Proper football club

[Eyrie]

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Our friends across the city started as a blinkin dance group

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They've always been a bunch of hoofers.

[Clarence Beeks]

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To me, a proper club means their fans are sound and get that the best part about the football is the day out itself, and not necessarily the result. They believe having an atmosphere at the games is important, and are able to take the piss out of themselves when things aren't going their way, rather than gnashing their teeth and demanding that they watch a successful product on the pitch.

For that reason, I'd say Birmingham City are one of the few proper clubs left in England

Feels wrong to make this my first post on this board but Birmingham City are a scab on the arse of football, and a few of them like to think that they're part of the Chelsea-Rangers-Linfield Axis of ********s that play in that ****ty blue.

[Jones28]

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Feels wrong to make this my first post on this board but Birmingham City are a scab on the arse of football, and a few of them like to think that they're part of the Chelsea-Rangers-Linfield Axis of ********s that play in that ****ty blue.

Top notch first post 👍🏻😂

[LancashireHibby]

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Feels wrong to make this my first post on this board but Birmingham City are a scab on the arse of football, and a few of them like to think that they're part of the Chelsea-Rangers-Linfield Axis of ********s that play in that ****ty blue.

Was on a train up to Glasgow a few years ago (think it was a semi final weekend) and a few Birmingham fans were on their way up for the The Rangers game the following day. Orange Birmingham shirts and UDA tunes on their speakers. The mind boggles.

[ABZHFC]

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Feels wrong to make this my first post on this board but Birmingham City are a scab on the arse of football, and a few of them like to think that they're part of the Chelsea-Rangers-Linfield Axis of ********s that play in that ****ty blue.

I agree they definitely carry that element to their support (sadly, most English clubs do), but then they also have a good bunch of anti-racist supporters too, I mind them doing a Black Lives Matter march last June

[tamig]

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I agree they definitely carry that element to their support (sadly, most English clubs do), but then they also have a good bunch of anti-racist supporters too, I mind them doing a Black Lives Matter march last June

They also had the infamous Zulus and have long been recognised for their diverse hard-core support.

[heretoday]

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I agree they definitely carry that element to their support (sadly, most English clubs do), but then they also have a good bunch of anti-racist supporters too, I mind them doing a Black Lives Matter march last June

Birmingham are a great club.

[NAE NOOKIE]

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I don't really get what you are meaning. Dundee United are not a proper football club but Dundee are??

Every single football club is a proper club. That includes Man City who had some of the most loyal supporters throughout the 90s whilst their city neighbours dominated English football. What gives anyone the right to proclaim to those generations of City fans who's families have supported the team for decades that they don't support a "real" club?

I've heard people say Edinburgh isn't a footballing city (and they are probably correct when you look at our population relative to the 2 clubs attendances). Does that mean Hibs aren't a proper club? Of course not as it means the world to the people who follow the club.

There seems to be an almost inverted snobbery with football fans lower down the pecking order. I read it on here quite often that Liverpool, Man Utd ect are not real clubs. They are to the people who have supported them all of their lifes and I'm pretty sure they don't care what other supporters think.

Absolutely bang on mate and especially your point about Man City, even when they had plummeted the depth and Man United were sweeping all before them they were getting crowds of 30,000 if that isn't loyalty I would like to know what is, now these 30,000 get unfairly lumped in with the fitba tourists and glory / glamour hunters who have attached themselves to the club and you can absolutely guarantee that when the billions kick in a Newcastle, one of the most extraordinarily loyal supports possibly in world football, exactly the same will happen.

From Real Madrid to East Stirling every club is a 'proper' football club .... Yes some are far more successful and 'glamorous' than others and therefor attract the floating fans who only follow success or glamour, but that doesn't diminish in the slightest the core fanbase or thick or thin fans who have always been there and always will.

I use 'glamour' quite a lot here because especially in the EPL that seems to be a new thing. Look at the likes of Fulham, Cardiff City, Reading etc. When these clubs are in the EPL they get big crowds willing to pay top dollar to watch them get pumped by Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea week in week out, but when they inevitably drop back to a league where they can win at home reasonably regularly their crowds still plummet .... clearly for some 'fans' basking in the warm glow of being in 'the worlds biggest and most glamorous league' trumps having to watch the team you profess to support getting its arse handed to it on a regular basis.

[Clarence Beeks]

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Birmingham are a great club.

No, they're Zombies without trophies.

I'm Villa, I'm biased, but West Brom are a great club, punched above their weight for years and have a bit of class, Wolves are a great club with a proper history. That lot, no.

[MWHIBBIES]

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No, they're Zombies without trophies.

I'm Villa, I'm biased, but West Brom are a great club, punched above their weight for years and have a bit of class, Wolves are a great club with a proper history. That lot, no.

Haven't Birmingham more recently won a major trophy?

[Scottie]

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Haven't Birmingham more recently won a major trophy?

Alex McLeish was their manager at the time I think they won the League Cup 2011.

[Clarence Beeks]

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Haven't Birmingham more recently won a major trophy?

Yeah, even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.

[IWasThere2016]

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Manchester is Red and Blue and I have mates who support and grew up supporting one or the other and they're all mates except they rip each other about it relentlessly. I enjoy being in the middle cos I can stir the pot for greatest humour outcome.

They're all die hards, their families supported the club and the club is massive in their life.

Anyone who bangs on about Utd fans "coming from London" or No one supporting city until they got money has never been to Manchester and have no idea what these clubs mean to people.

But Manchester is BLUE