Does anyone else feel like this?

CC1 said:
But you can still buy a space on a game by game basis if you know you always want one. Just have to be quick off the mark. I’ve always managed to get one in the blue car park
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Yes... I know but I'm fucking busy and its an extra thing I needed to remember to do. Plus its much more expensive paying game by game. The season ticket parking was quite cheap per game if you did all the home matches, as I did.

Maybe not a big deal for everyone but for me it was an incremental problem that added to the chaos of getting out of the ground after games meant I just passed a point where I thought, fuck this.
 
Stephen230 said:
There are already laws in place regarding reselling football tickets. It is against the law to sell them on at any price, even below face value , unless you have the authority of the issuing club.

Make of that what you will.
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But that law only applies to companies in the UK. There's nothing you can do if a ticket reseller is outside the UK.

There's a large overlap between people who whinge about "tourists" and the people who whinge about ID checks. When I was on City Matters I used to ask people to give me seat numbers and only 1 person ever did.

I very much doubt the club is complicit in shifting significant numbers of tickets to dodgy resellers. But I have heard stories of people, either general admission or hospitality, selling tickets to pay for their season tickets.
 
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CC1 said:
But the games sell out & the lucky buyers go & sing their hearts out. It’s annoying to miss out but it’s not as if those there are all sitting taking photos
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Oh so 40 years loyalty means nowt, as long those who've got tickets don't take selfies???!!!

Ok!
 
city wright winger said:
Unfortunately the club do no longer want the 30/40 year match going fans as they don’t spend hundreds of pounds in the club shop so it suits them to sell them to the tourists who do. The price of success
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This is the truth of the situation, City would be quietly delighted if all the 30/40 year veterans stopped going.
I got an eye opener the Friday evening before the derby. I bought a picture online, and did click and collect from the stadium shop, it’s very unusual that I buy merchandise, but it was a treble picture. I went at 17.30 and the shop was utterly hammered, and excepting the staff I was probably the only Manc in there, and whilst waiting I was watching person after person spend literally hundreds of quid. If you are a business, you want those tourists as your customer, not me. I don’t like it, but if I’m totally honest, I understand it.
 
Gone for a Burton said:
Fucking he'll ??

It's the time of our lives and I'm 73.

Some people are bloody hard to please
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Well said mate

So glad to see this thread - all those that want to moan and not appreciate how good life is as a CITY fan can do it in here

I am 66 and have never had it so good - travelling to lots of new places to see CITY - watching great football

Of course there is a 'cost' and 'consequences' - I go to most away games and look around thinking - how the fuck did they get tickets??

But I would not swap the experiences of these last years - which I never thought I would see
 
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Why didn’t the people who are disenfranchised make their tickets available for yesterday’s game?

If you went did you try to get behind the lads for the full 100 minutes?

I grt the frustration about allocations / touts but surely there were enough diehards there to generate a better atmosphere.
 
I believe tourists are there as well as the genuine hard core fans and not instead of!
Grounds are bigger, crowds are bigger than they were not so long ago.

That section of the away end when John Stones scored and celebrated was proper Blues loving the moment.
Just like our section in SS2 last weekend when scoring against the Rags.

Ignore the aspects that are not for you, it's easy to do.

A lot of people stop going as they get older and their interests change, many say it's because it's not like it was but that's just an excuse.

As for visiting Merseyside, Police have always treated Manchester fans like shite, herded from Lime Street for a massive walk, locked in then herded back.
No enjoyment allowed and treated like scum.
 
I think most people are in the same boat regarding this situation.

I would happily just watch the games at home but my daughter is City mad and that's what keeps me going to the matches.

It's clear as day that clubs want "new fans" at the games now and want the "legacy fans" gone. The clubs make more money off single tickets rather than season tickets and on top of that day trippers will spend more money in club shops than season ticket holders will.

On top of all this it's killing atmospheres at games, They are the worst atmospheres possibly ever these days and that's at most grounds across England now. It's all selfie sticks, Half and Half scarves, and Phones...It's fucking horrendous.
 
Why is this the fault of the tourists and the club? The problem is the people selling the tickets. Those are the people who should be ashamed. Any of us could buy the tickets but most choose not so the tourists buy them.
 
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