Recent content by Bert Swift

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    Atmosphere Thread | 2025/26

    1. CITY need one end. 2. No other big club shares their home end with away fans. 3. No other club has more away fans in the so called home end for cup matches. 4. There will be approx. 7,000 new seats / standing seats in the extended North Stand. Fans can move to those without impacting on any...
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    North Stand Construction Discussion

    Absolutely spot on. He seems to get a hard on posting photos of the swamp and defending how quiet the rags are. The last time I pointed this out a zealous mod gave me a bollocking and tried to be cute !
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    North Stand expansion - seating, ticketing etc

    1. Stockholm Syndrome ! I do not think so. It is more a case of seeing the bigger picture in the 21st century football business and understanding that there are many considerations to take into account. It is not an ideal world, never has been and never will. 2. So, you think that the club do...
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    North Stand expansion - seating, ticketing etc

    Atmosphere Improvement - New, Large North Stand & Lower South Stand - For and Against What do 1894 and others think about the points below? What do you agree with and why? What do you not agree with and why? Lets focus on facts and what we can realistically achieve. North Stand - For One...
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    North Stand expansion - seating, ticketing etc

    Response to some of the points made by wearethesouthstand above. Firstly, lets focus on what can be done to improve the atmosphere. 2."The club can control everything though and do everything right if they wanted. But they choose not to." The club has a range of considerations to take into...
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    North Stand expansion - seating, ticketing etc

    What will be better for the atmosphere? One large North Stand or a small, split, low level South Stand? Can we put aside who said what, to who and when or who hasn`t said what and could do. Leave the history behind and deal with the here and now. If the primary objective is atmosphere...
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    Media discussion - 2025/26

    The Times - LFC`s Partner Sponsor - Standard Chartered Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican congresswoman, who asked the US attorney general to probe Standard Chartered bank over alleged terrorist payments has had an impact on LFC`s long term, prominent partner sponsor who Liverpool are...
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    Liverpool Thread | 2025/26

    Has it become a form of sect or cult? They appear to think they are different. It seems to be the case that for many `supporting` LFC is like being part of a sect and one where, like in most cults, insidious influence begins to replace independent, clear thinking. This is suppressed in different...
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    Media discussion - 2025/26

    How the rags can spend £214m and plan to spend more "Club’s cash position has been bolstered by transfers of former players as well as some savvy cost-cutting measures to fall in line with PSR"...
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    Media discussion - 2025/26

    Fancy a job ? The search is on. Regeneration of those areas in need is very important. We have witnessed the exemplar in East Manchester and the success of Manchester City Council, CITY, the community and private sector. Naturally others want to copy it. Out of town that is what they are now...
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    United Thread | 2025/26

    Lest We Forget - ‘A tax exile’s half-baked misbegotten scheme’ The Blackley and Middleton South MP (and United fan) writes on Ratcliffe and Co’s proposals for the stadium and surrounding area - Labour’s Andy Burnham claims to be confident of financial support from Labour’s Chancellor of the...
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    Media discussion - 2025/26

    Levy Deflects Scrutiny by using City This is an article about Levy and Spurs. Apparently it is a rare interview. Neville was the interviewer ! Yet, editorially, someone has purposely decided on a completely misleading headline and made it about City with accompanying photo...
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    Media discussion - 2025/26

    Utd`s dream hits the buffers - chasm in funding Talk is cheap. It is a characteristic out of town in Old Trafford. Last week Ducker in The Telegraph was again using his privileged position to promote utd`d stadium dreams. This week he is quieter. Why has he not provided readers with an update...
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    PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

    They were only formed in 1902, 8 years after Manchester City. City won the FA Cup in 1904 and that lot left for out if town in Old Trafford in 1910.
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    City launch legal action against the Premier League | Club & PL reach settlement | Proceedings dropped (p1147)

    "...maybe those deals weren’t overvalued after all?” This is a better a more balanced piece by The Guardian`s standards and makes a welcome change to read facts and quotes from credible, independent sources - https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ity-record-kit-contract-puma-football-finance...

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