Leicester (N) - Community Shield | Post-Match Thread

[paulchapo]

I just thought they are now taking us for granted. We paid money on train/Petrol to get down there and some stayed over because of the train times and they couldn't bother giving us flags for the occasion

I know with certainty people will be all over it and say what does it matter, but it does. Small things like this,as you say, gives the impression the club don't care and are taking the fans for granted. It's a slipping of standards and if not checked spreads. You're in the City team and walk out at Wembley. You see thousands of flags waving at the Leicester end and at our end fuck all. If that makes just a couple think, "Meh, nobody's taking this game that seriously" and their performance dips just a bit because of that mental shift , it can make a difference.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I know with certainty people will be all over it and say what does it matter, but it does. Small things like this,as you say, gives the impression the club don't care and are taking the fans for granted. It's a slipping of standards and if not checked spreads. You're in the City team and walk out at Wembley. You see thousands of flags waving at the Leicester end and at our end fuck all. If that makes just a couple think, "Meh, nobody's taking this game that seriously" and their performance dips just a bit because of that mental shift , it can make a difference.

Give your fanny a wipe!

You think the players get “up” for a game at Wembley because of cheap nylon flags?

Wembley was an “event” for Leicester and their fans, but it was a pre-season friendly for City, because 80% of our regular First XI weren’t even back in training yet and we had to play fringe players and kids with a few friendliest in their legs!

This year, the Community Shield was a joke! Seriously. And, the quality of the game was reflective of just how shit it was all around!

It used to be a “curtain raiser” for the season, after fans had been waiting almost THREE MONTHS to see their team (and individual players) back on the field.

Players had gone on their hols for a month or so, and 99% of people had no idea where they were or what they were doing, but they usually came back with a few extra pounds they had to run off in the 2-4 weeks of pre-season training and friendlies.

This year, a team full of international players was missing nearly every one of them, and they played against a full strength team playing their last pre-season game and bedding in their new signings!

And, please don’t take it as sour grapes, because while I definitely wanted City to win, the whole fixture was a mockery this year. The only saving grace are the charities and communities that got some much needed income from the event.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

It used to be a “curtain raiser” for the season, after fans had been waiting almost THREE MONTHS to see their team (and individual players) back on the field.

Non stop football lately. Euros, CopaAmerica and the Olympics.
On the same day as our game against Leicester , the Olympic final was being played between Spain and Brazil.

 

[paulchapo]

Give your fanny a wipe!

You think the players get “up” for a game at Wembley because of cheap nylon flags?

Wembley was an “event” for Leicester and their fans, but it was a pre-season friendly for City, because 80% of our regular First XI weren’t even back in training yet and we had to play fringe players and kids with a few friendliest in their legs!

This year, the Community Shield was a joke! Seriously. And, the quality of the game was reflective of just how shit it was all around!

It used to be a “curtain raiser” for the season, after fans had been waiting almost THREE MONTHS to see their team (and individual players) back on the field.

Players had gone on their hols for a month or so, and 99% of people had no idea where they were or what they were doing, but they usually came back with a few extra pounds they had to run off in the 2-4 weeks of pre-season training and friendlies.

This year, a team full of international players was missing nearly every one of them, and they played against a full strength team playing their last pre-season game and bedding in their new signings!

And, please don’t take it as sour grapes, because while I definitely wanted City to win, the whole fixture was a mockery this year. The only saving grace are the charities and communities that got some much needed income from the event.

I don't need to wipe anything thanks but as I said in my earlier post and this one I expected the usual responses similar to that.

I was also aware of all the complexities and difficulties surrounding our team selection, my post wasn't about any of that. My post is about Leicester as a club providing flags that added to the atmosphere, giving their fans something, while we didn't. Also why was it an "event" for Leicester and their fans but not for us? I'm sure due to the availability of tickets lots of kids were attending their first game at Wembley, was it not the biggest event of their young lives?

