Mozart of the pragmatic intervention, a once in a generation genius, a master of the clip, the nudge and the tug. So subtle is he that a foul by Fernandinho is 22.45% less likely to draw a booking than one by Lee Cattermole. When a yellow card did finally arrive against Everton – and in that regard Fernandinho appears to have inherited Mark van Bommel’s invisibility cloak – it was for an unapologetic block on Richarlison. Fernandinho is a rat-catcher in the guise of an orchestra conductor.​

 

[super-seagulls]

Peppa Pottered .

Brilliant

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

I know what you are alluding to with that childish point. The author of an amateur blog who has past history for making unproven slurs against Tony Bloom plus other non football conspiracy theory nonsense without a shred of proof. The club are very aware of this individual. He's clearly overstepped the mark this time. I hope Bloom rinses him. In the space of two tweets earlier this week, he's managed to potentially libel Tony Bloom, Gus Poyet plus the referee of Tuesday nights game. Impressive. The claims made are highly libellous particularly against Tony Bloom. I'm not going to repeat them here for obvious reasons. I don't fancy the authors chances down the Strand if any were to take action. If you fancy your chances by retweeting or quoting them elsewhere, fill your boots.

Another point of note with the author. There is a pattern to many who he targets with his nonsense. It's not hard to spot looking at his previous. Yes, Tony Bloom is Jewish if you weren't aware.

That silly football fix conspiracist has now turned his guns on Brentford.

 

[Swansman]

I find City fans the most annoying part of their club. Well, maybe the owner as well.

It is incredibly well-run however. They dont panic over a few weak results, there's been seasons and spells where Pep would have been sacked if he was at Chelsea or similar.

They signed the administrators of the greatest of all time teams, the late 00s/early 10s Barcelona, appointing Soriano as CEO and Txiki as Director of Football and later on getting Pep as well. These guys know what they are doing. They dont have to sign ten top players every year and have a steady succession and continuity - one or two players every summer gets too old and gets replaced, other than that the squad remains largely intact with players staying 7-8 years making some 300 appearances.

Hopefully this trio running the club, seemingly without much intervention from above, will get tired of it and look for a new challenge somewhere. Otherwise I think there's a real chance that they sooner rather than later could take the league in a real chokehold and that would be a bit boring.

 

[father_and_son]

Okay, I wouldn’t dispute with what you’re saying is the case. My post just reflected what I found when I’ve been in Manchester.

I lived there for 25years (in various parts) and most of my family still live there, scattered from the northern parts of that conurbation (Bolton/Oldham/Northenden) down to the posh bits to the south (Bramhall/Cheadle) and many bits in-between (Sale, Chorley, Stretford).

It is a complete myth that there no local MU fans. Yes, there are *lots* of tourists but kids at school throughout the entire area are largely 50/50 (or more 30/30/40 with the 40% being some other team) and always have.

And then my father-in-law who lives in Newhaven and has never lived anywhere near Manchester in his life is a Citeh fan.

Big clubs attract fans from all over the country/world but is doesn't stop them also have a very large core support base locally.

I can only assume you are basing your observation on a short period in a single area that was particularly City dominated. I can guarantee that's not true of the whole area, not in the slightest.

 

[Pinkie Brown]

That silly football fix conspiracist has now turned his guns on Brentford.

I've just read it. Aside libelling Tony Bloom again, he's pointed the finger at another four people without producing any credible proof aside 'claims' of internal documents. He's pushing his luck.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I re-watched the City game last night and, in the cold light of day, I'm not really sure what's got them riled. The big calls they're complaining about were not only dismissed by VAR, but also explained/justified by Peter Walton. Now, I have no evidence, but I'm guessing that these referees have never knowingly been 'anti-City' and have been in charge of games where City have benefited from decisions.

I agree, as I probably said on here before, that the Ali J's yellow-not-red tackle and the penalty both fall firmly under the 'seen them given' category. But these muppets are effectively suggesting match-fixing based on those decisions not going their way. Absolutely bonkers. I see there was no mention of the Garcia handball, the fouls on Bissouma and the fact that Ederson wasted about 10 minutes and didn't get booked, while Sanchez got booked after about 10 seconds in the Blue Moon-botherers 'conspiracy'? Funny that...

