When the advertising campaign was launched in town, I wasn’t alone in pointing out how small time it was for City to attempt to wind up United fans. Had a fan got out a pot of sky blue paint and made the same point you would have to applaud them for it. But for a football club to sink to such behaviour highlights more strongly than ever just how small time Manchester City is.
MCFC employed a London based advertising agency, Grey London, to come up with the slogans to get under the red half of Manchester’s skin. This is the company that does the advertising for Hugo Boss, Flash, Samsung, Pringles, Toshiba, Bold, Febreze and Fairy Liquid, amongst others, so would have cost an arm and leg. Apparently they can’t put a price on trying to wind up United fans though, sadly.
‘There’s only one team in Manchester!” is a favourite bluenose retort. Either denial or ignorance prevents them from acknowledging that Manchester United were given their name as a club from Newton Heath, before moving five miles to Old Trafford. City themselves have moved a similar distance from the crack den that is Moss Side to the Wastelands they now call their home. What a waste of council tax.
City don’t have any advertising boards for Adebayor, Santa Cruz or Barry, just their £25m striker who scored five league goals last season. The only player they have “advertised” is Tevez, using a picture of him joyfully running towards United fans, who he claims he will always love. They seriously forked out thousands of quid just to try and wind us up. I really struggle to think of such small-club mentality shown before. Sir Alex agrees.
“It’s City isn’t it? They are a small club with a small mentality,” Ferguson laughed. “All they can talk about is Manchester United, they can’t get away from it. That arrogance will be rewarded. It is a go at us, that’s the one thing it is. They think taking Carlos Tevez away from Manchester United is a triumph. It is poor stuff.”
If City are so small, why is Ferguson talking about them? It’s not rocket science. In China, Fergie was asked what he thought of the advertising boards. Him answering that question doesn’t make him scared, it doesn’t make him obsessed and it doesn’t make him paranoid. I know that seems fairly obvious but with the deluded bitters we’re about to see infiltrate camp, some things do need to be spelt out.
Ferguson admitted this week that Tevez wasn’t worth the £25m being asked, given he scored just 15 goals from 51 games for the best team in England, but offered the money because the fans had formed a bond with him. So we thought. Whilst Tevez still claims to love us (something I imagine City fans will do their best to pretend hasn’t been said) that bond has well and truly been shattered.
City fans claim that “proper Mancs” support City. It’s funny. When United and City are playing at the same time, which game do the pubs show? If they were honest enough, they would admit their boss/girlfriend/cousin/work mate/uncle are reds… but they prefer to remain in their deluded bubble. Stockport is blue, Manchester is red.
Given that I have a few mates from the local that are blues, I’m not going to tear a strip off them. Sensible blues know they’ve paid well over the odds for all their players and know that they’re mercenary bastards. Sensible blues admit they were chanting Mark Hughes was a “Munich bastard” before it kicked off against Everton last season. Sensible blues know that United are probably going to win the league. Sensible blues don’t have 1958 as their pin number.
Sadly, there are enough bitter blues to make us forget about the reasonable ones, who sit with us during Cup final days and hope we beat the cockney/German/Spanish opponents. To the sensible blues, best of luck next season. To the bitters, I join Sir Alex in pitying you. Talking about City means we are levelled with criticisms of being “obsessed” or “scared”. Truth is, we’re football fans who love banter, who enjoy having a laugh, and can’t resist poking fun at the smaller team in Manchester, who are so obsessed with United they bring out an advertising campaign to prove it.
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I hope he keeps laughing as he will look even more stupid as City grow and grow
Hear hear
Ahmen to that
City are not a small club, Theyre MASSIVE.
Nice to see there’s already 3 of them coming and checking out our blog, but they’re not obsessed you know, ooh no.
And dctid66
As Scott did point out, if you’d actually bothered to read the article you then chose to comment on, if it was FANS, then fair enough, but IT’S THE CLUB!!! How often does Manchester United Football Club point out City’s lack of success? Never, in fact, as a club we hardly ever mention you, of course we are now as every journalist in the country is asking SAF about you at every press conference, but other than the last 12 months we, the club, concentrate on Chelsea, Liverpool, and Barcelona. Of course we, the fans, go on about you, that’s because we’re fans and you’re our rivals. Can you see the difference between things the CLUB does and things the FANS do?
Moron.
mee oow. chuckle brothers, to me to you……! if city have a small club mentality why is saf responding? frankly i laugh because city have always been a club who have been the butt end of jokes, they haven’t won anything yet but the majority of fans (mostly top 4 sides) are queing up to pan em. are people really worried by the threat of the sky blues? RSVP?
City has a small time mentality? They are really a small club so of course they have small club mentality. You put a great point Scott, when fans try to wind up each other, it in good laugh, but when the clubs official stance is winding us up, then it’s just pathetic. I bet even their board meetings are centered on Man Utd more then on their shity club. Will be a great lose for the football, if that bunch of mercenary cunts achieve anything.
