A s**t away end full of tourists

[Blue Mist]

The brass neck on these cunts.
I get going to the game as a tourist. But in the away end, wearing the colours of a different club.
It’s pretty fucking disrespectful.

Whoever is selling the tickets on needs banning too.

How do you ban a member of the City hierarchy?

To get 8 seats together for dippers away is not by joining an OSC or looking on BM.
Someone at the club, high up either sold but more likely gave them to a mate.

I can accept tourist looking at a map outside the Etihad, I understand that I can't get to my seat because people are queuing to ask a steward where the Stretford end is but to have 8 Barca fans at a game that sold out to normal fans at circa 27k is a piss take.

 

[blue44]

I know a lad,a hard core actually to be fare to him,who gets 3 tickets for any away,cos of his daddy's box.

socialism for the rich.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

And it still goes in to this day. But it’s now a much larger pool of people wanting away tickets, regardless if they support City or not.

The club reserve 5% of any allocation for their own use, which will include players, club officials, sponsors, etc.

 

[blue44]

The club reserve 5% of any allocation for their own use, which will include players, club officials, sponsors, etc.

and you will never know if that is correct


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more

 

[Craig]

Would you want the owners out? Genuine question

Not really arsed to be honest. Would i swap some of the moments for anything ?Possibly not. Would i always be a City fan when we were eternally shite? Definitely. Now i’m almost at a take it or leave it stage.

 

[jrb]

The club reserve 5% of any allocation for their own use, which will include players, club officials, sponsors, etc.

150 tickets, give or take.

So there’s a very good possibility those 8 tickets for the Barca fans, ‘wearing thier Barca shirts’ and standing next to each other, came from somebody at City?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

and you will never know if that is correct


or


more

No you won't. But if Pep, Txiki or Soriano has sourced those tickets, and they've come out of that allocation, then bar those fans being dickheads, there's no issue.

 

[nozzyblue]

When are we actually going to do something about this ? It’s every fucking season at Anfield and Old Trafford. It’s sad to see what’s happening to our support both with the increase in home ticket prices and the big away games going to the highest buyer

 

[Blue_Ketchup]

can someone pull them and ask them how they got the tickets ?

but yes as mentioned above the club seem to do their best to push more and more legacy fans out, they also prefer a more 'sanitised' away end, will it be much longer till the away end starts to sit down ?

 

[blue44]

No you won't. But if Pep, Txiki or Soriano has sourced those tickets, and they've come out of that allocation, then bar those fans being dickheads, there's no issue.

Thats ok then too
along with the corporate allocation too
the recent years

Im glad Im getting more and more skint anyhow,and aways are just another impossible hope supporting this club that iv done for 50 plus years

 

[jrb]

At least Palace and Leicester away will be a legacy away end and you’ll see and hear the difference.

 

[NoCompromise]

This is why i would not mind getting relegated. all these tourists and half and half scarfs would soon fuck off

I almost want it

 

[jrb]

The 8 Barca lads might be at Tast Catala on King Street now as we vent our spleens on BM.

 

[Stretford Born Blue]

I was taken to the game today by my boss and sat in The Boardroom.
Obviously all City’s hierarchy were in there, but there were plenty of celebrity City fans and of course Haalands Dad with hangers on.
I even bumped into two ex colleagues of mine, both City fans.
You see, fans get tickets and seats in all manner of ways and this is the second time in recent years I’ve been in corporate seats at Anfield.
What was noticeable about the City section today, was how quiet it was, chants just never got going, not to the extent where you could clearly hear them, loud and proud.
Away fans at The Etihad can make a great noise, but today, the City fans couldn’t be heard and, I was sat exactly half way along the main stand in the second tier, not the other end of the ground.
So, has it got to the point where the away allocation is being swallowed up by too many friends and family of players and staff, or by fans who pay through the nose from 3rd party suppliers?
Away allocations should be entirely for the hard core fan only.
I’ve dropped down the pecking order for games like this now, as my loyalty points, all be it pushing 25k, means I can’t get a ticket in my own right, nor through our supporters club where we’re lucky to get 3 or 4 tickets for away games now, and we have 300 or so members.
Clearly it’s now affecting the noise we can make at games such as this.
I assume we don’t see as many tourist at the likes of Forest and leicester?

 

[Craig]

The club reserve 5% of any allocation for their own use, which will include players, club officials, sponsors,

Have you got stats on other things too?

 

[eric pode of croydon]

Don't know if this is relevant but I've picked a random City away game and managed to get 8 tickets, not bought them obviously. It's not the away end but it doesn't seem impossible to get them off glorified ticket touts.

 

[PDBLUEMOON]

Because City Matters has to exist (due to Premier League rules), resignation or not. Others resigned before my time and it didn't achieve anything. At least I know I can put these issues on record. I don't disagree that it's powerless.

Apologies blue, but it’s a waste of time and you being part of that group is good for their tick box audits. You need to all throw the towel in and highlight the away game as the final insult. You’re doing more damage than helping us season ticket holders.

 

[mexico1970]

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Don't know if this is relevant but I've picked a random City away game and managed to get 8 tickets, not bought them obviously. It's not the away end but it doesn't seem impossible to get them off glorified ticket touts.

It's fine because the club has employed someone to sort out touting, obviously only certain kinds of touting.

 

[blue44]

The 8 Barca lads might be at Tast Catala on King Street now as we vent our spleens on BM.

I hope they spew up later

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

I’ve said it before, but we could really do with all of these groups coming together and creating a proper supporters trust. We don’t currently have any influence over the club.