City Announces Global Partnership with Viagogo

Everything about the club is completely controlled and contrived around sponsorship deals and revenue.

The players all have to wear the same CP clothing down to their trainers.

 
Not only are the PL clubs turning into Disneyland, they are turning into dating games.

They are destroying our game with their ill thought out desperate gimmicks and match day experiences.

Matchdays at Emirates Stadium are a time to connect with the beautiful game – and each other. It’s for this reason that we’re launching a new dating show that celebrates how a shared love of football can prove a catalyst for an even deeper romance. We are calling on our single supporters in the UK to apply to be part of the production, which will involve attending a blind date with a fellow Gooner centred around an Arsenal game.

www.arsenal.com

The Big Match

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jrb said:
Not only are the PL clubs turning into Disneyland, they are turning into dating games.

They are destroying our game with their ill thought out desperate gimmicks and match day experiences.

Matchdays at Emirates Stadium are a time to connect with the beautiful game – and each other. It’s for this reason that we’re launching a new dating show that celebrates how a shared love of football can prove a catalyst for an even deeper romance. We are calling on our single supporters in the UK to apply to be part of the production, which will involve attending a blind date with a fellow Gooner centred around an Arsenal game.

www.arsenal.com

The Big Match

The Big Match
www.arsenal.com www.arsenal.com
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GenZ joke:

plenty of single tarquins tbf after all they are all gooners ;-)

Cannot wait for AFTV cast off and domestic abuser MrDT to apply
 
paulchapo said:
Big Steve has nailed it. This disconnect between the club and the fans has been slowly rumbling along the tracks and getting stronger season by season until it's now hit the buffers. Enough is enough and action has to be taken, or everything we loved about supporting this football club will be finished for good. Bizarrely the one thing we all fear/ed the most, losing the 115 charges case, could be the best thing to happen to us if we do lose it. Why? Because there will be a clear out in the boardroom, the glory hunting Johnny come lately fans online and who go to the games will fuck off and once more the club will need us, the ones who were there in the old third division. Only then will they realise we were and are the glue that held and holds this shit together.

My wake up call that the club probably didn't give a shit about the fans started much earlier than this season. It was Wednesday 21st October 2015. Some of you may remember it, that night we beat Seville in the champions league with a late Kevin De Bruyne winner in injury time. It was also the night, without being over dramatic, I could have lost my life.

I was still working then and had just finished a gruelling 84 hour week onboard the ship. I left Dover late morning, arriving back into Manchester around 18:00. After a quick bite to eat in Piccadilly station I went straight to the game. On leaving at the final whistle I slipped on that horrendous ice rink new flooring that had been laid in the south stand and ended up in Salford Royal with a bleed on the brain. On blues and two's to Manchester Royal infirmary who transferred me to Salford Royal once the bleed was discovered on a scan. I posted my story on here at the time.

When I got back home I contacted the club as I realised something had to be done urgently to rectify the inadequate flooring in that area before somebody actually died. I certainly wasn't the first to fall on it. I was told that falling on the front of my head rather than the back probably saved me as the front part of the skull is thicker than the back. I was given the email for the fan liaison officer at the time, I won't name her in this post. I explained what had happened and asked to.meet her and show her the danger that flooring posed. I got no reply. I had a rant on here, Ric saw it and kindly contacted her on my behalf and she responded. Although still signed off sick as I wasn't 100% right I told her I was attending the next home game against Norwich on the 31st October and could meet and speak to her then. She told me couldn't as she was busy, then she was going to Seville for the return leg of the fixture i was injured at. She promised to contact me on her return but never did. To say I was incensed would be putting it mildly. As the club obviously didn't give a fuck about my health or the health of others I decided to take legal advice. The end result of that was after a long and stressful four year legal battle they settled with me out of court.

On the day I asked to meet her, the Norwich game, I stood on that very same concourse and watched three other people fall heavily as they too slipped on it. I told them all what had happened to me and urged them to report it but I never know if they did. Eventually City did an investigation on that area and discovered the paint used on it wasn't mixed properly and therefore it wasn't non slip as it was supposed to be. Not non slip was an understatement, it was like an ice rink even when dry. They eventually relaid it but in my opinion took too long and they were lucky somebody didn't actually die in the time it took them to rectify it. Before they did I saw many others fall victim to it. I have never received an apology from the club for the pain and trauma they caused me that night due to them not ensuring that flooring was laid correctly before allowing fans to walk on it. Zilch, nothing.

Sorry for the long post but that night was the first time I realised we are all just a number and aside from lip service and not wanting to.look bad they really don't give a fuck. Now it appears they're not even bothered about looking bad. Sad times indeed.
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Shocking mate and a complete failure in the duty of care the club has to the supporters.

One of many failures that have fractured and widened the disconnect over the last few years.

