City Matters thread

[jrb]

I went to one of them POB meetings after I got arrested for persistent standing.....I spoke to the then chairman and he stopped the hassle from police and showsec. So it worked for me.

Saw a lad get pulled at the Bayern match at the back of SSL1. Don’t know what for. Not going to speculate. Handcuffed. 7 Police officers in riot gear surrounding him, helmets, etc, not wearing them. Numerous stewards also in attendance. 2 women filling in paperwork, looking rather pleased with themselves. The Police then forced the lad into a narrow passage way that leads to the catering bar. Kept him there for quite a while, talking to him, then led him away.

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Credit where its due, the Fan Zone is a brilliant idea and I'm really glad they created it.

Re. tickets. I actually suggested a similar idea a while back about creating a function that allowed people to donate tickets and nothing came of it. The issue of ticket prices is a constant and whilst we keep telling them lets be realistic, if its selling out every week City aren't going to go out of their way to reduce prices.

I'm not defending it, I'm just trying to be honest.

Maybe it’s something they’ll consider when the extension is finished, demand is meeting supply and in some games exceeding it, which obviously means there are fewer opportunities. I still think you’d get a fair number of donations every game though, enough to make a few families day. We are the modern day opera ticket I suppose, and the only positive out of the current ticket pricing (for match days especially) is that there is demand and that means we’re being successful on the pitch, I just hope the day never arrives where we are ‘just’ a tourist destination like the toilet

 

[mancityvstoke]

Saw a lad get pulled at the Bayern match at the back of SSL1. Don’t know what for. Not going to speculate. Handcuffed. 7 Police officers in riot gear surrounding him, helmets, etc, not wearing them. Numerous stewards also in attendance. 2 women filling in paperwork, looking rather pleased with themselves. The Police then forced the lad into a narrow passage way that leads to the catering bar. Kept him there for quite a while, talking to him, then led him away.

some stuff got chucked from our side after they ripped the netting down at the front and chucked shit at City so maybe that?

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

She’s took the piss. She hasn’t hung anyone.

You could put it that way, but clearly it isnt good enough!

She clearly isn't suitable for the role. She has lied to get the role or at best been very economical with the truth.

What she has done belittles the important work that the role was introduced to do. We are trying to be more inclusive as a club and it looks like she hasn't taken the role anywhere seriously enough and sadly neither has the club.

We get enough bad press as it is without nonsense like this coming out making the strong links between the club and its LGBTQ support look silly.

The Canal Street Blues clearly arnt happy and rightly so and neither should any true city fan who wants the best for the club.

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

I'd like to think that, in recognition of her tireless work and support for City, the club will soon announce that the extended North Stand will be named 'The Frannie Lever Stand'.

Corrected. ;-)

I saw what you did there….I don’t think she does

 

[mancityvstoke]

What's the problem? We all supported Chelsea once. She just forgot to switch.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

You could put it that way, but clearly it isnt good enough!

She clearly isn't suitable for the role. She has lied to get the role or at best been very economical with the truth.

What she has done belittles the important work that the role was introduced to do. We are trying to be more inclusive as a club and it looks like she hasn't taken the role anywhere seriously enough and sadly neither has the club.

We get enough bad press as it is without nonsense like this coming out making the strong links between the club and its LGBTQ support look silly.

The Canal Street Blues clearly arnt happy and rightly so and neither should any true city fan who wants the best for the club.

She's obviously as a media student just after a foot on the first rung of the ladder in corporate comms and fairly cynically spotted an opportunity in this CM committee role. I imagine she has her eye on a similar opportunity at Chelsea and ultimately has no actual interest in football whatsoever.
I'm not sure how CM/CSB can be expected to run checks to see how gay/blue someone is and I expect she got the gig based on enthusiasm and perceived expertise due to her main study area at Salford.

 

[M18CTID]

You could put it that way, but clearly it isnt good enough!

She clearly isn't suitable for the role. She has lied to get the role or at best been very economical with the truth.

What she has done belittles the important work that the role was introduced to do. We are trying to be more inclusive as a club and it looks like she hasn't taken the role anywhere seriously enough and sadly neither has the club.

We get enough bad press as it is without nonsense like this coming out making the strong links between the club and its LGBTQ support look silly.

The Canal Street Blues clearly arnt happy and rightly so and neither should any true city fan who wants the best for the club.

That may well be the case, and if she's blagged her way into the job then she should be removed but like I've already said on this thread, how has she managed to blag it in the first place? She must've had other City fans vouch for her to get into that position and CSB probably had an input too, given it was for the LGBTQ+ post. CSB could've handled this matter in private rather than going after her on the most toxic social media platform, and they're rightly getting a lot of stick for that. Obviously, that won't be everyone associated with CSB who advocated whacking it on Twitter but whoever was behind that Tweet needs to have a word with themselves.

