I have a season card but don't commit to the cup schemes but would normally buy if I know I can go. Maybe this is me being an FOC but I tend to find the tickets have gone with virtually no info or emails sent out as to when you can get one.If you were a season ticket holder not on the the cup scheme you could get a ticket. My wife got one. Maybe they should give it a day or so for citizens. The issue we have the ground is not big enough for these matches but it is for league and earlier cup rounds. Also the timings for the selling criteria was short.
Spot on.Noticeable that there were miles more of the classics tonight which caught on repeatedly right round the stadium. Also noticeable that the songs started up at the back of the south stand boomed around the stadium both ways quickly. And for once the two singing sections copied each other because the section between them sung.
It was almost like the entire stadium had been reading this thread ;-)
That makes sense actually. Rich foreign students wanting a "cultural experience". City must have tapped into that market through the universities. Can't knock City for doing it given the number of regulars who don't come to CL games.
Heard that twice pre-game. Blasted out of the tannoy. Everyone was looking around saying “is this a pisstake?”YNWA was a Heineken advert it was on the screens too
I’d give my right arm for that. That steep n’all, a proper wall!
It was Real Madrid after all. I don't like phone cameras in grounds - should be made to put them in a locker in the concourse lol. But if your a football fan then Real Madrid playing your team is special. Would have only dreamed of regular games v Real 30 years ago...Last night was no different from any other Champions League night tourist wise.
I would imagine all other EPL grounds are the same on a Champions League night.
City now have season ticket holders who go to league games only.
I have one supporter next to me who is on all of the cup schemes.
The majority in my row I have not seen them bar League games and I have had different supporters next to me at all the Champions league games.
Still loyal Blues.
Honestly I do not see any reason to get worked up about it.
Would rather they took photos than throw flares and plastic bottles on the pitch.
I think City have had links with the student unions in Manchester since I was an ug in the early to mid 00s. I used to get dirt cheap tickets for league games, and I've heard they do the same at Huddersfield. The corner of the north stand is where they used to put us. I know they still have them for early CL games, dunno if they still make them available for semi finals, but basically if you see a young, fashionable looking group of Chinese people the best bet is students, probably postgrads.That makes sense actually. Rich foreign students wanting a "cultural experience". City must have tapped into that market through the universities. Can't knock City for doing it given the number of regulars who don't come to CL games.
Manchester la la la la Manchester la la la la...great away day's in London in the 70's in particular - lets give this a revivalSpot on.
Songs that have been sidelined a lot of late got a good airing last night and everyone around the ground joined in, including “We Love You City”, “We’re Not Really Here” and “Na na na na City” (which sounds ridiculous to say we’ve sidelined them, but we had done for ages).
There was a moment when SSL1 had run out of ideas and started singing a Yaya Touré song and it wasn’t catching on, then SSL3 started singing “We Are City, Super City” and the whole ground joined in.
Right there is the epitome of the issue we’ve been talking about for a good while. The stadium as a whole love the City songs most!
We still need to bring many more back that we’ve sidelined for too long:
City, We’re From Manchester (Go West)
We’re The Pride Of Manchester
Oh Man City, The Only Football Team To Come From Manchester
City ’Til I Die
We All Follow Man City, Over Land And Sea
If we’d added some or all of those to the song list last night, it would have been even better.
Atmosphere isn’t about the team, it’s about the fans. Football is 50% about the team and 50% about fan culture. Atmosphere is part of fan culture.Atmosphere is totally overrated and is more important to the media and pundits than it is to our team. As we saw at Athletico, games are won by players scoring goals and not what score the crowd recorded on Hughie Green's Clapometer!
No amount of singing, screaming or flag waving has ever scored a goal and I'd almost go as far as to say we don't prosper with the crowd screaming and cheering as it makes the players make rash decisions and attempt passes that might not be there. We saw this countless times last evening where cross field passes were intercepted, passes that didn't need to be played, but were due to the frenzy of fans hyping the situation. The Mahrez and Foden chances would probably have been scored in an empty stadium but last night missed due to performance anxiety. Look at last year, when without fans we strolled to the Premier League, League Cup and Champions League Final. That's the type of team we are, cool, precise and calculated and fan noise does not assist our play one iota. Admittedly for teams that play pinball football then screaming fans might assist their chaotic plan but the reality is that it does little or nothing for this current City side.
I've read that Manchester has one of the best brain retention levels in the UK. Great news if they start watching us as a student then stay have kids etc...generations of blues are made this wayI think City have had links with the student unions in Manchester since I was an ug in the early to mid 00s. I used to get dirt cheap tickets for league games, and I've heard they do the same at Huddersfield. The corner of the north stand is where they used to put us. I know they still have them for early CL games, dunno if they still make them available for semi finals, but basically if you see a young, fashionable looking group of Chinese people the best bet is students, probably postgrads.
