Citeh Fans.....

[alcoblade]

Like many on here will have as well. I spent a period of my pre match experience in Central London yesterday, before taking in the atmosphere around Wembley. I've seen a good bit of whinging about the behaviours of our own fans, having witnessed a bit of supidity myself from a minority.. I too have unfortunately had to contribute and have a little whinge.

But the Citeh fans pre match, I can honestly say that it was a pleasure to share a pint with some of the ones I met over in Baker Street.

Whilst The Globe was full of drunken blady-ness, drugs, sex and rock and roll.... The Wetherspoons over the road and just a stones throw away, had somewhat of a more laid back atmosphere. A large percentage of the crowd in Spoons were blades, however a number of City fans were spotted around the place as well.

The pub probably demostrated a side of football that doesn't get the press it deserves. Little clusters of rival fans enjoying a chat, a laugh, a joke and light hearted banter....The blades sang songs and tried to coax songs out of the city lot, it was all in all just a solid footballing atmosphere.

Like i said before however, I had what I can only describe as the pleasure of sharing mid-pint conversation with a mixed age group of City fans. They were actually highly complimentary of us as a team, stating that they see us as more old fashioned and that in the PL, they remembered us giving them some of the toughest games going. They said that we are disciplined and really hard to break down, which our defensive record s shows to be true (whilst perhaps yesterdays scoreline didnt). One of them watched us against Cardiff on TV and said how dangerous we looked attacking, going on to drool about Ndiaye (I know, i was shocked with all the players at their disposal). He was saying how deceptively strong Ndiaye is for a slight build and how if he carries on he will end up at a top european club. One bloke was also saying how it would be nice to have us back in the Premier League and to have more local away matches, as he gets fed up of all the travelling.

I then accidentally insulted an old gentleman with a poorly thought out, drunken question. I obviously didnt mean to insult and my intent was genuine, but he took nark to it

I just asked if he missed being the Old Man City basically.. a proper old fashioned club, playong football at an old fashioned ground....as opposed to the huge, global team that they are now. I mean it's not half bad being a team of global superstars is it? Plying your trade against Europes best all the time etc etc....But as seasoned fans, I wondered if he had any preference....

This was met with a very annoyed "what are you on about, were still city"... blah de blah. Obviously accidentally touched a nerve on that one.

But as a whole I guess the whole davod v goliath thing made for an interesting pre match atmosphere. It was nice to see that they didnt take us for granted and that they respected us as a club and as fans.

You know what, I genuinely hope they go on and win the treble.

We were in the Metro before the match. It was a good atmosphere - Blades massively outnumbering city though.

How expensive have London Wetherspoons become though?

 

[Manchester Our City]

Man City fans ruthlessly trolled by rival fans for their reaction to goal in FA Cup semi-final

'More limbs in my kitchen when the toast pops up' 'I’m not joking when I say this, I genuinely celebrate more when I score on FIFA'

www.givemesport.com

This is not a normal response when your team go 1-0 up in a semi final of the Fa cup. I rember going to main road 3 or 4 times ones in a milk cup or some other cup and losing 4-2 the atmosphere there was one of the best in the country

It is though. As you’ll know from yesterday, some of the numbers get made up by families taking their kids to Wembley on a day out, I suspect they knew exactly what they were doing when they posted that.

No-one would be jumping down five rows, tops off and pitch invading from that section, when it’s a penalty and we’re strong favourites to win the match. If it was a tense game, we were 1-0 down, it would have been different. I also know your end would have been different if you’d scored a penalty and gone 1-0 up, that’s just being honest.

Social media has done some terrible things for Football imo, exaggerated “limbs” for likes being one. Look at any City away match or the South Stand at the Etihad (not the family stand) and you’ll find there’s no lack of passion whatsoever.

 

[SUFC Guy]

I’ve always preferred Blades out of the Sheffield clubs and the PL will be better with you in it.

 

[manxblade]

It is though. As you’ll know from yesterday, some of the numbers get made up by families taking their kids to Wembley on a day out, I suspect they knew exactly what they were doing when they posted that.

