FA Cup Final | Crystal Palace (N) | Sat 17 May 4:30pm

[urban genie]

Definitely?

maybe

 

[Axel Freed]

who said it was a global conspiracy???

why do some younger people seem to have strange takes on anything and dismiss it as misserable old folk moaning, while themselves are reluctant to challenge anything they have foisted upon them.

I’m old myself but I’m not moaning. Attending a cup final is a special treat not something that’s foisted upon people.

This thread is the embodiment of the way a grouchy old fucker thinks the world owes him a living. The match has to KO at 3pm so he can get his train and be home for 9pm. Despite his triple linked gold plated pension and place on the housing ladder he doesn’t wanna spend any more, inflation adjusted, than he did in 1981. He’s angry that hotels put prices up at times of high demand.

It’s all about him and what suits his lifestyle, none of it is really about the collective body of City fans.

It’s self pity at a level so absurd as to almost be a parody and tbh it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if some of the more vociferous moaners on here were doing exactly that and reeling people in like fish

 

[Dodge]

Coming back from the semis.i managed to get a room for £60..absolute fccking result. Lol

You went to the semi...wow, you never mentioned that before.

 

[foden47]

Crystal Palace FC web site seems to think they have the West End for the final.

I was told we had the East Side. Which us why I am confused with the ticket info showing West. Could be an error on the app.

 

[blue44]

You went to the semi...wow, you never mentioned that before.

I had a semi this morning when i woke up at 5am to go to work for 6,mrs was indifferent to using it.such a shame,as talk talk once said.

 

[Dodge]

This is a club that makes record profits every year, massively overcharging a mainly working class fanbase, with very little benefit on business grounds.

If this were a concert then I'd agree but football doesn't work on normal laws of supply and demand. I know lads who if the choice came down to Brentford away or paying their gas bill, then they're not paying their gas bill. We don't have empty seats because of lack of demand, we have empty seats because people very literally cannot afford to go. Not that they might be a bit skint, that they do not possess the liquidity to afford it.
I'm absolutely sick to death of football clubs claiming they're community projects and special exemptions when it benefits them, and then turning into ultra revenue chasing businesses when that benefits them. They need to pick one. And I think Manchester City is a community football club based in East Manchester and built by and for the people of Manchester primarily. I think this because that's what they tell politicians and taxmen and all others that they are.

And frankly, I don't really give a shit about the politics of it all when it comes down to it. I give a shit about the fact that I can barely afford to take my own kids to a family tradition and they certainly won't be able to afford to take theirs. This isn't a TV show for me. It's not like going to the theatre, it's about securing the next generation and the one after that to have the same opportunities that I did, my Dad did and my Grandad did.

Here's what I've recognised, apparently WAY ahead of some others who will work this out in coming years. What's happening now has nothing to do with ticket revenue. What they're doing is a replacement exercise. They are purposely getting away with the most expensive ticket prices possible because they WANT you not to able to afford it. They WANT you to lose tickets. They don't WANT your kids on season tickets they can afford.

They want to a move to an American model, they want to move to a tourist model. As @Prestwich_Blue very cognisciently said about 8 years ago now, it's much more beneficial for the club to sell 40,000 seats at £150 a pop then 60,000 at £40 a pop. Look at the Camp Nou's historical attendances. They don't care about being full, that's a bad thing to them, it means they outsold demand.

As I've said elsewhere, we're not in a negotiation with City here. Our goals are not aligned. They want to remove "legacy fans". We're in a fight for our entire footballing culture and we still get people sniping from the sidelines instead of standing on a concourse for a few minutes.

Nailed it.

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

After my rant yesterday, and kid me not I still feel the same, I will be doing the normal drive to Beaconsfield with a few mates.
Simply cannot be bothered stressing over the train times and potential of extra time etc so I will drive there and back.

 

[Blue Mist]

I’m old myself but I’m not moaning. Attending a cup final is a special treat not something that’s foisted upon people.

This thread is the embodiment of the way a grouchy old fucker thinks the world owes him a living. The match has to KO at 3pm so he can get his train and be home for 9pm. Despite his triple linked gold plated pension and place on the housing ladder he doesn’t wanna spend any more, inflation adjusted, than he did in 1981. He’s angry that hotels put prices up at times of high demand.

It’s all about him and what suits his lifestyle, none of it is really about the collective body of City fans.

