Wrong - Soriano’s ticketing policies have lead us down this path. He is to blame.Blaming "the club" or Soriano for an influx of tourists is ridiculous.
They are there because our local/regular fans didn't buy tickets. It's that simple. The club operate a reducing sales criteria method so the long serving fans get first dibs.
Wrong - Soriano’s ticketing policies have lead us down this path. He is to blame.
Regular fans are being priced out. Many seasoncard holders can’t justify £50+ on top of what they are paying.
The end result is more tickets for tourists.
The tourist argument is a trojan-horse for racism.
There are some genuine problems such as regular fans not showing up, and away fans getting seats in home areas and tickets given to fans unfairly. It should be based on games you've been to. Now money matters.
Some people are confusing issues. It's brilliant that so many Asian supporters feel happy to come to City. We also see the same thing on less glamorous FA Cup games and games like Brugge when loads of young families come. They don't sing either by the way. The atmosphere has always relied on the South Stand and a core group of singers. If their numbers dwindle, then so will the noise and singing.
But how long will fans priced out of the PL and CL games continue to pick up the slack for domestic cup games? Perhaps new fans of any age will settle for it, but former regulars who want to see more than half a dozen games all of which are dependent on the draw might not be happy with so few chances to see their team.
I know a rag who goes to some domestic cup and Thursday League games and he's happy with that. But he's never been a regular at the swamp.
You can't have been to many matches thenWorst atmosphere ive ever seen at a football game
Atmosphere sounded good on the telly.
Why the fuck would you bring an Indian flag? I wouldn’t dream of taking an English flag draped around me to a game in Europe. Not only would i look like an absolute tosser, but i’d also be showing a level of disrespect.Why shouldn't they bring an Indian flag. Of course I don't know what the clippers are doing there but amongst any group you will find odd behaviour.
We are having this discussion because some of you are not comfortable around Asians and City have attracted a huge number of Asian fans because Manchester is a cosmopolitan city and City were doing well. On a big football night, they go to the football. Why shouldn't they?
Celtic don't have 20,000 new fans and I don't think many Asians go to football in Glasgow. Manchester is the most cosmopolitan City outside of London. If you go to Leeds, like I do, its completely segregated and the Asian community there doesn't like Leeds Utd. They follow the Manchester clubs. I know that because I talk to them.
Their sound is usually bad but I thought it sounded good.That's odd because watching through amazon it sounded poor. Even the PA was quite !
The easy fix is to lower prices significantly so regular fans can attend and support their team, and having more stringent purchase history criteria, thus minimising tickets available to tourists.Yeah, I do think some of the "club should do something" chatter a bit much sometimes. What should they do? Only sell to people with a Manchester postcode? Personally quiz people coming in about whether they were at York away? I think there's a decent conversation to be had about pricing, but I also think a core of our support won't come to CL games. We can either close off the third tier as we did pre-Pep or we can sell those tickets to people want want them. I do think stewards need to be a bit more assertive (and were last night), but there's no easy fix to this
Unfortunately this is what success brings,it’ll be similar at other clubs some not on the same scale as City,I’d say the rags and red scousers would have as many if not more tourist fans at their games.football has changed with them also becoming tourist attractions with the tour of grounds and taking in a game ..I won't for a number of reasons. Feeling my support is only need for 'lower' games. The park the bus teams. The travel. Inability to get seats next family. Even at lower level games you get the half n half games.
Like I keep banging on about the Southampton game, that day really open my eyes, I really felt that I didn't belong anymore.
Did the pre match tour about 10:30 (3pm ko). Out of our tour of about 25 only around 7 or 8 City fans. This tours go every 15 minutes.
I hated the tour I was out number by fans of others club who were all going to the game.
Than seeing a lad walking around the shop in a spuds shirt WTF. He bought a City shirt put it on his spuds shirt.
That particular day I felt my love for going to matches disappear, it hasn't come back. I really don't enjoy the matchday anymore. I have two games booked for April and May I'm not sure if I'll bother going to be honest.
I never thought I would feel this way. I feel sad that I do, really sad. I use to love coming back home to Manchester being surrounded by fellow City fans, the laughter, the funny chants or songs. Now I'm scared to open my mouth in case I offended someone. I sort of feel on edge incase shouting 'get up you fucking twat'
Football use to be my realise but now it's about FFP , VAR (3 fucking minutes yesterday) Players diving, time wasting, faking head injuries, parking the bus.
I guess I have to admit to myself that modern football isn't for me. I've falling out of love.
It was good until the last 5 or 10 mins of the first half. In the second half the team sucked the life out of the game by reverting to the negative sideways passing and not spotting our wingers in acres of space time and time again, so the fans generally gave up.That's odd because watching through amazon it sounded poor. Even the PA was quite !
You might bring an Indian flag if we had an Indian player. But we haven't. - We had fans with Bosnian flags for Dzeko and Algerian flags for Mahrez for example.Why the fuck would you bring an Indian flag? I wouldn’t dream of taking an English flag draped around me to a game in Europe. Not only would i look like an absolute tosser, but i’d also be showing a level of disrespect.
How about the make the games more affordable, retaining the local support of the club instead of whoring themselves out to people that aren’t even City fans? I know that’s not going to happen as we’ve got people running our club who are only bothered about cash flow.So should the club leave the seat empty because someone's budgets doesn't stretch to it ?
Argentina/Alvarez - fine.You might bring an Indian flag if we had an Indian player. But we haven't. - We had fans with Bosnian flags for Dzeko and Algerian flags for Mahrez for example.
I thought so as well. The first half hour in the South Stand was decent. It's never as good as it can be when we play a team like Madrid because nerves play a part. Chants were getting going last night and then a loose pass would allow Madrid to counter and the chant would die a death because people were convinced it'd end up in Ederson's net.It was good until the last 5 or 10 mins of the first half. In the second half the team sucked the life out of the game by reverting to the negative sideways passing and not spotting our wingers in acres of space time and time again, so the fans generally gave up.