BRISTOL?

[Tomo]

We......ie Me!

ANYONE fed up with pundits, managers, players, opposition fans alike calling us Bristol!

Mark Hughes after Tuesday was guilty!

WE ARE BRISTOL CITY!

Can we stop this nonsense! 

You never hear Manchester U or City being called Manchester. You never hear Sheffield Weds or United being called Sheffield. You never hear Nottingham Forest or County being called Nottingham....bla bla.

Derby are Derby of course!

Time for our marketing dept to advise the world that we are Bristol City and anyone that refers to Bristol should be referring to the egg chasers, the Rugby World!

 

 

[Red Homer]

You may want to refer to Notts County in the correct way, they are Notts County, not Nottingham County.

 

Just saying.

[Meh]

Personally I could not give a toss so it’s not “we” - really non-plus about it to be honest but accept that some, even majority may agree with your strong sentiment

[Vincent Vega]

3 minutes ago, Neo said:

Personally I could not give a toss so it’s not “we” - really non-plus about it to be honest but accept that some, even majority may agree with your strong sentiment

You're not alone , zero ***** given.

[Phileas Fogg]

I’m just impressed/curious about why you picked now - 8.50pm on a Thursday - to unleash this rather furious post about what pundits call us 

[Tomo]

4 minutes ago, Phileas Fogg said:

I’m just impressed/curious about why you picked now - 8.50pm on a Thursday - to unleash this rather furious post about what pundits call us 

Catching up on Channel 5 highlights and heard Hughes say it......arghhhhhh

[BS4 on Tour...]

8 minutes ago, tomo said:

We are all fed up with pundits, managers, players, opposition fans alike calling us Bristol!

Pretty sweeping generalisation - 'We are all fed up...'

I'm not, I quite enjoy loads of people in the football world thinking we represent Bristol - it further marginalises the gas and makes them feel even more inferior, if that is possible!

Lots of people on here feel like they know the views of everyone, when they just don't...more use of "I" rather than "We" would be more appropriate....

[cityboy]

I have no problems with it. There is only one team in Bristol after all...

[Judda]

15 minutes ago, tomo said:

We are all fed up with pundits, managers, players, opposition fans alike calling us Bristol!

Mark Hughes after Tuesday was guilty!

WE ARE BRISTOL CITY!

Can we stop this nonsense! 

You never hear Manchester U or City being called Manchester. You never hear Sheffield Weds or United being called Sheffield. You never hear Nottingham Forest or County being called Nottingham....bla bla.

Derby are Derby of course!

Time for our marketing dept to advise the world that we are Bristol City and anyone that refers to Bristol should be referring to the egg chasers, the Rugby World!

 

 

Yeah... and you never hear Everton or Liverpool being referred to as Li.... oh.

It does bug me but generally I just think that it shows a lack of knowledge from the pundit saying it...

[Jackson Lamb]

Yet you post on a forum called One Team in Bristol... 

[Guest Dreamkiller]

I doubt Hughes was being disrespectful. I mean it's fairly obvious he wasn't talking about Rovers. Think I referred to you as Bristol last night. Just seemed a bit daft to refer to your full title. I presumed everyone knew who I meant. No offence intended.

Our lot get a bit uppity when we play Man City and all the commentators and journalists refer to them as City without seemingly noticing that little ol' Stoke are City too. We all need something to get wound up about I suppose.

 

[Unan]

Don't we call Stoke City, Stoke?

 

edit: Ninja'ed by Dreamkiller

[Guest Dreamkiller]

3 minutes ago, Tammys Scan said:

Don't we call Stoke City, Stoke?

I think Sjoke is the usual accepted term of endearment. 

[simon uk]

3 minutes ago, Dreamkiller said:

I think Sjoke is the usual accepted term of endearment. 

I use the c word as my term of endearment for stoke to be fair. 

Just jesting!!

[CyderInACan]

In a way I like it. If I heard commentators refer to the sags as "Bristol" that'd mightily piss me off. Id rather just be City, mind. 

[Eddie Hitler]

It's a compliment.

Commentators would never say "Manchester" because nobody would know if they meant Manchester United or Manchester City.

So if they feel happy saying "Bristol" then that is because none of their viewers / listeners will do other than think that it's Bristol City to whom they are referring.

One Team in Bristol is probably more true now than it has ever been.

[Tomo]

This forum cracks me up - in a funny way!

If everyone is fairly relaxed with it, I will cancel the email to the world tomorrow!

