MCFC Fans urged to stop Munich Chants, Become old Ladies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4576800.stm

Fans of Manchester City are being urged to stop using "appalling" chants about the Munich air disaster.

The official supporters club and other groups have written an open letter to fans urging them to support their team rather than goad Manchester United.

Twenty-three people, including eight members of the Busby Babes, died in the crash near Kirchtrudering in 1958.

The letter, titled "We are City, let's be proud to be blue", called those who use the chants "an embarrassment".

Authors include the Centenary Supporters Association, Mcivta newsletter and the official Manchester City Supporters Club.

Chairman Alan Garry was a school boy at the time of the crash, which also claimed the life of journalist and former City goalkeeper, Frank Swift.

"I think it's up to somebody like myself to educate people about what a tragedy and a terrible day it was," he said.

"We (the official supporters club) are taking a lead in trying to stop these people doing it. A lot of us cringe when we hear it and we are trying to do anything we can to stop it.

"It has gone on a long, long time and it's about time in our view that it stops.

"We can only try. It is nasty, and its repugnant. We only hope they'll listen and learn and stop doing it."

The open letter appeared in the programme for Manchester City's match against Chelsea and will be republished for the next game against Tottenham.

The next Manchester derby is at the City of Manchester stadium on 14 January.

For John Kershaw:

Where's your famous, where's your famous, where's your famous Munich Song? ;)

I'd have though it'd get funnier and less offensive as time went by. talk about poncey Britain.

Obnoxious chants are part of all sports (and where I live they form the backbone of the political structure).

The only thing I hear from football fans that i cannot stand is the monkey noises when a black geezer gets the ball.....apart from the bare racist stupidity of it...I could never understand why they went "ook ook" at the guy who just scored their fucking equalizer.

I am disturbed that so may people here attend football matches, as I had always considered wiping out every ground in the country on a saturday afteroon would raise the average IQ of the nation perceptibly.....apparently this was in error.

Steve Campbell wrote: I'd have though it'd get funnier and less offensive as time went by. talk about poncey Britain.

Obnoxious chants are part of all sports (and where I live they form the backbone of the political structure).

Yeah... I'm really confused. The only thing I can think of is so that the chant will be gone by the time the whole world has to kiss Utd's ass again in 2 years for the 50th anniversary.

Steve Campbell wrote:

The only thing I hear from football fans that i cannot stand is the monkey noises when a black geezer gets the ball.....apart from the bare racist stupidity of it...I could never understand why they went "ook ook" at the guy who just scored their fucking equalizer.

I agree... I'm not offended at the racism involved though, just the lack of humor. That's as base and LCD as you can get...which I guess fits in what people say about Football fans.

ChrissMari wrote: For John Kershaw:

Where's your famous, where's your famous, where's your famous Munich Song? ;)

who's that dyin on the runway...who's that dyin in the snow!!

u mean that one!!!

i apologise though. i've never ever sang that at a match. leave it to Leeds and Citeh

Old news this one someone has to bring this up before we play utd at home just leave it to leeds i have never sung about munich meself.

M.C.F.C

john kershaw wrote:

ChrissMari wrote: For John Kershaw:

Where's your famous, where's your famous, where's your famous Munich Song? ;)

who's that dyin on the runway...who's that dyin in the snow!!

u mean that one!!!

i apologise though. i've never ever sang that at a match. leave it to Leeds and Citeh

We can sing it (though I wouldn't) because we don't loot cops or pee on the dead ;) ;) ;) ;)

is there enough winkies there to denote joking??

Exciting, if not crazy, match yesterday though, J.K. I woke up at the ass crack of 10 A.M. on a work holiday to watch it live.

UGH: I just got this in my inbox: City may enter Intertoto to get into Europe. lollers.

lucky u then.

I was fucked from new years day drinking.

I had a feeling the Bolton game might be on the Arab Channel or something. So, still being fucked, i decided to wait till half time before venturing to the alehouse round the corner from me (because its got the Arab Channel). Went into the pub at 4pm bang on, and would you believe it, it was the bleedin Everton/Charlton game that was on the Arab Channel, and not Liverpool. Jesus!!!Watched it anyway.

So, to cut a long story - i still aint seen the 4 goals. it was on Match of the Day and Football First last night, but i was out on the ale.

Why can't we get a match on the telly which is being played only 30 or so miles away from Liverpool, and you in America get it. fuckin Sense??

