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Manchester City will hold a series of behind-the-scenes meetings to determine an appropriate response to last night's repeated chants referring to the Munich air crash by supporters at Blackburn last night.

The Blues hierarchy have resisted the temptation to issue a knee-jerk response, preferring instead to adopt a measured approach to a particularly tricky problem.

Chief executive Garry Cook is acutely aware the club have worked tirelessly to eradicate such chanting in recent times and have taken out banning orders against supporters caught on camera making aeroplane gestures, in reference to the crash in February 1958 when 20 people, including eight Manchester United players, died following a refuelling stop in Munich.

However, there remains a section of the City support who are undeterred by such action, which some going on-line last night to defend their use of the term "Munichs" as a collective to describe United supporters as a whole, arguing it is not an offensive term.

In a week when an emotional film highlighted what happened that fateful day was shown by the BBC - which in itself drew stinging criticism from the family of former United boss Sir Matt Busby - the chants are only going to fuel ill-feeling between the two Manchester clubs, who are on track to meet in next season's Community Shield curtain-raiser at Wembley in August.

City's discussions seem certain to result in further calls to end chanting relating to the Munich crash, in the hope it can be avoided when they take part in the FA Cup final against Stoke on May 14

the only bit i care about.

maybe if the rags, as well as publicising and doing an annual commemoration of the event, would also admit that they acted like c nts and kicked out the dead players families from the club owned houses then city fans would feel it was less of a milking exercise and lay off.

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"It felt like a really pointless version of ketamine: no psychedelic effects, no pleasant slide into rubbery nonsense, just a sudden drop off the cliff of wrongness."
"i'm gonna wreck you so bad we're going to have to change church"

I wonder how much money made from the admission charge to the memorial museum or from the sale of kiddies commerotive duvets goes to the survivors and families?

They can fuck off.

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And put on that wig I bought you. No, no, no, no. The reddish-brown one.

I wonder if they have any Hillsborough songs?

... or making hissing noises at Eyal Berkovic at Old Trafford....

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And put on that wig I bought you. No, no, no, no. The reddish-brown one.

That was MRAMB tbf...

I understand our reasons for using it and the distinction between the horrible runway song and just referring to them generally as Munichs HOWEVER it is still a term that references a plane crash in which people died and it is a very easy stick to beat City fans with and makes our fans out to be insensitive arseholes, regardless of intent so I'd like to think we could just not. Also makes us out to be obsessed when we're singing about them at a Blackburn game.

We shouldn't be singing those type of songs, anywhere. We should be above all that.

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The Senior Member

i didn't actually notice any munich songs last night though tbh, i did hear the yayayaya toure one mind.

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"It felt like a really pointless version of ketamine: no psychedelic effects, no pleasant slide into rubbery nonsense, just a sudden drop off the cliff of wrongness."
"i'm gonna wreck you so bad we're going to have to change church"

You should hear the chav's new chant for Torres, they must have some right creative buggers amongst them tbf:rolleyes:

Also, that Torres banner with the shankly gates on still has pride of place behind the goal:D

The yaya toure one says something about sticking it in the munich's net. that's the one we're on about.

[S]enlighten[/S] depress us...



ah right, all i could make out was the yayayayayayayaya toure bit. how's the rest of it go?

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"It felt like a really pointless version of ketamine: no psychedelic effects, no pleasant slide into rubbery nonsense, just a sudden drop off the cliff of wrongness."
"i'm gonna wreck you so bad we're going to have to change church"

"Fernando, Fernando Torres...Chelsea's number 9"

A quality of lyrics not seen since the time of 2Unlimited IMO

I thought the Toure one was just the

nah nah nah,
NAH NAH NAH NAH!
NAH NAH NAH NAH
Cityyyyyy

changed to

Ya ya ya,
YA YA YA YA!
YA YA YA YA
Toureeeee

Since when has being insensitive been a crime? Are people trying to liken the Munich Air Crash to the Holocaust? Get a grip you pansies.

Don't get me wrong I love a bit of right on 'groovy' liberalism but let's not disappear up our own arse.

*looks at BiscuitBlueCheese*

Who put the ball in the Munich's net
Who put the ball in the Munich's net
Yaya Yaya Toure

Suck my hairy ballbag.

what? did they?



Exactly, no better than the fucking celtic clubs by doing this shit.

At 'our roundabout' at Wembley last week, I saw 45+ year old men, with under 12 yr old sons following rag coaches around the roundabout making wing motions...have a fucking look at yourself you fuckhead. Nearly started a fight myself.

I have in the past used the term munich, further to that I have rag friends who refer to other reds or themselves as munichs. I think there is a difference between making fun of death and accepting nicknames. Like my red headed mate who calls himself CT, short for 'carrot top'. Or Pakistani people who refer to themselves as Paki. In fairness, the last one would never happen.

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KYPU

Nom nom nom.

Pretty sure I know a few who do.