Yes I do! I phoned up to buy tickets 2 or 3 weeks before the match for me, my sons and a mate. I was told that something was wrong with the system so tickets couldn't be applied to my membership so I had to re-join there and then. A week after, I was sent an email asking if I wanted a message for any special occasion or something displayed on the scoreboard (screens) which I ignored.
As I arrived at the Etihad, we walked past a large group of Celtic fans singing IRA songs close to Summerbee's Bar. We got to the turnstile and none of our tickets worked. We went to the ticket office only to be told that because my membership had no purchase history, the tickets had been cancelled as I was "a security risk". It was only because my sons were with me that I managed to refrain from dragging the spotty, little fucker through the counter window by his tie as explained to him that I'd just passed some away fans singing terrorist songs at a Manchester stadium who apparently weren't considered a security risk.
Luckily, he saw that I was somewhat agitated and allowed me to buy tickets on my Dad's membership to ensure we got in. As you say, inside the ground, there were groups and individual jocks all around the ground, mostly pissed up. Then we had the spectacle during the 67th minute of the scruffs switching on the torches on their phones all around the stadium.
I was fuming when the club began to sell loyalty points with season tickets but this was the first time I had felt unwelcome at the club I've supported since 1987. I, like many others, fear the worst when Galatasaray come to town to the point where I haven't asked my daughter if she wants to come after she was scared witless by Young Boys fans hurling countless missiles into the Kippax corner on a previous occasion.