It always amazes me how many rival fans come on to a Manchester United blog.
Haven’t you got your own blog to make more constructive comments on?!
Only very stupid football supporters care what other supporters think.
We’ll do our talking on the pitch, losers, see you then.
Billy Meredith may have played for both, but the family line behind him only followed one. Manchester United. Trust me I know.
Small club, small mentality. Can we put that ina banner somewhere next to the clock?
Good post. Spot on. Also, Orez – great point too. When the club officially reflects the small mindedness of their fans you know the whole thing is a house of cards.
See they’ve agreed to sign Toure on a ‘double your money deal’, but he’s not going there for the money of course, no, I bet he always dreamed of playing for Manchester City, growing up in Africa watching Dickov, Kernaghan, Creaney, and McGoldrik and wishing ‘one day, maybe one day’.
Love how City fans reckon these players are coming to win things, yet the club have to offer them all twice as much as any other club would.
Lol city fans are giving it all the big one they dont reliase that all they have bought are rejects from the top clubs they cant even beat pirates and kaiser chiefs lol what a laughing stock city are
Do City really think they will be able to eclipse United’s trophy haul before the Arabs lose interest? Roman’s already bored of Chelsea and he won back to back titles. If money is the sure-fire route to success I guess Portsmouth are now contenders. As the EPL grows in India there will be more billionaire owners..
I wouldn’t judge them on friendlies, but they fail to realise one of the oldest rules in football. That most of the time, it’s the shirt that makes the player, not the other way around. Love them or hate them, Liverpool are a big club. They won the Ch. League with a squad of players that would have failed to finish at the top 6 with City. The City shirt can not inspire a player to raise his game. And why would they? Especially with the gueranteed fat contracts that they have?
Fergie…sign him up
Ferguson showed he is not immune to the jibes by saying: “The billboard? It’s City isn’t it?
“They are a small club, with a small mentality.
550,000,000,000……Owen?
great article
Awww come on, what do you expect lol? Man Pity according to their short lived ex manager Mr Sven Goran Ericsson have as their one and ONLY main ambition, to beat Manchester United home and away. Thats why we have the trophies in our cabinet so far, because our ambition ir far wider. Sven said he was told by the club and City fans when he arrived, just beat Man United home and away, and we will be satisfied – haha – SMALLMINDED indeed!
Adebayor was that desperate NOT to go to city that he was offered to United and Chelsea.
City are MASSIVE!!! The only way yous can get into the news papers is off Uniteds back!! You bitter bluenose bastards are just as deluded as the rat munchers!! You constantly talk about us and make fools of yourselves by becoming too big for your boots and thinking that we are running scared of you’s!! The only thing i am scared off is going into shock to see the council house full when we come to play you’s but you’s only come to see United anyway!!
Did you hear about the woman that goes to the doctor’s begging desperately for help!
She explains that her fanny has started talking. She pulls down her knickers and her fanny whispers, “Man City are gonna win the Premiership.”
The doctor replies, “I’m afraid we’re in the middle of an epidemic. Lots of cunts have started talking like this!”
But thank you bluenoses, i thought when newcastle went down i wouldnt have a team to laugh at!!
City are shit and thats a fact!!! 34 years and counting!!
Small time? Well it’s obviously got you lot wound up, despite the fact that you’re all ‘not bothered’ as we’re ‘small time’. Bitterest article I’ve read in a long time!!
And just for the record, we only bother with crap like this when it’s linked to from NewsNow’s Man City page!
And what’s Newton Heath got to do with anything? When you left there you left Manchester (99 years ago!), only you decided to take the name of our city to use for your benefit. Stretford United hardly has the same ring, does it?
And since when does what a pub show on the telly determine a fanbase? If you bothered to do proper research, like Manchester University did, you’d realise that Manchester itself (not counting Stockport or all of the ‘M’ postcodes of Salford and Trafford) is roughly evenly split between red and blue.
Personally, I think the poster is amusing. And everyone apart from you lot seems to agree, but then you ‘d need a sense of humour to appreciate it! Something that’s all too lacking in United fans. City fans, on the other hand, have had little to shout about for 34 years. Yet we still get attendances of around 45,000! And we never lose our humour!
And who cares what the poster cost? The club can afford it, so expect more!
