Arsenal v City Pre Match Discussion Thread

[gooner6729]

Is it true we are only taking 900?
Wouldn't surprise me if true, as the pricing for this one is ridiculous

You sent 1,850 back,which are now on sale to home fans, so you have 900 odd.

At the rate things are going only Spurs,United, West Ham,Liverpool and maybe Chelski and Newcaste will be able to fill their allocations at the Emirates.

Our fan groups are pressuring the club to move away fans upstairs like they do at Newcastle to make more cheap tickets available to Gooners. If that happens it will be like playing Wigan every week.

I know our prices are high, but I'm seeing more and more empty away seats up and down the country. If it keeps going like that only United,Arsenal,Liverpool and Spurs will fill non-derby allocations. The next step will be the powers that be deciding we don't need away fans anymore. Then it will be like Spanish football with no away allocations.

Football has really fucked itself up the arse in this country :-(

CORRECTION - you didn't take the full allocation of 2,800 to start with. You took two blocks, and returned one of them. If you didn't even sell those you might have a problem.I imagine this is the kind of thing your friends from Salford love baiting you with. If its any consolation Arsenal and Spurs fans taunt Chelski about the same thing, but it doesn't really compensate for them being better than us on the pitch.It will end up being the same for the Yaaah-nited lot.

 

[yayy]

The draw at home has been their best game of the season so far.

It should not be that hard at all. First season for a very long time that arsenal won't be finishing in the top 4.

This is the worst squad arsenal have had in many years, some of these players just isn't good enough to play for arsenal. They have lost a lot of big names during the last 2 years, and with their boards current policy it's not going to get better. Their supporters pays the most expensive tickets in the world, just to see their best players leaving every summer.

 

[gooner6729]

as far as the match is concerned we are weaker than at any time in my 30 years of following the Arsenal.

I wonder if Mancini is going to park the bus, like he always does at our place. If he does we are looking at a dire 0 - 0 or one team nicking a single goal victory. If he sends your boys out to play it will be as entertaining as the matches at your place have always been in recent years.

 

[FantasyIreland]

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[LoveCity]

The draw at home has been their best game of the season so far.

It should not be that hard at all. First season for a very long time that arsenal won't be finishing in the top 4.

This is the worst squad arsenal have had in many years, some of these players just isn't good enough to play for arsenal. They have lost a lot of big names during the last 2 years, and with their boards current policy it's not going to get better. Their supporters pays the most expensive tickets in the world, just to see their best players leaving every summer.

Form is irrelevant with Arsenal, since the whole Adebayor and now Nasri transfers they have raised their game against us all the time. And since we struggle when Sunderland and Everton raise their game against us, we will against Arsenal who mostly have superior players. It's Mancini's achilles heel alongside Europe IMO, certain teams who always raise their game against us leading to Groundhog Day situations every season (Everton, Stoke, Sunderland, Liverpool, Arsenal - all away) where we cannot win. I don't expect to see the dodgy inconsistent Arsenal against us.

 

[Paulpowersleftfoot]

Is it true we are only taking 900?
Wouldn't surprise me if true, as the pricing for this one is ridiculous

You sent 1,850 back,which are now on sale to home fans, so you have 900 odd.

At the rate things are going only Spurs,United, West Ham,Liverpool and maybe Chelski and Newcaste will be able to fill their allocations at the Emirates.

Our fan groups are pressuring the club to move away fans upstairs like they do at Newcastle to make more cheap tickets available to Gooners. If that happens it will be like playing Wigan every week.

I know our prices are high, but I'm seeing more and more empty away seats up and down the country. If it keeps going like that only United,Arsenal,Liverpool and Spurs will fill non-derby allocations. The next step will be the powers that be deciding we don't need away fans anymore. Then it will be like Spanish football with no away allocations.

Football has really fucked itself up the arse in this country :-(

CORRECTION - you didn't take the full allocation of 2,800 to start with. You took two blocks, and returned one of them. If you didn't even sell those you might have a problem.I imagine this is the kind of thing your friends from Salford love baiting you with. If its any consolation Arsenal and Spurs fans taunt Chelski about the same thing, but it doesn't really compensate for them being better than us on the pitch.It will end up being the same for the Yaaah-nited lot.

To be honest I'm not sure too many give a flying fuck what the Traffords opinion of us is.
I'm glad the majority of lads who go away have boycotted it,someone needs to take a stand against clubs taking the piss with ticket prices
No away ticket should be more than £30,all clubs should buy into this as its in the interests of their own supporters to do so.
Hypocritically I'm going to the Emirates,the southern games are where I meet up with my Dorset & Hertfordshire based brother and sister,otherwise I'd have swerved it as well

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

We'll be Fine, as long as, we don't turn out in an all yellow kit.

 

[Marvin]

Guardian....

The Premier League champions were given a 3,000 allocation but 912 were sent back and are being sold by Arsenal.

I'd take a point as we have a lot of missing players. Midfield looks pedestrian without Yaya Toure and Nasri. And we'll miss the pace of Aguero up front.

 

[clarion]

some fans would drop dzeko from first 11, mario???? wtf???

 

[mcfclovin88]

We'll still be louder than the Arsenal fans.