What our opponents' fans are saying about us 17/18

[For the love of Spurs]

Not representative of the city fans I know. The vast majority of whom remember the 3rd division and used to use blue moon to arrange a drink and check out whose kids were playing well in the little league. The money brings in the twats but they don't replace the real fans.

Levy could sell to a billionaire butcher tomorrow and we'd be inundated with hundreds of Gibbs in a heartbeat. These days a few glory hunters and a scummy owner are the norm and no reflection on the fans.

City have always been a proper club.

Chelsea have always been scum; their owners and new fans are irrelevant.

Not sure TBH, you only have to watch City in the CL in a half empty stadium with a crowd less likely to sing than Arsenal’s to see at least in the stadium and on forums the twats have taken over.

Yes Chelsea are scum but old Chavs and new chavs are different. The old where angry EDL types, the young are more plastic entitled types which comes with money.

Both City and Chelsea where not even our size when the money men came, closer to West Ham as clubs. The growth has been artificial and inevitably the plastics run full force in that direction. Both chavs and City are a lesson of what happens when you sell your soul for gold, the club dies and is replaced by something else.

 

[Tottenham_God]

Not sure TBH, you only have to watch City in the CL in a half empty stadium with a crowd less likely to sing than Arsenal’s to see at least in the stadium and on forums the twats have taken over.

Yes Chelsea are scum but old Chavs and new chavs are different. The old where angry EDL types, the young are more plastic entitled types which comes with money.

Both City and Chelsea where not even our size when the money men came, closer to West Ham as clubs. The growth has been artificial and inevitably the plastics run full force in that direction. Both chavs and City are a lesson of what happens when you sell your soul for gold, the club dies and is replaced by something else.

Still. They win trophies and continue to get new fans.

For example down here in Australia a 13 year old picking a side doesnt reallllly give a fuck about history or how they became wealthy just either likes the colours, style of football or that they are winning. When i was younger i knew one old British dude who followed city and we all hung shit on him, now they are everywhere and we still hang shit on them

For me I disagree with those reasons but just the way it is, i started supporting Spurs in 06 (I was 13) because Carrick was my fave player !

 

[Marty]

Both chavs and City are a lesson of what happens when you sell your soul for gold, the club dies and is replaced by something else.

Never a truer word spoken.

I know a few United fans who say their rivalry with Liverpool has increased after City got the oil money, simply because they feel that City isn't the same club any more so all old results, both wins and losses, are almost null and void. The Liverpool games are the games that still feel really important for the historical rivalry and are more than just a top of the table clash.

 

[Spurger King]

Not sure TBH, you only have to watch City in the CL in a half empty stadium with a crowd less likely to sing than Arsenal’s to see at least in the stadium and on forums the twats have taken over.

Yes Chelsea are scum but old Chavs and new chavs are different. The old where angry EDL types, the young are more plastic entitled types which comes with money.

Both City and Chelsea where not even our size when the money men came, closer to West Ham as clubs. The growth has been artificial and inevitably the plastics run full force in that direction. Both chavs and City are a lesson of what happens when you sell your soul for gold, the club dies and is replaced by something else.

The Sheik Mansour team did have a bit of history in its previous incarnation, and they definitely have a lot of older supporters who would turn out in big numbers even when they were in the lower divisions. I can respect that. But as you say, that's all been corrupted. They have attracted a new batch of the worst kind of football supporters imaginable outside Chelsea, and many of their existing fans have bought into the myth that they're something special. Their 'success' is entirely meaningless and a mockery of the word sport.

 

[guiltyparty]

Seems this could be the year people properly start hating City rather than seeing them as a harmless version of Chelsea

“Nothing funnier than Spurs pleading poverty”

Never heard anyone doing that. We plead we’re the 6th richest club in the PL behind City, Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal, and that City are by far the richest. Which is a fact.

“They are owned by one of the world's richest people Joe Lewis”

258th richest to be precise, fortune 4.6bn. The fifth richest individual owner in British football behind the blokes who own Wolves and Stoke.

Sheik Mansour is no 1 in British football, obvs, but in the top 100 in the world, personal fortune 20bn, backed by a family worth 1trn+

However, it’s companies that own the clubs, not individuals, so it’s kind of irrelevant the cash in the bank – just ask Liverpool. Abu Dhabi Development Group vs ENIC - wonder who has more mullah?

“Levy is the highest paid Director in the Premier League.”

City don’t pay their directors anything according to their accounts - one of the ways they get round FFP, they pay them in other ways. When they last did, it was around the same figure as Levy, 2.5m a year. Chelsea’s chairman is in his 70s and their highest paid director in that report he seems to be quoting has left the club and their highest paid director is now a woman so obviously, because patriarchy, gets paid less.

Bar them, who deserves more than Levy for consistent improvement of his club? Not going to be Liverpool or Arsenal of late is it? Utd’s Woodward has had a terrible few years but gets paid same as Levy.