Relocations to facilitate corporate.
Istanbul.
Disabled parking.
Stewarding.
Ticketing.
Pricing.
Arbitrary club bans imposed on SC holders who are accused, but not found guilty, of petty misdemeanours.

Sigh.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
One of the City Matters representatives, Mohammed Ullah, was abused at a recent game. "Why are you here?" he was asked. That's why I had a go at 1894 over the "tourists" shit. Mohammed is as Mancunian was they come yet because he's dark-skinned and often dresses traditionally, he got abused. You see people on here referring to Chinese tourists, when Manchester has one of the biggest Chinese communities in Europe.

Of course a lot of it is about race.
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I live in denton and in the last 12 months several Bubble tea And Noodles shops have opened up. So-called Chinese tourists are obviously living here in Manchester and support City.
 
Jazzyblue said:
Because people can’t get tickets when they all go on sale, and then turn up and find six friends in front of them who have never been to a City match and can’t contribute to the atmosphere because they are there to see the other team or post on Instagram. Young people with roots in HK, SK, Thailand have been part of the matchday scene for ages now, many live in Manchester and include season ticket holders, they are Blues.

But this season the number of oppo fans, player/boy band fanboys, half and halves and instafans from ALL over the world has increased exponentially and some of the behaviour is deteriorating - too many phones, open support for other clubs, blocking the stairs, no craic. Unfortunately genuine fans are getting labelled as tourists as resentment at the silly and shortsighted ticketing policies grows and atmosphere dips. I had a smartarse behind me make a crack about being in the ‘tourist queue’ when my son’s qr code wouldn’t work for one game, and I was born and brought up within walking distance of Maine Road! Ive also experienced the frustration of my kids meeting the criteria for RM last season after going to every unglamorous fixture, being barred from buying them online, being assured by the ticket office they would be ‘held’ for me, when nothing of the sort happened, and the guy who ended up next to me had absolutely no interest in the outcome and clearly didn’t meet the criteria set for regular match goers.

The club has been taking the piss in multiple subtle ways but it’s all coming to a head now, RM this season and Brighton were the nadir, the Viagogo deal confirms it, and they are actually putting people at risk because they are causing tension between supporters in what has long been a welcoming fanbase.
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Makes a lot of sense thanks for clearing that up. F*** Viagogo then.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
…everybody who attends games.

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To be fair i have been away on an extended career break this year and so haven’t been to the Etihad since September. I have a season ticket which someone else has been using whilst I’ve been away, I will be going back for the first time for the Leicester game.

I have seen it getting progressively worse for tourists and opposition fans in our end but didn’t know how bad it has seemingly got in the last few months! Will see for myself I’m sure at Leicester but will adhere to the first 9 mins initiative 1894 have set out in solidarity anyway!
 
jrb said:
Not only are the PL clubs turning into Disneyland, they are turning into dating games.

They are destroying our game with their ill thought out desperate gimmicks and match day experiences.

Matchdays at Emirates Stadium are a time to connect with the beautiful game – and each other. It’s for this reason that we’re launching a new dating show that celebrates how a shared love of football can prove a catalyst for an even deeper romance. We are calling on our single supporters in the UK to apply to be part of the production, which will involve attending a blind date with a fellow Gooner centred around an Arsenal game.

www.arsenal.com

The Big Match

The Big Match
www.arsenal.com www.arsenal.com
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Imagine how long the s*x would last with two tarquins? Neither would be able to finish first !
 
I'll be taking part in what's being asked on Wednesday. Whether it has any impact or not we'll have to see but we, as a fanbase cannot just sleepwalk into a situation whereas in a decade or so's time, we simply do not recognise the the club anymore. Fan culture is extremely important to the overall pleasure of supporting a club and that culture is rapidly eroding because of the vision of people who've no clue or even care about such things.

My daughter is 1 year old and as parents we've always looked forward to the prospect of us going to games as a family. That's not going to happen if the current direction that the club are travelling in continues.

Are chairmen and travel secretaries of OSC branches advising their members to get involved? The OSC has a large number of match going fans and those numbers are needed to have a clear visible impact on Wednesday.
 
urban genie said:
GenZ joke:

plenty of single tarquins tbf after all they are all gooners ;-)

Cannot wait for AFTV cast off and domestic abuser MrDT to apply
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I know of an ugly, bald Gooner with a massive hooter that doesn’t stand a chance of a date.
 
Pep at the end of the Bournemouth match.

He knows what it's about.

I just wish he would speak up for the fans.
 
Well the piss take goes on, a dad and 2 children wearing Bournemouth kits sat in our today, they were removed but 5 other adults that were with them not wearing colours were allowed to stay
 
Dare I say a boycott of the semi final by all fans would send a big message.

however the apathy for such will be high
 
citymad said:
I know of an ugly, bald Gooner with a massive hooter that doesn’t stand a chance of a date.
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Which one? All those Cockney wankers are bald...

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