What do people really think is going to happen from a half baked boycott?
It will get the wider football community talking, which might lead to positive change (similar to what happened with £20s plenty, Safe Standing and European Super League). It could also CONTINUE to raise money for great charity in Manchester (over £4k raised so far).
-Are the FA/ Premier league going to be remotely bothered there may be a few thousand seats empty, not at all ( the whole football World expects us to have Empty seats anyway ) this will just had fuel to that thought
So you're saying we shouldn't do it in case someone posts a nasty tweet about City fans? ...real fans get it, that's all that matters.
-Most fans won’t even know about this boycott with it not coming direct from the club,there will be many still go who usually can’t get tickets to showpiece matches at Wembley, especially families and tourist fans. If I wasn’t on this forum I would not even know about the boycott !
The boycott has been raised/discussed on:
- The Daily Mail
- TalkSport
-Sky Sports News
- MEN
The OSC emailed their members to discuss it. There are tweets with millions of impressions about it.
You do know about the boycott, which shows it's been publicised brilliantly so far. Short of knocking on doors I don't know what more you'd expect people to do?
Those families and 'tourist fans' will still go, but there won't be 20k+. Also, I don't think we have sold out an FA cup semi-final at Wembley recently. Could they not have gone then? Or is there a new swathe of fans that have struggled to get tickets to general sale games that I'm not aware of?
-we are in our biggest period of success with that comes the fact that football authorities & police will move ko times and match days, this is nothing new and won’t change but get worse with more matches squeezing in to a season with success comes many games
Where has anyone argued with the number of games? The point of the boycott is that it's a 5:30 kick-off. I don't see why people are struggling to understand why that isn't on.
- it’s easy to say let’s boycott this game as a lot of hardcore fans are not that into a wembley charity shield , a serious boycott would be to do it at a fa cup final but fans wouldn’t want to miss a fa cup so that won’t ever happen
The FA cup final was on a Saturday at 3pm.
- imagine pep and the team coming out to the first big showpiece game since winning the treble and our end is half empty, pep will be well happy about that .
Ah, true... who is thinking of the 11 multi-millionaires and how they'll feel about all this? If Pep gets the fans, he'd understand and support the boycott.
City fans are always there when it matters.
-I also think of the club will get wind of this and then just start selling the bottom tier first then lower regions of top tiers so it won’t even be that noticeable on Tv
So fans who are going despite the boycott. Buy tickets towards the back if you can.... try and leave the front rows empty and create the talking point we want to achieve!
Anyway that’s my thoughts and I will be going as a Sunday later KO suits me and work better anyway
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