Away fans in home sections - Again!!!

Much cheeper for many of the away fans to become cityzen member and buy a ticket in the home end then actually buy a ticket from their own club.
 
KingCarlito said:
They had scum everywhere in our ground last night. I was surrounded by them in 106. Restricting our view before kick off screaming Italian at their players warming up. Literally stood all over people towards the front.

The ones who did this were student types! Probably earning a living from our soft country. Absolutely fed up of City letting this happen and our naff stewards doing fuck all about it.

Granted, I had a chap next to me who was Juve and we had a good chat throughout the 90 mins about the game. Got no problem with that, it's greasy vermin who can't behave or keep their mouth shut in numbers, shouldn't be there!

No wonder we play so shit in Europe and can't get an atmosphere going. I'm never returning to a home European game for a long time after last night, our club is getting it wrong time and time again, they don't give a fuck about us. The amount of investment that's gone in to the footballing side of things as we as season ticket holders and paying fans get fuck all. Don't even get me started on the refreshments fiasco too, tried and failed to get a bottle of water at half time, could all be solved of they let you take one in the ground but no, it is a hazard haha don't make me fucking laugh.
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Earning a living from our soft country? Yeah they are probably working their arse off for close to minimum wage while paying tax to this country and no doubt scraping together the rest to pay on rent and food. Dam those bastard for serving us coffee and bringing us food! And then they have the ducking cheek to go to a football match.
 
What was needed was a bit of common sense, a bit like we saw when Poznan visited.
Our fans couldn't be arsed so the official visitors were in the South Stand and UK based Poles were in EL3.
As Juve sold so few last night we should have had the visiting section of SS2 available to Juve fans who were UK based.
 
People complain if stewards do their job by kicking people for breaking rules, then people complain if they don't.

How about a cowardly "kick em out" chant?
 
This type of thread reminds me of the Blackadder episode when General Meltchett compares German spies (dirty, cowardly hun) and British spies (brave boys).

The next time we're playing a CL away fixture when its difficult to obtain tickets there'll be a thread on here devoted to how to get tickets in the away end.
 
It's 2015 not 1986, different if it's United or any premier league game but the Champions League crowds are pretty tame.

I attend these games but the crowd do not seem the same people who go to the Premiership games, I would say a good 15,000 miss the Champions League games and I would put this down to the extra expense. Another reason why the atmosphere is so poor, it's more of an event than a football match. 50,000 partisan home fans would help the team as the 12th man.

The problem will be if we ever get drawn against somebody like Celtic as they would swarm all over the Etihad.

The club are desperate to sell out to make the club look good for the world watching at home and I think the sales criteria is loosened somewhat.

I don't know what the answer is.
 
Reading the replies on here makes for interesting reading. I was in the South Stand Level Three and as has been previously mentioned it was a great mix of young and older obvious hardcore City fans with not a Juventus fan in sight when they scored. I wasn't aware of the problems in other areas of the ground?

When I collected my ticket yesterday the girls working the ticket office were very keen to 'grill' anyone who didn't offer a supporter number and unless they could find purchase history for previous games at the Etihad they weren't allowing tickets to be sold. Does make you wonder how so many Italians got in the home sections?
 
guvnors son mcfc said:
It's 2015 not 1986, different if it's United or any premier league game but the Champions League crowds are pretty tame.

I attend these games but the crowd do not seem the same people who go to the Premiership games, I would say a good 15,000 miss the Champions League games and I would put this down to the extra expense. Another reason why the atmosphere is so poor, it's more of an event than a football match. 50,000 partisan home fans would help the team as the 12th man.

The problem will be if we ever get drawn against somebody like Celtic as they would swarm all over the Etihad.

The club are desperate to sell out to make the club look good for the world watching at home and I think the sales criteria is loosened somewhat.

