[Albion] Man City forum

[jimhigham]

Off topic really but you have to give credit to Sterling. Not for his actual performance but for his humble post match comments acknowledging the part we played in the game and also for his buying of tickets for local school children to attend. He’s increasingly giving the finger to the press and their previous portrayal of him as a bad lad. Respect.

 

[NooBHA]

Would Sterling suit our style though?

LOL. Good point. He would have to bulk up to defend when Hudson Odoi comes to the Amex

 

[Pevenseagull]

I had a read of that too. Do you remember when City fans were down to earth, through thick and thin types? When did they get replaced by these insufferably entitled dullards? Nothing but abuse for us because we didn't just roll over and let their team of FFP-cheating Galacticos humiliate us. They even accuse us of being dirty when they committed twice as many fouls* and should have had a player sent off.

There's not a lot of self awareness there is there? If one team is allowed to be funded by oil money to the point where they can buy full backs that cost more than other teams' stadiums, it's not very surprising that the resulting matches are not a spectacle of Corinthian endeavour is it? If one team buys success at such a level that others can't compete it's also not surprising that even their own fans don't want to bother to go and watch is it?

Our team turned up today. They were hard working, well drilled and committed. They gave their all against overwhelming odds and pushed it close.
Brighton's fans also turned up and gave the match an atmosphere worthy of the occasion. City fans have to admit that they did not play their part. Those that did bother to come made very little noise. They must all be asking themselves what the point of all this success is. They don't seem to having anywhere near as much fun as they did when they watched Shaun Goater lift them through the lower divisions.

I think it would do them a favour if we ground out a result at the Amex that hands the title to Liverpool. They might start to remember that football is about heartbreak and joy in equal parts. Anyone who had to watch the Harlem Globetrotters week after week, month after month, year after year and didn't eventually want the Washington Generals to win a game would be a borderline psychopath.... or Tim Lovejoy.

* - (Even if we discount all the 'fouls' that Glenn bought on the half way line, they still committed more than us).

That, that right there .....is beautifully put.

 

[trueblue]

The same sense of entitlement I suppose as a team of superstars who surround and berate the ref when he gives a corner against them. How dare he? Not a penalty... a corner...

 

[LVGull]

Somebody would probably have to explain to them who Shaun Goater was too (along with the concept of 'Manchester City playing in the third tier of English football').

Feed the goat and the goat will score.

 

[Seasider78]

Post game yesterday there were a staggering amount of city fans goading Brighton fans which was just plain odd. Guess it showed we got under their self entitled skins. Complete lack of class or recognition of how close we ran their billion pound squad.

Not even selling out your own ground when you have the best squad in your history is bad enough but not selling out a semi final at Wembley is unforgivable. No wonder united lean towards Liverpool as their rivals

 

[Return of the Rev]

Last time I saw city at Wembley they got done in the league Cup final 1974 by Wolves. They were nobs then too.

 

[Bodian]

Bizarre set of comments on there. I drove there and back with a City fan (5 hours each way, so we had plenty of chat time). He's a 'proper' City fan - i:e: went through the bad times. He had nothing bad to say about the ref, our players - no mention of diving (not even in a jokey fashion), and said that all around him were convinced that Walker was going to be sent off. The comments were all along the lines of 'why has he done that, he's off'. So - how they then can say the ref was one-sided is quite amazing.

There was one tackle where their players protested that Ali J dived, and Murray got a few more free-kicks for the shoves in his back than he has been doing - but I simply can't think of any other occasions where the City players moaned much, or where we looked dirty or cheats.

Very disappointing to read.

 

[Barry Izbak]

Someone should remind them who was MOTM...

The single most ridiculous laughable MOM I have ever seen awarded was at Manchester City last season.
A token award for a retiring player who walked around doing nothing in an exhibition match.
I used to quite like City, because their fans were more grounded than the tourist attraction that is their neighbours.
But when you go there and see it is all really just no different to a manufactured boy band, it is actually a bit sad.

 

[darkwolf666]

Someone should remind them who was MOTM...

Apparently it was a Messi-wannabe

 

[nicko31]

After reading their forum, kind want Liverpool to win the league now.

Really just a small town in Oldham...

 

[Hungry Joe]

They have become the most soulless club in world football, and it seems a fair few of their supporters have have sold their souls too. Got to feel a bit sorry for them really.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Without wanting to raise a dissenting voice, my advice would be don’t bother with other teams’ forums. Sometimes NSC can be fantastic but it’s not unknown for the whole lot of us to get caught up in unintelligent, ranting binfests.

We started off in Harrow yesterday which is where my mate’s hotel was and also some of the designated City pubs. Plenty of them around with decent banter and many wishing us well. I’d suggest the hardcore fans that were in a boozer at 1pm for an evening kick off and the stay at home replica shirters watching on telly and immediately logging on to the internet are two very different sets of fans


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[portlock seagull]

The City fans we met and chatted to in pubs, on train etc were all great company and not a bit like those described on this thread. Proper fans, enjoying the day and not at all arrogant despite the obvious gap in resources. Maybe we just got lucky but I still think City fans are more in tune with the have nots than perhaps fans from the other big clubs.

 

[essbee1]

and the Etihad is one of the most unpleasant and unfriendly places I've been in 21 years away travel.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

And bizarrely neutrals / supporters in general often have a lot of time for ManC.

Perhaps it takes decades for the hatred you see towards Chelsea, Liverpool and ManU, to crystallise?

Can’t say I’m a fan, even less so after yesterday.

I think it’s a lesser of 2 evils at the moment.

If it was united in second I would want them to beat city.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Haven't read the forum. Gonna read it later tomorrow. Based on comments here I could just about guess what it says. In contrast to comments here. I don't want Liverpool to win the league. I love watching this Man City team play. I love watching Raheem Sterling play. He has torn every team to pieces in the league this year including Brighton up at the Etihad. But do you know what also happened in this semi final.

He met his match. The first player all season who gotta the better of him . Bernardo not only matched him defensively but Bernardo was even a bigger threat going forward himself. So I tip my hat off to Bernardo . And I say. Sour Grapes to any City fans who ain't willing to concede that.

Sterling will tear more defenders to pieces before the season is out but Bernardo. That guy if he continues to play like that might be playing alongside him in the future

He was up against Montoya for the majority of the game (he gave him nothing) he switched to Bernardo in the second half. Silva was against Bernardo, he got 'owned' by Bernardo as well.

 

[Sussexscots]

I know fan message boards can lean to the partisan. Blue Moon, however, does seem to be a hotbed of one eyed conspiracy theorists obsessed with the 'Rag/Dipper' media continually spinning and undermining their plucky little club.

For what it's worth, the City fans we spoke to going to and from the game were nothing like that all.

 

[Trevor]

Yes, the City fans that I spoke to my way home were all very generous in their comments

 

[Blue3]

As we wondered back to the coach park defeated but not down after the team gave a great account of themselves when this northan youth walks past with the usal John Wyane wide legged exaggerated swagger ciggy pinched between thumb and first fingers Chavy Burberry baseball cap looking to bravely wind up a group of Brighton fans with little comments under his breath as he passed how brave and intimidating this lone City supported as he passed a group of four pensioners little old ladies chatting away completly oblivious to this youth with his northern swagger bravely goading them when it was all over as the pensioners still oblivious turned to enter the coach park the youth swaggered ever wider in the sure knowledge that he had owned the situation waddled off down the road