Families with split loyalties

[MCFChistory]

Haven't seen a thread on this so thought I'd start one. I was wondering how many people on here have United-supporting siblings?

My two older brothers are both United season-ticket holders (my younger brother's a Blue) and it's been fascinating watching them try to cope with City's revival since the takeover. One of my brothers drives up from London for games and he was shell-shocked after the 6-1. My Dad told me he came round after the match and could barely speak. My Dad (who's a Blackburn fan) isn't the most tactful of people at the best of times and his parting comment of: "Cheer up, you can always swap it for a City season ticket" almost pushed my brother over the edge.

[Kladze]

My son is a United fan, says he only started following them to spite me but then got 'stuck' on them. He lives 200 miles away from me so we do a lot of talking on instant messenger. He hasn't signed in since Sunday and also refuses to answer his mobile phone - needless to say I've sent a fair few texts (he can't block those).

[Yffi_88]

Dad's family is city. Mums is Merseyside Red.

Needless to say they're happily divorced.

[Bear60]

My two are City mad, But My new partners boy is a u----d fan , we watched it together on Sunday and to be fair to him he took it on the chin.

[Patrick]

I almost wish i had red scum in teh family - but thats like wishing aids on your own kin

what surprised me most was that two rag fans turned up to my local pub here - and i hate to say this - they were lovely - a couple of times at 0-0 they pointed out bad challenges from scum players, and took every opportunity to praise city during the first 20 mins when there actually wasnt that much to praise

As i got progressively more drunk - they even started nudging me to say that they thought this attack was looking dangerous from city!

At the end - they agreed to have their photo taken with me, looking sad whilst i gloated, and took all my drunken, but gentle, piss taking in fine form - staying way past the final whistle

obviously they werent real scum fans - they came from manchester - but they added a little bit to my day

i hate scum fans a little less now

[Invisible Man Fan]

My other half is a scum fan, and my little'un is a Blue (obviously).

The look on her face when 4, 5 & 6 went in was absolutely priceless.

We went round to her mums for dinner after the match, sat there in my city shirt with 5 scummers staring at me!!

One of the best days of my footballing life!!

[PoC]

my brother is a rag and lives round the corner from old toilet and doesnt go surprisingly, he just goes to the pub every match instead but i havent heard a peep from him since sunday, whenever they have a little downer he gets in the mindset of 'i dont really care about football' or 'im a fcum fan', so it makes it all the sweeter when i can use this against him in arguments about football which i always win

[BobbyJ1956]

One half of my family was always passionate about City, the other half just liked them a lot.

[RodneyRodney]

The first Premier League match I watched with my other half was United v Newcastle , around Jan 1995. My other half is from the S. Pacific - so the only black people she had seen up to that point were Fijians. Andy Cole was playing for United, so she Immediately adopted them a HER team , on the grounds that Andy Cole was Fijian. . .

Thanfully , her misplaced allegiance has evaporated in recent years (since they sold Andy) - but it would have been so good to give here a hard time on Monday about it. . . .

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

my brother is a rag and lives round the corner from old toilet and doesnt go surprisingly, he just goes to the pub every match instead but i havent heard a peep from him since sunday, whenever they have a little downer he gets in the mindset of 'i dont really care about football' or 'im a fcum fan', so it makes it all the sweeter when i can use this against him in arguments about football which i always win

That's actually cleverish. And what a win-win situation as well.

[john@staustell]

My two are City mad, But My new partners boy is a u----d fan , we watched it together on Sunday and to be fair to him he took it on the chin.

Time he converted then. Change of life all round!

My kids were dragged up through the 90s wondering why they were forced to support City, under threat of an orphanage. Now they know dad was right of course. Brother-in-law is a rag, and his boy. I'm saving it a week or two before mentioning the match!!

[Slim]

Haven't seen a thread on this so thought I'd start one. I was wondering how many people on here have United-supporting siblings?

I have a brother and sister, my sister doesn't really follow football and my brother is one of the owners of this site.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

Haven't seen a thread on this so thought I'd start one. I was wondering how many people on here have United-supporting siblings?

I have a brother and sister, my sister doesn't really follow football and my brother is one of the owners of this site.

Are you saying that your brother is a rag?

[Slim]

Haven't seen a thread on this so thought I'd start one. I was wondering how many people on here have United-supporting siblings?

I have a brother and sister, my sister doesn't really follow football and my brother is one of the owners of this site.

Are you saying that your brother is a rag?

I have had about 9 hours sleep in four days so forgive me if I am missing something here, but how did you get there?

[Dunnylad]

My brother was a rag, he even watched them train at the cliff - over the years I've worked on him & he's now a Chester season ticket holder (better than being a rag) and now often watches city & was over the moon that they'd stuffed un*t*d - I think as he got older he realised what a bunch of arrogant cnuts they were & he didn't want anything to do with them :)

[Dronny]

There were a few rags in our family but I torched the house of the cousins on my Dad's side and poisoned the cousins on my Mum's side. I loosened the brake pads on one Uncle's car and left the gas on in the kitchen of my other Uncle's house. Finally I bought a tarantula and left it in my brother's bed.














































That last bit was a lie, I hate spiders and couldn't bear to touch them

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

Haven't seen a thread on this so thought I'd start one. I was wondering how many people on here have United-supporting siblings?

I have a brother and sister, my sister doesn't really follow football and my brother is one of the owners of this site.

Are you saying that your brother is a rag?

I have had about 9 hours sleep in four days so forgive me if I am missing something here, but how did you get there?

I'm obviously pointing to the topic title and the fact that loyalties in your family clearly aren't split.

Get some sleep, will ya.

[MCFChistory]

Haven't seen a thread on this so thought I'd start one. I was wondering how many people on here have United-supporting siblings?

I have a brother and sister, my sister doesn't really follow football and my brother is one of the owners of this site.

Are you saying that your brother is a rag?

Yeah, and looking back on it I think my initial reason for supporting City was to be different from them. So I'm curious as whether an older brother / younger brother divide is a common thing.

It's also been hilarious seeing my two older brothers cope with City's revival. For years now whenever we got together they'd talk endlessly about United. But since the takeover it's almost as though they've taken a vow of silence. For the past year or they'll talk about general football stuff to me, and have lots of digs at Arsenal, but they NEVER talk about United (despite both of them being season-ticket holders).

[Slim]

Haven't seen a thread on this so thought I'd start one. I was wondering how many people on here have United-supporting siblings?

I have a brother and sister, my sister doesn't really follow football and my brother is one of the owners of this site.

Are you saying that your brother is a rag?

I have had about 9 hours sleep in four days so forgive me if I am missing something here, but how did you get there?

I'm obviously pointing to the topic title and the fact that loyalties in your family clearly aren't split.

Get some sleep, will ya.

You must be bored in that igloo.

[Beeks]

My Mrs brother is a red dipper season ticket holder and his young son is a rag!!!

I can only assume this is down to poor parenting

My two lads will be blues..or up for adoption..fact