Away fans / tourists in home sections

Winchester said:
These Plastics are all over
Some Chinese on the metro the other day hadn't got a clue when we were trying to get past them at the Stadium Stop
They just blocked the exits and gawped
Of course they were dressed up in their 50/50s and all taking pics
Ffs City get rid of them
As I'm a legacy fan like a lot of others on here it's getting embarrassing
And to think We used to call Utd for their Tourist/Plastic Fans
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Football the people’s game
 
I'm going to see Crewe in the next couple of weeks... Just turn up, get chips, buy tickets, watch game, go home. I dont even have to give them £25-£50 just for the pleasure of trying to buy tickets.

I just want that experience. Not the experience of being treated like a brainless herd of cattle, bombarded and kettled into buying all the over-premium-priced shit at the ground. I am not a number I am a supporter, I provide my support to you, you treat me/us with some respect otherwise you will end up with customers, who will move on to the next club that is winning stuff. Meanwhile we'll all be watching Crewe.
 
Charlesfarsbar said:
Yep, there are a few regulars that sit near me , used to go to 90% of the games

I think I’ve only seen them four or five times this season

This is the problem , we must have around 40k season ticket holders but a lot must be selling on their tickets

The club aren’t stupid , this is why the flexi ticket exists. My ticket is £760 per season for 19 games. The club can sell a flexi for £150 plus the cost of 19 games @ £38 each , if I don’t turn up for 9 of those games , they can sell for £60 a game on average

£150 + 10x£38 + 9x60 =£1070

That’s a 40% uplift on income from the same seat

I doubt we will ever see standard season tickets ever again

My Nephew started coming this season with us, he’s on a flexi ticket , where the rest of us are on a standard season ticket - I bet he’ll be on a flexi for life he he keeps on going
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Should be a rule that if you do flexi for 5 years you get the option of normal season ticket from Year 6.
 
Matty M24blue said:
This is worse than what happened in the ground for me yesterday.

Can see the direction the clubs going and it’s akin to them in Trafford. Forcing you to sell back to the club rather than being able to transfer is coming. Don’t get me wrong there’s an element of apathetic season ticket holders who buy to sell 70% of the games on, but by suspending those passing on tickets to other blues at a lower price than the club would is a disgrace.
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At least we’ve found out about what the new ticket compliance manager is doing. As he or she turns a blind eye to City selling tickets to City’s online ticket touting partners.
 
It's a fact that success brings in the tourists, however, season ticket holders who regularly miss matches should not be allowed to renew their season ticket and it should then be offered to someone on the waiting list
 
Things I witnessed yesterday…

Bloke coming out the club shop with a Luis Diaz away Liverpool shirt on, bags of city merchandise. He then stopped, took his Liverpool shirt off and put his city top on which he just purchased.

Another guy with a half and half scarf outside the main entrance with an arsenal shirt on!

Another guy with a half and half scarf with a united woolly hat on taking a picture of the Bell, Lee and Summerbee statue!

I too am getting cross and annoyed regarding the tickets and prices etc but the games keep selling out, there’s no reason for our owners to say… ‘games aren’t selling, we should reduce prices’ their model is working unfortunately. The only was to bring down prices is if citizen members stop buying tickets.
It won’t happen as long as we’re a top club with attractions such as haaland and pep etc as ‘new fans’ ‘tourist fans’ whatever you want to call them want to see City and sometimes whether they support us or not!
 
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Who is going to be our Jack Oneill with two l's?

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Citi-leaks said:
Real Madrid and Liverpool home games turned out more like a day out at Alton Towers or the Trafford Centre. Once that happens, there's no turning back. As we saw with the Prawn Sandwich brigade 20 years ago. The hardcore fans were replaced by corporate packages and day trippers who will pay a 100 quid for a seat. No club in the world is turning that money down.

Maybe the peaks and troughs of success and failure is what retains a fan base identity, as the tourists drop off and the hardcore re-claim their seats again.
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Like all things in life once you brake out of a habit sometimes it’s hard to get back into it
 
mancityvstoke said:
exactly what happened at Liverpool and Everton back then....feral tramps.
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It was murder. Something people forget about going there is unlike Manchester the scousers always joined forces against teams playing there, especially Manchester teams. The only time I really remember that happening here
was when Liverpool and Everton played a semi final at Maine Road.
Just like now the police also hated you and couldn't give a fuck if you were getting battered. Indeed they'd often say, "Shouldn't have fucking come then should you lad." As the lad who left early found out that didn't save you, in fact it was more dangerous as there was always loads of scallies hanging about and you were easily sussed out. A horrible horrible place to go.
 
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give it to gordon said:
Honestly most of us would be shocked how busy the Etihad is from 10am for an afternoon game.
I've done it once, it didn't feel City, it didn't feel like Manchester, it didn't feel like home, I felt like I didn't belong. Someone had ripped my heart out. Everything I loved about our club had gone, we are just the same as any other club. Sold our soul for the money

The matchday experience for alot of tourists starts early with pre match stadium tours, aren't the club starting rooftop tour next season ?

