From "Hey Jude" before the match to the stadium announcer doing a Spanish "gol, gol, goooooool" after they scored, there is something so utterly plastic and artificial about the club.
Do City leave you cold?
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Personally, I didn't understand why they started whistling and booing Real Madrid around the 70th minute mark.
It was all so strange. Had no edge whatsoever
People like different styles of football. It doesn't have to be jealousy or anything like that. Some people find Pep's style is often boring to watch, not tonight obviously.
I'd honestly rather watch Liverpool. Tonight's an anomaly but I normally turn City games off, they aren't entertaining for anyone other than city fans.
Some people have just stumbled on the wrong hobby.
Such a huge amount of saltyness in some of the posts here.
Yeah what the feck was that?
The only reason some of their games are boring is because the opposition refuses to engage.
Liverpool are a far better watch IMO. And they are our most hated rival.
Haha!! A United fan complaining about City's football is hilarious.
Half the time when the opponent does get the ball though they just hack them down to stop the counter. It's boring when the matches are so one sided. I much prefer watching two teams placed 10th and 11th face each other than City beating every other team with their billion pound squad.
Why? Us being so poor in comparison should wind us up no end but most of us still don't care.
Funny how this doesn't happen in the CL and against a few teams in the league though. The only reason City games become boring is because a lot of their opponents in the league simply refuse to try and play football against them for the fear of conceeding a lot of goals.
It's not when the opponent decides to play instead of parking the double decker.
Of course when City is boring it is everyone else's fault 
Well when one team is only interested in defending and barely engage in their offensive phase, then yeah it's their fault.Of course when City is boring it is everyone else's fault
That is not always the reason that people find them boring, as has been stated here already.
City are an incredibly boring club, even if they play nice football sometimes. I genuinely don't care when they win stuff, which is in contrast to how i feel with the Scousers.
Yeah, they aren't Liverpool. It's sort of the same problem Serie A has now where the football has improved but it's still missing something (at least on TV), like the empty covid games.
De Bruyne is great to watch, though.
De Bruyne is great to watch, though.
Foden has as punchable a face as I can recall. His haircut is also disturbing.
They make me sick, and the fact that we are so inferior to them makes me even sicker...
They are miles ahead of us, as someone mentioned earlier tonight - their players don;t have strict positions, it seems like they are always everywhere
They are miles ahead of us, as someone mentioned earlier tonight - their players don;t have strict positions, it seems like they are always everywhere
Nah, Liverpool are far more entertaining
100%
I mean I would rather us play the leaving me cold football City does than anything that has been served for last 8 years bar Oles first year.
City are incredibly brilliant. I for one do not care about if they are buying players through outside wealth, it makes football ok the whole more interesting.
From a neutrals perspective it’s good as it’s not just the traditional big clubs who have all the power.
Additionally they seem to have more hunger than most teams in football and they play brilliant football, who cares what money they’ve spent I’m sure it’s only rivals who feel “cold”, I wish we played with the same desire and flair.
From a neutrals perspective it’s good as it’s not just the traditional big clubs who have all the power.
Additionally they seem to have more hunger than most teams in football and they play brilliant football, who cares what money they’ve spent I’m sure it’s only rivals who feel “cold”, I wish we played with the same desire and flair.
They leave me cold as a club. It doesn’t really matter if their football is good or bad or exciting or robotic. My absolute apathy towards them is mirrored only by my complete lack of respect for what Chelsea ‘achieved’ during the time Abramovich was washing his money through the club. It’s the worst kind of sports washing; nothing they win is earned, it’s paid for by nation-owning oligarchs who do it in a vein attempt to make their oppression a little less prevalent, and they do it by dodgy dealings, dodgy-sponsorships, dodgy nameless, faceless corporations giving people consultancy roles in order to filter money off the books, etc. Everything about them is the antithesis of the working class game that I grew up watching. So yeah, they leave me cold.
Any hint of aggression or dislike these days gets blown up by social media in a way that Wenger/Ferguson weren't subject to. They keep it on the down low so as not to incite pointless FA sanctions and endless debates about what's "professional".
The club is very much plastic in so many ways (not that we aren’t those days), but the football they play is scarily close to my own understanding of football perfection. And De Bruyne is just incredible, one of the smartest players of all-time.
I find it hard to understand those who prefer Liverpool’s way of playing.
I find it hard to understand those who prefer Liverpool’s way of playing.
salty old men 
they are astonishing and we are the new liverpool of the90s going nowhere anytime soon. We might be worse as they at least had some pride and weren’t experiencing losing 0-9 over two fixtures to your biggest rivals.
they are astonishing and we are the new liverpool of the90s going nowhere anytime soon. We might be worse as they at least had some pride and weren’t experiencing losing 0-9 over two fixtures to your biggest rivals.
Says everything that most would prefer them to win the league and CL over Liverpool. It's basically like nobody won it.
They're great to watch. If they get Haaland....
Depends on what style you enjoy. Liverpool play better football in my opinion.
We must have won a game against one of the best clubs in history, when all the people who don't care about us are making their 52nd post of the last 24 hours about how they don't care about us.
Pretty much how I feel
For most people this is because we literally do not know and have never met a City fan in real life, and the media doesn't really care about them so we don't get battered over the head with City coverage when they win, contrast that when Liverpool win, their fans are everywhere and we have to that shit rammed down our throats everywhere we look.
Liverpool have also earned it. As much as I hate them, they do things the right way.
Repeat that long enough and one day you might wake up with City having more CLs and being close to United's PL tally. Young fans growing up don't care one bit who their owners are, they care about being entertained, watching great players, bragging rights about "their club" on the playground, ...
Of course I am incredibly biased but Liverpool being on 6 or 7 CLs, in the grand scheme of things, matters a whole lot less than City winning their first European cup imo. The league, I could totally understand that Utd fans rather see City winning it than us equalling you guys.
Fair point, I just think City have a distinct lack of 'presence' in our lives, unless you live in Manchester. So they're there, winning every season but for most of us it's inconsequential because we don't have annoying friends neighbours and coworkers who are City fans.