Hmmmm Fergie said Tevez was not worth 25mill, yet your chief exec said before we bought him that Untied had offered 25mill…….. someone is fibbing….. the fact that you feel the need to even comment on this shows who is really worried, yes UNtied will win the league this year, and yes at the moment you are the better team……….. BUT…… your club’s fantastic turnover is funding your debt. Our owner has taken the debt not the club, so please continue to pay your council rates as that helps to pay for our ground, and who iknows maybe one day we may finish above you in the league
“34 years?” Soon enough you’ll be supporting the BLUE side of Manchester, you ignorant fool (I would use more appropriate language but no doubt Im pushing the boundaries of ‘acceptable commentary’ already….) I wonder if this will be published..? “WELCOME TO MANCHESTER, TEVEZ”.
thats an interesting topic…what happens if the Arabs lose interest? City have made themselves completely dependent on their Arab sugar daddy and when they up and leave, they will find themselves completely unsustainable.
what a great day that will be
Russ, you can grow till you explode – which you inevitably will sometime back into the damp squib you really are – but you’ll never ever overtake United. You can’t buy meaningful legendary status.
United have it and it’s toooo late for you lot to get it beyond the excitable but small thoughts zig-zagging through your small minds.
Are City doomed to be forever a smaller club than United? I mean to say, was Jim Rockford ever involved in a car chase?
Man City fans still here for debate? LOL They had so much time and space in them to come up with ways to look big and do stuff that looks stupid that a 3 year old kids would come out with. So shameful even kaka didn’t went there. So what if few years later this club grew? All those are from a bunch of people with a lot of money not sure where to spend and didn’t realize there is charities where MJ donated so much amount of money to them.
not only adebeyor every other player is playing for money in that club.
we united dont need to bother abt city they are nothing in front of our team.
but citys emergence is making premier league way good and tougher than other league.
i was laughing wen ron said that spanish league is the best, how crazy there only 2 clubs fight for trophy in which one(real) is a stupid team.
so for me barca are the only good team in spanish.
Here there are 4 or some will say 5. u know which some i am saying.
but even if there are 20 gr8 teams united will still win.
dats the bottomline bcose united are the best.
The truth hurts eh red boys and girls.
Fact 1: Old Trafford is in…erm,TRAFFORD.
Fact 2: Manyoo haven’t ‘played’ in Manchester for 99 years.
Fact 3: Your club is in debt to the tune of £700million.
Fact 4: Our club is the richest in the world.
Fact 5: Our club is on the ascent and Sir Baconface is running scared.
Enjoy little Mickey Owen lol
lets all join fergie.ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.infact city shud thank us for keeping the pride of manchester intact by winning trophies and being so popular.despite so many london clubs it is manchester that rules england .the red half u see nt the blue one.
It amuses me when City fans start to say we are worried about them when we make the slightest comments about them. Its like when an ugly dude stares at a beautiful girl on the streets, and when the beauty made the slightest eye contact with this guy, he thinks she likes him, lol.
Yea right, we are worried, after all they share half our name, please don’t make it a laughing stock!
Well citeh have got their share of the sound bytes..lets just ignore them..why care about shit holes..who have no history…And scott please donot give the citreh fans what they are crying for..Attention..Just ignore them as you would ignore a stray dog on the road…Let the dog-catchers (read arabs) take care of them…
Costas said Small club, small mentality. i think this is good idea even if i dont stay in manchester but i think you guys should do this Man.united is loved all over the world man city only in manchester and not all manchester so guys go ahead make big banner and write Small club, small mentality.
I just saw on Sky that Tevez injured himself in the shower and is questionable for the start of the season. Please, please tell me this is true.
Dazjoe love the comments about “dreaming” of playing for City with the likes of McGoldrick, Creaney et al as inspiration! Class!
Cat-alan can you not think of a more original name other than the region of our conquerers in the European Champions League Final? I’ll type this again as this is something you won’t have heard of before….European Champions League Final.
As for being worried about our MASSIVE neighbours…get a grip !
It doesn’t matter if City sign Kaka, Eto’o etc.
We are Manchester United and they will always be City.
That’s enough for me and for 300 mln fans all over the world. Maybe not that much but i don’t care. I don’t support the club because of the trophies and the players. I would never cry if we lose players like Ronaldo every year because we are ManUnited. (c)
Yet another bitter cunt with the mental age of an 8 year old spouts lies and bile.
http://www.manchestercity-mad.co.uk/news/loadsngl.asp?cid=ED13&id=454830
Its a pity mark hughes is now a part of the circus. I used to rate him, but not anymore
@ Russ – the only thing i can see city growing into is a bigger pile of crap.
Not just alex laughing alone,now many people start join him laughing city.The riches club with top world player and with non quality manager.Lost to non famous club is really ashame.HAHAHA…
Sure, big clubs keep their best players and small clubs become selling clubs. What’s it like being a feeder club for Real Madrid and Man City. There is a new pecking order and with 700 million debt thanks to your American owners you can sit safely in the knowledge that in 10 years time you will not be one of the major players in world football. Well that is unless the Glazer’s decide to sell and you get an owner that isn’t trying to rape your club for every profitable penny.
anyone heard from BLUENOSE on this one??
They’ll just be a poor man’s Chelski. A club that tries to buy success only to get stomped on later.