(hope Arsenal win tonight btw, but i'd settle for a nil niller).

john kershaw wrote:

Why can't we get a match on the telly which is being played only 30 or so miles away from Liverpool, and you in America get it. fuckin Sense??

Fox Soccer shows 4 prem matches on Saturday (A couple live a couple taped delay) There's a PPV match on Saturday and Sunday at 10 am and Fox Soccer shows most matches on Sunday and during the week. Most every team gets played more than Man City though..

But they didn't play the Liverpool/West Brom match at all...live or delay, which was pretty disappointing, that's another I'd have liked to see. Mind you I've seen yesterday's stinking Magpies/Boro match 2x already as I left the television on while sleeping. :P

I watch more footie here than I did while in Manchester haha

and yes, I'll be cheering for Arse, but I'll be in work...so I'll have to watch it through livescore.net.

haha, i was at the Albion game. in the kop. played well again apart from that Luis Garcia who is just shite.

another cleanie for us (clean sheet) against WBA

until the bolton game that is

john kershaw wrote: haha, i was at the Albion game. in the kop. played well again apart from that Luis Garcia who is just shite.

another cleanie for us (clean sheet) against WBA

until the bolton game that is

Luis Garthia He drinks Sangria He makes me happy When he scores Goals He's five foot seven He's football heaven Please don't take my Luis away

He did have the only real goal yesterday though. Quite a nice shot as well...

God, can you tell I'm avoiding work?

prefer:

Steve Gerrard Gerrard He'll pass the the ball 40 yards. He's big and he's fuckin 'ard Steve Gerrard Gerrard.

nah nah. its bang on 16.45pm now. 15 or so minutes and i'm offski.

aint seen the Gar-thia goal. hope they show it b4 the Arse/Yoo game tonight.

john kershaw wrote: prefer:

Steve Gerrard Gerrard He'll pass the the ball 40 yards. He's big and he's fuckin 'ard Steve Gerrard Gerrard.

nah nah. its bang on 16.45pm now. 15 or so minutes and i'm offski.

aint seen the Gar-thia goal. hope they show it b4 the Arse/Yoo game tonight.

Steven Gerrard wrote: I am mates with Kevin Nolan. He's a good Scouser.

So he's dead then?

ChrissMari wrote:

john kershaw wrote:

Why can't we get a match on the telly which is being played only 30 or so miles away from Liverpool, and you in America get it. fuckin Sense??

Fox Soccer shows 4 prem matches on Saturday (A couple live a couple taped delay) There's a PPV match on Saturday and Sunday at 10 am and Fox Soccer shows most matches on Sunday and during the week. Most every team gets played more than Man City though..

But they didn't play the Liverpool/West Brom match at all...live or delay, which was pretty disappointing, that's another I'd have liked to see. Mind you I've seen yesterday's stinking Magpies/Boro match 2x already as I left the television on while sleeping. :P

I watch more footie here than I did while in Manchester haha

and yes, I'll be cheering for Arse, but I'll be in work...so I'll have to watch it through livescore.net.

im going to try to avoid the score of the Arsenal/Man U match and watch the replay at 8 tonight on FSC

hopefully the gunners wont let me down, again!

Al Jarvis wrote:

Steve Campbell wrote: The only thing I hear from football fans that i cannot stand is the monkey noises when a black geezer gets the ball.....apart from the bare racist stupidity of it...I could never understand why they went "ook ook" at the guy who just scored their fucking equalizer.

'Football fans' don't, generally, make monkey noises at black players. Not in this country anyways. You're thinking of the Spanish, or Italians. They're backward cnuts when it comes to mixing race relations and football.

well maybe not fans....but someone makes the noises. I confess tho it's been a good 2-3 years since I watched a UK domestic match of any kind. In NI they just have a good old sectarian abuse session, follwed by a riot if the weather's good. F1 fans can be wankers too...watched them field strip a Benneton at Imola a coupla years ago.

frank smarra wrote:

im going to try to avoid the score of the Arsenal/Man U match and watch the replay at 8 tonight on FSC

hopefully the gunners wont let me down, again!

I'm just going to use footiefox and livescore.net. I can't wait to find out,you see.

Also, tons of people all over the intarwebs are using that same pictures as an avatar. It's funlarious.

ChrissMari wrote:

frank smarra wrote:

im going to try to avoid the score of the Arsenal/Man U match and watch the replay at 8 tonight on FSC

hopefully the gunners wont let me down, again!

I'm just going to use footiefox and livescore.net. I can't wait to find out,you see.