Other things I noted, not strictly on a 'City fans' theme, but just general:

– Ali J had a good half with loads of decent tackles and attacking play. Personally, I've not given up hope on him just yet.
– I heard only minimal booing for Foden at one corner, but I assumed that was just general booing City players. Nothing other than that or after his goal/cupped ear celebration, so I'm still unclear as to why he did that.
– The fans sounded amazing. The roar when the Brighton goals was fantastic! How we've missed that.
– I know he's not been around for *that* long, but I would've expected MacAllister to have pushed on a bit. In some ways it seems that so much negativity surrounds Ali J, but not much for Ali Mac. Maybe someone has performance stats to explain why that is?
– What's happened to the whole 'Respect' thing for refs? After Cancelo's sending off (during the VAR check), I counted six City players circling around him like vultures at one stage. Foden (I think) even trying to move Groß out of the way too!
– The second half performance was arguably the best I've seen from the Albion. What was arguably most impressive was the calmness at 0-2 and the ability to still knock the ball around as if they knew that the chances would come. At one stage the 'last five minutes' posession stat was 96%-4% in our favour. Simply wonderful.
– You can talk all you like about going down to 10 men, dead rubber and minds on the Champions League but you can also say with a lot of confidence that the City players didn't want to lose that night – especially not to a #TeamLikeBrighton.

 

[drew]

I re-watched the City game last night and, in the cold light of day, I'm not really sure what's got them riled. The big calls they're complaining about were not only dismissed by VAR, but also explained/justified by Peter Walton. Now, I have no evidence, but I'm guessing that these referees have never knowingly been 'anti-City' and have been in charge of games where City have benefited from decisions.

I agree, as I probably said on here before, that the Ali J's yellow-not-red tackle and the penalty both fall firmly under the 'seen them given' category. But these muppets are effectively suggesting match-fixing based on those decisions not going their way. Absolutely bonkers. I see there was no mention of the Garcia handball, the fouls on Bissouma and the fact that Ederson wasted about 10 minutes and didn't get booked, while Sanchez got booked after about 10 seconds in the Blue Moon-botherers 'conspiracy'? Funny that...

Other things I noted, not strictly on a 'City fans' theme, but just general:

– Ali J had a good half with loads of decent tackles and attacking play. Personally, I've not given up hope on him just yet.
– I heard only minimal booing for Foden at one corner, but I assumed that was just general booing City players. Nothing other than that or after his goal/cupped ear celebration, so I'm still unclear as to why he did that.
– The fans sounded amazing. The roar when the Brighton goals was fantastic! How we've missed that.
– I know he's not been around for *that* long, but I would've expected MacAllister to have pushed on a bit. In some ways it seems that so much negativity surrounds Ali J, but not much for Ali Mac. Maybe someone has performance stats to explain why that is?
– What's happened to the whole 'Respect' thing for refs? After Cancelo's sending off (during the VAR check), I counted six City players circling around him like vultures at one stage. Foden (I think) even trying to move Groß out of the way too!
– The second half performance was arguably the best I've seen from the Albion. What was arguably most impressive was the calmness at 0-2 and the ability to still knock the ball around as if they knew that the chances would come. At one stage the 'last five minutes' posession stat was 96%-4% in our favour. Simply wonderful.
– You can talk all you like about going down to 10 men, dead rubber and minds on the Champions League but you can also say with a lot of confidence that the City players didn't want to lose that night – especially not to a #TeamLikeBrighton.

Whilst I basically agree with what you are saying, you nearly torpedo your own arguments by stating that Peter Walton explained and justified them!!

 

[banjo]

Dirty *******.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Ha ha **** em

 

[Mancgull]

Gundogan booked for a very similar challenge to the one on him by Ali J.
City have definitely been second best on this showing. If anything Chelsea should be ahead by more.

 

[Berty23]

Gundogan booked for a very similar challenge to the one on him by Ali J.
City have definitely been second best on this showing. If anything Chelsea should be ahead by more.

It was far worse imho. His studs were up. Iranian Ronaldo’s were not.

 

[Since1982]

Gundogan booked for a very similar challenge to the one on him by Ali J.
City have definitely been second best on this showing. If anything Chelsea should be ahead by more.

Was surprised to see him playing. I thought he was fatally injured by Ali J at The Amex, at least that’s what the City fans seemed to think.

 

[lawros left foot]

Rudiger will be taken to a place of lawful execution where he will be hung by the neck for taking out DeBruyne.

 

[Mackenzie]

Oh well I expect they’ll take it with good grace, like they usually do.

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

LOL.

Sadly they will sign Haaland and/or Kane to make up for tonight's debacle. Still funny though.

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