I don't know what the answer is.
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It's definitely thousands of different fans at these games but that's a good thing to me. Personally it has never really bothered me as long as they are not clowning around. Where I used to sit in 242 we always had European fans for these games. A few cheered and jumped up when they scored and some just clapped. It never got aggressive on either side. I remember at Dortmund away, the fans went in the same turnstiles and shared the concourse and I didn't see any trouble there except between pissed up blues.

I have memories of Blackburn away when half of their stands were filled with City fans. Thanks god for a generous Blackburn ticket office then!
 
Eccles Blue said:
Same in CBL1 seemed almost a 50/50 split but they weren't any bother and one of them got a shirt from one of their players at the end of the game. They were respectful and didn't jump up when their team scored so I have no problem with them.
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mrtwiceaseason said:
Go on tell the truth he aimed the shirt at you but you had butter fingers unlike the other week !!
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Shush, don't tell everyone!! :-)
 
I was in 315 and apart from the away part up there being empty there were few if any Juve fans nearby, if they were they were certainly quiet.

Walking round to City Square to go home I passed loads of ' Italian Types' none were doing the big bollocks stuff.

What I will say though is when I got to my car up past riverside the roads were gridlocked with cars, a little back street driving which obviously the tourists don't know and I was home much quicker than a normal game.
 
Can't believe some of the posts on here. I'm going to Moenchengladbach to watch my team. Due to not having enough points I am going through the ballache of having to buy tickets in the home end. I've done this a few times now and the experience is never as good as in the city end.its the best of a bad job.its a pain getting the tickets and there is always the anxiety that their dickheads may want you out even when you are respectful of where you are.of course if anyone has a spare pair of city tickets I will gladly buy them and join fellow blues.
 
weloveyoucity said:
I know for a fact that borussia m'gladbach fans have been buying premium seats in the 93:20 for £80 they have been bragging about how easy it is on there borussia forum.
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Thats me demanding a move then, and a refund on the price difference, not putting up with the shit I had to last night
 
KingCarlito said:
Don't even get me started on the refreshments fiasco too, tried and failed to get a bottle of water at half time, could all be solved of they let you take one in the ground but no, it is a hazard haha don't make me fucking laugh.
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When did this start, I take one in every time?
 
Seen quite a few Juve fans with arf and arf scarfs before the game and noticed a group drinking in City Square after the game had them arranged to look as though they were City scarfs.
No problem at all, don't blame them for keeping safe.
 
JGL07 said:
There was a Juve fan on another thread complaining that they were only allowed a ticket if they bought a Euro 260 package (of which the ticket was Euro 50 and the hotel Euro 210). That probably explains the half-empty visitors section and away fans all around the ground.

Corruption and backhanders in Turin?
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This dude said why!!! Only 2 ways to get ticket in the away block: 1 difficoult and 1 expensive...I was lucky and I've got 3 tickets by asking for them through a JuveClubDOC (sort of official social club approved by Juventus FC, you just have to pay your annual membership, they have the right to demand the club for away tickets, but not everytime they get assigned the whole number of requested tickets) so I paid only the tickets and no additional services.
Unfortunatelly the terms to request the ticket for this match were very short and many fans weren't able to purchase them...many of them maybe just didn't know the complicated demanding method I described before.

Then there is the expensive alternative that has been already accurately described by JGL07 ;)

I understand your disappointment guys, I don't complain at all... but you maybe could feel a bit of sympathy for all of those poor Juve fans that ha no other way to attend this "looked forward" match...of course many of them already knew the prohibition about staying in home ends, but guys...admit you would do the same to attend a City's game if your sales policy was the same shit of ours one...because I'm sure you love your team and you would take some little risk like this :)

Come on guys it was just the first match it's not over at all and I personally hope City and Juve will go ahead in CL ;)

PS=sorry if my english hasn't been very clear or corrent...and about coming in home ends in Turin: just don't go in very hot tiers (curva) and insthead buy a bit more pricey ticket in the "tribuna", very nice view and the attendance there is not formed by ex-convicts and scum, you'll be superfine!!!
 
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