Another ridiculous ruling I discovered today.

Carver said:
The steward is wrong.

It’s not in the ground regulations:

https://mediacdn.mancity.com/-/medi...0-tcs-pdfs/1920-ground-regulations.ashx?la=en

However, you must comply with all instructions from a steward or member of the police (Reg 24)

Interestingly, re-entry is not permitted at our second home, see regulation 25:

http://www.wembleystadium.com/plan-your-visit/stadium-guide/rules-and-regulations
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If you read all that shit you would probably think twice about ever bloody going. You are right though there is nothing in that list about re entering the stadium. I'm sure it will be tucked away somewhere. As you say they sort of cover it by saying you have to comply with whatever a steward says. I must admit the way it is all going I feel like sacking off football completely. There are just too many rules, regulations, bullshit and it is sucking all the joy out of it. Football used to be a welcome release but now it is a sterile controlled environment staffed by jobsworths and morons.
 
Then you see the rules for concerts and other sports which are more in line with treating people like customers, not criminals.

We may moan at our stewards, but they haven’t yet been known to accost members of the public on the public highway walking or cycling past the Etihad Stadium as is the case on Sir Matt Busby Way outside the swamp.
 
paulchapo said:
If you read all that shit you would probably think twice about ever bloody going. You are right though there is nothing in that list about re entering the stadium. I'm sure it will be tucked away somewhere. As you say they sort of cover it by saying you have to comply with whatever a steward says. I must admit the way it is all going I feel like sacking off football completely. There are just too many rules, regulations, bullshit and it is sucking all the joy out of it. Football used to be a welcome release but now it is a sterile controlled environment staffed by jobsworths and morons.
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Exactly.
 
paulchapo said:
So I am on my way out of the south stand today when I realised I had left the latest issue of king of the kippax in a plastic bag under my seat. I literally had one foot out of the exit so quickly about turned to return and get it. I was immediately clotheslined across my chest with some force by a female steward snarling I couldn't go back in once I had left. I think my momentum and the force she thrust her arm out, meaning i was hit with some power shocked her as she quickly apologised for hitting me but said she couldn't let me back in. I replied that was ridiculous, I had left something under my seat it would take me seconds to go and get it. No I was not allowed back in! Luckily for me the head steward, the rasta guy who is a decent chap, overruled her but had to escort me back to my seat and wait, then ensure I left.

What the fuck is it with stewards and treating football fans, who are paying customers by the way, like some sort of criminal to be shoved and denied a simple request to return and get something they have left behind? Who makes up such a stupid rule anyway? I get you can't have loads of fans traipsing back into the stadium willy nilly but surely common sense should be applied when someone has forgotten something? She didn't know what I had left and wasn't interested, it was she had her orders and no way was I going back in. Kudos to the head steward for showing some common sense but I was still treated as if I was doing something wrong. He even said, " I have had a word Barbara" as I left. Going to a game these days is like being a visitor to a cat A prison!
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"Common Sense " at City lol
 
paulchapo said:
Luckily for both of us she was a late fifties at least steward and she got her apology out quickly. If it had been a young male my reaction might have been quite a bit different. Either way it was an overreaction on her part and assault. All I was doing was going to retrieve something I had forgotten, I had no idea this wasn't allowed. It was obvious I had been to the game, indeed I probably had one foot outside when I turned to go back I hadn't even fully left. This stupid draconian attitude which seems to increase every game is starting to alienate long standing fans.
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Contat Danny lewis at the club
 
cyberblue said:
Contat Danny lewis at the club
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I will leave it at present for a couple of reasons. One I think the female steward was genuinely sorry she overreacted. Two the head steward is a sound guy who sorted it pretty quickly and sounds like he went against the rules to help me out, so I definitely don't want to drop him in the mire. Both are there every game so I will have a chat to them at the next home game.
 
paulchapo said:
Luckily for both of us she was a late fifties at least steward and she got her apology out quickly. If it had been a young male my reaction might have been quite a bit different.
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Sadio Mane would have rolled around on the floor for twenty minutes holding his face, whilst his mates made VAR signals to anyone in the vicinity.
 
I came from work for Kompany's testimonial and I had my laptop in my bag, something that I've done before. They told me that tablets weren't allowed in. I told them it wasn't. I spent 15 minutes as someone checked with head office. They eventually let me in but told me that I couldn't get it out. I told them I didn't come to the football to do my emails. They were twats about it for the whole time, pretending like I knew the rules etc.
 
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