I'm sorry we talking about about sold out league games city sold out every home league game some weeks before the fixture! As for the scum the sold out sign was a rarity last season.

I don't understand how he can't get that very simple point.

I remember one game at the swamp where there were plenty of empty seats, can't remember when it was though!

I know... I don't know who he supports but city fans know this. fans on the outside probably don't keep up to date how our match day tickets are being sold..

As opposed to at the Etihad where empty blue seats were never in evidence
So i must of imagined adverts in the mani evening news advertising tickets available before home games against stoke,fulham,blackburn.etc....
The thing is because every rag tries to take the piss about empty seats at the emptyhad,to throw the same thing back in their face gets them all upity and brings out very funny hissy fits indeed...

Because we have ruined all their myths.The rows of empty seats are one of the last myths they are clinging on to,even though you and I who go to our games know,these people are either in the bar,or its the away section.You just cant get through to the thick twats that we sold out every game bar 1 last season (dont think west brom sold out),whereas they didnt sell out quite alot (think us,l/pool,chelsea and newcastle did),and the seats werent just sold,they had people in them. I just tell them to f off now,coz they bore me.
As for that stat,strange that all attendances have dropped consistantly throughout all the leagues,but city and utd havent.citys definitely better for obvious reasons,but alot of my red mates admit utds have dropped a couple of thousand recently,probably due to the economic climate

Whats the etihad? dont you mean the emptyhad

Sorry mate. I must have had an attack of brain fade. For some reason I thought your post had been made by JM Mcr relating to rag attendances. Apologies to you (and to JM Mcr) ;)

At the time The Guardians squad sheets were produced (a day or 2 before fixtures), Utd were still showing tickets available for 5 games (Fulham, QPR, West Brom, Wigan & Wolves) with the other 14 fixtures sold out.

City were showing tickets still available for 3 games (Bolton, Blackburn & Swansea), tickets were shown as sold out for another 13 games and I can't find the stats for the final 3 but I'm sure they'll also have been sold out.

Of course this doesn't take account of tickets sold between the articles being written and kick off and I'm sure City did go on to sell out every game but it also appears a Utd sold out game wasn't quite as rare as some seem to think.

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Why would I??

No hissy fit here mate, just pointing out a fact. Yes Utd advertised tickets more regularly than they had before but the post I replied to was talking about tickets being sold but not used, that did happen - but not just at Old Trafford. I'm sure I even remember some debate on here about empty seats at City games last season, tho I may be wrong.