The BBC are doing a good job of turning City fans against the best manager we have ever had and the best manager in the world. The agenda is just incredibly transparent when you look at the reporting on this. I can't believe anyone would give a shit about the media obsession over attendances one way or the other, either inside the club or as fans. They can't attack the team when they've won 7 trophies out of 8, they can't attack the manager any more because they have tried and failed, they can't attack the club as we are making money hand over fist now, so all that is left is the fans.
Shame on all of you for falling for it.
Agreed. I was editing my post while you wrote this.Tbf at time Peps putting down of the club as small, especially when talking about champions league does him bo favours.
When asked yesterday all he had to say was, why you asking me? No ground has been a sell out in most cup games this weekend and leave it at that so why ask me?
There will be a lot more Shrewsbury fans at Anfield than Fulham fans at ours yesterday.Let's see how many go to Klanfield for their replay. If they fill the ground then we're just shit fans....
I await the change in narrative for the return leg...........Just look at the difference between us and other teams though. When we played united in the league cup the other week Tyler was making excuses for the empty seats saying that Christmas had just been and people where struggling to attend games. Then compare that to us where our manager is actually asked time and again after games about empty seats and they ask him now constantly because they know he never fights our corner quite the opposite in fact, expect more of it blues they know the reaction pep will have to the question and those horrible fuckers will lap it up
Just watch it back,pep talks about th fans first,spoon fed them
Not sure why you would be concerned about a few coach loads of cockneys taking the mickey, especially when no one can remember the last time they had a 40,000 crowd watching them. There isn't another club anywhere in the world that gets criticised for getting attendances in excess of 50,000, perhaps you should ask yourself why.We’ve had an alarming drop this season. Look at the Southampton game in the carabao earlier in the season. Not sure what we got for that but it was half full. A new low when Fulham are singing your ground’s too big for you. I’d love to know how many from the palace game we’re there today. I’m in 306 and barely recognised anyone
I think he misses a trick on this one - if he provided a response along the lines of;To be fair Karen whether he was spoon fed or not , the club should instruct him to refrain from making comments about our attendances , he might be a god but he's also an employee and he is also an intelligent guy , surely he has witnessed the crap our fan base has endured , he should be speaking positively about the third highest attendance of the round ,not worrying about our numbers for Wednesday night against the Rags. He wouldnt do it to Barca or Bayern fans and we deserve the same respect.
If his remit is to make money then pissing off your core supporter base isn’t the way to do it.
Matchday sales and revenue will still be the biggest earner.
It does feel like we are bottom of the list sometimes and that makes little sense to me. The supporters are the top and bottom of any football club.
That '71 game was my first. Blue and rags all mixed together in the Kippax. It was scary and exciting at the same time.No chance. The biggest crowd I was ever in at Maine Road was 63500 in 1971 vs the rags and I was stood up in the newly opened North Stand. So 2 stands out of 4 were standing, only the Main Stand and Platter Lane were seated.
When the North Stand became all seats in 1972 the capacity was reduced to 52500.
And it stayed at that capacity for about 20 years.