Rift Forms Between Nycfc And Man City Fans
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This "rift" has nothing to do with MCFC fans, and everything to do with MCFC and CFG. I have no issues with MCFC fans, and from what I've seen, the same goes for most other NYCFC fans, especially on here. The problem is when MCFC fans come here and try to downplay what their team did to ours, and to troll on us.
But it all comes down to one simple, basic fact:
MCFC/CFG fucked us over, and we're not going to sit back and accept it. MCFC fans need to understand this.
But it all comes down to one simple, basic fact:
MCFC/CFG fucked us over, and we're not going to sit back and accept it. MCFC fans need to understand this.
@LostAnvil bored today?
more like distracted - being at work on game day is brutal
Well written?
The first paragraph is ridiculous. He basically said "Liverpool outnumbered MCFC fans and wore red" in flowery, overly descriptive crap prose.
His second paragraph? "They played a friendly last year and this might as well be a home game" Is he being serious, we didn't even have a team yet.
All the other points he brought up were valid, concerning CFG and MCFC, but he has to be a better journalist than that.
That opening paragraph is terrible. The rest of the article is accurate, but still very meh.
I can't stand sports writers. 2% write well, the other 98% resort to cheap writing techniques like the ones in that article.
Oh and this excerpt is real good.
**If there is a common ground between the two fan bases, Kevin Jones,owner of the Churchill Tavern on East 28th Street, has yet to find it. Last July, Jones, a Manchester City fan of 50 years, met with members of the Third Rail while the group was searching the area for a game-day bar.
“They were a bunch of American guys looking to emulate English supporters,” he said. “They thought we were drunken hooligans, so they started acting likewise.”
The group found another bar. **
Is he being serious with that paragraph. Its vague, out of context and doesn't say anything specific at all. It implies impropriety, where I actually think no one gives a shit about MCFC, say for a few keyboard warriors on facebook.
So is that it? Only people who participate on Facebook and Twitter are the ones who matter to the media? These journalist are lazy con artists who barely do any research before pumping out an article on their wordpress GUI sites.
And it's in the WSJ. That has 8 copy editors looking over it before it goes to print.
Embarressing.
Disclaimer : Also, I could give a shit about what they say about NYCFC, Third Rail, MCFC, CFG, whatever.
What offends me the most is the shitty writing.
The first paragraph is ridiculous. He basically said "Liverpool outnumbered MCFC fans and wore red" in flowery, overly descriptive crap prose.
His second paragraph? "They played a friendly last year and this might as well be a home game" Is he being serious, we didn't even have a team yet.
All the other points he brought up were valid, concerning CFG and MCFC, but he has to be a better journalist than that.
That opening paragraph is terrible. The rest of the article is accurate, but still very meh.
I can't stand sports writers. 2% write well, the other 98% resort to cheap writing techniques like the ones in that article.
Oh and this excerpt is real good.
**If there is a common ground between the two fan bases, Kevin Jones,owner of the Churchill Tavern on East 28th Street, has yet to find it. Last July, Jones, a Manchester City fan of 50 years, met with members of the Third Rail while the group was searching the area for a game-day bar.
“They were a bunch of American guys looking to emulate English supporters,” he said. “They thought we were drunken hooligans, so they started acting likewise.”
The group found another bar. **
Is he being serious with that paragraph. Its vague, out of context and doesn't say anything specific at all. It implies impropriety, where I actually think no one gives a shit about MCFC, say for a few keyboard warriors on facebook.
So is that it? Only people who participate on Facebook and Twitter are the ones who matter to the media? These journalist are lazy con artists who barely do any research before pumping out an article on their wordpress GUI sites.
And it's in the WSJ. That has 8 copy editors looking over it before it goes to print.
Embarressing.
Disclaimer : Also, I could give a shit about what they say about NYCFC, Third Rail, MCFC, CFG, whatever.
What offends me the most is the shitty writing.
MikeDatTiger
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I think articles based off fan wars on online forums/social media are a little cheap. There are some NYC fans who think NYCFC fans should owe some sort of deference to MCFC, but there are other MCFC/NYCFC fans (such as myself) who really couldn't care less.
Traction Engine
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Kind of a silly article for the WSJ. I liked the dumb quotation from the bartender about TR, like England is the spiritual homeland of getting drunk and supporting a soccer team and you must be emulating the English if you try. Pretty typical attitude.
I know you wrote that, but honestly, do you really care that one douchebag says anything to us?
Lets say we, as in me and you, were walking to the stadium together, talking about so and so, and a MCFC fan shouts at us from the corner a mouthful of this garbled nonsense. Would you even spend a second interrupting our conversation to acknowledge him?
I honestly don't think so, I really don't. Let them say what they want, I kinda of pity the poor folk, they've got a tought life. Have you ever been to Manchester?
I'd rather be dead in New York City than alive in Manchester. That place is a dump.
To use their vernacular,
NYC grateful to city?
Are you havin' a laugh?
Oh, that's my point. There is no real beef between us and them, because most of us just don't give a shit. I know I don't. The article has it all wrong. Our beef is with the team/company.
As an Irishman, this offends me.
Gotta say that whole article was pretty odd, especially as I'm a Man City fan. Best part was:
"To local Manchester City supporters, these fans are like ungrateful children."
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
That should be on our next scarf or t-shirt. A foot high Man City logo on a t-shirt with "ungrateful children" in place of the Latin and "NYCFC" across the crest. Tastefully done, of course.
"To local Manchester City supporters, these fans are like ungrateful children."
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
That should be on our next scarf or t-shirt. A foot high Man City logo on a t-shirt with "ungrateful children" in place of the Latin and "NYCFC" across the crest. Tastefully done, of course.
Davo15
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Doesn't warrant an article especially on a match day.
I do like Man City but I find having a local team finally my loyalty more to NYCFC. Just as I have some degree of sympathy for a few non US national teams such as France where I have some blood from or Argentina where I spent half a year a decade or so ago I'd never root for any of them over the USA I can't imagine rooting for Man City Or Marseille or any other foreign team I follow over my local side.
I do like Man City but I find having a local team finally my loyalty more to NYCFC. Just as I have some degree of sympathy for a few non US national teams such as France where I have some blood from or Argentina where I spent half a year a decade or so ago I'd never root for any of them over the USA I can't imagine rooting for Man City Or Marseille or any other foreign team I follow over my local side.
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