“Like Arsenal their business model is based on fleecing their own fans with ticket prices and ensuring that their huge revenues are not re-invested back into the club but go to their wealthiest shareholders.”

City keep their tickets low as they don’t need the money - they’re spending way more than their revenues anyway - and they struggle to fill their ground (they averaged 30k less than us per game in champions league last year), and can’t charge the money as they’re in Manchester, home of the poorly paid. London clubs always charge more.

“Their financial situation is all self inflicted and, just like Arsenal, they resist any attempts by anyone else to take them over and develop them properly.”

Pretty sure ENIC have been touting us around for a bit but think they’ll get more post stadium so have paused. ‘Develop them properly’ - our training centre is one of the best in Europe, our stadium’s going to be bigger and better than City’s, we have one of the best academies and we're creating our own 50m+ superstars for fun. All of that without oil money.

“They were also outflanked by West Ham over the London stadium deal.”

Were we? Or did we just have the right plan, refused to shift from our ideals as the whole situation was used as a political football, and have been proven to be right as West Ham have floundered in a stadium not fit for football that they don’t own and we’re getting the best ground in the UK in our spiritual home.

“They are run in the same way we were by Peter Swales.”

This is the guy who ran them from 73-93, saw them relegated twice and finish bottom half on 9 different occasions.

Amazing what all those oil fumes do to your brain

 

[Marty]

Seeing this compliment, backhanded though it may be, from an Arse fan makes me so proud of our players.

I tell you what's damning. You look at the Spurs players, many of whom feel underpaid and will be looking for greener pastures and look at the effort they give every week. It nauseates me to my core to compliment them but that is how professionals should act and it shows week in and week out. Yes they're a filthy team who get away with a lot out of possession but the commitment is always there. Our lot throw tantrums in the press when you suggest they could try harder. It's disgusting.

 

[fletch82]

Why even bother with them
I have even started to see city shirts on the south coast now ,all sad glory hunting trophy buying no marks
What these people say is irrelevant what their club says players and managers is irrelevant take away the bottomless pit of cash and they are league 2
My opinion is pep jose klipp are all scared shitless of spurs because we are in their faces and we are doing it rather than buying it
This completely ruins their whole existence
They can not do it so they buy it they are the equivalent of buying a medical degree from the university of madagasca online and calling yourself a surgeon total charlatans
And to boot they are destroying football with all the dirty cash.
I just laugh at them they are nothing

 

[tiger666]

My opinion is pep jose klipp are all scared shitless of spurs

I very much doubt they are.

 

[fletch82]

I very much doubt they are.

Then you need to question your doubts x

 

[tiger666]

Then you need to question your doubts x

Oh, ok then.

 

[ajspurs]

Love it when opposing fans call us a filthy or dirty team to be honest, much better than being known as the soft centred Spurs like we had been for years.

 

[guiltyparty]

Love it when opposing fans call us a filthy or dirty team to be honest, much better than being known as the soft centred Spurs like we had been for years.

Aye. You’re either soft or dirty, no inbetween

 

[fletch82]

Oh, ok then.

Glad you saw sense in the end

 

[Gb160]

Then you need to question your doubts x

They'll start being scared of us when we have a revenue and a wage bill that rivals theirs, also when we start winning things regularly, until then I really don't think they give a shit about us, we might be a minor annoyance to them, no more than that.

 

[fletch82]

They'll start being scared of us when we have a revenue and a wage bill that rivals theirs, also when we start winning things regularly, until then I really don't think they give a shit about us, we might be a minor annoyance to them, no more than that.

The winning things is coming I believe sooner rather than later

 

[Spurger King]

They'll start being scared of us when we have a revenue and a wage bill that rivals theirs, also when we start winning things regularly, until then I really don't think they give a shit about us, we might be a minor annoyance to them, no more than that.

The whole world needs to get behind electric cars. Then their owners' empire becomes worthless almost overnight.

 

[Gb160]

The whole world needs to get behind electric cars. Then their owners' empire becomes worthless almost overnight.

True, but what are we gonna do about the trillion quid their family's already worth though?

 

[jurgen]

Culture these days, or at least mainstream middle of the road culture, is in the thrall of (dubiously earned) wealth and power, no surprise it makes it to football. As someone said, if it was us vs them the majority of neutrals would probably go for them as the status quo of the richest getting the spoils is seemingly so desirable for those of weak intellect and imagination..

Man City and Chelsea are simply the football versions of Harry Styles, fat boy James Corden, Damien Hirst, Jack Whitehall or Michael McIntyre etc. Cat nip for dumb dumbs.

 

[Spurger King]

True, but what are we gonna do about the trillion quid their family's already worth though?

Get Dave Cameron to hold a global referendum on the value of money?

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Is this the right time to rhyme City with shitty?