We played at Maine Road after the war because Old Trafford was leveled in a bombing raid. They say we went there cap in hand like beggars.
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It's more a take the piss out of bluemoon thread.
But we've had so many decisions go against us it's unreal, of course we're hard done by. The referees this season gave been shockingly awful.
If we had video referees, the Bravo/Rooney decision would have been upheld. Even now I am unsure whether that was a penalty or not. However, a video referee would have given City a penalty when Gundogan was taken down in the box, sent Luiz off, and given City a penalty and sent Walker off in the Spurs game. And, that's the point, it isn't swings and roundabouts, at least not this season, City have suffered horrendous decisions in vital games.
There's no way
Great, that's another touch line ban for Jose
The uprising and mobilisation continues...
Seriously when city fans on here read this crap do they get embarrassed or do they post in support under their BM alter egos??? I would genuinely like to know.
The Rooney one was nailed on a penalty and a red card.
Same as the red card for Luiz in the game at Stamford bridge which would have seen us with an hour against ten men to rescue the game from 2-0 down.
But pretty much any side in the league could come up with a list of terrible decisions that have gone against them. As a Utd fan, the following spring to mind....
- Bravo fouls Rooney in the area, no penalty given
- Herrera sent off after 30mins in Cup QF for two very innocuous tackles
- Herrera sent off against Burnley despite slipping and making no contact with the player
- David Luiz high and reckless foul on Fellaini which requires stitches. Luiz stays on.
- Martial clearly fouled in build up to first goal versus Watford
- Goal wrong disallowed for offside against Palace
- Goal wrongly disallowed for offside against Everton
These all came to mind straight away without having to think to hard. I can also think of decisions that have gone our way, which is exactly my point
There is no corruption or agenda. The standard of refereeing is appalling and despite the smaller teams bleating about how they are treated unfairly I actually believe you can make a strong case to say it is the big clubs who are most adversely affected
Very kind, brotherly gesture showing great respect between the 2 clubs. I doubt their supporters back then would look kindly on fans using it as a derogatory nickname now.
The same way i doubt the empty blue plastic seats would be thrilled that we accuse them of being City fans. Those seats are just doing their job. It's not their fault they don't have anyone to sit on them for most matchdays.
Not that kind, we paid them for the use of the stadium.
Also, a United home game holds the attendance record at Maine Road because of it.
I remember having to point out so many bad decisions Arsenal got in their favor especially 2002-2004. I tried to pay attention to it because I always used to hear bollocks about how we only win because of ref's.
I remember Liverpool fans used to complain about pens all the time only to find out they get more than us.
I'm afraid not. The record attendance at Maine Rd was 84,569 fans in the 6th round of the FA Cup on 3 March 1934 for City versus Stoke.
For a league game*
It's the record for a league game, not all games.
Our own record attendance is at Maine Road
I hear that they are expanding the ground so that we can't sing 20,00 empty seats anymore.
Aye, I meant league game, apologies.
To be fair, Wolves hold the record attendance at Old Trafford. Wolves and Grimsby.
Bluemoon sees that a bit different. They say that the club gave us really old kits that were pretty much 'rags' at that point, on purpose.
Trouble is, there's not a scrap of evidence for this ever having occurred. I have gone as far as asking United's curator and City's historian Gary James to look into this and both have said there's nothing in it and is probably an urban myth.
It's true that we played at Maine Road, of course, but remember we did so as a first division club while City had been relegated before the War. They invited us to play at Maine Road as they took a percentage of the gate money - which was far greater for United games than City games due to the fact more locals wanted to watch top flight football.
I read a tale by a City fan that said that his dad had worked for Umbro in 1968 and when United asked for kits for the European Cup final, in protest at the club being allowed to wear the Manchester coat of arms on the shirt, he proceeded to make the shirts out of old blue rags that were lying around. Obviously, that is complete nonsense. United had already been wearing blue jerseys for several years before that, and these were exactly the same with the exception of the crest.