Lets focus on Norwich.......Norwich who?

The difference is there is NO Norwich Rovers!

Or Stoke Rovers! 

:laugh:

[Fiale]

14 minutes ago, Red_Wizard said:

Yet you post on a forum called One Team in Bristol... 

 

Post on OTIB - sing "only one team in Bristol" and yet some fans get upset when we are referred to as Bristol - was it confusing, did you think Rovers were also playing Stoke and kept getting confused as to which of us they were referring to ? Maybe when they make the football equivalent of

 

 

 

we might have something to complain about

[Guest Dreamkiller]

3 minutes ago, simon uk said:

I use the c word as my term of endearment for stoke to be fair. 

Just jesting!!

[Donkeeebles]

The more people protest about it the more it will get done

[The Fat Controller]

3 minutes ago, Fiale said:

 

Post on OTIB - sing "only one team in Bristol" and yet some fans get upset when we are referred to as Bristol - was it confusing, did you think Rovers were also playing Stoke and kept getting confused as to which of us they were referring to ? Maybe when they make the football equivalent of

 

 

 

we might have something to complain about

You mean this.... 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-25852634/three-sided-football-a-game-of-alliance-and-betrayal

[One Team In Keynsham]

35 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

It's a compliment.

Commentators would never say "Manchester" because nobody would know if they meant Manchester United or Manchester City.

So if they feel happy saying "Bristol" then that is because none of their viewers / listeners will do other than think that it's Bristol City to whom they are referring.

One Team in Bristol is probably more true now than it has ever been.

Would need a special sort of stupid to be watching the commentary, or post-match summary, of Bristol City v Stoke City, hear someone say "Bristol" and think they are referring to the horse punchers.

[Negan]

I mean it can be annoying, but it honestly doesn’t bother me that much. I see some city fans go mental on twitter about it and I’m incredibly jealous of them. How great must there lives be that this bothers them that much. Can’t have any other problems going on. 

 

Perhaps they call us Bristol because they forget about the other irrelevant mob?.. easily done. 

[Pezo]

What do you want him to say? Surely if he refered to us as city then Stoke fans would assume "City" would be them.

[Judda]

13 minutes ago, Pezo said:

What do you want him to say? Surely if he refered to us as city then Stoke fans would assume "City" would be them.

You are right but it's not exactly hard to say Bristol City is it?

[Judda]

It also annoys me if they mispronounce

real Madrid 

AJax 

Joooventus 

Etc

[Lanterne Rouge]

24 minutes ago, Negan said:

I mean it can be annoying, but it honestly doesn’t bother me that much. I see some city fans go mental on twitter about it and I’m incredibly jealous of them. How great must there lives be that this bothers them that much. Can’t have any other problems going on. 

 

Perhaps they call us Bristol because they forget about the other irrelevant mob?.. easily done. 

Being a bit harsh on Manor Farm there mate.

[eastonboy]

29 minutes ago, One Team In Keynsham said:

Would need a special sort of stupid 

I like this phrase so much, I am going to steal it and make it mine.

[Guest Dreamkiller]

9 minutes ago, Judda said:

You are right but it's not exactly hard to say Bristol City is it?

But why should he? His team's just been made to look stupid and you think he should be asking the locals how they like to be referred to? Why be offended by an opposition manager referring to your team by a name you should be proud of, the name of your city.

[Pezo]

6 minutes ago, Judda said:

You are right but it's not exactly hard to say Bristol City is it?

Do we insist/support this happening to any other club? I have only seen us complain about how we are refered to.

Is this just an over opinionated version of a full kit w****r?

[Judda]

6 minutes ago, Dreamkiller said:

But why should he? His team's just been made to look stupid and you think he should be asking the locals how they like to be referred to? Why be offended by an opposition manager referring to your team by a name you should be proud of, the name of your city.

I'm really not offended at all. It just annoys me a tad as it's quote a simple thing. Again as stated earlier by someone you never hear Manchester clubs referred to as Manchester...

[Judda]

6 minutes ago, Pezo said:

Do we insist/support this happening to any other club? I have only seen us complain about how we are refered to.

Is this just an over opinionated version of a full kit w****r?

If a pundit went on about Manchester on tv they'd be up in arms about it!

[reddogkev]

We all know our full name, so it doesn't really matter.  Makes me laugh as it must really piss off the small blue quarter of Bristol.