Now I hate the Scousers and I hate Liverpool
They’re fucking shite and United rule
And Chelsea who do you think you are
It’s been 50 long years
It’s gunna end in tears
You’ll never be as big as Man United
Fuck Barcelona and fuck Real Madrid
I’ve loved United since I was a kid
Fuck Bayern Munich and AC Milan
Fuck Deportivo and Vasco De Gam
Fuck Kevin Keegan and fuck Franny Lee
Fuck Steve Macmanaman fuck Man City
Fuck Everton and fuck you Liverpool
Fuck all you Scousers cos Manchester rule
i dont understand how the hell city can compare themselves to united. hell everton villa and spurs are better than city.
u shoul only talk wen u are fully built .
dont think we united fans are jealous of u there is nothing to be jealous of u . i know there are some sensibile city fans who knows deep down there are heart dat we still are poor.
CONCLUSION- THERE IS ONLY ONE MANCHESTER THAT IS MANCHESTER UNITED.
@ hurr
hehe )) good one )) to memorize.
ha ha! What a tool ferguson is. Lost it already and season not even started. He will be on the phone toAllardyce for support as we speak.
Hilarious!!
He should be concentrating on how Barca humbled them infront of millions…..
fergie’s cracking up, he’s cracking up, he’s cracking up….
Welcome to Manchester Carlos!!
Ash, i hope we do mate. But that’s my opinion. Maybe something will be talked over in next week’s friendly.
@Sean, at least we got to play in front of millions. Remind me where i can catch City’s European games next season?
seam that was the champions league final.hve u even ever reached the champions league never mind the final.what was the scre ystrday wen u played the chiefs?
“City fans claim that “proper Mancs” support City. It’s funny. When United and City are playing at the same time, which game do the pubs show? If they were honest enough, they would admit their boss/girlfriend/cousin/work mate/uncle are reds… but they prefer to remain in their deluded bubble. Stockport is blue, Manchester is red.”
Any actual proof to this Big Lad? I can’t recall the last time both teams played at the same time, in the same competition, and both on tv. And if they did, did you do a quick spot check of all pubs?
Really, just face up to the fact that both clubs have fans in the area – that is the simple and easy truth. The fact is that season tickets remain in the suburbs – Sale, Cheadle, Alty, Droylesden, Denton, Walkden, etc, etc – and given then fact that season tickets often get passed on without the club being informed, it isnt an exact science
Really – just get over it and have a holiday. The season is still a month off!
costas.good morning mate.can u telme the source of the silva rumour.if its marca i dnt believe it.they are rubbish
I agree that City has become massive.
Yes, a MASSIVE SHIT.
City are a massive club.
Shame they have won Fuck All in over 34years.
Now leave us in peace you jealous cunts we are too busy polishing our trophies to give a fuck about you.
I couldnt help laugh when I read that the advertising board you put Tevez on was advertising new Tampax pearls the week before. One product suitable for useless cunts to another – You could not make it up!!!!
Morning AIG. Yes, it’s just the Marca at the moment. I think he could help, but i am also puzzled by the fact that no club has even tried to sign him. Maybe something’s up with him.
“He [Rafael Benitez] called them [Everton] a small club which points to his arrogance. They are a big club and David Moyes is doing a great job.”
Alex Ferguson, 17 April 20009
“It’s [Manchester] City isn’t it? They are a small club with a small mentality.”
Alex Ferguson, 26 July 2009
fergies cracking up eh sean just u keep thinking that son, btw wot u doing on here u bitter bluenose cunt? this is the closest u and ur team of merceranies will get to the premiership trophy……..
costas yes you player in front of millions and were made to look totally inept. How embarrassing that the worlds self proclaimed biggest club get a lesson in football like that.
Have you ever been to Manchester?
*played
craigni…on here to have a laugh at you all….Its mildly amusing to see what you hypocrites are writing
sean.evrtn consistently finish in top 5.nt mid table like u inspite of their limited finances.nyways they will finish higher than u dis season too
Everton are not a small club. They haven’t been relegated 2 divisions in the recent era, they have finished in the top 4 and they have won a trophy in the last 34 years! And Everton never felt the need to make posters to make themselves famous off of Liverpool.
City are a small club. Deal with it.
sean.evrtn consistently finish in top 5.nt mid table like u inspite of their limited finances.nyways they will finish higher than u dis season too.u see lpool finish 2 or 3 places ahead of everton.we finish 10 places ahead of u and get double no of points
No Sean. I will be in Manchester for the first time next week. I am from Greece. Does that make me less deserving to be a United fan? And it doesn’t make your club’s “This is our City” point any stronger either.
nah sean all i can see is that u love man utd wot other reason are u here for……
@ sean
Fergies losing it?Oh ya he just led the team to 3 league titles and 2 european cup finals.That surely means he is losing it.Fuck off to where you belong.You guys are a small minded club for sure.You guys have had to live in the shadow of the biggest and most successful club in the country.Your pathetic little excuse for a club is just a play toy in a very rich arab idiots hand.And geuss what??When he loses interest he will throw you back into the oblivion you were before.Most of you guys seem to think you have made it becauce everyone is talking about you.Let me put it this way everyone is talking about “101 ways to make a fool of yourself” which city are demonstrating so well.Delusional cunt you need histroy to compare yourself to the greatest teams in the world.Till then you are just a little whore who has a very rich owner.So go ahead fuck yourself.And ya when that little scar faced bastard comes back to old trafford he is in for a big shock.Oh ya and how does it feel when your star player says he still loves your rival fans???Musy hurt i presume or has 33 years of obscurity left you too thick to get what that implies??