Yep I got it off here or twitter cant remember. roof needs to come a lot deeper for more sound carry as the southern sun will get underneath it for the grass, stick the away fans in SS1 cut back the south stand roof a little for another Gene Kelly stand , Family in SS3I’d give my right arm for that. That steep n’all, a proper wall!
Barcelona are just as bad.Thought the youth at the bottom of 115 were top again. Bouncing about and making a right racket.
The SSL1 away section filled with City fans and tourists was quiet.
Thought 111, 110, 109 weren't there usual noisy selfs. Having no away fans to feed off/banter was probably the reason?
Really surprised by how few Real Madrid fans traveled. Regardless of how big the 2 Madrid clubs are, they have a poor away following.
Or compare it to the Brighton game last Wednesday. Were there more buses, trams and trains last night?Last home game nearly every fu*ker left with 10 minutes to go
All had valid reasons even though it Sat at 3 pm
Tonight game finished at 10 pm every fu* ker stayed
Am I missing somet ???
If you got to fu*'k of early on Saturday surley you have to leave early tonight ??
Legalised touting agencies own loads of seasoncards at our place, some overtly and others under sockpuppet names. Single games like last night and PSG at home will have made their money many times over, and that’s before you even factor in the cult and the derby.Everyone is welcome at the Etihad and nights last like night make blues for life. But this is a genuine question: who are these people? Genuinely? Are they on holiday in the UK? Are they students at the university? I saw a group of about 15 being escorted up Joe Mercer Way all wearing sweatshirts and flags from, I think Guatamala or somewhere, with half and half scarves. Would is be some kind of sports club trip or something?
I'm not snobby about it but how do they get tickets and where do these foreign people come from to turn up in so many thousands for a game where tickets never went on Open Sale?
Haha. I noticed that very moment and thought of you and this thread. SS1 fell back in their old ways just after half time Dzekoing and Here's To Youing and Ya yaing which normally would have killed the atmosphere but the top tier of SS3 took hold of things and boomed out the classics and they were the ones which took off repeatedly.Spot on.
Songs that have been sidelined a lot of late got a good airing last night and everyone around the ground joined in, including “We Love You City”, “We’re Not Really Here” and “Na na na na City” (which sounds ridiculous to say we’ve sidelined them, but we had done for ages).
There was a moment when SSL1 had run out of ideas and started singing a Yaya Touré song and it wasn’t catching on, then SSL3 started singing “We Are City, Super City” and the whole ground joined in.
Right there is the epitome of the issue we’ve been talking about for a good while. The stadium as a whole love the City songs most!
We still need to bring many more back that we’ve sidelined for too long:
City, We’re From Manchester (Go West)
We’re The Pride Of Manchester
Oh Man City, The Only Football Team To Come From Manchester
City ’Til I Die
We All Follow Man City, Over Land And Sea
If we’d added some or all of those to the song list last night, it would have been even better.
Bloody tourists throwing bottles at Benzema, giving our proper fans a bad nameView attachment 41560
This photo is cringe af…
Everyone’s known pretty much as soon as we moved to the etihad that splitting our most vociferous fans up is an atmosphere killer, why can’t anyone at the club put their heads together and just logistically come up with a plan to sort this out. There are people who are paid good money to improve the ‘fan experience’ but they don’t seem to grasp that top of most fans list is a good atmosphere.
I used to be of the opinion that surrounding the away fans either side was quite unique and created a hostility and to an extent it does have that effect especially if it’s a loud set of fans/ rivals but we shouldn’t be basing our atmosphere by feeding off away fans. It’s just so disjointed and we need to get all the singers together, it’s common sense…
And then when you move the away fans for cup games like this and plonk a load of tourists in there it just looks so so so odd.
sorry, rant over
I know that there are legit hospitality companies who buy boxes and corporate seats in bulk to sell them on at a profit. It woul; make sense for these companies to buy ordinary seats too as part of the deal to sell on.Legalised touting agencies own loads of seasoncards at our place, some overtly and others under sockpuppet names. Single games like last night and PSG at home will have made their money many times over, and that’s before you even factor in the cult and the derby.
There is also the elephant in the room of blues selling their seats on to them. Remember a few years ago when a mob of about 30/40 CSKA Moscow appeared right in the middle of SS1?
It wasn't the same people attending clearly and maybe it was a closer game.Last home game nearly every fu*ker left with 10 minutes to go
All had valid reasons even though it Sat at 3 pm
Tonight game finished at 10 pm every fu* ker stayed
Am I missing somet ???
If you got to fu*'k of early on Saturday surley you have to leave early tonight ??