Not at the rugby league game I was at yesterday mate. The fans have less money and more passion. The young fans were too busy singing and clapping.Young people use phones.
He is a higher up. And a ****Soriano is the problem - heartless bloke and absolute twat of a human being who only sees pound signs. Unfortunately he is trusted by the higher ups.
If they are watching the game and supporting City they are welcome, not so much if they spend the whole game videoing themselves, and definitely not if they are supporting the other team.Traveling from China to the UK to watch a football match costs approximately £4,000, equivalent to 40,000 yuan, which is about 6 to 8 months' salary for many people in China. Due to exchange rates, the cost of a meal in the UK is roughly 6 times that in China. The entire trip is extremely expensive. For many, this kind of journey is like a pilgrimage. It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Ironically, they don't seem to be welcomed by the local fans...
Think I'm close to 100 away grounds with City but that includes double counting for clubs that have moved such as Saints, WHU and Hudds etc.Top notch that. I've got my eyes on 100 away grounds watching City. 9 to go. Bodo Would be great but think I'll miss out on 28k points. Hopefully do it in the next 4/5 years .
Your average fan from China doesn't stand out. I always saw the same 3 Chinese fans at away games in Sun Jihai's time, but never since.Traveling from China to the UK to watch a football match costs approximately £4,000, equivalent to 40,000 yuan, which is about 6 to 8 months' salary for many people in China. Due to exchange rates, the cost of a meal in the UK is roughly 6 times that in China. The entire trip is extremely expensive. For many, this kind of journey is like a pilgrimage. It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Ironically, they don't seem to be welcomed by the local fans...
And not if they turn up with a shopping bag from the swamp.If they are watching the game and supporting City they are welcome, not so much if they spend the whole game videoing themselves, and definitely not if they are supporting the other team.
Ha ha ha. I knew you’d have something to say!Dont come out to play with the big boys, you lightweight.
Nothing new in that, some people have always liked going to a wide variety of games. My brother in law in London went along to anything that took his fancy back in the fifties, had a slight preference for Crystal Palace but visited all the grounds at one time or another. I looked through his programme collection after he died, all with the score and team changes written in. One of them was Arsenal v the rags, their last league game before MunichFew years ago I was in the 'neutral' end at Fulham away... Sat next to a fella in a Villa shirt. I asked him why and he said he just liked watching Premier League football. Any game would do.
I knew from that point that the game has changed. Not everyone attends for the same reasons, nor with the same motivation and passion.
Sacrilege: double counting. 100% not permitted. Same as the 92 club - only counts if you’ve done them all with City (or whichever team you follow).Think I'm close to 100 away grounds with City but that includes double counting for clubs that have moved such as Saints, WHU and Hudds etc.
In the join the Osc thread you have written “ we have things like our own ticket exchange, obviously made more difficult by the recent ticket transfer changes.”I’m on here as a long standing user of Man City Face Vakue Tickets & Travel mate. I’m glad to see 1894 raising the great work done by Daz Clarke etc and unfortunately how it’s under threat.
Just go. You’ll get in. There’s always a way. We may never play them again.Top notch that. I've got my eyes on 100 away grounds watching City. 9 to go. Bodo Would be great but think I'll miss out on 28k points. Hopefully do it in the next 4/5 years .
I started an informal ticket exchange for home tickets when we were up to around 250 members. There is always some members away with work, holidays or illness. It relies on City’s ticket transfer system. The tickets have to be face value or less and it’s usually less. Virtually all the members have at least a match day membership but sometimes we get a few friends of members to help fill the coach who just go to the odd game who might not have the paid membership. They have got cheap tickets from us in the past.In the join the Osc thread you have written “ we have things like our own ticket exchange, obviously made more difficult by the recent ticket transfer changes.”
So can you elaborate on that then ?
Does that include Barrow? Being a Barrovian, I’ve seen City play here twice, once under John Bond and once under Peter Reid. Both were testimonials and both times City put out a very decent side.Sacrilege: double counting. 100% not permitted. Same as the 92 club - only counts if you’ve done them all with City (or whichever team you follow).
Dropping into the 3rd division was a Godsend for ticking off grounds. Then we’ve had a great run of cup draws: Burton, Newport, Orient.
I count grounds that I’ve been to but who are now non-league (or non-existent, Bury, Scarborough and a few others) but double counting, never!
We just need Hartlepool in the FA cup and that’ll be @Chappie with the lot.
Yep, I lived in China for 7 years and there are a lot of very very rich people! I’d put it a lot higher than 2 x UK tbh.Your average fan from China doesn't stand out. I always saw the same 3 Chinese fans at away games in Sun Jihai's time, but never since.
The ones that get noticed tend to have garishly expensive clothes and carrier bags from a red club shop as well as a blue one. There are a lot of rich people in China, twice as many as in the UK.
Your average fan from China doesn't stand out. I always saw the same 3 Chinese fans at away games in Sun Jihai's time, but never since.
The ones that get noticed tend to have garishly expensive clothes and carrier bags from a red club shop as well as a blue one. There are a lot of rich people in China, twice as many as in the UK.
Well as we only have 70 million and they have over a billion I’d like to think there would be a lot moreYep, I lived in China for 7 years and there are a lot of very very rich people! I’d put it a lot higher than 2 x UK tbh.
It is about 6m to 3m US$ millionaires.Well as we only have 70 million and they have over a billion I’d like to think there would be a lot more