Heather Fleming

Why Blue?

I became a City fan because I’m from Northampton, and I only got into football since I moved to Manchester. I looked around, and there was a wonderful opportunity for me to support a team that would win me a cup or two. But, I’ve always hated soulless corporate culture, and I was worried about hooligans at the time (1990). Then I saw a picture of 20,000 people waving inflatable tropical fruit, and it seemed a nice, cosy thing to do at a football match, and the team had the novelty of being totally unheard of by me until that moment. Comes of following sport in the ‘Evening News’ I suppose, and they had a much nicer strip as well.

This seemed fine for the first year, when they actually did better than the other buggers, but now I’m still waiting for the silver they promised me. Actually, I don’t regret picking City at all; they’ve given me much more thrills and entertainment than those other monsters, and there isn’t that awful persecution complex that Alex Ferguson seems to instil in his arrogant players. Imagine having to support Paul Ince during one of his rants, or pretending that Giggs is a genius and not just an opportunist goal-hanger! Dreadful thought, and supporting City makes me an automatic member of the “Anti-United Club”-the largest football club in Britain.

First printed in: MCIVTA Newsletter #147 on