Why is it more unusual for Man City fans to live in London & the South East, but acceptable for Man Utd fans?

Question

Dear all,

I am a Manchester City fan and supporter. Nothing particularly special in that, yet I cannot find any fellow supporters at all where I live in Sunbury on Thames, Surrey, but plenty of local fans and supporters of our key rival, Manchester United. Why exactly is that etc?

In a sense, I therefore 'buck the unwritten trend, sporting norm or typical City fan profile stereotype etc, ' however you wish to term it. But in general, why is it considered perfectly acceptable and fully normal for Manchester United supporters to live in London and the South East, but not also for Manchester City supporters? We could also perhaps extend this wider by analogy to Liverpool and Everton supporters. No one really bats an eye lid if a Liverpool fan lives outside Merseyside, in London or aboard, but you do not get too many non local Everton fans following suit etc.

I could have very easily jumped onto the bandwagon, conformed to the masses and supported Manchester United as many of my fellow Surrey residents do, but that in a sense would have made life far too easy and been a form of convenience supporting with no real challenge, a form of escapism, a sell out, and not lend itself to original and independent thinking. It would have also been following the herd mentality as a sheep. I therefore decided to root for the other club in the city instead, which many people consider to be the real club of the people of the City of Manchester. I also studied at the University of Manchester and used to know someone there who I visited on weekends and went around the city centre together.

Interestingly however, when I chat in online forums to my fellow Manchester City fans and then eventually tell them in the conversation that I live 215 miles away from the Etihad Stadium in Sunbury on Thames, Surrey, they are immediately very surprised that I do not live in Greater Manchester, and I sense that they do not really view me as a genuine and truly committed fan in the strictest sense, due to my geographical location. One jokingly said you should move to Moss Side, Cheetham Hill, Burnage, Stockport, Whalley Range or Hulme to be really down with and fully accepted by your fellow fans of the Blue Moon.

In a nutshell then, is Manchester City primarily a northern club established for people in the north, and although anyone throughout the world is at full freedom and liberty to support it (as with any other club), does it's past and present day history, traditions, culture and background primarily lend itself more to local support concentrated mainly within the North West?

If that is the case, why is that then not the same case for Manchester United?

I look very much forward to hearing your replies and some excellent answers to get to the root of this question and 'unofficial and unwritten rule' of football club supporting etc.

Kind regards

André.

Answer 1

1. Firstly, You must be e newbie if you think that anyone will read all of that....or cares.



2. Why do you care what United fans do... or where theyre from



3. We're Man Utd (fans) we do what we want... and don't need permission or consent to support United



4. THE REASON CITY GO ON ABOUT LOCAL SUPPORT IS THAT THEY ARE A SMALL CLUB, WITH A LOCAL AND VERY SMALL FANBASE - UNLIKE UNITED, WHO HAVE A GLOBAL FANBASE DUE TO BEING A *MASSIVE* CLUB



5. Maybe those tribalistic mupp*ts on the blue moon forum sense what I do, which is that:



6. You're no more of a Manc than I am or any United fan (they choose to denigrate).... lol. Isn't it weird that City are suddenly gaining some success and fans from **outside of Manchester** start popping up...lol☺



hmmm... glory hunting?





Edit: All banter aside... the real reason that this nonsense is only chucked at United fans - especially as this forum is full of IRISH/US Liverpool fans (not from Liverpool) Arsenal fans from places such as Trinidad & Tobago... Spurs fans from everyhwere BUT North London, and fans of every club from all over the word... is that:



It's simply the ONLY thing those with little brains can think of to throw at fans of the most successful club in England... They really have NOTHING else. It's simply PURE JEALOUSY.



Which explains why you will never hear them directing it at the Arsenal and Liverpool fans I have mentioned..



Booooo Waaaaaaaaaa-* you're not from Manchester...lol☺(that may affect some of the younger more impresionable United fans...BUT...



Look at my face ☺...do I look like I care?





Regards



BAd

Answer 2

Maybe because Manchester United have been the biggest team in England for the last 20 years. They have won more trophies than any other team in the Premier League, whereas Manchester City have only just begun to win trophies in the last 2-3 years. There will probably be a huge increase in Manchester City supporters all over England if they become as or more successful than Manchester United over the next few years. I'm not calling you a glory hunter or anything because I don't know what your reason for supporting Manchester City is, it's none of my business, but there are a lot of glory hunters so Manchester City's fan base will increase all over the country if they keep winning trophies.

Answer 3

cant see how any londoner can support any of those northern monkeys. maybe some have a northern mother or father and were influenced. maybe some are just glory hunters because they see a team winning things on the telly buy a shirt and think that makes them a supporter.



the word support itself is a clue as fans would go and support their local club. pay their money to go and financially and vocally support their local team, have some pride in their own area.

Answer 4

I am not gonna read all your question but i will answer it and yeah i am a united fan.

this is because london is full of freshies ( people from all around the world) with due no respect to man city, the foreigners have heard of man utd in may be the news or radio and so start fallowing them. may be united has a more world wide reach then city but i dont know for sure. but its defiantly to do with foreigners supporting united

Answer 5

Most Man Utd 'fans' seen in London are usually tourists who just landed at Heathrow.

Answer 6

No excuses if your from London with no family links to up north why the fook support them

Answer 7

supporting utd or city is wrong whereever your from