Also, tons of people all over the intarwebs are using that same pictures as an avatar. It's funlarious.

not only is collina a great ref he is fun to look at

john kershaw wrote:

(hope Arsenal win tonight btw, but i'd settle for a nil niller).

0-0 it was. Probably fair overall. What wasn't fair though was bloody Ronaldo blazing over just on half time when he could have scored with his eyes closed while stapled to van der Sar's crossbar! (The fact that I stuck a fiver on him at 14-1 to score the 1st goal did nothing to help my state of mind.)

Element115 wrote:

john kershaw wrote:

(hope Arsenal win tonight btw, but i'd settle for a nil niller).

0-0 it was. Probably fair overall. What wasn't fair though was bloody Ronaldo blazing over just on half time when he could have scored with his eyes closed while stapled to van der Sar's crossbar! (The fact that I stuck a fiver on him at 14-1 to score the 1st goal did nothing to help my state of mind.)

i gave the second half a miss. it was boring as fuck. turned over and watched those kids with Tourettes Syndrome doin a camp america documentary. funny. and sad.

Al Jarvis wrote:

Steve Campbell wrote: well maybe not fans....but someone makes the noises. I confess tho it's been a good 2-3 years since I watched a UK domestic match of any kind. In NI they just have a good old sectarian abuse session, follwed by a riot if the weather's good.

Like I said, not in my country. It sounds like a good 20-30 years since you watched a 'UK' game, then you might be right.

It's true. Football here is not like that anymore. I've been going 25 odd years, and in all my time at Arsenal- never heard anything really bad- from the Arsenal fans anyway.

Been to a few suspect England games though. There are some fans that follow England that make me ashamed and sick. Especially, when England lose- then they all kick off with each other.

The average Ingerland fan is a moron. They attract all the hillbillies.

maybe racism on the terraces is on the wain thank god (my last memory of that was West Ham away '94, against Ince) but chants are getting bloody worse.

Cleveland child abuse (Man City) London Bombings 7/7 (Hull) Dr Shipman killings (too many to mention)

BTW I'm not accusing listed clubs of being any worse than others, every football crowd has it's fair share of dickheads. I despair at Old Trafford these days, it seems we sing about hating other teams more than getting behind our own

ChrissMari wrote:

john kershaw wrote: haha, i was at the Albion game. in the kop. played well again apart from that Luis Garcia who is just shite.

another cleanie for us (clean sheet) against WBA

until the bolton game that is

Luis Garthia He drinks Sangria He makes me happy When he scores Goals He's five foot seven He's football heaven Please don't take my Luis away

He did have the only real goal yesterday though. Quite a nice shot as well...

thought something was wrong with the Gar-thia song. its: Luis Garcia, he drinks Sangria, he came from Barca to bring us joy. He's five foot seven he's footballheaven but please don't take our Luis away!'

God, can you tell I'm avoiding work?

Barney Army wrote: The average Ingerland fan is a moron. They attract all the hillbillies.

maybe racism on the terraces is on the wain thank god (my last memory of that was West Ham away '94, against Ince) but chants are getting bloody worse.

Cleveland child abuse (Man City) London Bombings 7/7 (Hull) Dr Shipman killings (too many to mention)

BTW I'm not accusing listed clubs of being any worse than others, every football crowd has it's fair share of dickheads. I despair at Old Trafford these days, it seems we sing about hating other teams more than getting behind our own

defo!! hull, Notts Forest, plymouth et al only follow En-ger-land in finals of World Cups etc. not arsed usually. rather watch the Prem.

Oddly enough...I only show any interest in footie for the WC.

London bombing chants eh?

I didn't think you had it in yous to be so vicious.

Oddly enough i've only met one person from Hull and i fuckin hated her.

There was a thread on the Southampton board proclaiming the comedy genius of whoever started the "Does Your Boyfriend Know Your Here?" chant at us on Monday. Bless.

Top stewarding too, they watch and laugh as an Albion fan with his girlfriend gets a barrage of homophobic abuse across the mesh divide, but as soon as he reacts they get ejected.

I just never thought anyone over there could take us on in the sick fucker stakes. Kudos :D

Bonzette wrote: It's true. Football here is not like that anymore. I've been going 25 odd years, and in all my time at Arsenal- never heard anything really bad- from the Arsenal fans anyway.

that's 'cause arsenal were always boring.

and proud of it.

p.s. everyone's been thuper thweet towards the new orleans saints this year. wonder why.... and after 9/11 seems everyone was a giants/jets/knicks/yankees/mets/islanders fan.