David conn and Danny Wilson on radio 5 now

[mick10]

He was on BBC Breakfast news earlier (I got the impression City were the only club to agree to be interviewed on the issue) and he came across very well!

Spot on this. He spoke very well. Especially the tongue in cheek comment about, we always wondered why people brought flasks :)

 

[chesterbells]

Thought he'd do the Second Summer Of Love but he's gone!

They're complementing City which is strange with Conn in the vicinity.

are you getting him mixed up with Schindler? I've always found Conn very knowledgeable and whilst he can be critical he's always fair (and still a City fan at heart)

He did a pretty good impression of Schindler in his book. For a supposed City fan there was a lot of wailing and a-hankering after yesteryear when we were crap, not to mention his previous vocal support of FC United

This.
I haven't read his book, primarily cos every time I've heard him interviewed re us in recent times he hasnt been positive about the way the club has changed in the last 10 years to any degree at all

 

[Walkbustaxi]

Thought he'd do the Second Summer Of Love but he's gone!

They're complementing City which is strange with Conn in the vicinity.

are you getting him mixed up with Schindler? I've always found Conn very knowledgeable and whilst he can be critical he's always fair (and still a City fan at heart)

No I've read all Conn's books and Know him well. I'll agree he is knowledgable if repetitive and not always factually correct. Are you getting him mixed up as still being a City fan? As he says in his books and he said again on the radio yesterday, Manchester City WERE the club he supported growing up.
Conn fell out of love with City years ago.

 

[City Raider]

yet people think ffpr is the answer - i can only see ffpr driving prices even higher

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Thought he'd do the Second Summer Of Love but he's gone!

They're complementing City which is strange with Conn in the vicinity.

are you getting him mixed up with Schindler? I've always found Conn very knowledgeable and whilst he can be critical he's always fair (and still a City fan at heart)

No I've read all Conn's books and Know him well. I'll agree he is knowledgable if repetitive and not always factually correct. Are you getting him mixed up as still being a City fan? As he says in his books and he said again on the radio yesterday, Manchester City WERE the club he supported growing up.
Conn fell out of love with City years ago.

Well you clearly don't know Conn then. He's still very much a blue at heart but he doesn't like what modern football has become. He will happily admit that he prefers the concept of fan ownership to the "sugar daddy" model but that our owners are the best and most professional we've ever had.

People call him for writing admiringly about FC United but while there's plenty you can criticise about them, the people behind them (and MUST) are very passionate and have made a stand against the rapacious Glazers. I've met Andy Walsh, Duncan Drasdo and others and I admire them as well. Does that make me less of a Blue? I certainly admire them more than the City fans who were prepared to stuff their principles up their arses when they partied with the appalling Shinawatra in Albert Square.

 

[mayo31]

I admire the way Conn has made a living recently out of telling us how he has fell out of love of football.

 

[Gary James]

Danny Wilson's an excellent figure for City. He's doing a good job here on a very tricky subject.

As for ticket prices... ticket prices are excessive for adult fans in general and City are clearly no where near as bad as others. However, it's time City got proper acknowledgement for their offer for under 16s.

I said quite a bit about this on twitter yesterday with David Conn (and others) but I think it gets ignored.... City's Under 16 season ticket is cheaper now than a comparable ticket was in 1993.

Back in 1993 the main season ticket prices for the Umbro(!) Stand u16 seats were £170 and for the North Stand £155. Today it's over £40 cheaper for an equivalent view (but much better team!).

 

[LongsightM13]

are you getting him mixed up with Schindler? I've always found Conn very knowledgeable and whilst he can be critical he's always fair (and still a City fan at heart)

No I've read all Conn's books and Know him well. I'll agree he is knowledgable if repetitive and not always factually correct. Are you getting him mixed up as still being a City fan? As he says in his books and he said again on the radio yesterday, Manchester City WERE the club he supported growing up.
Conn fell out of love with City years ago.

Well you clearly don't know Conn then. He's still very much a blue at heart but he doesn't like what modern football has become. He will happily admit that he prefers the concept of fan ownership to the "sugar daddy" model but that our owners are the best and most professional we've ever had.

People call him for writing admiringly about FC United but while there's plenty you can criticise about them, the people behind them (and MUST) are very passionate and have made a stand against the rapacious Glazers. I've met Andy Walsh, Duncan Drasdo and others and I admire them as well. Does that make me less of a Blue? I certainly admire them more than the City fans who were prepared to stuff their principles up their arses when they partied with the appalling Shinawatra in Albert Square.

But they didn't make a stand.
They ran away when the going got tough.
Unlike most of the City fans you talk about did with Swales.
The likes of Walsh and Drasdo are nothing to admire. They egotistical attention seekers and empire builders, laughably self-important fanzine scribblers who saw the rise of MUST (who have at least have stayed to fight the Glazers) put their noses out of joint and take the attention away from them when it came to rag protest.
So they took their ball away and went to play somewhere else, creating a Frankenstein outfit which is not a breakaway club (they haven't broken away, they still all support the rags). It is essentially a Happy Shopper Rags, a cheaper 'United' franchise in non-league. A magnet for fat, bald 50-somethings to relive their 'Red Army' youth and teach their sons how to be a bully by 'taking' non-league grounds mainly populated by pensioners and kids.
Oh, and giving themselves full-time jobs on salaries seen as nonsensical at their level of non league football.
There is nothing to admire about that — certainly in comparison to a few long-suffering, loyal City fans who might have been taken in by Thaksin's slick PR machine

 

[Cobwebcat]

Conn is not like Schindler in any way. Anyone who has read both their books must know this. Conn is a football fan first and a City fan second but his love for the club is there for all to see. Schindler is a whining idiot.

 

[waspish]

No I've read all Conn's books and Know him well. I'll agree he is knowledgable if repetitive and not always factually correct. Are you getting him mixed up as still being a City fan? As he says in his books and he said again on the radio yesterday, Manchester City WERE the club he supported growing up.
Conn fell out of love with City years ago.

Well you clearly don't know Conn then. He's still very much a blue at heart but he doesn't like what modern football has become. He will happily admit that he prefers the concept of fan ownership to the "sugar daddy" model but that our owners are the best and most professional we've ever had.

People call him for writing admiringly about FC United but while there's plenty you can criticise about them, the people behind them (and MUST) are very passionate and have made a stand against the rapacious Glazers. I've met Andy Walsh, Duncan Drasdo and others and I admire them as well. Does that make me less of a Blue? I certainly admire them more than the City fans who were prepared to stuff their principles up their arses when they partied with the appalling Shinawatra in Albert Square.

But they didn't make a stand.
They ran away when the going got tough.
Unlike most of the City fans you talk about did with Swales.
The likes of Walsh and Drasdo are nothing to admire. They egotistical attention seekers and empire builders, laughably self-important fanzine scribblers who saw the rise of MUST (who have at least have stayed to fight the Glazers) put their noses out of joint and take the attention away from them when it came to rag protest.
So they took their ball away and went to play somewhere else, creating a Frankenstein outfit which is not a breakaway club (they haven't broken away, they still all support the rags). It is essentially a Happy Shopper Rags, a cheaper 'United' franchise in non-league. A magnet for fat, bald 50-somethings to relive their 'Red Army' youth and teach their sons how to be a bully by 'taking' non-league grounds mainly populated by pensioners and kids.
Oh, and giving themselves full-time jobs on salaries seen as nonsensical at their level of non league football.
There is nothing to admire about that — certainly in comparison to a few long-suffering, loyal City fans who might have been taken in by Thaksin's slick PR machine

Have to say totally agree with this..