City fans shame themselves with Munich chants
Manchester City fans shamed themselves once again last night with vile chanting about the Munich air disaster that killed eight Manchester United players.
Chants of “Carlos Tevez is a blue, he hates Munich’s” were sung inside the ground throughout the game. And Radio Manchester were forced to apologize to their listeners after some giddy City fans got into their van outside the Eastlands stadium and repeated the same sickening chants.
The irony lost on on them is that ex-City goalkeeper Frank Swift was one of those tragically killed in the disaster in 1958, so by mocking us they’re also mocking one of their own. One would imagine they would know a little about their own history, but ignorance is bliss as they say. Even Leeds, famed for their hatred of us, behaved better than City did when they came to Old Trafford earlier in the month.
Kids as young as five and six were seen with their arms out doing airplane gestures at United fans, presumably taught to do so by their parents.
The lesson to learn from this is that there’s one thing money will never buy for City and that’s a touch of class. While the club sticks with its small time mentality and its fans mock the dead, they’ll never be anywhere close to Manchester United.
It’s just a shame the media aren’t as quick to report this as they are about the Wenger song.
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This is not good and on behalf of all the fans doing that my apologies from the Blue half of Manchester…
But I don’t think the fans are any worse than some of United fans (and players Mr Neville). I myself wasn’t born when the Munich disaster happened but I know about it…
Maybe take the 33 years banner down and then the fans might think twice bout mocking your lowest emotion point as a club.
Saying we have no class as fans I consider to be as inflammatory as Mr Evra’s comment pre match, there is no need for it and it just gets people angry!
Lets look forward to next week.
As with every club there are only a handful of fans out of the 48000 last night that were chanting those comments. I for one certainly was not nor were any around me so for the author to tar us all with the same brush is just another pathetic attempt at a dig at city. Of course you did not mention the behaviour of the united fans pulling up seats and throwing them at the end of the game as could be clearly seen on match of the day last night, or is that acceptable behaviour? Get a grip, every club has bad eggs but thank god the majority are decent fans.
Shameful, I am a City fan and it makes me mad when people start chanting about the disaster, doing airplanes etc, unfortunatly we live in a society where there is a minority of idiots who let their clubs down.
Please don’t tar us all with the same brush, I was at the 50th anniversary game and was one of the “impeccables” even when bottles were thrown done on us during the silence, believe it or not the majority of us would be happy to live in peace with each other
Don`t tar us all with the same brush, a lot of us know about what happened and that Frank swift was amongst those that died. For everyone of the d – - k heads doing the shouting and gesturing there were 10 of us who were not. At the end of the day they were only young lads who wanted to play football and had their lives ended in such an awful way.
There are some at City with A BIT OF CLASS, you have a short memory as it was not long ago at Old Trafford on the 50 anniversary where we behaved impeccably.
All the best for the rest of the season, except against us that is !
CTID
While i don’t condone chants such as this – do you or can you possibly condone utd, so called “fans”, physically attacking old men and children outside the ground after the whistle…does this show any class?!
“Maybe take the 33 years banner down and then the fans might think twice bout mocking your lowest emotion point as a club.”
Mmmmm one thing to mock a lack of trophies, absolutely another to mock the dead…
I’m a Liverpool supporter and i must admit i dislike City fans more than Utd’s. The whole club is a laughing stock from the top down and they are an embarrasment to football.
Well phil, if we’re a laughing stock, what does that make Luddypool?
Bindippers are a club in a state of nervous breakdown!
Shameful. But what is worse? A minority of fans (perhaps a sizable minority, but a minority nonetheless) who chant songs about an air disaster that occurred over 50 years ago? Or a club who exploit the same air disaster time and again to build itself into the largest club in England and arguably the world?
At every opportunity, the memory of Munich 1958 is invoked by United to prop up the club and the club has profited handsomely off the dead and injured of the air disaster. Commemorative shirts and souvenirs, numerous books and documentaries, even the 50th anniversary was sold out for sponsorship from AIG (an insurance company ironically enough), the repetition of the heroism and bravery of the Busby Babes in order to build up the club brand and image; these are just a few examples.
And yet the club itself couldn’t even take care of the survivors who weren’t lucky enough to avoid career ending injuries. While Charlton was paraded at every instance as the gleaming example of the resilience of the Babes (and in turn, United) the unfortunate ones who couldn’t play anymore were cut from their main source of income and even kicked out of United housing along with their families! Even after United became a multimillion pound club, they refused to properly take care of the survivors, aside from token measures such as club cards to attend matches. Many of those players died years later poor and bitter at United and even at Busby.
United used every opportunity to exploit the air disaster, while pushing aside the very survivors from that disaster that helped raised their profile so high and turning their backs on the very Babes they supposed “honor” so often.
Torino suffered a similar disaster in 1949 where their “Grande Torino” squad was decimated to the point that the club never recovered and didn’t win another trophy until 1976 and the impact of the disaster is still felt to this day where the team is now in the Italian second division, down from being the most dominant Italian club during the first half of the 20th century. Yet you scarcely hear much about the Superga air disaster, at least not when compared to Munich 58.
Shameful.