@Sean – You do realise that Wastelands will be converted into Manchesters biggest mosque once your arabian ruler has decided he is bored with his toy and has decided to replace western style decadence with muslim style shariah based faith centres – Welcome to Eastlands – the Mecca facing Stadium mosque.
Salam al eh kum !
costas as for the silva thing i hope he cmes but he wants to stay in spain.we hve a chnce with real and barca nt intrstd.but with villa staying nw silva 2 may decide to stay there.
By the way Sean, the first sign of a small club mentality is trying to use another club’s success as your own. United were humbled in front of millions. But it was by Barcelona if my memory serves me correctly. Were they Man City in disguise? I think not. Try to come up with something your club have done against us.
So you agree you were humbled? A sign of progress then!
I would say thanks to you all for paying for Eastlands but none of you fuckers live anywhere near manchester…..
@AIG: That’s up to debate. Some reports say that Silva would like to stay in Spain and maybe he would like to follow Villa’s example. At the same time, and because Villa wasn’t sold, Valencia need the cash from somewhere. I don’t think anything will happen to be honest. SAF seems to have done his planning with the current squad.
@ costas
dont you remember???They did the double over us a year back!!! what a succesful season for them!!! what could we manage that year???Oh ya a league title and a champions league.
You are out of luck the Sean. Go back to the fuckers you were with last night. I am sure you had a good time.
Fergie is a hypocrite end of story…..
Hughes has got him rattled and cant wait for the derby this year. If Torres can make Vidic / Ferdinand look shite then so can Adebayor / Santa Cruz etc.
Anyone here from Manchester? Quick yes or no will do?
@kshetrajna:
Of course! What a glorious season for City! Capped off with an 8-1 thrashing on the final day while we clinched the title!
@ sean what exactly is your point??We dont live in machester??So fucking what???That just proves how successful the club is …Oh ya your star player Robinho thought he joined Chelsea when you unveiled him…so how did you con him into thinking he signed for chelsea?
Seriously guys, i haven’t laughed so much this whole summer. He is comparing Torres to Santa Cruz and Adebayor!
come back sean when uve won something, i can understand that your a bitter cunt after being potless for 34 years it must be depressing…..
Come on guys they did the double over us!!!Do you even know what that means to them.I bet Sean will be talking to his grandchildren about that glorius 07-08 season when they did the double!!!!!
Again,I said the same thing yesterday.
Do you think it’s a bad thing to have fans around the World?It’s not.It’s just a sign that our club is bigger and more famous than yours.
Did you know that most players from out of England like Zidane,Davids,Ronaldo,Fat Ronaldo,Roberto Carlos,Luis Figo all call our club Manchester,not Manchester United because they think,strike that,they KNOW there is only one club in Manchester.
@Sean – None of your fucking business where I am from other than I can get the 263 to yours and tell you to fuck off in person.
Go and tease your kids if your wife is too ugly to entertain you on a Sunday morning, just leave the United Fans in peace. Do you really want to behave like a scouser and show your entire club up for what it is. The “Manchester” you are on about as being the real Manchester is full of Sharron Matthews types and shitty council houses with a load of benefits scroungers and fat kids wearing city shirts. You are welcome to it.
To quote Shakespeare at your uneducated little mind
“A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet”
Even if Manchester United were called Trafford Tigers we would still have won the Premier league last year.
Even if your club was called the Manchester Mongs they still last won something when Bohemian Rhapsody was Number 1.
If a whore gets fucked by a very rich punter it does not mean she is a supermodel.
I woke up today and read the paper online and saw SAF had made some comments on ‘the poster’ that were exactly what myself and all United fans think.
I’m proud of SAF for coming out and defending the club like he always does but I also feel,in some way,he should have just said nothing as he’s bringing himself/us down to their level.
Still,its a classic way to get the players fired up for the season ahead and the two derbies.Can’t wait for the city games now as there will be a lot hatred now.
LOL at dissing anyone not from Manchester. They themselves will be embracing them glory fans IF they even managed to break into the top 4 which I highly doubt. How many times now that players turn you down because you’re not the right club from Manchester? And I mean classy players like Eto’o or Kaka not tossers like Adepaymemore and Carlitos Judas.