The City shop is rammed all day.
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Just playing devil's advocate here, but if we want the best players, manager, team etc, then the income has to come in from all angles. That's just football now. I fully get where you're coming from, I've been down to the shop on a non matchday and experienced what you describe, but I suppose that's the other side if being successful. I think we just have to accept that that's what we are now
 
Football has moved on from what it was regarding fans/supporters,and a good percentage are tourists now,who maybe don’t support one team but 2 or 3..some see taking in a game like visiting attractions around the country be it museums,cathedrals,Buckingham palace etc,it’s the way it is now ..
 
deano ou812 said:
Football has moved on from what it was regarding fans/supporters,and a good percentage are tourists now,who maybe don’t support one team but 2 or 3..some see taking in a game like visiting attractions around the country be it museums,cathedrals,Buckingham palace etc,it’s the way it is now ..
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Not the cunts in front of me that celebrated the scouse goal like it was the birth of their new born.

Do not go gentle into the good night ehh mate? ;)
 
Brother in law was at a recent CL game with his lad. 2 hours before kick off, he was helping a friend with tickets, and on the official club site all seats were sold out.

Game kicked off and all around him there were groups of 5 seats empty. Then over the next 25 minutes, these groups of people started turning up. All from the same demographic, which you can probably guess. They didn't know how to find their seats, so people had to move or stand up for them to check the seat numbers, before the steward helped them. It is 25 minutes into the match, and a whole row is standing up to let them in. They sit down for about five mins, then they are up again an off down onto the concourse, then they come back 10 minutes later with drinks and snacks, they are taking selfies in the aisle, again a whole row stands up to let them in. Half time comes and they disappear completely, and don't return at all for the second half.

What is the point of this? Just for a selfie, or a tick box exercise to say that you did something when you were in Manchester? Block buying seats and then disrespecting all the match going fans. And bizarrely, they probably paid an arm and a leg to not even watch a match.
 
All part of being a global club now I'm afraid, these people are football fans, not fans of Manchester City.

I've been to a NY Knicks game, bought a stupid foam finger with 'go Knicks' on it, and sat there drinking a gatorade from a cup that was probably 3 times the size of my head, hotdogs the lot!

Me and the Mrs had a great time, and it's a memory, this is what we've become for fans from across the globe now.

At the end of the day, they're not harming anyone, and they don't understand the tribalism, so just let it be.

That doesn't mean that the club should exploit their loyal fan base though, the two don't have to go hand in hand.
 
That semi at Maine Rd
paulchapo said:
It was murder. Something people forget about going there is unlike Manchester the scousers always joined forces against teams playing there, especially Manchester teams. The only time I really remember that happening here
was when Liverpool and Everton played a semi final at Maine Road.
Just like now the police also hated you and couldn't give a fuck if you were getting battered. Indeed they'd often say, "Shouldn't have fucking come then should you lad." As the lad who left early found out that didn't save you, in fact it was more dangerous as there was always loads of scallies hanging about and you were easily sussed out. A horrible horrible place to go.
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only time I saw reds and blues stick together....er.....very briefly.

Loads of scousers got ambushed. Around Maine Road and in town.
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
I'm going to see Crewe in the next couple of weeks... Just turn up, get chips, buy tickets, watch game, go home. I dont even have to give them £25-£50 just for the pleasure of trying to buy tickets.

I just want that experience. Not the experience of being treated like a brainless herd of cattle, bombarded and kettled into buying all the over-premium-priced shit at the ground. I am not a number I am a supporter, I provide my support to you, you treat me/us with some respect otherwise you will end up with customers, who will move on to the next club that is winning stuff. Meanwhile we'll all be watching Crewe.
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Ha I'm honestly considering going to watch Crewe soon I'm not far from there these days, just a shame they play in red! Got mates who support them too so that helps. Ground right next to the train station and bus depot too.
 
chris85mcfc said:
At the end of the day, they're not harming anyone, and they don't understand the tribalism, so just let it be.
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No we shouldn't just let it be at all.
chris85mcfc said:
That doesn't mean that the club should exploit their loyal fan base though, the two don't have to go hand in hand.
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They do have to go hand in hand because the more of these twunts they allow in the less blues they let in, if they don't understand our culture the least they could do is fucking respect it and not turn up with rag shirts scouse scarves and 25 minutes late.
 
Looking at the thread title, I thought there’d been mither between a group of overseas visitors and feral red scousers yesterday.

I’ll get me coat…
 
PistonBlue said:
Agree with all of that, and i’m from a very similar background to yourself. Season ticket since ‘85 weirdly enough.
I’ve threatened to drop the Cup schemes, particularly the CL, but it’s the guaranteed final tickets that stop me from doing so.
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Youll always get a ticket!!

Yep 1985 but had been going with dad from 79. Dad played football himself so couldnt always commit to a saturday so my uncle, his younger brother , stepped up and we got a ticket.
I joined the junior blues and as my ‘parent’ we got a ridiculous discount for 2 season tickets.
We went in through the main stand main entrance to be met by jessie ward, is that who was in charge of the junior blues?
As we walked to her office jimmy frizzel came out of his, jessie explained we were there to join up and he warmly thanked us.
After the forms were filled in she took us into the main stand and showed us what tickets/seats were available and we chose the one we liked.
She then , again, thanked us warm heartedly and we were season ticket holders.

We felt they were very grateful for our support

How times have changed
 
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