[Guest Dreamkiller]

5 minutes ago, Judda said:

I'm really not offended at all. It just annoys me a tad as it's quote a simple thing. Again as stated earlier by someone you never hear Manchester clubs referred to as Manchester...

But they're massive international brands and the way they're referred to has developed over decades. If we'd played Sheffield United it wouldn't have sounded ridiculous or surprised me for Hughes to refer to them as just 'Sheffield'. 

[Pezo]

So is the problem that pundits and managers dont full name us or they dont full name every team?

If people care about this as much as I see it turn up on here maybe they should be contacting there MP and starting a campaign to have this discussed in parliament and a law made.

God forbid we have to deal with a real problem that actually has an affect on anyone.

[Judda]

9 minutes ago, Dreamkiller said:

But they're massive international brands and the way they're referred to has developed over decades. If we'd played Sheffield United it wouldn't have sounded ridiculous or surprised me for Hughes to refer to them as just 'Sheffield'. 

I'd call them United and Wednesday...

[Guest Dreamkiller]

2 minutes ago, Judda said:

I'd call them United and Wednesday...

So would I. 

[Judda]

7 minutes ago, Pezo said:

So is the problem that pundits and managers dont full name us or they dont full name every team?

If people care about this as much as I see it turn up on here maybe they should be contacting there MP and starting a campaign to have this discussed in parliament and a law made.

God forbid we have to deal with a real problem that actually has an affect on anyone.

Sorry Pedo. It just annoys me getting a name wrong!

[Judda]

4 minutes ago, Dreamkiller said:

So would I. 

 Innit. Nice truck.

[Guest Dreamkiller]

3 minutes ago, Judda said:

 Innit. Nice truck.

We don't have these emoji's on the Oatcake. They're ace! 

[hoxton casual]

When a friend of my wife asked me last week which team i supported i said "Bristol"- she said " Rovers?" I live in London and this has happened a few times with neutrals/idiots. The woman in question is 25 and grew up in Essex. How would she even know the gash exist? 

I now blank her every time she comes round.

[Leveller]

Literally couldn't care less.

[Alex_BCFC]

It is mildly annoying. Doesn't happen to Manchester or even really Sheffield. Guess it is to do with the fact that Bristol has never really been a big football city whereas the other two have. 

[zippycar]

1 hour ago, Dreamkiller said:

But why should he? His team's just been made to look stupid and you think he should be asking the locals how they like to be referred to? Why be offended by an opposition manager referring to your team by a name you should be proud of, the name of your city.

So he just lost 2 - 0 to Manchester United and Hughes calls them Manchester?

Never, it just wouldn't happen, so why call us Bristol?

[Up The City!]

It used to annoy me but now it just reminds me that we are the only club in Bristol worthy of that title.

[zippycar]

1 hour ago, Judda said:

You are right but it's not exactly hard to say Bristol City is it?

Agreed Judda, just as it's easy to say Manchester United (perhaps Man U) or Manchester City

We are the only team in Bristol, but the gas also get called Bristol, so it's not right

[zippycar]

47 minutes ago, hoxton casual said:

When a friend of my wife asked me last week which team i supported i said "Bristol"- she said " Rovers?" I live in London and this has happened a few times with neutrals/idiots. The woman in question is 25 and grew up in Essex. How would she even know the gash exist? 

I now blank her every time she comes round.

Why would any City supporter ever say Bristol?

Am I missing something here?

Been supporting City for 50 years now and have never once said that I support Bristol

City yes, which could be misconstrued, but not in the right context.

Bristol no - whatever the context

[Portland Bill]

2 hours ago, tomo said:

We......ie Me!

ANYONE fed up with pundits, managers, players, opposition fans alike calling us Bristol!

Mark Hughes after Tuesday was guilty!

WE ARE BRISTOL CITY!

Can we stop this nonsense! 

You never hear Manchester U or City being called Manchester. You never hear Sheffield Weds or United being called Sheffield. You never hear Nottingham Forest or County being called Nottingham....bla bla.

Derby are Derby of course!

Time for our marketing dept to advise the world that we are Bristol City and anyone that refers to Bristol should be referring to the egg chasers, the Rugby World!

 

 

I've posted this before on another thread, but............

Its 100% fact that in the 70's and 80's the first chant at every train station in every away City we played at, was Br..is..tol. 

I honestly don't get why people get hung up about it, we were always proud of the chant.

[Xiled]

I'm pretty certain it was Gary O'Neil doing co-commentary for Radio Bristol a few weeks ago and kept referring to us as 'Bristol'. I thought that was pretty ignorant.

