We asked you – our fans – what you love about this Manchester City team.
Thank you for your responses. We couldn’t include them all but here are the best.
I love this year’s City squad because Pep has created another masterpiece. He’s changed the system and infused new players, like Erling Haaland, Manuel Akanji, Julian Alvarez, and Rico Lewis into a squad of proven champions. Every match City plays, I know we’re the better side and expect us to win, which is all you can ask for as a supporter.
Charlie Williams, 32
Los Angeles
The togetherness, they’re always working and fighting for each other. Their work rate is now commented on as much as the dazzling stuff we can do with the ball. I’m not sure in any other team someone as huge as Haaland would come in and not be seen as the complete star of the show, but instead fit in as one of the lads. It shows the importance of them being friends off the pitch and not having egos. Pep and his team have worked hard to create this atmosphere.
Ruth, 30s
Bishop Stortford (season ticket holder)
The relentless way that they produce results, at the business end of each season, when pressure is at its highest. All the team have each other’s backs and they drive each other to produce outstanding performances, game after game.
Steve, 65
Bury
It feels like this team all have absolute faith and trust in each other all the time. Every player has developed an automatic instinct of each other’s position and where the ball needs to be. They have so many continually moving parts but are superbly drilled to function as one. They emit such a positive mindset through hard work that they step onto the pitch with an aura of invincibility and absolute belief, which makes us fans feel it too.
Andy Robinson, 68
Southend-on-sea
A large number of factors come into play here. I saw City win the FA Cup on TV in 1969. The fact they were from Manchester was the start. In 1970 I was taken to Maine Road by a friend of the family, it was a floodlit match. Walking from the bus to the ground which was lit up was a magical (almost spiritual) moment. City played Blackpool that evening and won. Over the years City have gone through their ups and downs. However, my passion has remained. Whenever I get to a floodlit match I still get a feeling that I don’t get from anything else. It just takes me back to the excitement of that evening.
John, 60s
Milton Keynes
Love the way the players pass the ball around their opponents and the hunger to win every game.
Anuj Shrestha
Nepal
It may not be inevitable to support City as a man not born in Manchester, England. But the impressions and stories of City’s football history make fans go for it. We have a squad and a manager who makes great season results, and we have passionate fans who support them together. Results are not everything, of course. The mentality shown during the game and the persistence of 93:20 make us have no choice but to become fans. In particular, OSC Seoul is a big community of City fans in Korea with a large growth of nearly 200 people. It is a great pleasure to have friends who can watch and enjoy the game together. In addition, events that fans can participate in, such as Trophy Tours, bring precious experiences to fans.
Serkin Kim
Daegu, South Korea
I love how we haven’t forgotten our roots. Love still having that humour within the fans if we win, draw or lose.
Danny, 37
Manchester
The togetherness, the relentlessness, the bond with the fans. And Haaland’s obscene amount of goals obviously!
Sam, 36
Prestwich
My Dad took me to my first game in January 1974. As a nine year old kid seeing the throngs of people outside Maine Road, the smell of pipe smoke and the beautiful green field, floodlit pitch it was the closest I had ever experienced to a magical place. I fell in love that night and I have been in love ever since.
Dave Hoffman
Houston Space Cityzens OSC member
I love this year’s City squad because they are obviously having fun, even when the going gets tough. They work for each other’s success while seemingly laser-focused on the overall club goals.
Matthew Eide, 37
Delaware
How many of them could be chosen for Man of the Match each game? The determination to keep the ball and create goals is so fun to see. The way they still celebrate each goal like the boys in my school would, pure elation even at that level and stage in their careers.
Nay, 30s
Cheadle (season ticket holder)
I love City because, no matter wherever I am in the world, and if I needed help, and I saw someone wearing OUR colours, I feel secure and know that will be helped and looked after.
WE ARE A FAMILY. It’s tribal!
Mark Wood
Toronto OSC member
Personality, talent, and a class above the rest. The original entertainers.
Graeme, 65
Bury
More than a decade ago City were the underdogs. It all changed in 2011, when City won the FA Cup after decades. I fell in love with City when they challenged the juggernauts. When others disregarded Man City, Cityzens believed. And City remained champions ever since! I love this beautiful club!
Antony Tivian
Toronto OSC member
You follow and love a club over a period of time. How this starts usually, but not always, is family history. Obviously if they are successful, that’s a bonus! Stones, Dias, Rodri, Ake, Silva, Gundo, Grealish, Foden, Alvarez, KDB, Haaland come over as people you admire in different ways. They give you emotional highs (and lows). We play some lovely stuff from Ederson all the way forward, ‘patterns football’ as my dad used to call it.
Derek, 70s
Shropshire
My father’s side of the family were never what one would consider to be particularly close, and what little contact I had with them essentially died when he died of cancer twenty years ago. Not long after, I visited the UK for the very first time. While I always loved football, it was only really shown on TV in the States every four years for the World Cup. But I caught the football bug whilst in England like never before since it was everywhere, and I decided to find a club to support. Since my paternal grandmother’s family was from Cheetham Hill and Bury, I wanted it to be from Manchester. But in 2003, 2004, United reigned supreme. So I decided to support City, but really, I think the club chose me. It may have started to help me find a connection to a father who was no longer there, but in becoming a Blue, I’ve gained a bigger and bluer family than I could have ever imagined.
Spencer Schwartz
New York Sky Blues OSC member
There are some people you can count on in your toughest moments, and perhaps it’s all been cosmic coincidences, but Manchester City has given me massive joy and comfort every single time I truly needed it in the recent years. Every time we’re losing, I look back to those terrible moments when I knew I still had my club to back me up. I will never stop supporting. I’m forever bound to City, for everything it’s given me.
Diego Monterrosas
Mexico City OSC member
I started following and loving City about four years ago. I liked City because there’s been really good players like one of my favourites Kun Agüero. And the best coach in recent history, Pep! Of course right now we have, I think, the best squad in the world. Starting with Haaland and De Bruyne, my favourites, without diminishing the rest of our guys. I like the ambience in the Etihad, you can feel the passion!!! And last, my favourite colour is blue. Of course!
Jose Guerrero
Houston Space Cityzens OSC member
The team has really come together in a way that allows each player’s skills and personality to really shine while also feeling deeply connected as one unit. They are each so talented and equally as unselfish. It’s not a one-man show. But beyond that, they look like they are having fun. They are PLAYING football, which makes it incredibly enjoyable to watch.
Liz Gossens, 30s
Delaware
I started following City from afar in the late 80s, after family from Manchester visited. As an impressionable kid living in Canada, I wanted to find something that helped connect me to my family roots and that spoke to my belief that supporting a team was about being loyal through good and bad times. There were easier choices for my family to support. For me, I could have chosen literally anyone. Yet, attaching my loyalty to the same club that my family had remained true to just made sense. The community I joined was as important as any trophy was. Of course, the trophies came and they were and are wonderful. But, the connections, the friendships and being part of the City family are even more important to me today than they were back in the 80s.
Duane Rollins
Toronto OSC member
Now we want to hear from you. We want your video messages telling us what it is you love about this City team, why you feel a special connection to the Club, or what it is that unites City fans wherever you are in the world.
The best responses will get the chance to feature in our special video wall of fans, to be featured on our Club channels as we prepare for a two more games of an enthralling season.
For your chance to feature, click below to submit your video, starting your message with: “I love this City because...”
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