Manchester City v Celtic post match thread

[BongoBlue]

Haha, you beat me to it.

Any time you are in a pub in Boston that is showing football (literally any match in any league or competition) you have a 50% chance of finding at least one person wearing a Celtic shirt and one person wearing a Liverpool shirt (if you go enough, you’ll often see the same person wearing one and then the other on different days).

The Banshee, the official MCFC Supporter’s Club pub in Boston (Dorchester), always had at least one on match days!

True dat.

 

[liongard82]

A bit of a myth, we have more supporters clubs around the world than Celtic and Rangers. Most of the Irish diaspora support United or Liverpool. 40M yanks claim Irish heritage and they sell 700 tickets.I saw them play Madrid in Philadelphia years ago and it was 90% Madrid fans

I'm definitely not comparing them to MU, Liverpool or Real Madrid. Just us.

And I don't think it's a myth that Celtic have had a bigger support than us globally up until our recent success and the PL's global explosion.

 

[pauls]

City sold 25,000, Celtic 700, yet Andy Townsend still says they are bigger

When I hear a quote like this which I remember I like to analyse the reasons and bias why and in Townsends mind will be his ex clubs Villa and Chelsea being bigger, nothing more nothing less plus the usual Talksport bait operandi.
Not one of the clowns know anything about City pre 2008.

 

[carlosthejackal]

City sold 25,000, Celtic 700, yet Andy Townsend still says they are bigger

Celtic’s worldwide support is enormous

 

[Jordie]

Just read through this thread and am surprised that no-one has mentioned what a scummy bunch of twats their (celtic) fans were last night.

 

[Prophet of Doom]

Celtic historically are huge. And are also huge around the world given the historic emigration of Irish and Scots. They would have been a bigger supported club than City for 9/10ths of our history.

But currently it's changing given the growth of City within the growth of the Premier League. City are a runaway train within a runaway train. Times are changing fast and last night showed that.

Nobody’s talking about historically. But this idea Celtic are massive around the globe now is complete bollocks.

A recent social media survey collating total number of social media followers of all global football clubs - put them in 100th place.

99 other football clubs had larger number of followers on social media. Nothing to do with growth of PL - they have been surpassed by everybody around the world.

 

[Gingers Dad]

I made no point for you. You were a needlessly snidey **** and I pointed that out. I know it was a friendly. I was happy with how we played. That’s it. Good momentum building for the new season and hopefully we bring in at least five players to set us up to take a step up. Enjoy your season. I know I will.

I think you're taking it all a bit too seriously. It was a preseason friendly. Not much than a training game. The result was about as relevant as Soccer Aid.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Celtic historically are huge. And are also huge around the world given the historic emigration of Irish and Scots. They would have been a bigger supported club than City for 9/10ths of our history.

But currently it's changing given the growth of City within the growth of the Premier League. City are a runaway train within a runaway train. Times are changing fast and last night showed that.

Celtic and, to a lesser extent, Rangers had big fanbases in North America in the 60s, 70s and 80s but those days are over and that generation has mostly died off. The PL is the dominant force now. There is no global interest in Scottish football nowadays.

 

[big gaz]

Not concerned about friendlies at all. What concerns me more is our lack of activity in the transfer market. Surely we can’t be relying on Rodri remaining fit all season with no able deputy.

Lift you're head up Kalvin started ;-)

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Lift you're head up Kalvin started ;-)

I can see us being stuck with him for years ! Sigh.

 

[liongard82]

Celtic and, to a lesser extent, Rangers had big fanbases in North America in the 60s, 70s and 80s but those days are over and that generation has mostly died off. The PL is the dominant force now. There is no global interest in Scottish football nowadays.

Completely agree. That's basically my point.

 

[big gaz]

I can see us being stuck with him for years ! Sigh.

I'll have to try harder to get you smiling ;-) but I know what you mean mate sadly .

 

[hammersmithlad]

Seems to have been mentioned a few times on here but curious to know how much a ticket roughly cost at last time's game?

Some friends who attended the UNC College American football games over there last season stated it was pretty much packed on a regular basis. Although I'm sure student college game subsidies & a successful season for UNC where their QB Drake Maye subsequently got highly drafted in the NFL were contributing factors to capacity attendances.

 

[liongard82]

Nobody’s talking about historically. But this idea Celtic are massive around the globe now is complete bollocks.

A recent social media survey collating total number of social media followers of all global football clubs - put them in 100th place.

99 other football clubs had larger number of followers on social media. Nothing to do with growth of PL - they have been surpassed by everybody around the world.

Again, I'm not arguing with you. They were and now they are not. Did you read what I wrote.

And City have benefited hugely from the explosion of the PL. And the PL has led to domestically big clubs becoming globally big clubs. Of course it has.

 

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

Seems to have been mentioned a few times on here but curious to know how much a ticket roughly cost at last time's game?

The $100 that I've seen floated around seems consistent. I'm sure it varied a bit on secondary sites.

Some friends who attended the UNC College American football games over there last season stated it was pretty much packed on a regular basis. Although I'm sure student college game subsidies & a successful season for UNC where their QB Drake Maye subsequently got highly drafted in the NFL were contributing factors to capacity attendances.

Kenan stadium is mostly fully packed when they play their main ACC rivals in NC State, but you will see a good amount of red in the stadium to help achieve that sellout. Other than that without going down a rathole few of you care about, that place does not sell out. UNC basketball inside the Smith Center, however...

 

[eyalluvitt]

Based on the positioning of the pitch mics last night you would have thought it was the other way round.

The persistent booing of our players being picked up clearly, especially of Grealish, was ridiculous.

You kind of expect the microphone in with the opposition at every game we play, thankfully the vile sectarian songbook they were singing would be lost on most of those in attendance

 

[eyalluvitt]

Celtic’s worldwide support is enormous

Yet we dwarfed their support in Japan last year and the USA this

 

[mexico1970]

Yet we dwarfed their support in Japan last year and the USA this

People are assuming that just because Celtic are Scottish then the pretend Irish and Scottish around the world are their fans.

 

[Tbilisi]

Just read through this thread and am surprised that no-one has mentioned what a scummy bunch of twats their (celtic) fans were last night.

Cant have been anything like as bad as Shelbourne in the 1990s.

 

[Jordie]

Cant have been anything like as bad as Shelbourne in the 1990s.

Haha, probably not. I didn't go.