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4) Manchester City
Whenever City players assemble on the pitch ahead of their Champions League clash and the UEFA Champions League anthem rings out, City fans drown out the anthem in their collective ‘Boo’.
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City’s fans relationship with UEFA has soured over the years. It all started in 2012 when then City forward Mario Balotelli was racially abused by Porto fans in a UEFA Europa League encounter in Porto. Porto were fined a paltry sum of €20,000 by Uefa. The next month when City were pitted against another Portugal club, Sporting Lisbon, City were fined €30,000 for being just 30 seconds late to get back on the pitch in the second half. This upset City's fans and sowed the seeds of an uneasy relationship.
But, it was really the Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules that hardened City fans’ hatred for UEFA. In 2014, City were hit with a £49million fine along with restrictions on their transfer spending and Champions League squad size.
Matters went out of hand when UEFA decided that City’s game against CSKA Moscow will be played behind closed doors because of continued racial abuse and bad behaviour by supporters of CSKA Moscow. City fans had already bought their flight tickets and booked hotel rooms to attend the game. UEFA refused to listen to their pleas and on the night of the game, CSKA pulled out all stops to make sure the few City fans who had made the trip for the game were not allowed to enter the stadium.
Meanwhile, hundreds of CSKA fans, some drunk, and many wearing colours of their team, were allowed inside the stadium, in full view of the UEFA match delegates. The whole matter passed without any sanction against CSKA Moscow.
UEFA’s actions have continued to rile City fans. In 2016, UEFA did an about-turn on the FFP rules, relaxing the tough guidelines, just as the traditional European powerhouse AC Milan announced that they were receiving Chinese investment.
The new rules were not applicable retrospectively, which meant that the relaxed guidelines were not meant for emerging football powers like City or PSG, but for traditional elites like AC Milan.
City's fans have been having a dim view of UEFA’s decision-making and their discontent is deafening by their deep guttural 'Boos!'.
