Community Shield - Arsenal (N) | Sun 6th Aug - 16:00

[MCFC1993]

Sorry don’t get this. This only hurts the players.

Then City should be fighting the FA to get it played much earlier or move it to a Saturday.

If we can't boycott a Community Shield match then we stand no chance of ever getting a say on anything.

The players have just seen a quarter of a million people turn up to a parade, they know we back them and surely even they can see the difficulties fans are facing.

 

[Dodge]

No I’ll join in with the boycott no matter what.

Ditto mate

 

[jrb]

I’m sure after 25,000 City fans went to Istanbul the players will forgive and forget one no show on principal.

 

[stonerblue]

Good. I certainly won't be going and before this boycott was announced I said we should not buy a single ticket and send our EDS team to play it.

Who's announced the boycott

 

[Blu1]

Then City should be fighting the FA to get it played much earlier or move it to a Saturday.

If we can't boycott a Community Shield match then we stand no chance of ever getting a say on anything.

The players have just seen a quarter of a million people turn up to a parade, they know we back them and surely even they can see the difficulties fans are facing.

I get it but they are not arsed about local fans. They make the money from tv around the world. It will never make a difference to them & will just piss the players off.

Some battles can not be won & sadly this is one of them

 

[Blu1]

No chance, it hurts the FA's pockets and their reputation. It's not a good look for TV companies with a half empty stadium either

We need to start standing up to these authorities that constantly take the piss out of us and a boycott is the best way to do this

It won’t touch their pocket. The cash is generated from tv rights around the world not fans paying for tickets. It’s shit I know

 

[Mcfc1.9.8.0]

Imagine city won the 7 trophies and you missed this one because of a boycott

 

[jrb]

Imagine city won the 7 trophies and you missed this one because of a boycott

Imagine if they don’t? What a mute argument.

After seeing City do the treble, do you think I’m arsed about missing the Community Shield on a Sunday at 5:30pm?

Some City fans really do have a weird thought process.

 

[Benjani56]

It won’t touch their pocket. The cash is generated from tv rights around the world not fans paying for tickets. It’s shit I know

Our allocation will be c. 30k, assume 20k boycott at 50 quid a ticket gets 1m. That is a material amount for the FA

Also it reduces the quality of the product could have a long term impact on the value that can be generated from tv rights

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

I'm going to be paying off Istanbul for the next 12 months, so I wouldn't have been going even before they announced the kick-offs, but anything that sends a message is fine by me.