No City as a club are starting to alienate the fans. Whether this is a deliberate decision taken by a new person at the helm in these matters or inadvertently I have no idea, but it's happening. From forcing this bloody ticket on the phones idea to no flags at Wembley for the fans, it smacks of we don't care either about you or what you think, you take it or leave it. We're the richest club in the world everyone is constantly telling us, but they couldn't provide a few cheap plastic flags for the hardy souls who went to great expense and trouble to go down there and support a scratch side in what you say is a glorified friendly. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth and no "Wipe your fanny" type of comments will change that opinion so save them

 

[JGL07]

I just thought they are now taking us for granted. We paid money on train/Petrol to get down there and some stayed over because of the train times and they couldn't bother giving us flags for the occasion

Is your enthusiasm flagging?

 

[paulchapo]

Is your enthusiasm flagging?

It's wave (ering)

 

[the blue panther]

Give your fanny a wipe!

You think the players get “up” for a game at Wembley because of cheap nylon flags?

Wembley was an “event” for Leicester and their fans, but it was a pre-season friendly for City, because 80% of our regular First XI weren’t even back in training yet and we had to play fringe players and kids with a few friendliest in their legs!

This year, the Community Shield was a joke! Seriously. And, the quality of the game was reflective of just how shit it was all around!

It used to be a “curtain raiser” for the season, after fans had been waiting almost THREE MONTHS to see their team (and individual players) back on the field.

Players had gone on their hols for a month or so, and 99% of people had no idea where they were or what they were doing, but they usually came back with a few extra pounds they had to run off in the 2-4 weeks of pre-season training and friendlies.

This year, a team full of international players was missing nearly every one of them, and they played against a full strength team playing their last pre-season game and bedding in their new signings!

And, please don’t take it as sour grapes, because while I definitely wanted City to win, the whole fixture was a mockery this year. The only saving grace are the charities and communities that got some much needed income from the event.

I paid £20 for the ticket. With travel and food, etc, probably £100 is nearer the true cost.
Did I really get value for money, watching city reserves, even at that small ticket price?
Probably not, as we were shit, by our standards. But,it's City innit! And I haven't seen a match for a hundred years!
It was a pre season friendly against an almost full strength Leicester. They had a couple of defenders unavailable due to long term injury, but apart from that, they were at full strength. We had 7/8 1st teamers missing and 2 teenagers playing, who - to me - looked out of their depth.
Ederson, Walker, Stones, KDB, Sterling, Foden, Laporte, Jesus - blimey, 8 of them - all missing, who would most probably have started, with Bernardo and Grealish on the bench for the day. But, I knew it would be like that. So, no issues. Shame about the result. Good day out. Saw City. It was a pleasure to be there. Can't complain
:-)

 

[BringBackSwales]

I don't need to wipe anything thanks but as I said in my earlier post and this one I expected the usual responses similar to that.

I was also aware of all the complexities and difficulties surrounding our team selection, my post wasn't about any of that. My post is about Leicester as a club providing flags that added to the atmosphere, giving their fans something, while we didn't. Also why was it an "event" for Leicester and their fans but not for us? I'm sure due to the availability of tickets lots of kids were attending their first game at Wembley, was it not the biggest event of their young lives?

No City as a club are starting to alienate the fans. Whether this is a deliberate decision taken by a new person at the helm in these matters or inadvertently I have no idea, but it's happening. From forcing this bloody ticket on the phones idea to no flags at Wembley for the fans, it smacks of we don't care either about you or what you think, you take it or leave it. We're the richest club in the world everyone is constantly telling us, but they couldn't provide a few cheap plastic flags for the hardy souls who went to great expense and trouble to go down there and support a scratch side in what you say is a glorified friendly. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth and no "Wipe your fanny" type of comments will change that opinion so save them

I agree that stood in the City end it felt a bit like second class Citizens with all the flags waving at the Leicester end and none at ours, first time I think that’s happened at Wembley. My kids were a tad disappointed with it too. Not a huge issue, but an issue nonetheless. I went, so I wanted us to win, supporters and atmosphere helps win football matches, flags help with atmosphere and the club must know that (otherwise why do it at big home matches in Europe?)

 

[BringBackSwales]

Give your fanny a wipe!

You think the players get “up” for a game at Wembley because of cheap nylon flags?

Wembley was an “event” for Leicester and their fans, but it was a pre-season friendly for City, because 80% of our regular First XI weren’t even back in training yet and we had to play fringe players and kids with a few friendliest in their legs!

