Does it count if you get excited when you meet a footballer you used to idolise when you were ten? I reckon I'd go pretty knock-kneed if I ever spent an evening in the company of someone like Paul Power, for example. That said, I think meeting your childhood heroes is almost certainly bound to end in crushing disappointment.Not interested now though. I'm not sure anyone over 10 years if age gets excited by being near a footballer do they? That's a proper plastic rag characteristic
The promotion must be struggling as yet another near full page advert in the Times this morning. For the cost, season ticket holder disruption, not to mention the ridicule that will follow some creative head will role.
The planning assumptions included sales to people in the North Stand executive boxes that were going in the rebuild. We didn't get enough people on the season card waiting list to extend the North Stand. On that basis, why should creative heads role. Particularly, in the context of the media onslaught against our Club that makes expanding the fanbase (from value gold to corporates) more difficult.
I don't particularly want heads to roll. My comment was an observation on the cost and disruption caused by this development and the outcome if it turns out to be a white elephant. The fact that there is now only just over a month to our first home game and City are taking out very expensive advertising to promote it suggests a so far cool response and uptake. This feature will be launched at this first game which is televised and you can expect Sky to be all over it, a half empty corporate space will be ridiculed.
The promotion must be struggling as yet another near full page advert in the Times this morning. For the cost, season ticket holder disruption, not to mention the ridicule that will follow some creative head will role.
Any idea what that lot means ?? Have you seen the price for the places in there ?Heads up.....from Etihad Airlines
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I did and it does. Of course City played on border of Reddish and Gorton briefly in 1880s as well. The large estates of Hattersley, Gamesley and surrounding Haughton Green village are predominantly Blue because of the slum clearance programme that wiped away vast areas of Gorton, Bradford etc.I am pretty sure Gary James highlighted in one of his books how public transport influenced areas of support and probably family ties through generations have led to areas around Hyde/Maine Rd still maintaining a large City support.
I know for myself, as a kid, getting the 211 to Belle Vue and then walking from there or the 53 was quite an easy journey.
Fair play to your late father for all his efforts organising the movement of fans. Hope they never had priority for tickets though lol