Community Shield - Arsenal (N) | Sun 6th Aug - 16:00

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BlueAnorak said:
Staggering that the FA have actually moved the KO 90 mins forward due to the prospect of a boycot.
Unheard of actually listening a bit.
That said If they were fully listening the game woukd also be voved to the Saturday or to Villa Park even better still.
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There is still a TV blackout on Saturday, so the earliest it could kick off would be 5.15. With the trains finishing earlier on a Saturday than a Sunday, I doubt the boycotters would be appeased by that.
 
Stephen230 said:
There is still a TV blackout on Saturday, so the earliest it could kick off would be 5.15. With the trains finishing earlier on a Saturday than a Sunday, I doubt the boycotters would be appeased by that.
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FA Cup Final was 3pm on a Saturday
 
Son of Merv said:
Villa Parks capacity is about 42,000 isn't it? And we'd get (maybe) somewhere between15-20,000 tickets. Even if it's a straight split of 21,000 each, doesn't Wembley actually provide a better option to allow more City fans an opportunity to attend? I'd think there will be at least 25,000 going to the CS...
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Villa Park is going to be expanded to over 50,000.

When that happens it will be at least 25,000 tickets each for both sets of fans, which is plenty enough in my opinion.

Unfortunately unlike the North West with Old Toilet holding 74,000, and Anfield being expanded to 61,000, apart from Villa Park, the other football stadiums in the Midlands don’t have a large enough capacity to host a North / South Community Shield match instead of Wembley.

The FA should hold a North / South Community Shield match at Villa Park after it’s expanded. A London or Southern Community Shield match should be held at Wembley. That would suit United and Liverpool fans as well. ;-)
 
Son of Merv said:
Villa Parks capacity is about 42,000 isn't it? And we'd get (maybe) somewhere between15-20,000 tickets. Even if it's a straight split of 21,000 each, doesn't Wembley actually provide a better option to allow more City fans an opportunity to attend? I'd think there will be at least 25,000 going to the CS...
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No chance 20000
 
jrb said:
Villa Park is going to be expanded to over 50,000.

When that happens it will be at least 25,000 tickets each for both sets of fans, which is plenty enough in my opinion.

Unfortunately unlike the North West with Old Toilet holding 74,000, and Anfield being expanded to 61,000, apart from Villa Park, the other football stadiums in the Midlands don’t have a large enough capacity to host a North / South Community Shield match instead of Wembley.

The FA should hold a North / South Community Shield match at Villa Park after it’s expanded. A London or Southern Community Shield match should be held at Wembley. That would suit United and Liverpool fans as well. ;-)
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A lot of people are assuming that Villa would be interested in hosting it. They weren’t last season when asked.
 
Think it should be the Saturday but 4pm is now a decent time and should at least ensure people are home before midnight.
 
It is ridiculous that the site next to the NEC where a proposed national sradium was to be built before the government fiddled it to rebuild wembly is no a cineworld and unused brownfield land.

What an absolute waste
 
Man_City_Loyal said:
I mean there wasn't really, if you count getting out at say 7.15pm and getting the train back to Manchester (including the tube)

19.27 with 3 changes gets you to Piccadilly at 11.30 pm

and then you have these:

  • 19:51 gets you in at 00:14 with 2 changes
  • 20:27 gets you in at 00:48 with 2 changes

  • 20:51 gets you in at 04:37 with 3 changes

  • 21:27 gets you in at 03:33 with 3 changes
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And double price for taxis. @Stephen230 is always saying the opposite, no matter what the topic.
I can only speak for myself. Before any boycott was announced I said I wasn't going. City play an under strength team and rightly treat it as a friendly. The FA treat it as a cash cow and us as fuckwits. 200 miles to a shithole stadium with overpriced tickets and beer.
I don't do friendlies and I won't watch this on TV, why give advertisers the money, it defeats a boycott. I give my full backing to 1894 and anyone else that supports them.
 
urban genie said:
It is ridiculous that the site next to the NEC where a proposed national sradium was to be built before the government fiddled it to rebuild wembly is no a cineworld and unused brownfield land.

What an absolute waste
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Birmingham unveiled the £324m bid to be the home of the national football stadium in August.

The 85,000-seater stadium would host football and rugby league events as well as music concerts and would also feature a leisure complex.

The proposed location for the new stadium is a green-field site near the National Exhibition Centre and the M42.

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I will 100% not be attending this - I was already thinking of not going, then saw its a Sunday and regardless of 4 or 530ko it just made me more determined not to attend...

The FA made a massive thing about football for the fans when the Super League was touted, yet have done a flat eff all since then to show it.

Even England v North Macedonia would have been at Wembley if there hadn't been a concert.
 
paska said:
Shall we get them to rebuild Maine Road over pre-season and host it there?

Nothing short of that will make some fans happy
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Or do nowt and we get a super cup against a team we've already thrashed twice, (Seville) and a World Club Cup, (I mean what dah fuck) in Saudi and ....... if we, the fans hadn't protested we'd be playing Barca twice a season in some fucked up Super league with a play off match in Miami.

You sit on your hands saying nowt. Me, I hate the way football is going.
 
jrb said:
Birmingham unveiled the £324m bid to be the home of the national football stadium in August.

The 85,000-seater stadium would host football and rugby league events as well as music concerts and would also feature a leisure complex.

The proposed location for the new stadium is a green-field site near the National Exhibition Centre and the M42.

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Why spend £324million and make it accessible to the whole country when you can spend £800million and keep it in London?
 
WARBABY said:
people on here who were not going but proposing a boycott should not comment. When I was a shop steward at a large engineering company and a mass meeting was called, those members who had their mortgages all paid and no kids, voted for ban on overtime knowing it would not affect them. Same here I think people who spent all their money on the cup final and Istanbul cannot afford another trip so jump on the boycott bandwagon, there are some that could not get tickets for either of the finals who have never been to a match at that stadium would want to go so why stop them the chance of going.
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No one, including 1894 are stopping you ! All they/we are saying is stop shitting on us. I presume you would go to an 8.30pm Sunday kick off ?
 
Manchester33 said:
I think we fans had (and still have) an incredible amount of power. The issue we have (in the UK especially) is that we're too tribal to work together in any meaningful way. There's no need to 'divide and conquer' us because we do it ourselves.

We have power. But we do not wield it.
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You are so right - when I was on the FSA committee we'd try and get campaigns going to help save a club or make them aware of an issue another club's fans were dealing with and it was the same.reply every time -
Fuck them (insert rags / scousers / cockney / brummie etc etc etc) twats.
The German's do it a lot. They will put down their rivalry and stand / march side by side demonstrating whatever issue.
Here the FA know we are too busy shouting "empty seats / dippers" at each other and waving inflatable European Cups at rival fans.
Twice fans have stood together and both times we got the result- Game 39 and the Euro Super League.

We can have it all, but how much do you wan'-it
 
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