Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

Nobody I've ever known from Manchester/Greater Mcr has ever supported City either

I think I know five - three of whom are legit, while the other two at least got in early enough to claim they've been supporting Man City since before they were successful rich.

Does any really start supporting a completely new side after the age of about fifteen?

lol now i think about it i don't think i've ever met a city fan either.

I know a couple of people who've changed teams as adults, and at least make a show of taking defeats really badly. It's the saddest sight in the world.

the new Man City fans are coming of age in schools around Ireland as we speak

not just ireland tbf.

gonna be weird in 15 years time when there are no utd fans under 30 in southern england.

tru

It's not that long ago that Man City were in the third tier of English football and jumping on the bandwagon feels a bit tawdry for anyone above school age, so it's hardly surprising you haven't met many.

like how there must be a new generation of kids where like 1 in 15 don't become a leeds fan just because and instead have become a stoke fan or something.

... there's football fans and football fans and then there's Arsenal fans

I know a couple of non-Manc City fans. I blame Oasis tbh.

I wonder if there are tons of thirty-year-old Newcastle fans in places like Oman and Indonesia?

I mean imagine going up to a Man City fan in 1998 or 99 and trying to explain all this to them, they'd think you were insane.

well they were busy having their minds blown by be here now tbf. :D

I imagine recently arrived immigrants will already be thinking of supporting Citeh, if not supporting them already, I haven't been down to Stokey to watch a match in a while so I haven't noticed any yet

That Melvyn Bragg piece. I never really understood being a fan until now.

Carlisle Utd fans obviously don't count

i know quite a few city fans, the're about as legit as all the man u and liverpool fans i know too

zing

You can talk, Melvyn Bragg was a gooner before you were.

Needs a poll on ILF: When you guys started to support chelsea.

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That Chelsea thread was posted on one of the QPR messageboards yesterday, to much hilarity.

Now, the Terry affair. Terry's own version of what happened on the pitch appears to be:
JT: Anton, you're a fucking blind cunt
AF: Did you just call me a fucking black cunt?
JT: Oi, Anton, I didn't call you a fucking black cunt.

Even in the heat of the moment, that doesn't sound a wholly credible exchange, does it?

i wouldn't expect any better from you *sniff*

MES is a City fan, "just to be contrary" surprise surprise: http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/3751/29/

noted ilxor king boy pato is a man city fan

JT: Anton, you're a fucking blind cunt
AF: Did you just call me a fucking black cunt?
JT: Oi, Anton, I didn't call you a fucking black cunt.

Why would you call an opposing player a blind cunt? The ref, yes, but not a player. Did Anton walk into a goalpost or something?

Has anyone even considered the words might have been something other than black/blind cunt? I mean, what about "bell end" or something?

he meant black, obv

It could be "black bell end" I suppose...

blackcurrant

"You're a fucking blackcurrant Anton!"
"Did you call me a fucking black cunt?"
"No I called you a fucking blackcurrant you fucking deaf black cunt!"

I've watched the video and tbh if no-one said to me "he's saying 'fucking black cunt'" I'd have no idea what he was saying, other than that it clearly had "fucking" in it.

If he said blackcurrant, that's OK. But if he said black currant, that's racist filth.

You'd think JT might've had his statement drafted on that basis xp.

this may be the greatest merk of our times, rio jumps out on the steps of the high court with the cameras

"You got MERKED LOL!"
"Rio you fucking b_"

lol exactly

A blind day for John Terry:

http://s1-03.twitpicproxy.com/photos/large/433726523.jpg

Kenny, Derry and Hill — an active players’ union representative — question whether any such exchange took place, given that Ferdinand had no knowledge of a racial element to what was said until after the game.

Terry does not deny that the video shows him using the phrase ‘black ****’ but argues that it was said in the context of Ferdinand’s accusation — an accusation Ferdinand and his team-mates will say was never made.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2053972/Race-row-deepens-Terry-as.html?

ffs this is just a witch hunt now

Yeah but it's against John Terry, so who cares?

that's not good enough. anyone has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty and anton ferdinand hasn't even issued a statement on this yet, this is being blown out of proportion to the available facts.

lol

He should just be grateful there aren't any Libyans with metal poles about.

should have taken a superinjunction against it

superinjcuntion

As Toni Poole would say, love is black.

"Anton and Rio refuse to take England captain's calls"

the blind leading the blind

media blindout, it's like they've pulled the blacks and aren't answering the doorbell

that 'when did you start supporting chelsea?' thread reminds me of a posh bloke i met at a party a few years ago said he was a fan because he was "chelsea born and bred" :D