This year, the Community Shield was a joke! Seriously. And, the quality of the game was reflective of just how shit it was all around!

It used to be a “curtain raiser” for the season, after fans had been waiting almost THREE MONTHS to see their team (and individual players) back on the field.

Players had gone on their hols for a month or so, and 99% of people had no idea where they were or what they were doing, but they usually came back with a few extra pounds they had to run off in the 2-4 weeks of pre-season training and friendlies.

This year, a team full of international players was missing nearly every one of them, and they played against a full strength team playing their last pre-season game and bedding in their new signings!

And, please don’t take it as sour grapes, because while I definitely wanted City to win, the whole fixture was a mockery this year. The only saving grace are the charities and communities that got some much needed income from the event.

While he’s wiping his fanny can you wind your fucking neck in? He is right that the lack of flags at our end detracted from the atmosphere, and he is within his rights to say it

 

[paulchapo]

While he’s wiping his fanny can you wind your fucking neck in? He is right that the lack of flags at our end detracted from the atmosphere, and he is within his rights to say it

Cheers it's okay I expected a fair few of those responses but I don't care. I think I've earned the right to say it, been all over with City since 68, been jumped, attacked, fought on the terraces, in streets and even on non football days when you bumped into opposition fans when out. Paid fortunes for tickets and made 600 mile round trips for home games for five years when I lived in Kent.

It would have been a small gesture and cost for the club for fans who knew it was going to be a second string team yet still forked out hard earned money and travelled 200 miles to support the team. Leicester did it ours didn't and it made us look cheapskates and was a bad decision by whover decided they couldn't be bothered.

 

[Ribchester]

This flag business……. I’m sure Wembley organise this…… my take on it is some idiot at City failed to tick the box on the booking form marked Do you want a flag/seat …no doubt the FA charge for this piece of tack you get and that’s why they prohibit taking your own

 

[fathellensbellend]

Didn't

I don't need to wipe anything thanks but as I said in my earlier post and this one I expected the usual responses similar to that.

I was also aware of all the complexities and difficulties surrounding our team selection, my post wasn't about any of that. My post is about Leicester as a club providing flags that added to the atmosphere, giving their fans something, while we didn't. Also why was it an "event" for Leicester and their fans but not for us? I'm sure due to the availability of tickets lots of kids were attending their first game at Wembley, was it not the biggest event of their young lives?

No City as a club are starting to alienate the fans. Whether this is a deliberate decision taken by a new person at the helm in these matters or inadvertently I have no idea, but it's happening. From forcing this bloody ticket on the phones idea to no flags at Wembley for the fans, it smacks of we don't care either about you or what you think, you take it or leave it. We're the richest club in the world everyone is constantly telling us, but they couldn't provide a few cheap plastic flags for the hardy souls who went to great expense and trouble to go down there and support a scratch side in what you say is a glorified friendly. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth and no "Wipe your fanny" type of comments will change that opinion so save them

Didn't you get the email, you had to download the flag on your phone, then wave your phone

 

[Rochdale Blue]

I still don’t like it being in LONDON with a stupid after 5pm KO.
It should be in the midlands, at lunchtime, giving everyone time to get there either by train or other means. Plus allowing them to get home again post match. I looked at going, but wouldn’t have been able to get a train back until the next day.
Pathetic.

It should be played on a rota, at the champions ground one season, cup winners the next.

 

[Rascal]

It was a good day out, a good drink, nice to see lots of familiar faces, good to have a beer with the lads and the bus home was like a zoo, i think the excitement of actually doing something normal took its toll and there were casualties early doors. I am defo short of match practice, but used my experience to see it through whilst some of the younger ones flagged and there was a lot of sleepers on the way back.

I have never seen as many police at a UK game before, I was talking to a Police sergeant near Wembley Park tube and he said , we fucked up for the England game and there was no way it was happening again, which meant there was massive presence, but most of them were sat in vans doing fuck all. The stewards were fucking useless mind, lots of them but never had to show my covid pass or even get searched, just walked in and they didn't even check my ticket (i am spacker mind and was ushered to the spacker entrance despite having a non spacker ticket) Perhaps because there was not that many there they were more relaxed or perhaps they didnt give a fuck because there were so many police there.