No-one would be jumping down five rows, tops off and pitch invading from that section, when it’s a penalty and we’re strong favourites to win the match. If it was a tense game, we were 1-0 down, it would have been different. I also know your end would have been different if you’d scored a penalty and gone 1-0 up, that’s just being honest.

Social media has done some terrible things for Football imo, exaggerated “limbs” for likes being one. Look at any City away match or the South Stand at the Etihad (not the family stand) and you’ll find there’s no lack of passion whatsoever.

All joking aside. How do you find the atmosphere and enjoyment of the day now compared to when you were at main road

 

[shorehamview]

I remember some years ago when City were slipping towards the third tier. The chant of “We hate Wednesday” went up from the Kop, the City fans responded with “We hate Saturdays.” They have a better sense of humour than their neighbours by a long way.

 

[Manchester Our City]

All joking aside. How do you find the atmosphere and enjoyment of the day now compared to when you were at main road

Maine Road was far, far better, but any old ground has an advantage over those built in the last 20 odd years. Saying that, this season I’ve seen Newcastle get a good point off us at SJP, Villa draw with us at VP, Liverpool beat us at Anfield and Spurs beat us at their new ground with super acoustics. All decent results for the home teams but none of the atmosphere’s were any better than at ours. It’s mostly a Premier League thing IMO.

Things like DJ’s and light shows are absolutely painful for most of us who went to Maine Road back in the day, personally I hate that side of it.

It probably does effect atmosphere as you just won’t get limbs against a team when the win is expected, saying that it was bedlam when we got an injury time winner against Fulham earlier in the season, that’s just how it goes. They badly messed up with creating a family stand at one end of the stadium, taking up prime space and it’s noticeable when there’s no atmosphere there. They’re building a massive one tier extension down at that end, so I’m sure it will be reorganised in the next few years. At the other end, the South Stand is decent, when it goes off it properly goes off for atmosphere. I’m expecting Wednesday night v Arsenal should be pretty special.

 

[Overthehills]

We were in the Metro before the match. It was a good atmosphere - Blades massively outnumbering city though.

How expensive have London Wetherspoons become though?

Standard now though isnt it? Wetherpoons or not, its london...

 

[Valley Blade]

With respect mate, that’s nonsense. Pep tried to shake everyone in the club out of complacency for a push in the second half of the season and it worked brilliantly. It was nothing more than him applying his genius and geeing everyone up as we couldn’t afford to drop any points in pursuit of Arsenal.

City’s support is spot on, particularly away from home. The only slight problem I have with being successful is someone always wants to have a dig about something, you get fed up of reading it as most of it is bullshit, but it just gets swallowed up and then repeated and repeated to myth proportions by plastic fans of some (two) of our rivals. I mean there are people out there who genuinely believe we have 10,000 empty seats every game, it’s bullshit, there’s been maybe two games that haven’t sold out this season and again it’s not solely with tourists as social media would have you believe, the hardcore local fans are still there in large numbers (perhaps your old mates excepted). Yesterday is another fine case in point, some would have you believe that we had a few hundred in our end and not close to 35,000, which is a quality following with so many other huge games on the horizon.

Best of luck for the rest of the season - I’ve always preferred Blades out of the Sheffield clubs and the PL will be better with you in it.

Absolutely spot on. Manchester City's support in terms of loyalty is incredible. A test of this is to look at crowds in the early eighties. Most were terrible. City's were often higher than most, even in a division below. But the biggest compliment is the fact that there rivals are Man Utd, probably one of the best clubs in the world and serial winners. Imagiine having them as your neighbours! Yet they've never failed to turn up in huge numbers.

 

[Frank the tank]

I've always rated citehs support in the highest regard
In the time before billionaire owners citehs and Chelsea were the two that always struck me as proper hard-core fans ,strong in number ,loyal and vocal
I don't know if that's still true now and am not really arsed either

 

[Carlton Blade]

With respect mate, that’s nonsense. Pep tried to shake everyone in the club out of complacency for a push in the second half of the season and it worked brilliantly. It was nothing more than him applying his genius and geeing everyone up as we couldn’t afford to drop any points in pursuit of Arsenal.