Yeah Eto’o is good isnt he? Made Vidic look a twat so that amused me no end
Costas..I was saying that its omnly a matter of time before Adebayor and Santa Cruz rip the arse out of Vidic like Torres and Eto’o did. He has been found out after the scousers bailed you 4 -1.
Yeah, CL final which you who can’t even get into the group stages can only adore from a distant away.
Funny that final tho Hurr……I mean watching Vidic get raped again was highly amusing. No wonder Fergie wont discuss the match…He knows what went wrong tho of course…
@ Sean
No i dont..
Now that i have answered your question…its your turn to answer some questions?
When was the last time you won a trophy?
How many trophies do you have?
What kind of history can you claim to have to be not called a small club??
And why the fuck does it matter if we are not from manchester?
If Vidic is crap then what do you call your defence?
I want an answer to every question…
Oh and ya why did Robinho say he joined Chelsea??
Sean – You are a rich arabs rent boy. How does your sugar Daddys cock taste? Better than your real Dads?
Fuck off back to your little club.
Oh and what the fuck does that star on your crest stand for??The number of times you have beat us?? Fucking loser get out of here
Hey, they won the Double Mug™ which is MASSIVE!!
@Sean
If it means you will shut the fuck up then I was born in Manchester, I went to school in Manchester , I have a Manchester accent and I support Manchester United. I have moved back to Manchester last year from living in South America for four years. Prior to that I lived in Paris for Five years.
I studied and lived in Cologne Germany and Montpellier France.I speak fluent French, German, Spanish and of course English – ALL with a Manchester accent.
Guess what Sean – All of the places I lived when I said I was from Manchester people replied Manchester UNITED never once City.
Even in the Peruvian amazon or in the Altoplano in Bolivia talking to Quechuan Indians they had heard of Manchester because of UNITED not Citeh.
So to answer your question – Yes I am from Manchester. Unlike you Sean I have left on occasion. The furthest you have been from Wastelands is the Trafford Centre. Maybe you will get to Wembley one day, probably for the playoffs.
United are getting ” twitchy” at the amount of money City are spending because the dont know when its going to end.
Also its very easy to say that MCFC have no history. Yes in the SKY years perhaps, but SKY never invented football.
Nobody seems to mention that before the 1990s,it took United 26yrs to win the Championship.. or doesnt that count.
Players are joining City for the money.. well of course they are, wouldnt you?
Name me one player that joins any club for glory, or sticks with them thru loyalty.Its all about money whichever club you play with.
Ferguson and United are the bitter ones methinks. In the past 6 weeks i have seen various quotes from United players concerning Man City and their spending.
If you dont consider MCFC you’re rivals.. then why are you OBSESSED with talking about us..
mmmmmm.
one of your best articles Scott – ~I enjoyed reading it, and it summed up the situation perfectly. We’ll know how the land lies once the season is underway, but I have no doubt 11 men on the pitch for citeh will want to get their games over and done with quickly so they can all go back to their nice cars/homes whatever… they don’t give a fuck about citeh, they only care about the size of their pay cheque.
UTID.
Shep – Manchester United were given their name when they were in Newton Heath. Why on earth would they change it because they moved 5 miles down the road? The players and the fans were exactly the same, the ground was different. Why are you so obsessed with where we play, anyway? Anything to deflect attention from the council house?
What you fail to understand Sean is that all the people who love Manchester United as much as I do are all my Brothers and Sisters. We are a family and we are strong. Your hatred makes us stronger. Your jealousy makes us laugh. Your record makes you shit.
Sean, i am begging you. You keep talking about what Liverpool and Barcelona did with us last season. Do you have anything to say about your club and what they have achieved? Keep talking about us not being from Manchester. At least we are supporting one club. Not every club that comes up against you. That’s why you are a small club. Start having a mature conversation.
@blueisthecolour : The United players are asked about City, so they respond about City. If they dodged that question, they would be accused of being snob towards your club. It’s not Manchester United that’s obsessed with City. It’s all the media in England. People with nothing better to do in their lives than looking for controversial comments. Ferguson has lashed out i give you that. But he was provoked wasn’t he? That poster has no place in City’s attempt to grow as a club.
@BLUEISTHECOLOUR(OF SHIT)
Players are joining City for the money.. well of course they are, wouldnt you?
“No I wouldnt” – Kaka.
@Sean, one of the most BITTER blue visitors to this blog – a quote from your Management team – “Everybody wants to be loved, and have FANS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, so why shouldn’t the world come to love Manchester City too?” Hahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahaha, if you are so HUNG UP, on supporters from the rest of the world supporting your little club, then you better put in a petition to your management. Then again, p’haps you don’t need to bother, because as proved in South Africa, the world don’t even know you, let alone LOVE you! This is why your club HAVE to get Media attention by mentioning Man United all the time. Anyway, only time will tell, and the new season will reveal ALL.