Bristol are a rugby team. We've been 'City' for as long as I've been going to Ashton Gate.

[hoxton casual]

24 minutes ago, zippycar said:

Why would any City supporter ever say Bristol?

Am I missing something here?

Been supporting City for 50 years now and have never once said that I support Bristol

City yes, which could be misconstrued, but not in the right context.

Bristol no - whatever the context

I would never say that in Bristol but in London its different. 

[Guest Dreamkiller]

25 minutes ago, zippycar said:

So he just lost 2 - 0 to Manchester United and Hughes calls them Manchester?

Never, it just wouldn't happen, so why call us Bristol?

No, he'd call them United for the reason I explained before. He called you Bristol because most people in his position would. What's so bad about calling you by the name of your city? He called you Bristol for the same reason I called you Bristol last night. Because it's easier to type or to say Bristol than it is to type or say Bristol City, and because it probably never crossed his mind like it didn't cross my mind that it might cause annoyance/offence/aggravation or any other word that you choose to describe the apparent apoplexy of not being referred to in the same terms as another team in a galaxy far far away.

[Wanderingred]

It annoys me. I don't know why and I realise it's a bit petty but it just does. 

[myol'man]

I always thought it annoyed the blue few more than us. Inside the minds of people who are at the top end of football there is only ONE TEAM IN BRISTOL 

[LocoPal]

We ARE the OTIB ...

and this is the point .. let the blue quarter complain about being neglected from the media interest and marginalized. 

F'*k em. They are Horfield

[WayOutWest]

I always say Bristol City.  Nothing makes me more proud when those words come out of my mouth.

Players any anyone associated with the club should say the name in full.  Annoyed me when G'ON called us Bristol.  I wouldn't want anyone to have any ambiguity and mistake us for Moron FC.

As for the rest of the footballing world, I couldn't give a toss. 

[Fiale]

4 hours ago, zippycar said:

Why would any City supporter ever say Bristol?

Am I missing something here?

Been supporting City for 50 years now and have never once said that I support Bristol

City yes, which could be misconstrued, but not in the right context.

Bristol no - whatever the context

 

If someone ask which club you support sure say Bristol City - but if we are at home and it's not a Bristol derby  then it really does not matter, the fact you would accept City when - well how many teams could that refer to just shows a pettiness to the whole thing.

[WTFiGO!?!]

I guess we're in a pretty unique situation in that there aren't many clubs who share their identity with another, certainly not as low key as us.  

I do find it a tad annoying and the people that do it a tad ignorant.  As do some Sags.  

I guess it's an identity thing.

I knew some twins who said it triggered all manner of rage in them when they were referred to as "the twins" - not as individuals.  This is because it in some way diminished their individual identity.  I would not especially expect an only child to empathise with them, how could they?

So I understand why the country at large does not appreciate the issue.

If there was a Stoke Vale FC and Stoke City had fought like cats and dogs with them for decades - our visiting Stokie, or at least some of their peers, would inevitably have the same issue.

I wonder if it pisses any Sheffield Wednesday/United supporters off?  (I do hear boyh clubs referred to merely as 'Sheffield').  That's the only other city in the same situation.

[Eddie Hitler]

9 hours ago, One Team In Keynsham said:

Would need a special sort of stupid to be watching the commentary, or post-match summary, of Bristol City v Stoke City, hear someone say "Bristol" and think they are referring to the horse punchers.

You've clearly never flicked on the telly or radio to find a match in progress and waited for the commentary to tell you who is playing and what the score is.

[Port Said Red]

14 hours ago, Dreamkiller said:

I doubt Hughes was being disrespectful. I mean it's fairly obvious he wasn't talking about Rovers. Think I referred to you as Bristol last night. Just seemed a bit daft to refer to your full title. I presumed everyone knew who I meant. No offence intended.

Our lot get a bit uppity when we play Man City and all the commentators and journalists refer to them as City without seemingly noticing that little ol' Stoke are City too. We all need something to get wound up about I suppose.

 

 

13 hours ago, Tammys Scan said:

Don't we call Stoke City, Stoke?

 

edit: Ninja'ed by Dreamkiller

I listened to the local radio covereage the other night and it took me a few minutes to get used to the commentators saying City and not meaning us, but of course it makes sense. \there are many City's but only one Bristol as far as anyone outside of Bristol is concerned.

[cider-manc]

It annoys me.