City’s support is spot on, particularly away from home. The only slight problem I have with being successful is someone always wants to have a dig about something, you get fed up of reading it as most of it is bullshit, but it just gets swallowed up and then repeated and repeated to myth proportions by plastic fans of some (two) of our rivals. I mean there are people out there who genuinely believe we have 10,000 empty seats every game, it’s bullshit, there’s been maybe two games that haven’t sold out this season and again it’s not solely with tourists as social media would have you believe, the hardcore local fans are still there in large numbers (perhaps your old mates excepted). Yesterday is another fine case in point, some would have you believe that we had a few hundred in our end and not close to 35,000, which is a quality following with so many other huge games on the horizon.

Best of luck for the rest of the season - I’ve always preferred Blades out of the Sheffield clubs and the PL will be better with you in it.

There’s a sense of entitlement that comes with winning 20 games a season by 3 goals that must remove a large element of the stress and nerves that comes with supporting a normal team though surely?

Yesterday was how many not if, like about 90% of all City games (Not just City, Liverpools away support was dreadful in 2019 when they were flying).

There’s never been this much disparity between one club and almost everyone else. We are 20 league places behind and closer to Wrexham in terms of quality than City. I have no idea how you are supposed to react as a supporter in those circumstances

You’ve got numbers but it’s a lot of tourists

 

[Slug]

Had decent, knowledgeable chats with a few different City fans in the boozer in Watford beforehand.

That was followed by the train journey in to Wembley where there were City fans singing "Mind the gap, mind the gap Man Utd.." - absolutely pissed themselves when after they had finished, I immediately started "Mind the gap, mind the gap Sheffield Wednesday.." The City fans then joined in and carried on singing it themselves for a good while after!
Great craic and I'm fully aware this sounds like a story a pig would make up in his head if they ever manage to get to Wembley but it genuinely happened

 

[Manchester Our City]

There’s a sense of entitlement that comes with winning 20 games a season by 3 goals that must remove a large element of the stress and nerves that comes with supporting a normal team though surely?

Yesterday was how many not if, like about 90% of all City games (Not just City, Liverpools away support was dreadful in 2019 when they were flying).

There’s never been this much disparity between one club and almost everyone else. We are 20 league places behind and closer to Wrexham in terms of quality than City. I have no idea how you are supposed to react as a supporter in those circumstances

You’ve got numbers but it’s a lot of tourists

I agree to an extent, there probably is entitlement when you put it like that, but it’s almost impossible to avoid becoming that way. I don’t think we have big headed sneering c*nts in our fanbase like a couple of clubs most of us hate. Any away game the entitlement isn’t there and I’d put our away fans up with any in the country.

Tourists - yes they are there, but nowhere near to the extent of United and Liverpool. That’s why they’ll always sell out Wembley. The club encourage tourists and actively sell to agencies and as part of flimsy corporate packages as it’s all about growing the fan base for them. Pretty frustrating when it comes to matches like Arsenal. It’s been sold out for six months, and any tickets returned on ticket exchange I’m pretty sure being sold with a meal in Manchester and the ticket prices inflated to 400 or 500 quid.

Not that I’m moaning - I’d have to be a prick to do that, we struck it lucky massively with what’s happened in the last 15 years everyone knows that.

 

[Carlton Blade]

I agree to an extent, there probably is entitlement when you put it like that, but it’s almost impossible to avoid becoming that way. I don’t think we have big headed sneering c*nts in our fanbase like a couple of clubs most of us hate. Any away game the entitlement isn’t there and I’d put our away fans up with any in the country.

Tourists - yes they are there, but nowhere near to the extent of United and Liverpool. That’s why they’ll always sell out Wembley. The club encourage tourists and actively sell to agencies and as part of flimsy corporate packages as it’s all about growing the fan base for them. Pretty frustrating when it comes to matches like Arsenal. It’s been sold out for six months, and any tickets returned on ticket exchange I’m pretty sure being sold with a meal in Manchester and the ticket prices inflated to 400 or 500 quid.

Not that I’m moaning - I’d have to be a prick to do that, we struck it lucky massively with what’s happened in the last 15 years everyone knows that.