It’s self pity at a level so absurd as to almost be a parody and tbh it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if some of the more vociferous moaners on here were doing exactly that and reeling people in like fish

You dont half have a weird take on older Blues.
Grouchy old fuckers with triple linked pensions !!!!

All I've seen you do is moan. Why is it wrong to want a k.o. time that suits our shite transport system ?
Why is it wrong to moan that despite having had 8 months to announce a k.o. time we have to wait a week, since the semi final, to find it out?

Perhaps you should do what you tell old fuckers to do.

Stop fucking moaning.

 

[Franny 1234]

I might leave Prestwich at 9 as I have to go via Ashton to pick up one of our mob.
I usually park west of the ground but might try somewhere on the east as that's the end we've got.

We go that often that most blues who drive have their regular parking arrangements each and every.

 

[Mifred]

After my rant yesterday, and kid me not I still feel the same, I will be doing the normal drive to Beaconsfield with a few mates.
Simply cannot be bothered stressing over the train times and potential of extra time etc so I will drive there and back.

How many changes on that route

 

[blue44]

You dont half have a weird take on older Blues.
Grouchy old fuckers with triple linked pensions !!!!

All I've seen you do is moan. Why is it wrong to want a k.o. time that suits our shite transport system ?
Why is it wrong to moan that despite having had 8 months to announce a k.o. time we have to wait a week, since the semi final, to find it out?

Perhaps you should do what you tell old fuckers to do.

Stop fucking moaning.

put the **** on ignore

 

[heslops barnet]

It’s quite simple to understand, basic economics.

Regardless, get the coach instead for £20 and stop moaning.

Went to Wembley on a coach a few years ago, never again…..fukin horror show

 

[foden47]

It's diabolical that there are only 3 trains available after 8pm. For the semi final, I got back to Euston just before 8, and that was going to Wembley Park after the game to get the tube. If we have extra time and win, your simply not going to make the last train at 21:01.

 

[Stephen230]

in 1986 Altrinchams game at Birmingham in the third round was rearranged 3 times if I remember correctly)

I think that might still be the last time a non league club knocked a top division club out of the cup on their own ground.

Seaman in nets for Birmingham. And Robert Hopkins was so embarrassed at scoring the winning OG, he promptly signed for City.

 

[Stephen230]

It's diabolical that there are only 3 trains available after 8pm. For the semi final, I got back to Euston just before 8, and that was going to Wembley Park after the game to get the tube. If we have extra time and win, your simply not going to make the last train at 21:01.

They’ll put on at least one extra one if that happens.

 

[Sid C]

Martin Samuel’s wrote a small piece in today’s Sunday Times saying what a shit show the whole debacle over the ko has been but haven’t seen many others saying how disgusting it had been. Same thing will happen next season

Martin Samuel is a shining example of an unbiased journalist. The rest are fucking wankers.

 

[foden47]

They’ll put on at least one extra one if that happens.

They had 7 trains available after the semi final. Most likely because of the London marathon. However, they should still be doing that for the final.

 

[.db.]

It's diabolical that there are only 3 trains available after 8pm. For the semi final, I got back to Euston just before 8, and that was going to Wembley Park after the game to get the tube. If we have extra time and win, your simply not going to make the last train at 21:01.

I’ve asked the company who put a football special on last year if they’d do it again. I doubt I’ll get a response with the final only being 2 weeks away (even less by Tuesday after the BH weekend ends), I’d imagine it takes months to organise knowing what this country is like.

 

[ArdwickBlue_M12]

The other mental part is that some people join the supporters clubs, never attend a single meeting whatsoever, and then get a cup final ticket.

It really is utter madness that it’s allowed.

Effectively paying a tenner or whatever it is for fees, to guarantee a cup final ticket, lol.

Yep, you are pretty much guaranteed a ticket at my branch for cup finals. knew some lads that didn't go to one game for years but got final tickets for chumps league in Istanbul through the branch. fucking madness

 

[remember arthur mann]

It's diabolical that there are only 3 trains available after 8pm. For the semi final, I got back to Euston just before 8, and that was going to Wembley Park after the game to get the tube. If we have extra time and win, your simply not going to make the last train at 21:01.

The country as they say is, fooked. Run by fools and charlatans, especially the greedy ones.They just take the piss. Gone downhill fast.