I made a post about something similar to this a few years ago. Sorry don't have the data anymore, but Liverpools record attendance is 61,905. City have many, many, attendances higher than that figure during our history.
Its not the brisk walkers that are the problem, its the slow buggers who are on their phones blocking the way for the "brisk".Those brisk walkers you mention are an absolute pain when they use Ashton Road as their own private footpath and block the buses into town.
I can see why people might decide not to attend etc, but it is an affliction that doesn’t seem to affect Liverpool Utd, or Chelsea. I accept that Chelsea have a much smaller stadium, but those clubs that, like us, have a history of regular trophies, would not in my opinion suffer from the type of piss poor turnout that City endured last night.
We have around 30k hardcore fans that’s the simple fact of the matter.
People take it far too personally if somebody describes them as less loyal than another person as if it’s a dirty and offensive word when it’s just the truth and there’s no shame in it. If I go to every home game and my mate misses midweek games because of work commitments then I’m more loyal than him. is that same mate more loyal than his mate who’s struggling financially and can only make half a dozen games a season? Again, Yes. Are any of us a better fan than the other because of this? No. Loyalty doesn’t equate to being better it’s just the situation we find ourselves in and whether it’s by choice or necessity we only have around 30k that are loyal enough to be able to attend every home game.
We’re in a situation where our closest neighbours have ruled the game for 20 years, there’s no surprise our numbers aren’t as big as others, I was in one of the biggest schools around during our darkest years and you could literally count the proper city fans on your hand compared to the swathes of United tag alongs.
those people are now in their 20/30’s, that’s the age group where you tend to get the majority of your core support from but the numbers aren’t as big for us in that age bracket. nowadays we’ve had kids grow up with a decade of city dominance it’s a lot easier to be a city fan now, family loyalty is still going to be a major factor but for the others you’ll get far more picking city from a young age and in the next 10-15 years assuming we continue to stay on this level we’ll see a sharp increase in local support as well as tourists as the kids that have grown up seeing city as the better team turn into adults.
We have around 30k hardcore fans that’s the simple fact of the matter.
People take it far too personally if somebody describes them as less loyal than another person as if it’s a dirty and offensive word when it’s just the truth and there’s no shame in it. If I go to every home game and my mate misses midweek games because of work commitments then I’m more loyal than him. is that same mate more loyal than his mate who’s struggling financially and can only make half a dozen games a season? Again, Yes. Are any of us a better fan than the other because of this? No. Loyalty doesn’t equate to being better it’s just the situation we find ourselves in and whether it’s by choice or necessity we only have around 30k that are loyal enough to be able to attend every home game.
We’re in a situation where our closest neighbours have ruled the game for 20 years, there’s no surprise our numbers aren’t as big as others, I was in one of the biggest schools around during our darkest years and you could literally count the proper city fans on your hand compared to the swathes of United tag alongs.
those people are now in their 20/30’s, that’s the age group where you tend to get the majority of your core support from but the numbers aren’t as big for us in that age bracket. nowadays we’ve had kids grow up with a decade of city dominance it’s a lot easier to be a city fan now, family loyalty is still going to be a major factor but for the others you’ll get far more picking city from a young age and in the next 10-15 years assuming we continue to stay on this level we’ll see a sharp increase in local support as well as tourists as the kids that have grown up seeing city as the better team turn into adults.