Wasn't slagging City fans off. It's why I said I have no idea how you support a team like that. So many games like yesterday when it's just damage limitation. How do you get up for that?

 

[Gimli]

There’s a lot of snobbery from Man U, Liverpool
and Arsenal fans (mainly) about City and a perception that because they had a multi billionaire takeover that City aren’t ‘deserving’ of being an elite club. This often manifests itself with taking digs at attendances like we saw after yesterday or things like ‘the Emptyhad’ (great banter…)

This is all out of jealously of course - much like why our piggy neighbours try to talk about attendances to us, it’s all they have left! Of course in Wednesdays case, they don’t even have that, unless you count ‘highest average away attendance’

Will always prefer City to the ‘establishment’ clubs like Man U and Arsenal. Not that I expect any city fan would give a shit, but there we go

 

[JJBlade]

With respect mate, that’s nonsense. Pep tried to shake everyone in the club out of complacency for a push in the second half of the season and it worked brilliantly. It was nothing more than him applying his genius and geeing everyone up as we couldn’t afford to drop any points in pursuit of Arsenal.

City’s support is spot on, particularly away from home. The only slight problem I have with being successful is someone always wants to have a dig about something, you get fed up of reading it as most of it is bullshit, but it just gets swallowed up and then repeated and repeated to myth proportions by plastic fans of some (two) of our rivals. I mean there are people out there who genuinely believe we have 10,000 empty seats every game, it’s bullshit, there’s been maybe two games that haven’t sold out this season and again it’s not solely with tourists as social media would have you believe, the hardcore local fans are still there in large numbers (perhaps your old mates excepted). Yesterday is another fine case in point, some would have you believe that we had a few hundred in our end and not close to 35,000, which is a quality following with so many other huge games on the horizon.

Best of luck for the rest of the season - I’ve always preferred Blades out of the Sheffield clubs and the PL will be better with you in it.

I don't begrudge you any success that comes your way mate.
Unfortunately it will never happen here because Sheffield itself won't allow it.

It's why it doesn't happen, I'm sure a club like ours has had initial interest from somebody, but after doing their research and realising they'd be up against Sheffield City Council (Sorry Sheffield Karl Marx And Trotskyite Appreciation Society) they run a mile

 

[Nelson1889]

I don't understand all this jealousy that comes from other clubs for city. For some of the shit they've been through in the past they deserve the success they've got now.

And the shit about their support is a nonsense. They always brought a great following to the lane back in the hard times, regularly sold out both tiers on the away end and always made a decent racket.

I just wish we had their bloody money

 

[Cappy]

Anyone who went to Maine Road as an away fan will happily buy all the petrol and suffer all the oppression required to pay our gratitude for the Etihad facilities. Fuck me, that place was awful. That little bastard stand in the corner in the sleet . Thanks for that

 

[Manchester Our City]

Anyone who went to Maine Road as an away fan will happily buy all the petrol and suffer all the oppression required to pay our gratitude for the Etihad facilities. Fuck me, that place was awful. That little bastard stand in the corner in the sleet . Thanks for that

The Gene Kelly!

 

[Shirty Blade]

Surely you miss standing on the Kippax, or sitting in that stand with the semi circular tube roof, Malcolm Allison's fur coats or listening to that lady who rang that bell when City attacked?

 

[Jolly Buffer]

With respect mate, that’s nonsense. Pep tried to shake everyone in the club out of complacency for a push in the second half of the season and it worked brilliantly. It was nothing more than him applying his genius and geeing everyone up as we couldn’t afford to drop any points in pursuit of Arsenal.

City’s support is spot on, particularly away from home. The only slight problem I have with being successful is someone always wants to have a dig about something, you get fed up of reading it as most of it is bullshit, but it just gets swallowed up and then repeated and repeated to myth proportions by plastic fans of some (two) of our rivals. I mean there are people out there who genuinely believe we have 10,000 empty seats every game, it’s bullshit, there’s been maybe two games that haven’t sold out this season and again it’s not solely with tourists as social media would have you believe, the hardcore local fans are still there in large numbers (perhaps your old mates excepted). Yesterday is another fine case in point, some would have you believe that we had a few hundred in our end and not close to 35,000, which is a quality following with so many other huge games on the horizon.