@Sean
How close to Stockport do you live?
Shouldn’t you be supporting your local team?
And yes I’m a manc and a season tkt holder you little nob!
And like READ CAREFULLY WHAT I Said i’m a much travelled and educated man unlike you!
All together now………….
The thing is Blueisthecolor, even before the 26 years you talked about, Man United are already bigger than you historically and not to mention trophy counts.
The true Galacticos refuse Man Pity. Kaka NO thanks, Eto’o NO thanks, Puyol NO thanks, Perlo NO thanks, Torres NO thanks, Villa NO thanks etc etc etc etc etc etc.
@isaidso
They are completely deluded arent they mate. Robinho thought he was signing for someone else and I still have the suspicion that the Arab who bought them thought it was United.
It is all gonna end in tears – whether John Terry signs for them or not!!
“Your hatred makes us stronger. Your jealousy makes us laugh. Your record makes you shit.”
Read What I Said – Spot on mate.
@Sean – yeah L’POO did the double over us last year, and Man Pity the year before, BUT just remind me – who finished up winning the PL and MOST silverware in both those seasons. The scousers like youselves were sob sob sobbing season after season after season, and to them like to you, beating us was THEIR MOST MONUMENTAL MOMENT of their whole season – yet ALL the BLACK ARMBANDS and the MOURNING were back at the end of the season when they like YOUR LOT won fuck all.
@ READ CAREFULLY WHAT I said – Mate, u’ve completely wiped the floor with that buffoon (sean) and his club (cant remember the name).
@ Sean – were u born this stupid? Or did u have to work for it?
Thanks for the comments lads.
Coming on this forum is usually a pleasure on a Sunday. Sharing our views opinions and dreams with well rounded and knowledgable United fans.
This morning was like having a nice walk in the parkbefore going to a pub for sunday lunch only to stand in a fresh wet dog shit.
Sean, I guess you are the fresh wet dogshit in my analogy. Like the shit on my shoe you are just as annoying, unwelcome and one of lifes little annoyances.
Enjoy the rest of your day and try not to be like dog faeces all your life.
I know you are trying your best to be clever but noone really likes dogshit do they?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/8169153.stm
RCWIS – Brilliant use of dog shit!
@READ CAREFULLY WHAT I
”If a whore gets fucked by a very rich punter it does not mean she is a supermodel.”
Classic quote mate lol
didnt knew there was another club in manchester
Fergie as usual said the thruth.
uniteds goal this and every season – to win trophies , to beat every team , to build a team.
citys goal- theres no goal for them but now there is
for owners – to bid for everyone whoever plays futball bcose i think they hardly know footballers name.they know nothing abt futball.
for players- earn money without playing and then fuck each other. cities fans dream will be fullfilled bcose they will atlast win a award
THE GAYEST TEAM AWARD. everyone is a gay there.
Personally, I am quite happy about City’s campaign. I wouldn’t expect our rivals to assume they have lost before the season has even started. Let them try their best, both players and fans – it’s going to be much more interesting and much more painful for them at the end of the season.
City to win the league? Lets look at their sponsor for clues, ETIHAD.
Eleven
Twats
Instinctively
Having
Another
Daydream.
SORTED – Yeah we’ll enjoy Owen thanks you stupid cunt. At least he knows where the goal is. He was happy to take a pay cut to join United, because he wants to play for a big club and win medals. Adebyor finally decided to join city as they were the only club prepared to pay the obscene wages, prior to that he was whoreing himself to BIGGER clubs like United, Chelsea and Milan. 34 years……..
Didnt Mr Ferguson also say he wouldn’t sell Real Madrid a virus, and then sold his best player to them?
RE: manchester is blue and red
“Didnt Mr Ferguson also say he wouldn’t sell Real Madrid a virus, and then sold his best player to them?”
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What you fail to realise, is that Alex Ferguson doesn’t own Manchester United, any more than Mark Hughes owns Citeh. It might not have been his decision to sell.
READ CAREFULLY WHAT I SAID! WELL SAID I LOVE THAT AND I COULDNT EVEN STOP LAUGHING. RICH PUNTER……………………………… DOESNT MEAN A SUPER MODEL. SHITTY I THINK HERE IS THE ANSWER TO U PLEASE DONT COME BACK -
cit belong to wastelands not Manchester
said in yesterdays sun on the transfer pages of who is buying who
united–costa,ribery
liverpool–silva,agrebo
city–anyone,anywhere.
nuff said.
City fans need to take a step back here. Their owners are super rich…well done? No, it means nothing and you shouldnt be bragging about it.Its actually disgusting that you do. Win something this season then we can talk.
If you want to talk about “being humbled” then I hope you watched City’s pre season tour in South Africa.
They lost to Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando pirates.
Lets put this into perspective.
The salaries of BOTH Kaizer Chiefs and Pirates players COMBINED doesn’t compare to the salary of ONE of city’s LOWESTpaid players.
