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Rift Forms Between Nycfc And Man City Fans
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I kept reading on just to see if they also included one of DCG's jersey mock ups
Every so often you'll see him post on the City Voice comment section. I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I see it. He'll get his big break one day.
bigapplepie
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The Man City association is a marketing disaster. As a fan of an English League One club, I was willing to forgive the Etihad connection but as soon as NYCFC decided to play in City colors that was it. There are probably well over 10,000 fans of other English clubs and thousands of supporters of major European clubs in the NYC area who won't support NYCFC for the same reason. It's a real shame. Man City draws it's fan base from a fairly small catchment area around Manchester. They'll never be a glamour team like Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd or Liverpool. If your owners drop the Man City connection and more fans will show up. I live 10 minutes from Yankees Stadium but for now I'll continue to support the Timbers from afar.
Traction Engine
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I'm not sure it's fair to draw parallels between your feelings and the feelings of the general population. It's just a shirt.
And Chelsea were smaller than City before Abramovich, and I don't think LFC fans are in it for the glamour of 5th place and Europa League nights.
And Chelsea were smaller than City before Abramovich, and I don't think LFC fans are in it for the glamour of 5th place and Europa League nights.
A lot of this doesn't make sense to me. Would you really not support the team because their shirt is blue? If they had yellow shirts but everything else was exactly the same you're saying you'd somehow feel differently? Not sure I understand that.
But also, "if your owners drop the Man City connection" makes no sense either. The owners *are* Man City, or at least the holding company that owns Man City if you want to split hairs. And if 10,000 people don't like the team I'm OK with that. As a New Yorker I'm totally into the team, and there's another 25 million people in the surrounding area our team can draw from (not counting the 9,500 RBNJ fans, of course).
I mean, I'm a Mets fan, but I'm not going to boycott NYCFC just because they play in Yankee Stadium. Same if I was a United fan. And you're saying Man City will never be a "glamour" team. Well, perhaps, but let's talk again in 20 years if they've won 8 or 10 more league titles. Doesn't look like they've got much chance this year any more but they've won it twice in the past four or five years. And yes, they were pretty bad for a while before they were good.
So sure, I'm a Man City fan, but I'm an NYCFC fan because this is my city and this is my team, not because of who owns them.
Seth
kas_tippler
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From what I read on here you need to sort out the divisions between your supporter groups first.
What do you say to fans of other EPL teams who support NYCFC (like myself)? Perhaps the key is that this is a team in NY, and since I'm willing to bet most of us are not English ex-pats, that NY link outweighs allegiances across the Atlantic.
Just catching up on this article, holy crap its terrible. I love the central thesis that if you support NYCFC you must feel good things for Man City. Because we are all mindless sheep who cannot think on our own, or that we could not possibly understand that an MLS team and a EPL side have almost zero on the field crossover unless they make the Club World Cup. God forbid we have brains to separate the two countries soccer leagues.
kas_tippler
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Tedious old augment, boring, dull and to be quite frank lazy!
Mdrnsamurai
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Glory, Glory Man United! Good ol Man City B
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