Best of luck for the rest of the season - I’ve always preferred Blades out of the Sheffield clubs and the PL will be better with you in it.

"Best of luck for the rest of the season - I’ve always preferred Blades out of the Sheffield clubs and the PL will be better with you in it."

Mate you do realize with that last comment you've caused chaos at the call centre for the Sheffield branch of the Samaritans tonight? There's thousands of Wendy fans on the phone lines experiencing distress and mental breakdown!.

Do you not know that for many years they have compared themselves with Man City? In fact they are so strongly linked with you that at the Etihad they actually have a Man City Sheffield Wednesday Supporters Club? (Man City Owls) Have you not seen the amount of City fans that support Wendy more than they do City?

I met a few older city fans yesterday and I tried to chat about the old days when you had players' like Marsh, Franny Lee, Joe Corrigan etc but every city fan just wanted to talk about Wendy's attendances and show me their Chris Waddle tattoos.

Anyway, when can we have our Kyle back?

 

[Gimli]

"Best of luck for the rest of the season - I’ve always preferred Blades out of the Sheffield clubs and the PL will be better with you in it."

Mate you do realize with that last comment you've caused chaos at the call centre for the Sheffield branch of the Samaritans tonight? There's thousands of Wendy fans on the phone lines experiencing distress and mental breakdown!.

Do you not know that for many years they have compared themselves with Man City? In fact they are so strongly linked with you that at the Etihad they actually have a Man City Sheffield Wednesday Supporters Club? (Man City Owls) Have you not seen the amount of City fans that support Wendy more than they do City?

I met a few older city fans yesterday and I tried to chat about the old days when you had players' like Marsh, Franny Lee, Joe Corrigan etc but every city fan just wanted to talk about Wendy's attendances and show me their Chris Waddle tattoos.

Anyway, when can we have our Kyle back?

…from a Man City fan

 

[sitwell]

Thought City fans were sound, Arsenal on Friday were nobheads though, didnt help that we were cheering Southampton on in Angel but their team were playing literally a mile away. Should have been at the game.

 

[Torrix1889]

I don't think any blades should be slagging anyone off for being entitled with the way our fan base has been carrying on this season

Strange comment. I don't think "Sheffield United fan" and "entitled" have ever been in the same sentence, we usually leave that kind of behaviour to our Porcine neighbours....

 

[YoungBlade31]

We’re getting heavily mocked online for the amount of empty seats we had

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Say what you like about Man City and their fans, I just couldn’t imagine having the same good natured banter and level headed discussions with the other set of Mancs.

 

[Cheesebored]

We’re getting heavily mocked online for the amount of empty seats we had

 

[blueandy1mac]

Met lots of groups of blades during the lengthy pub crawl to Wembley and very pleased to say every single one was a pleasure. Without exception all happy for the day out and experience and quite sensibly accepting of the fact this was 2nd to your main challenge of regaining Prem status.
Some really good posts on here, nice not to have the bitter trolls we usually seem to attract. Good luck, you don't need it, in the remaining league games. Look after our two boys (they've benefitted tremendously) and we'll see you next season.
Thanks for a good day.

 

[Bladesman]

Strange comment. I don't think "Sheffield United fan" and "entitled" have ever been in the same sentence, we usually leave that kind of behaviour to our Porcine neighbours....

You should sit near me on the South Stand. If we are not 3 up within 15 minutes it's "SORT IT AHHHT HECKY!! FUCKIN USELESS!"

 

[Davalon]

Yet again this morning City fans pretending they sold out and our take up of tickets was poor.

Exhibit A mi lud

 

[Torrix1889]

Yet again this morning City fans pretending they sold out and our take up of tickets was poor.

Exhibit A mi lud

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Don't get drawn in to attendances.....leave that to the scrubbers down the road....we sold what we did, we had a good day out, leave it at that...

we will be packed at BDTBL on Wednesday and that's all that matters....