Also take into account that it was pre season for chiefs and pirates aswell…
Some clever fuck says United were humbled by Barcelona…perhaps, but you were humiliated by very mediocre African teams…
As for your fucking stupid billboard and your “This is Our City” campaigns.
Insecurity and inferiority will make people do malicious things.
Can’t wait for derby day…:)
Thought I’d share the below. Good points, well made (Citeh fans take note!)
from the Observer
When Sir Alex Ferguson speaks, people listen. The managerial story of the week may have been Sven-Goran Eriksson’s unlikely installation at Notts County, but the quotes of the week have been finding their way to the back pages from venues on Manchester United’s tour of the Far East.
Malaysia is certainly a long way to go for a story, yet at least with Ferguson you can be pretty sure you will get one. He answers questions directly – at least when in a good mood and away from the immediate stresses of the season proper – does not mind queering other people’s pitches and never resorts to talking in riddles. Get Fergie to chat and you are bound to end up with something interesting. Jose Mourinho used to be the same, whereas reporters packing their bags for long-haul flights in the hope of something snappy from a Rafa Benítez or an Eriksson at the other end would do so with heavier hearts.
Fair enough, before Manchester City’s legion of paranoid fans write in to complain, there is, or ought to be, more to sports reporting than simply copying down what managers say and presenting their opinions as your story. Yet even while regretting the modern obsession with first the quote and then the soundbite, it is possible to acknowledge that some people are better at it than others and the football world will be a duller place when all-round entertainers such as Fergie are gone and every club has an interchangeable coach with a thin-lipped smile, a wealth of statistical information and a deferential attitude to the owners.
Two things set Ferguson apart from every other Premier League manager, with the possible exception of Arsène Wenger, who took a while to warm to the idea of fighting battles in the press but now finds it comes naturally. The first is that he enjoys talking about football, and will happily deal with sensible questions instead of regarding press conferences as an unpleasant chore. The second is that he has nothing to prove and therefore nothing to fear. Unlike most managers, Ferguson does not have to guard too many of his words. He can say what he likes and frequently does, because he controls Manchester United and not the other way around. Again, Wenger is in a somewhat similar position at Arsenal, though the studious Frenchman is hardly in the same league for Taggart impressions, Glaswegian feistiness or European Cups.
It goes without saying that Ferguson uses the media to his own ends, just as Brian Clough and Bill Shankly did before him, but every manager is given a press platform two or three times a week and only a few ever manage to pull off the trick. The secret, as pioneered by Shankly and Clough, is to be amusing. Managers by and large do not see the game as the fan sees it, but the best ones sound as if they do. When Shankly introduced Ron Yeats by inviting local reporters to take a walk round his new centre half, he was only making an instinctive, obvious joke, though what stuck in everyone’s mind was that Liverpool’s new signing was big in every sense.
Similarly while it might amuse Wenger to be told by a pensioner that he is too old at 59 to be thinking of leaving Arsenal, the idea is out there now. Count up the number of stories alluding to Wenger’s age between here and the end of the season and remember where you read it first.
Some say Ferguson is nowhere near as clever as people make out, and certainly his reputation for “mind games” has been overstated, yet his managerial ability speaks for itself. Even now it is possible to find Manchester City fans refusing to get excited by any new Eastlands dawn until Ferguson steps down from the Evil Empire. On the other hand, there are City fans persuading themselves that Ferguson must view their team as a threat this season, otherwise he would not be talking about them. That says it all, really. Fergie even has City fans hanging on his every word
Sorry! It’s quite long (above) but worth the read.
Pathetic, be like us putting one on the motorway between Manchester and Verminville with Owen on it! Agree with every word Fergie said.
Hope they all catch Swine Flu off Richards.
Blueisthecolour
Name me one player that joins any club for glory, or sticks with them thru loyalty.Its all about money whichever club you play with.
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1 player who joins a club for glory? Um, any player who has signed for United in the last 15 years.
1 player who sticks with a club through loyalty? Bryan Robson (took till he was 33 till he finally won the league, and never followed the likes of Lineker, Rush, and Souness in fucking off to Italy or Spain when every major team in world football would have wanted him, and offered him a great deal more than we were paying him.)
Ryan Giggs. Could easily have fucked off to Milan in the early 90′s for the money, but stayed at United for a couple of years or so.
Your next point?
Tick Tock….. 34 years later nothing different
RCWIS – classic comments mate. Like you say I was born in Manchester, have travelled the world and currently live in Australia and whenever someone asks me where i’m from and I say Manchester, it is immediately United this and United that..
Red Joe – The sponsor on ciddys shirt is a giveaway to the blue mentality, they are obsessed with us and want to be us, Etihad in the language of their owners means United.
Sean – please fuck off back to your hovel and stop polluting our forum with your inane and predictable dribble.