As for the game, it was a decent warm up match, not reading anything into it. I thought Ake and Mendy did well, Ake got a suicide pass for the goal and it happens, but i rate Ake, he is a proper defender. The kids did OK and it was good to see some game time for the new wonderkid Jack, who seemed bright. We do look short of fitness and it could well be damage limitation early in the season. I think though if look at last season when we started horribly we pulled it back and other teams will be in the same mould as us.

The Leicester fans seemed a decent bunch, enjoyed their day , nothing at all like those dicks from Villa or the rag cunts for that matter.

It was good just to actually go to the game, that was the most important thing for me, seeing people smile and having a good time irrespective of the result.

 

[ob]

Was anyone COVID checked? We weren’t asked and it wasn’t busy when we went into the ground

I was asked to show proof at bottom of steps and also asked to put my mask on when entered the ground

 

[BucksBlue]

Was anyone COVID checked? We weren’t asked and it wasn’t busy when we went into the ground

Not me. I saw no evidence of covid checks or the usual bag checking in my Block E. There were lots of stewards and especially police after the game who evidently didn't want a repeat of the Euro Final. All the fans I came across from both teams were good natured in the stadium and along Wembley Way.
Unlike the Euro final I was happy get home without getting pinged!
Happy days Blues.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I don't need to wipe anything thanks but as I said in my earlier post and this one I expected the usual responses similar to that.

I was also aware of all the complexities and difficulties surrounding our team selection, my post wasn't about any of that. My post is about Leicester as a club providing flags that added to the atmosphere, giving their fans something, while we didn't. Also why was it an "event" for Leicester and their fans but not for us? I'm sure due to the availability of tickets lots of kids were attending their first game at Wembley, was it not the biggest event of their young lives?

No City as a club are starting to alienate the fans. Whether this is a deliberate decision taken by a new person at the helm in these matters or inadvertently I have no idea, but it's happening. From forcing this bloody ticket on the phones idea to no flags at Wembley for the fans, it smacks of we don't care either about you or what you think, you take it or leave it. We're the richest club in the world everyone is constantly telling us, but they couldn't provide a few cheap plastic flags for the hardy souls who went to great expense and trouble to go down there and support a scratch side in what you say is a glorified friendly. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth and no "Wipe your fanny" type of comments will change that opinion so save them

Waaaaah! Didn’t get my free flag. City taking me for granted!

What a load of bollocks!

 

[ChicagoBlue]

While he’s wiping his fanny can you wind your fucking neck in? He is right that the lack of flags at our end detracted from the atmosphere, and he is within his rights to say it

Bollocks!
”Lack of flags ‘distracted’ from the atmosphere”??
Within what rights?? His right to free tat?!
GMAFB!

Fucking entitlement mentality run amok! Fuck knows what we did for “atmosphere” before cheap nylon flags became a “right”!!
Gonna need to order about 50,000 of them for 19 home games this year, not to mention about 5,000 for the 19 away games, just so we can generate some “undistracted atmosphere!”

 

[Manchester33]

Am I the only one who thinks the plastic flags they give out at Wembley are completely naff anyway?

They're generic and don't make the end look good (in fact I'd say it makes it look worse because it's so orchestrated). It's better if fans hold their scarves or individual/personal flags rather than the mass-printed shite.

It's also awful for the environment when you get 90k unrecyclable, plastic flags that inevitably end up being burnt in a Malaysian landfill.

Buy your own flag and take it to every game with you if you want to improve the atmosphere (that's what I do lol).

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Am I the only one who thinks the plastic flags they give out at Wembley are completely naff anyway?

They're generic and don't make the end look good (in fact I'd say it makes it look worse because it's so orchestrated). It's better if fans hold their scarves or individual/personal flags rather than the mass-printed shite.

It's also awful for the environment when you get 90k unrecyclable, plastic flags that inevitably end up being burnt in a Malaysian landfill.

Buy your own flag and take it to every game with you if you want to improve the atmosphere (that's what I do lol).

I've got a shed full from all the Wembley trips and if it ever catches fire will probably take half the street with it.