I'm sure that if you ask a dozen City fans why they call us that, you'd probably get a dozen different stories. I once saw an interview with a man who had supported United in the 1930s when the club were at their lowest ebb and were struggling on and off the pitch. He says that was when City started calling us 'the rags' as we couldn't afford to buy new kits often, and would play in them until they fell apart, basically. Whether that's closer to the truth, who can say?
Their "Us against the world" mentality is astonishing.
Apparently, you get decisions your way too.
http://www.cbssports.com/soccer/new...-offside-boosts-manchester-city-past-arsenal/
I thought it had something to do with in the turn of the century or in the mid 20th century we were very poor as a team and has to borrow their spare away kits?
Feck me are they really serious???
Is it me or did there used to be an alternative Premier League table published taking into account all of the wrong decisions over the course of the season?
I know about the ground share. As is stated above the borrowing their shirts is more of an Urban Myth. It could have been wearing our own shirts until they were threadbare I don't know.
I'm all for this.
Haha what a bunch of muppets.
They aren't even relevant enough for officials/media to begin to think of starting any sort of campaign against them.
They're scared of falling behind us again. Especially under Pep. They need a good excuse to justify it if we beat them Thursday.
It's a joke really. Surely they should be confident of winning at the Emptyhad. After all we're not used to playing in half full stadiums.
It's remarkable how all supporters seem to think it's only their side get fecked over by the ref. I would question the age of these eejits but grown men spout it continually.
But the real point is that it's us that the refs are really against. Everyone knows it. Joke.
So a club that was nothing until a multi-billionaire group of Arabs bought their way to the top table call us, the world's most financially powerful club, "rags" because we started out with nothing.
I will wear that title like a badge of honour.
I will wear that title like a badge of honour.
They're not though, that's the rub. That's why their rationalising their potential defeat with every excuse other than a fair and square beating by a resurgent United side.
Hold up..They're getting organized..
http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/city-fans-time-to-take-a-stand.328055/
"I would gladly lose out on 4th place if we could do some sort of protest. if on Thursday the ref starts his antics I would encourage Pep to take the players off the pitch. forfeit the game if need be. we have to make a stand sooner or later. I will renew but there is no way I'm going to away games just to fecked over. 600 quid yesterday for a game that was decided before kick off and well away from the pitch."
I'd start with coming to Emptihad actually.
From rags to riches.
Do you know the price of the train from Stockport? £8. You can't expect them to pay that.
Same here, let's all start a petition, a 3 nil win would take us above Liverpool too!
Right lads n lasses, the objective for thursday nights showdown with the massives is clear to me now, we simply must win in the most improper way imagineable. So, they have around 80% possession to our measly 19%, they have like 4 perfectly legitimate goals dissallowed due to shockingly poor refereeing (1 of those goals would be an absolute stunner containing 56 passes and an overhead kick to finish) 3 disturbling unfair sending offs of their players, 34 corners to our 3 and throughout the game they miss 14 clear cut chances and we haven't even had a solitary shot on goal. Then and only then does the miracle happen. It's 99th minute and Citeh are laying seige to our goal just as they have for the previous 98 minutes to pass, Bailly hoofs the ball upfield in the general direction of the one known as microphone head who catches the ball with both hands and preceeds to drop kick/punt the ball towards Rashford who is standing in an offside position - some 18 yards or so - munching on a strawberry cornetto, who then bares down on goal and finishes with absolute aplomb -wherby he quite literally picks up the ball, stuffs it under his right arm and dives over the line Rugby League style, the ref awards the goal and instantly blows the final whistle before Citeh can kick off again. Game over.
I will then purchase the LARGEST bag of popcorn ever assembled by human hands and a 20 crate of Stella, then head back to this thread and watch the fireworks commence. What a night that would be.
I will then purchase the LARGEST bag of popcorn ever assembled by human hands and a 20 crate of Stella, then head back to this thread and watch the fireworks commence. What a night that would be.
Indeed, we're all guilty of it to some extent, but most of us know, once we've calmed down a little bit that there's no conspiracies.
A worrying minority though, clearly believe it.
Do City fans also forget they have been awarded like 60 pens this season too?