Our capacity up until the end of last season was 45,000, just over that figure last night so how many other clubs could attract another 7 or 8 thousand within a matter of weeks to what wasn' t such an attractive opposition?Some reporter (Bevan) on the supposed impartial BBC website last night came out with "as predicted earlier, lots of empty seats at the Etihad tonight" with a picture showing some empty seats. I have never seen this style of reporting with any other club.
What get's me is, ok rival fans can take the piss, but why do some in the media feel the need to point it out ! You never hear these guys say another coach full out of towners as just pulled up at old trafford or anfield, or there's not much noise coming from the kop today !Some reporter (Bevan) on the supposed impartial BBC website last night came out with "as predicted earlier, lots of empty seats at the Etihad tonight" with a picture showing some empty seats. I have never seen this style of reporting with any other club.
What get's me is, ok rival fans can take the piss, but why do some in the media feel the need to point it out ! You never hear these guys say another coach full out of towners as just pulled up at old trafford or anfield, or there's not much noise coming from the kop today !
Easy - City CouldOur capacity up until the end of last season was 45,000, just over that figure last night so how many other clubs could attract another 7 or 8 thousand within a matter of weeks to what wasn' t such an attractive opposition?
I get the impression that some in the media feel the need to put us down as other fans have put utd down for years with stuff like, your fans don't coming from Manchester or just a bunch of glory hunting foreigners, and most football fans in Manchester are City fans. So now Sheikh Mansour as turned us around, it's getting harder and harder to take the piss, I remember the rags giving out about the worst champions ever, which some in the media picked up and quoted as City ended up finishing second,yet never heard it once the season after when utd didn't even finish in the top four ! so now this bullshit about empty seat, yet the Sevilla game was the first one below 50,000 !Rival fans is just banter and it's all they have. You hear bitter dippers actually drawing up league tables without us and Chelsea in it because in their world we aren't playing fair! How fucking pathetic can you be, but then it is the dippers so not surprising. They trot out the can't fill the stadium shite even though we are filling an expanded stadium. They trot out the WWYWYWS shite despite knowing that a good percentage of us were there. It's tedious but acceptable because like I said it's all they have.
The press on the other hand, bar a few who are actually good reporters just take it all in and spew it all out like little children sniggering to themselves that they are following the rag/dipper line to get more sniggers off the rags/dippers. Pathetic. If they were better are their jobs they would be chief sports writer for a paper rather than writing snidey text comment on the bbc website. Maybe he should focus a bit more on that.
The last time there was a crowd of over 50,000 at Anfield for a football game Geno by Dexy's Midnight Runners was Number One.Rival fans is just banter and it's all they have. You hear bitter dippers actually drawing up league tables without us and Chelsea in it because in their world we aren't playing fair! How fucking pathetic can you be, but then it is the dippers so not surprising. They trot out the can't fill the stadium shite even though we are filling an expanded stadium. They trot out the WWYWYWS shite despite knowing that a good percentage of us were there. It's tedious but acceptable because like I said it's all they have.
I do think its funny when United or Liverpool bang on about our attendance. At the end of the day we don't have the following (currently) that these clubs do. It will come and I see a great future for us. What more could we want as a fans?
Fuck united and Liverpool , their bid match is when they play each other, and scrapping for fourth place, we on the other hand have far bigger fish to tryI do think its funny when United or Liverpool bang on about our attendance. At the end of the day we don't have the following (currently) that these clubs do. It will come and I see a great future for us. What more could we want as a fans?
I don't remember the special european nights at anfield in the 70's (a bit before my time) but you can't knock them now, I love the way they sing all the songs in a foreign language, normally the same language as the foreign team they are playing !I made this point last season just after the Roma game where Scoles made the point about the atmosphere being terrible. A few weeks later Liverpool played Basel in Gw6 needed to win to qualify. It was set up as ...'One of those famous Anfield nights' Liverpool were terrible Basel scored and all you could here were the Basel fans singing. Not a peep from the kop. I waited for any mention of the flat atmosphere. Nothing.
It's annoying but like other posters have said it's really the only stick they really have to beat us with.
I think half the problem is that the media now seems to be made up of just your ordinary fan with a degree in journalism from an online university in Timbuktu. The level of journalism has sunk to an all time low as we see week on week and the people writing these articles are actually just under qualified hacks who have no capability of writing anything other than same old predictable crap.Rival fans is just banter and it's all they have. You hear bitter dippers actually drawing up league tables without us and Chelsea in it because in their world we aren't playing fair! How fucking pathetic can you be, but then it is the dippers so not surprising. They trot out the can't fill the stadium shite even though we are filling an expanded stadium. They trot out the WWYWYWS shite despite knowing that a good percentage of us were there. It's tedious but acceptable because like I said it's all they have.
The press on the other hand, bar a few who are actually good reporters just take it all in and spew it all out like little children sniggering to themselves that they are following the rag/dipper line to get more sniggers off the rags/dippers. Pathetic. If they were better are their jobs they would be chief sports writer for a paper rather than writing snidey text comment on the bbc website. Maybe he should focus a bit more on that.
Excellent. Get them all on here. It's a topic City win hands down if we talk about highs and lows. City never had lowest crowd in their division, Utd have.I love it when anyone has a go about our crowds. I make Gary James look like an amateur. Have about 90 facts at hand. Which club got 23.000 for a home European club final?
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knock a tenner off the ticket prices and get proper City fans to these games