City Victory Parade - 2022/23

[Churchlawtonblue]

Manchester couldn't cope with 250,000 Rangers fans, nowhere to move.

The United claims are an absolute fallacy, like everything else.

If you speak to GMP, it's quite easy to get the info.

Deansgate from top to bottom can only hold 60,000 people.

Take in to account we had all the other streets and a stage with 20,000 waiting, the claims of a million people at the United parade is laughable.

Probably same person who did the 670m fans or 76,000 sell-out for FC Cluj when it was actually revealed to be 35,000.

I genuinely think we had over 200000 on Monday night.

Out of interest I worked it out on average depth of crowd and length of the parade route plus the side streets which were crammed. I'm a bit geeky like that.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

No chance there were that many as claimed by their fans for either event.

Each cities infrastructure couldn’t cope with that many people converging from the city, the suburbs and the near towns.

Liverpool at least had the space to have a serious amount of people on the riverside, but 1m lol. The entire population of Liverpool is less than 500,000 - you would have to be having about 800,000 from outside arriving to make up to 1m. I’d say maybe 250,000 would be about right. It’s a lot easier to estimate as the entire crowd can be seen in one shot (unless photoshopped… they have form!).

Ditto united - for numbers.

It’s so much easier to get people into a city (or not working)…having it at the weekend…

City… hard to say, as with united due to the confines of the streets, makes it hard to estimate, and the movement of the crowd from the start of the route to the end. City population about 555,000 and with many more accessible towns around, but maybe 200,000 to 250,000, I’ve never seen the city centre away from the route so busy

I concur, somewhere between 200 and 250k on Monday by my quick calcs.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Didn't the rags drag their parade out over a ridiculous distance? I'm sure I remember it started in Sale. They certainly didn't have 1 million fans or whatever crammed into the city centre like they try to claim.

It’s obvious common sense that such a number would never get past the Health & Safety planning bods.

It’d be blatantly dangerous and endanger the fuck out of people.

 

[Benzino]

Why was he on a bus at all? He won eff all with us. Was not a legend, decent player yes but not a legend.

He’s a club ambassador. The club obviously feel it’s important to recognise players from the past, like Goater, Dickov etc

In my eyes, he absolutely is a legend. He was our best player for 3-4 years, he came through the academy and played 9 years in total for the club.

He loved City as much as any player, I’ve ever seen and many people adored him and still do.

The transfer fee we got for him was huge money at the time and we needed it. He didn’t want to go to Chelsea, but he knew he had to go, for the good of the club. He’s told a story where he arrived there and after the unveiling he cried for an hour, and wanted to come back. He had hoped City would cancel the deal last minute and pick him up.

I could reel off a list of things he’s done for us. He helped us win promotion back to the PL in 01/02. In the 03/04 season he scored a last minute wonder goal in a big game against Wolves, where we drew 3-3. We were already in a relagation battle and had we lost, Wolves who were bottom of the league, would’ve been 3 points behind us. He scored 11 goals from the wing in that season and the same the following season. A great player, and a joy to watch, in a period where we didn’t have so many flair players capable of playing at the top level.

 

[Silva Citizen]

i heard there were 4.5 million there.

There was more at York away

 

[normskih]

I enjoyed the smaller route and the sense of chaos in the rain, but can understand while some people felt scared on unsafe.

I suspect when the concert arena opens, that will be the final stopping point for these things for us.

Couldn't believe the amount of people who brought prams on Monday, even Santa turned up.

I didn’t feel unsafe, there was just so many people for such a short route and yes, the amount of babies in prams and buggies, young children, I even saw people bring dogs. I just wonder if a designated place for children and the disabled will be considered should we be lucky enough to have another.

 

[SebastianBlue]

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

you cant be a blue and are fishing
he works on city TV along with a number of others

He's gone straight on the ignore list.

 

[bertholddirke]

What a season this has been. Congrats to us all.

 

[citymad]

Daft question probably but why did we have 5 buses?

So we can win the most buses ever at a parade in the history of football.