The reason it annoys me is that although we jest and say things like "only one team in Bristol" etc the truth is that those who refer to us as Bristol probably also refer to that mob over the river as Bristol.

Hughes for example would probably have called the sags Bristol if he had just played them. Sky sports news would probably have done so in their match report (keep in mind that SSN has mixed the two teams up on screen displays at least twice this season).

 

[finbarr_in_z]

On 9/21/2017 at 21:19, Eddie Hitler said:

It's a compliment.

Commentators would never say "Manchester" because nobody would know if they meant Manchester United or Manchester City.

So if they feel happy saying "Bristol" then that is because none of their viewers / listeners will do other than think that it's Bristol City to whom they are referring.

One Team in Bristol is probably more true now than it has ever been.

It always wound me up, but that's a good way to look at it. Effectively it denies the  exist.

On a side note a few years ago we got into conversation with a load of Manchester City fans on a train to Doncaster (us for footy, them for geegees) and both groups were referring to their team as City. Well confusing. Mind you, isn't theirs "Siteh"?

[finbarr_in_z]

15 hours ago, WTFiGO!?! said:

I wonder if it pisses any Sheffield Wednesday/United supporters off?  (I do hear boyh clubs referred to merely as 'Sheffield').  That's the only other city in the same situation.

Except there's a very distinguished club called Sheffield, and none of us in the football world should forget that.

[Guest Dreamkiller]

11 hours ago, cider-manc said:

It annoys me.

The reason it annoys me is that although we jest and say things like "only one team in Bristol" etc the truth is that those who refer to us as Bristol probably also refer to that mob over the river as Bristol.

Hughes for example would probably have called the sags Bristol if he had just played them. Sky sports news would probably have done so in their match report (keep in mind that SSN has mixed the two teams up on screen displays at least twice this season).

 

Funnily enough, your post had me thinking about what I would have said if I was on the Bristol Rovers board, and you know what, I think I'd have referred to them as Rovers, not Bristol.

Why? I think it's probably because as a Stoke fan, I think of us as being City, so I wouldn't refer to you as City, whereas the word Rovers is the word I'd veer towards if I was talking about the other lot. 

There's probably not much logic to it, but football supporters tend to use one word when referring to other teams who invariably have two or more words in their name. 

If we talk about Leicester or Leeds we don't refer to them as City or United, but we refer to Port Vale as the Vale. Aston Villa are the Villa. We talk about Blackburn, not Rovers, Ipswich not Town, but Queens Park are probably Rangers. West Brom are generally Albion.

It's all a bit random I suppose, and not really worth getting wound up about, at least as far as what outsiders call you. 

[cider-manc]

11 hours ago, Dreamkiller said:

Funnily enough, your post had me thinking about what I would have said if I was on the Bristol Rovers board, and you know what, I think I'd have referred to them as Rovers, not Bristol.

Why? I think it's probably because as a Stoke fan, I think of us as being City, so I wouldn't refer to you as City, whereas the word Rovers is the word I'd veer towards if I was talking about the other lot. 

There's probably not much logic to it, but football supporters tend to use one word when referring to other teams who invariably have two or more words in their name. 

If we talk about Leicester or Leeds we don't refer to them as City or United, but we refer to Port Vale as the Vale. Aston Villa are the Villa. We talk about Blackburn, not Rovers, Ipswich not Town, but Queens Park are probably Rangers. West Brom are generally Albion.

It's all a bit random I suppose, and not really worth getting wound up about, at least as far as what outsiders call you. 

I do understand these reasonings and believe me when I say it is mostly me being petty.

It's not really other fans refering to us as Bristol that annoys me (living in Manchester Ive had many conversations where I've had to repeat myself but saying Bristol city rather than just city) but when media outlets do it.

Imagine you turned on a radio, a game is on and you didn't know who was playing - the commentator says "Bristol are winning" You wouldn't from that know 100% which team it was. 

Leeds, Leicester, Ipswich and Blackburn are one team citys /towns so you would 100% know.

Villa, Birmingham or west Brom have entirely different names. Like yourselves and Vale... You would 100% know.

I can only think of two other city's that contain two football league teams that share their name with their city (maybe others... But off the top of my head with a hangover) Manchester and Sheffield. None of those 4 teams are referred to as  either Sheffield or Manchester by the press.

Anything that causes people to fail to differentiate between us and the other lot is not a good thing in my eyes.

As I say... It's mostly me being pretty.

