Manchester City FC

An entire city named after male chest hair? Yes. ManChestHair City. What are you going to do about it?
First-​Hand Experience: I’ve seen Manchester City play live, in person, many times. Both when they were a smaller club, a humble club, with average wealth, in the shadow of their neighbours… and as recently as Autumn 2014 at the Etihad vs LFC. I liked watching them better in the old days when they weren’t a team of mercenaries.
What a fantastic experience it was at Etihad. What a great set of fans this team has.
They’ve always been a nice team to watch though, with their faded light blue shirts. I’ve always enjoyed them, and enjoyed them beating United. Watching them this past Autumn, I noticed how different things are now. They’ve become an über-​wealthy monstrosity. I’ll explain.
So there was a time when City would have easily scored 4 or 5 out of 5. That was the time when they played at Maine Road and had lovely fans. But then something changed.
They were taken over by the richest people imaginable, built the fanciest new stadium imaginable, and started buying up every expensive overpriced player imaginable. Paying them obscene unimaginable wages. Although if the other three things were imaginable then why not that… I don’t know.
Anyway. Manchester City. I’ve seen them play both home and away and they just aren’t the same team. The only reason they don’t score a ¹⁄₅ is because their fans have maintained some semblance of kindness and respect for other fans, unlike Chelsea fans. Also, when I went to the stadium to see the sold out City V Liverpool game, the stadium staff were very lovely and sold me tickets randomly. So I have to bump them up to a 3, but I do it begrudgingly considering the fact that they are no longer a «people’s club» and now an «oil baron’s club».
Capitalism is the world we live in and unfortunately Manchester City are the symbol of that. I’d still rather see them win titles than United, though, considering I’m a Liverpool fan.
They were formed in 1880, they play in Sky Blue, they sing «Blue Moon» a lot, they dropped to the 3^rd tier only once, and they’ve now won the Prem 4 times… 1937, 1968, 2012 and 2014. They’ve won the FA Cup 5 times in 1904, 34, 56, 69 and just recently in 2011. They won the League Cup in 1970, 76 and 2014. They also had one great European success which was the 1970 Cup Winners’ Cup.
My apologies to the fans for the low rating for your team. It’s only because of your owners.
By the way, when in Manchester, try a Chicken Madras from Akbars, try Fish & Chips from Neil’s Fryery on Langworthy Rd Salford, and most importantly try a Kobedeh Kebab from Rusholme Chippy.