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beermusic

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Won't be the only person there yesterday thinking it, but the atmosphere and makeup of the support at London away games is getting ridiculous. Its been happening for a while with the amount of tourists getting tickets, but yesterday there were more Southern accents in the away concourse than I have ever heard, not to mention French, Italian etc. I embrace us building a wider fanbase, but when away games are selling out on over 10k points, yet there are foreign supporters with kids there, something is amiss. There were groups of Londoners complaining about people standing up - one even asked me to ask all the rows in front if they would sit down.

There was a Japanese guy there yesterday in a group, and two of them had United tracksuit tops on.

I know they did the City in the City thing yesterday, but I am wondering if the £30 ticket thing has made things worse. Matters on the pitch didn't help, of course, but I did think the atmosphere in our section was very strange. Maybe others agree..
 
this is what Liverpool and Utd fans were complaining about many years ago; the amount of JCLs in the away end for games that regular fans struggle to get tickets for.

you can walk into shops/outlets in many countries and simply buy liverpool/utd tickets over the counter, no questions, and this is what will be happening with City
 
StrangewaysHereWeCome said:
How long until those tickets are snapped up and sold over here to blues at a mark up, or is that already happening?
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to be honest i've never partaken so i dont know! I'm sure some on here might though. Unless they have an ID system etc then why not? These places are generally travel agents & tour companies, selling a package of travel/hotel/ticket so why they'd give a shit about the ticket buyers ID i dont know, but im not sure about that.
 
shemnel said:
to be honest i've never partaken so i dont know! I'm sure some on here might though. Unless they have an ID system etc then why not? These places are generally travel agents & tour companies, selling a package of travel/hotel/ticket so why they'd give a shit about the ticket buyers ID i dont know, but im not sure about that.
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With ya. Didn't consider the travel company thing although I see the adverts for the likes of United Celtic etc especially on the Irish satellite TV channels
 
StrangewaysHereWeCome said:
With ya. Didn't consider the travel company thing although I see the adverts for the likes of United Celtic etc especially on the Irish satellite TV channels
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im going to publicly shame myself now:

i've been to the Swamp 8 times: 6 times for the derby (mix home/away end), once with a friend on a spare and randomly in the FA youth cup as an honorary hartlepool away fan.

For one of those derbies i was a guest for a mate's dad's 60th bday as his brother couldnt go, we were in VIP and had dinner etc etc. For some reason, my mate gave over all our email addresses as part of a half time draw and now i get emails from manutd.com etc. Yes. It is my dark secret.

Anyway my point is, last week i was offered (by email) tickets for Utd v Arsenal in the league. I have NEVER purchased anything from that club yet i am offered tickets, albeit very expensive ones, to a high-demand league game and ive never even spent a single penny there. That shows you where their priorities lie in terms of sales.
 
The City in the City event is probably going to be 100-150.

The other one is partners or corporate clients of the club who are spending a fortune on advertising and boxes etc. When the game is in London they will have loads of contacst who may want to go to a game and might not even be City fans, they just want a ticket, hence the request for people to sit down. These "clients" of the club are not going to be let down when it comes to dishing out tickets and the big London games together with the Derby are going to be the most popular. It doesn't happen at every London game as I was at Crystal Palace last year and it seemed like a fan based away end there. Chelsea/Spurs and Arsenal will be though.

It wouldn't surprise me if 25% of the tickets go through these sources/events.

Its the price of success nowadays.
 
shemnel said:
im going to publicly shame myself now:

i've been to the Swamp 8 times: 6 times for the derby (mix home/away end), once with a friend on a spare and randomly in the FA youth cup as an honorary hartlepool away fan.

For one of those derbies i was a guest for a mate's dad's 60th bday as his brother couldnt go, we were in VIP and had dinner etc etc. For some reason, my mate gave over all our email addresses as part of a half time draw and now i get emails from manutd.com etc. Yes. It is my dark secret.

Anyway my point is, last week i was offered (by email) tickets for Utd v Arsenal in the league. I have NEVER purchased anything from that club yet i am offered tickets, albeit very expensive ones, to a high-demand league game and ive never even spent a single penny there. That shows you where their priorities lie in terms of sales.
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Have you not considered the unsubscribe button?
 
yeseye said:
Have you not considered the unsubscribe button?
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do you know, i was whinging about John Lewis emails to a mate the other day, god knows how they picked me up, and he told me about this mystical unsubscribe button. As i pay the emails no mind, i don't even get as far as the end! this 'unsubscribe button' is news to me as of about a week ago and now i'm tearing through my emails like a dog with 2 dicks. great times to be alive.
 
shemnel said:
do you know, i was whinging about John Lewis emails to a mate the other day, god knows how they picked me up, and he told me about this mystical unsubscribe button. As i pay the emails no mind, i don't even get as far as the end! this 'unsubscribe button' is news to me as of about a week ago and now i'm tearing through my emails like a dog with 2 dicks. great times to be alive.
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haha
 
yeseye said:
haha
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We were In the lower tier and the amount of tourists were the most I had seen . There was a lad next to us turned up 15 mins after the game started then proceded to get his phone out and start to video things. Got talking to him and it was his first ever game and wasn't even a City fan. Asked how he got a ticket and was told he works for a hospital trust and had brought a patient to the game with his carer. They were in the spurs end but he got a free ticket in our end for bringing them .
 
I do not know why anyone is surprised. Last year at spuds there were a load of foreign fans and at Arsenal
 
blue corby said:
We were In the lower tier and the amount of tourists were the most I had seen . There was a lad next to us turned up 15 mins after the game started then proceded to get his phone out and start to video things. Got talking to him and it was his first ever game and wasn't even a City fan. Asked how he got a ticket and was told he works for a hospital trust and had brought a patient to the game with his carer. They were in the spurs end but he got a free ticket in our end for bringing them .
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Be that twosips, that fecker gets everywhere!
 
shemnel said:
im going to publicly shame myself now:

i've been to the Swamp 8 times: 6 times for the derby (mix home/away end), once with a friend on a spare and randomly in the FA youth cup as an honorary hartlepool away fan.

For one of those derbies i was a guest for a mate's dad's 60th bday as his brother couldnt go, we were in VIP and had dinner etc etc. For some reason, my mate gave over all our email addresses as part of a half time draw and now i get emails from manutd.com etc. Yes. It is my dark secret.

Anyway my point is, last week i was offered (by email) tickets for Utd v Arsenal in the league. I have NEVER purchased anything from that club yet i am offered tickets, albeit very expensive ones, to a high-demand league game and ive never even spent a single penny there. That shows you where their priorities lie in terms of sales.
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Ban hammer!
 
Went in the Irish Social Club before and after the games and only saw regulars.

Watched the game from the Upper Tier and there were a few tourists about like always.
 
I know a couple of people who took the City in the City option yesterday as neither had enough points to get "real" tickets. Both are long-standing blues.
They think there was one coachload in their group, so about 50 tickets skimmed off. I'm not sure how many sponsors or corporates can get without points but that could be where the third party sales are coming from.
 
We don't get enough of an allocation for them to be doing stuff like this - appalling treatment of fans that've put in the work to get the points. For the sponsors, charities etc. can we not work out something with other clubs where we give each other certain home section/hospitality tickets for these purposes?
 
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