A s**t away end full of tourists

[Shirley]

The sheer arrogance to go to a City v Liverpool game in Barca tops beggars belief. Zero awareness that they are taking tickets from real (not Madrid) fans who will rightly be fuming at the disrespect

Barcelona fans are used to tourists they have more than enough in their own stadium

 

[Luddite_Blue]

Wasn’t the junior Blues the vision of Big Mal?

Roger Reade says here Big Mal probably thought of the idea Swales and Ian Niven were key players

 

[better dead than red]

Can’t understand what’s wrong with tourists, isn’t that what happens when you become successful as a club?

And, won’t those tourists fill those extra seats in the extension, spending loads in the club shop, advertising our club across the globe?

Or do we want our club to stay pure Mancunian, forgetting about the global PL economy?

 

[better dead than red]

Barcelona fans are used to tourists they have more than enough in their own stadium

Used to it but spray them with piss from water guns in the streets. :)

 

[Stephen230]

Wasn’t the junior Blues the vision of Big Mal?

When my older kids were born, it was a one off £20 for a ‘lifetime’ membership. 0-16 years.

Now it’s £20 a year, just for the privilege of buying them tickets.

( I do understand that £20 then was a lot more than £20 now. )

And just to be fair, junior season tickets are still very good value. Think mine are about £7 a game.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Can’t understand what’s wrong with tourists, isn’t that what happens when you become successful as a club?

And, won’t those tourists fill those extra seats in the extension, spending loads in the club shop, advertising our club across the globe?

Or do we want our club to stay pure Mancunian, forgetting about the global PL economy?

Yeah let's sell all away tickets against our rivals to tourists. They can all sit there wearing the shirt of the club they really support without making any noise and getting behind the team. As long as they pay a premium, sounds like a plan.

Let's flood ticket exchanges with tickets in the home or away end whenever we play a big game.

As long as those tickets don't go to lifelong blues who are priced out, but some cunts, whoever they support at inflated prices, and someone makes a few quid who cares right?

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

I have complete respect and admiration for people who still have the energy to put the miles in, pay the money and attempt to hold the club to account. But it's becoming easier and easier to accept the message the club is sending to its core support through what it does and what it doesn't do. That message is clearly "fuck off - we don't want you".

Supporting City is a parasocial relationship taken to an extreme in that it isn't just one-sided, but the club are actively trying to push their supporters away. The people responsible will be long gone when the time comes to pick up the pieces.

Great post.

And FWIW, the people responsible will be gone within a year if we get seriously fucked by the 115 case.

 

[East Level 2]

Maybe there's a subtle difference between a tourist wearing a half and half scarf and (half heartedly) supporting City and eight smug twats openly laughing at city fans whilst wearing the shirts of a club that's been part of our hateful enemies trying to destroy us for years. Both are wrong by the way but one is far more wrong

But City as a club have a bucketful of links to the club whose shirt these eight smug twats were wearing. I doubt it was eight random smug twats from Catalonia.

 

[East Level 2]

I hope they don't have these problems at Chelsea, because I've decided I'm going to support them again.

I'm with you if they stop the Arse or dippers from winning the Prem.

 

[flapjack]

I'm more embarrassed about grown men wearing replica football tops, never got that myself, leave it to the kids