City Fans

[Mistadobalina]

Pitch was fine, bit worn in places but nothing that would stop a passing team being able to play how they wanted to.

Cooper's challenge was the only really nasty moment. Otherwise we were physical but not excessively so, though granted they had a stonewall penalty turned down. The idea that Perkins fouled Gonzalez for our goal is pathetic.

[Proposition Joe]

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TheDLR:

Ref was a cheat, pitch was sh*t, Orient bunch of thug, Keown hates them.

Only got 8 pages in, too bored of their obsession with the ref for having the temerity to allow us to tackle their players. Assume many of them will remember their days in Division 2 and the Championship but they seem to have memory holed the fact it's a contact sport. Cooper challenge aside I can't remember a challenge any worse than anything they dished out. Weird. And what/when was this penalty shout?

Although obviously they're right about Keown. Re watched the first half and he spent the whole time calling their keeper Orteta.

[Hoover Attack]

I'll agree with that, had to remove one from my seat. Not sure it was entirely his fault as the guy 2 seats over to my left has a rather generous arse so does sometimes park it across 2 seats.

How is Wicksy these days?

[Mistadobalina]

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TheDLR:

Ref was a cheat, pitch was sh*t, Orient bunch of thug, Keown hates them.

Only got 8 pages in, too bored of their obsession with the ref for having the temerity to allow us to tackle their players. Assume many of them will remember their days in Division 2 and the Championship but they seem to have memory holed the fact it's a contact sport. Cooper challenge aside I can't remember a challenge any worse than anything they dished out. Weird. And what/when was this penalty shout?

Although obviously they're right about Keown. Re watched the first half and he spent the whole time calling their keeper Orteta.

One of their players got absolutely levelled seconds before another hit the post with outside of the boot. If you were being charitable you could say an advantage was played but it definitely looked like a penalty to me.

[Turk]

I'll agree with that, had to remove one from my seat. Not sure it was entirely his fault as the guy 2 seats over to my left has a rather generous arse so does sometimes park it across 2 seats.

How is Wicksy these days?

Ha, svelte these days.

[Hoover Attack]

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TheDLR:

Ref was a cheat, pitch was sh*t, Orient bunch of thug, Keown hates them.

Only got 8 pages in, too bored of their obsession with the ref for having the temerity to allow us to tackle their players. Assume many of them will remember their days in Division 2 and the Championship but they seem to have memory holed the fact it's a contact sport. Cooper challenge aside I can't remember a challenge any worse than anything they dished out. Weird. And what/when was this penalty shout?

Although obviously they're right about Keown. Re watched the first half and he spent the whole time calling their keeper Orteta.

One of their players got absolutely levelled seconds before another hit the post with outside of the boot. If you were being charitable you could say an advantage was played but it definitely looked like a penalty to me.

Thought it was a pen in real time, having watched it back once I'm not convinced Simpson made contact with anything other than Happe. Ref understandably wasn't sure, lino wasn't going to give anything ever.

Also, the ball. Some of them blamed the Mitre football.

[Story of O]

I was thinking how good our pitch was on Saturday. They should be grateful it was not how it was in the 70’s. And surely their superstars should be able to play on any surface

[Hoover Attack]

Yeah but when you combine that pitch with the Mitre FA Cup ball.

[Turk]

City fans took great pleasure in mocking Arteta over his comments on the Puma ball in the League Cup, must be the new stock response of excuses

[Scuba Diver]

It's an odd club. Vast majority of their match going support will have an outlook on football not dissimilar to ours - to expect the worse, that they are overshadowed by bigger teams, that their lot is mainly to fail and occasionally have moments of success. And they've then suddenly become the most successful (and arguably disliked) team in the country, fronting a horrid sports washing regime. Get the sense it's created a bit of an identity crisis for them, the city fans I've met have tended to be a self loathing lot who are still expecting to wake up from the last 15 years and find themselves getting battered by Middleborough. Weren't particularly loud on Saturday but would we be if losing to a team 2 tiers below us and playing like sh*t?

Was glad that despite some of the nonsense being peddled about loads of City fans being in the home end, this didn't happen on a scale that was in any way noticeable.

This is accurate.
The long-standing fans probably can't reconcile winning 4 leagues in a row with being 'Man City', who for so long were the underlings in Manchester and by some distance.

Their fans were quiet. The whole thing seemed a bit 'empty'.... I imagine Chelsea is probably similar- - it's successful but they (City fans) know deep-down that it's artificially inflated to be successful. A Capatalist construct. Not really real. The Taylor Swift of football.

[Hoover Attack]

I had the exact same feeling at the start of the 2014/15 season when Simpson et al were rocking up at ours.

[Scuba Diver]

I had the exact same feeling at the start of the 2014/15 season when Simpson et al were rocking up at ours.

Same. Which became even more pronounced/surreal when the likes of Plasmati and Dossena arrived, with the latter rumoured to be on £12k a week.

The club seemed to revert from 'Orient' , to 'billionaire's play-thing' quite quickly..
When it became apparent almost immediately that Beelzebub would struggle to run a bath let alone a football club, and we immediately nose-dived, I pined immediately for the days of there being some 'thought' going into the club and when we were happy to get Shaun Batt on loan (say)..

Even for City fans, they must feel like they exist in a strange place...

[Lifelongfan]

worst fans at Brisbane Road this season

[Hoover Attack]

worst fans at Brisbane Road this season

Yes they were quiet given it was a sold out away end but come on, you can understand why.

[OyinbO]

worst fans at Brisbane Road this season

Yes they were quiet given it was a sold out away end but come on, you can understand why.

Also - we've played Crawley