[Albion] City fans reaction

[rippleman]

Given that both clubs in the CL final instigated the breakaway league, how about we just boycott the CL final? Give it a swerve.

If all genuine football fans refused to watch, BT Sport and their advertisers would not be very happy at all.

I appreciate it won't happen, but that would be a telling way to get the message across.

 

[Bodian]

The thing that really brings home their sense of entitlement is all their comments about 10-days before the CL final. It's as though they consider that we are obliged to take it easy on them, because they have a 'bigger' game coming up next week.

 

[Bodian]

Would someone be kind enough to do the sums:
What has their 83 points cost them to buy - £££ per point - using most recent squad cost / value
And then compare that with our 41 points / squad value to calculate how much each point has cost us

Ah - but reading that twitter account linked to above (still there by the way), you'd have to take into account all the monies we're seemingly putting the way of officials to get our points...!

 

[sydney]

For those of you who've missed the binfest in the Guardian comments section in the last 36 hours or so...

swings and roundabouts apparently ....we can put a 16,000 tonne structure in space , hurtling round the world at 17.000 miles an hour . supporting 6 or 7 lives at a a time not including monkeys .....but we can't seem to get a referee or a var system that can homogenise the thinking of thousands of football fans ....such is life .....youre telling me that dunk and cancelo were worth a red but benteke wasn't .....prrrrffffftttt......

 

[Insel affe]

Given that both clubs in the CL final instigated the breakaway league, how about we just boycott the CL final? Give it a swerve.

If all genuine football fans refused to watch, BT Sport and their advertisers would not be very happy at all.

I appreciate it won't happen, but that would be a telling way to get the message across.

i genuinely had a soft spot for City, as I lived in Rusholme during the late 80s and, City fans from back then seemed a fair bunch of supporters.
However the generations have changed, half of the keyboard warriors and most voracious messages probably come from young kids, folks that don't remember their struggles or simply don't even live in Manchester or possibly the country.

I would not read too much into the vitriol, we know the press, and social media fuel biased opinions.....

Let it roll, one day their world will come crashing down, no great dynasty lasts forever, on that day you can step over their crest fallen bodies as they reach out a desperate hand for help....

That is when, you look them in the eye, tut, shake your head and kick them with a pair of steel toe cap boots.

 

[Hotchilidog]

The thing that really brings home their sense of entitlement is all their comments about 10-days before the CL final. It's as though they consider that we are obliged to take it easy on them, because they have a 'bigger' game coming up next week.

This sums up the ESL mentality, that is all about them.

Even though they would vehemently deny it, those City fans and indeed the Manchester press have failed to realise that world does not revolve around them, and that (particularly now) we could not give a stuff about their 'big game coming up.' Obnoxious arrogance, that expects us to put their interests above ours. Whilst the extra £2-6m we can earn by getting as high as we can in the league is actually a pretty big deal to us, to them it's pocket change to be dismissed out of hand.

 

[GT49er]

Given that both clubs in the CL final instigated the breakaway league, how about we just boycott the CL final? Give it a swerve.

If all genuine football fans refused to watch, BT Sport and their advertisers would not be very happy at all.

I appreciate it won't happen, but that would be a telling way to get the message across.

Wasn't planning on watching it anyway!

 

[rippleman]

I'm just wondering if Tuesday night saw the advent of the future of the game. Handicap Football!

The game was very exciting and extremely close. Why? Mostly because we had 11 and they had 10. So here's the plan:--

If you are a small #teamslikebrighton who have limited funds, have a reasonable wage cap, bring players through the academy then you get to field 11 players.

If you are owned by a country with unlimited billions of dollars in oil money and pay stupid transfer fees and pay the players many hundreds of pounds a week then you only get to play with 10.

Many more competetive & exciting games.

Works with horseracing

 

[Insel affe]

Works with horseracing

really, I can't say I recall seeing a three legged horse from Dubai race against a horse with four legs from Atherton on tv !

 

[rippleman]

really, I can't say I recall seeing a three legged horse from Dubai race against a horse with four legs from Atherton on tv !

I knew there would be one

 

[Any1aBlue]

City fans are entitled tossers. Looking at the Manchester evening news, it seems even 'respected' journalists are in on the act. All moans and groans about a match that they simultaneously can't bear to have lost but which was also completely unimportant. No one mentioned the definite penalty for hand ball that we were denied. There is a reason i was one of the few booing as we did a guard of honour. They exemplify everything that is wrong with football. They even make Leeds fans seem good. I will be happy if they leave to play in their own crappy league but preferably hope their owners sell up and they go the way of poor old Pompey, never to return to the sunny uplands of the PL.

Ironic that you should refer to City fans as ‘entitled tossers’ (how many have you actually met?) and then proceed to childishly whine on about how you booed the guard of honour, want them kicked out of football and decisions against Brighton.

When in fact, you wouldn’t be seeing your team play ‘good football’ these days, had it not been for Fraudiola /City changing the way the game (football) is played.

City aren’t ‘dirty’, they don’t cheat, they allow other teams to play, they’re not arrogant (nor are the fans), they’re humble in victory and most of the time gracious in defeat. It’s jealousy that spurs this nonsense you’re peddling.
As for the Petroclub crap - are you seriously saying you personally don’t use the stuff? If your going to be so self righteous, you need to take a good look at your own owners background and the fact that I’ve heard rumours today of an FA investigation into betting irregularities associated with the officiating of the game. If you ask a Lincoln City fan -they’d be jealous Brighton at the moment because you’ve got more money - and you’re not the least bit concerned how your owner came by it - ARE YOU?

I did see the handball by City player, and we called it as a penalty - Atwell and Moss didn’t, they were as wrong about that as most of the decisions they made that evening, and mere incompetence doesn’t cover it IMO- and that’s a problem for ALL supporters.

The Moss/Atwell combo has been mired in controversy before and Atwell was removed from officiating premier league games for X9 years for exactly this stuff.

I previously enjoyed my time visiting your club, and entertaining your away fans at our place - but prats like you and others in this thread have completely changed the way we think of your club. I think you’ll notice that next season.
As it happens, your manager has already issued a public apology to MCFC staff for the behavior of the club that night........

 

[vagabond]

[tweet]1394925498166218756[/tweet]

 

[Hampster Gull]

[tweet]1394925498166218756[/tweet]

 

[A mex eyecan]

[tweet]1394925498166218756[/tweet]

 

[Bodian]

We conceded 13 fouls, they conceded 11. Apart from the Ali J incident, were there really any 'hard' tackles to justify this 'kicking them off the park' theme?? Can't see it mentioned in reports anywhere.....

 

[Brok]

[tweet]1394925498166218756[/tweet]

****.

 

[Brok]

Again...

 

[*Gullsworth*]

[tweet]1394925498166218756[/tweet]

Do they REALLY think we care about their champions league aspirations? What lemons!

 

[monty uk]

Do they REALLY think we care about their champions league aspirations? What lemons!

Laporte + Webster >>> payback

 

[redoubtable seagull]

Never realised these Mancs were such a bunch of bitter whinge bags. Seen a lot comments online similar to this.

Do they really think a player like Ali J deliberately set out to injure Gunogan? It beggars belief. Yes it was a bad tackle, he was too slow, and it is feasible that if the Complete and Utter Shyster was in charge it would have been a red. But he is not a vindictive player.

It really is quite funny how hot under the colour and passionate some of their fans have been about this yet when they won the league the other week the sense of excitement outside their ground when the media were there was laughable. A bloke and his dog, a bloke and his kid and a bloke waving around a blue flair was all I saw whenever a news report was being broadcast.

No wonder a lot of established PL teams fans think them a joke.