 

[mexico1970]

I hope she enjoys her new career once we have fucked her off.

 

[Eccles Blue]

True.

They earned their crust on those nights. Now they’re like celebrities and super stars, you can‘t get close to them. No more pressing the flesh and whispering down their ears in person.

Even Roberto Mancini submitted to having his photo taken with me!! *rofl* Mind you it was not me who asked him it was the person I was with.

Just think, if that still happened I might have been able to get a photo with John Boy!!!! *falls of chair laughing*

 

[Corky]

She's obviously as a media student just after a foot on the first rung of the ladder in corporate comms and fairly cynically spotted an opportunity in this CM committee role. I imagine she has her eye on a similar opportunity at Chelsea and ultimately has no actual interest in football whatsoever.
I'm not sure how CM/CSB can be expected to run checks to see how gay/blue someone is and I expect she got the gig based on enthusiasm and perceived expertise due to her main study area at Salford.

The club could check attendance history or any record of buying a membership. They probably wouldn't sell her tickets, but CM rep is different.

 

[MadchesterCity]

I did like Charlie Cooke as a kid!

What about his favourite book?

 

[Edghill OG]

Coe wouldn’t do it unless there was bunce in it. He’s a grifter. He was on the payroll of Nike while he was head of IAAF.

Exactly why I used him as my athlete. Snakey Seb.

 

[Eccles Blue]

I hope she enjoys her new career once we have fucked her off.

If in her journalistic role she becomes a sport/football journalist she will probably join the rest in slagging us off!! Such is life. ;-) :-)

 

[mexico1970]

If in her journalistic role she becomes a sport/football journalist she will probably join the rest in slagging us off!! Such is life. ;-) :-)

She'll be as bitter as Danny Mills and as contrary as Didi Hamann and she can get to the back of the queue ;)

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

City Matters though…what a joke that thing is anyway.

It’s like in school where the teachers give the busybody kids ‘prefect’ badges to shut them up for a bit.

It’s a box ticking exercise, nothing more, and the ‘committee members’ get to feel like they’re somehow more important than other fans.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

If in her journalistic role she becomes a sport/football journalist she will probably join the rest in slagging us off!! Such is life. ;-) :-)

She’ll do well then.

 

[M18CTID]

City Matters though…what a joke that thing is anyway.

It’s like in school where the teachers give the busybody kids ‘prefect’ badges to shut them up for a bit.

It’s a box ticking exercise, nothing more, and the ‘committee members’ get to feel like they’re somehow more important than other fans.

This is why I'm so nonplussed about the whole episode. As @Tim of the Oak said, there have been some decent people on the CM committee but I've always felt that CM gets used by the club itself to push through controversial things and CM end up getting it in the neck from some fans as a result.

 

[MadchesterCity]

Has anyone written a chant for Fran yet?

Bluehemian Rhapsody

Is this for City?
Is this for Chelsea?
Caught in a landside,
No escape from reality
Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
I'm just a journo, City or Chelsea,
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Navy Blue, shade below,
Any way the game goes doesn't really matter to
Me, to me
Mamaaa,
Just conned the fans,
Put a post on twitter yeah, pulled my post,
Now i'm banned
Mamaaa, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oooh,
Didn't mean to make you cry,
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on as if Helping City matters
Too late, my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all
The time
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oooh
I don't want to die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been voted for at all.
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango!
Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening me
Ag-uero, Ag-uero
Ag-uero, Ag-uero
Ag-uero, Fernandez - magnificoo
I'm just a journo nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come, easy go, will you Let that go
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go
(Let them go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go
(Let them go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go
(Let that go) Will not let you go
(Let that go)(Never) Never let you go
(Let that go) (Never) let you go (Let that go) Ah
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia, Let that go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me,
For meee
So you think you can stop me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
Helping City matters, Anyone can see,
Helping City matters,
Helping City matters to me
Any way the game goes...

 

[Fordyboy46]

Saw a lad get pulled at the Bayern match at the back of SSL1. Don’t know what for. Not going to speculate. Handcuffed. 7 Police officers in riot gear surrounding him, helmets, etc, not wearing them. Numerous stewards also in attendance. 2 women filling in paperwork, looking rather pleased with themselves. The Police then forced the lad into a narrow passage way that leads to the catering bar. Kept him there for quite a while, talking to him, then led him away.

I saw the police rushing around thinking they were dealing with a terrorist incident or something. Pathetic again from gmp