[Natchfever]

On 21/09/2017 at 23:45, Dreamkiller said:

No, he'd call them United for the reason I explained before. He called you Bristol because most people in his position would. What's so bad about calling you by the name of your city? He called you Bristol for the same reason I called you Bristol last night. Because it's easier to type or to say Bristol than it is to type or say Bristol City, and because it probably never crossed his mind like it didn't cross my mind that it might cause annoyance/offence/aggravation or any other word that you choose to describe the apparent apoplexy of not being referred to in the same terms as another team in a galaxy far far away.

Hughes is the Stoke CITY manager so he'd hardly speak about the opposition as "City" its a way of distinguishing between the two City clubs.

Make sme laugh how people get pissed off about being referred to as Bristol, Should tell you everything you need to know about the statuis of the other professional footbal team in the area.

[Guest Dreamkiller]

23 minutes ago, cider-manc said:

I do understand these reasonings and believe me when I say it is mostly me being petty.

It's not really other fans refering to us as Bristol that annoys me (living in Manchester Ive had many conversations where I've had to repeat myself but saying Bristol city rather than just city) but when media outlets do it.

Imagine you turned on a radio, a game is on and you didn't know who was playing - the commentator says "Bristol are winning" You wouldn't from that know 100% which team it was. 

Leeds, Leicester, Ipswich and Blackburn are one team citys /towns so you would 100% know.

Villa, Birmingham or west Brom have entirely different names. Like yourselves and Vale... You would 100% know.

I can only think of two other city's that contain two football league teams that share their name with their city (maybe others... But off the top of my head with a hangover) Manchester and Sheffield. None of those 4 teams are referred to as  either Sheffield or Manchester by the press.

Anything that causes people to fail to differentiate between us and the other lot is not a good thing in my eyes.

As I say... It's mostly me being pretty.

I get you. Like you say, there are not too many examples of cities where the two football teams have the name of the city in their title, so if you think you're being treated differently to those other teams then it can rankle. 

[HitchinRed]

Not sure if anyone has see this, but Bristol Sport are being used as a case study for Sage Software Solutions.

http://www.sage.co.uk/lp/stories?banner=0

I'm working in Surrey at the moment, and an advert for this seems to be on the radio all the time (@ReigateRed will know what I mean).

Basically, Gavin Marshall (CFO) introduces Bristol Sport as owning 'Bristol's affiliated Football, Rugby and Basketball teams'. It doesn't mention Bristol City by name at all. Although this does seem a bit strange, it does imply that there in no one else remotely in/near our league that could be confused with us.

[Natchfever]

47 minutes ago, cider-manc said:

I do understand these reasonings and believe me when I say it is mostly me being petty.

It's not really other fans refering to us as Bristol that annoys me (living in Manchester Ive had many conversations where I've had to repeat myself but saying Bristol city rather than just city) but when media outlets do it.

Imagine you turned on a radio, a game is on and you didn't know who was playing - the commentator says "Bristol are winning" You wouldn't from that know 100% which team it was. 

Leeds, Leicester, Ipswich and Blackburn are one team citys /towns so you would 100% know.

Villa, Birmingham or west Brom have entirely different names. Like yourselves and Vale... You would 100% know.

I can only think of two other city's that contain two football league teams that share their name with their city (maybe others... But off the top of my head with a hangover) Manchester and Sheffield. None of those 4 teams are referred to as  either Sheffield or Manchester by the press.

Anything that causes people to fail to differentiate between us and the other lot is not a good thing in my eyes.

As I say... It's mostly me being pretty.

Bradfiord City is usually referred to as Bradford. There is a Conference North team in the same city which was once a league club (Park Avenue). Wonder if "City" fans up there get the arse ache over being referred to as Bradford ? Genuine question.

[KingLear]

It wouldn't annoy me as much if I didn't hear the commentator for the Bradford v Gas game recently on sky refer to them as 'Bristol' too. 

Now then maybe it annoys me more than it should...

[One Team In Keynsham]

14 hours ago, finbarr_in_z said:

It always wound me up, but that's a good way to look at it. Effectively it denies the  exist.

On a side note a few years ago we got into conversation with a load of Manchester City fans on a train to Doncaster (us for footy, them for geegees) and both groups were referring to their team as City. Well confusing. Mind you, isn't theirs "Siteh"?

Very much this for me, I have a load of friends who support either United and City, and generally when City and Citeh are used in emails, it is accepted the former are us and the latter are the petrodollar funded mercenaries from Eastlands.