Everton (home) Semi Final Tickets

[worsleyweb]

Not even kicked off yet and there's already media articles slagging off the attendance haha

What an absolute joke of an article - clearly written by a rag. Pathetic. Getting boring this empty seats jibe now. If a rag ever tries it ion with me - it will be first ever recorded case of death by factual rebound.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Not even kicked off yet and there's already media articles slagging off the attendance haha

Dear Daily Mirror, Just in case you missed my Twitter comment on this.....

FUCK OFF MIRROR

 

[frothy]

I've 3 tickets for tonight.
However, I work in London.
Cheapest train ticket to Manchester after 3pm tonight is £166
Last train back to London is 9.15pm, therefore £100 needed for a hotel.
Cheapest train ticket back to London to arrive before 11am is £140.
So, £400 for me to get to tonight's game. Crazy price considering I flew with my family (4 of us) to Turin for the Juventus game for £185 for all of us.
Unfortunately, Virgin's prices mean I'll be watching on TV

Did you know you get 25 percent off virgin train fares with your city card?still expensive but still a decent saving

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

Looks like it was Everton fans buying those tickets in 325.

The way that reads its put a false adresss and print off your ticket at home
?

 

[blueloon]

I read that article and it that made my blood boil. Lazy journalism in my opinion, I will no longer be purchasing that newspaper or reading their online content anymore. One things for sure this isn't going away...

 

[cibaman]

I just don't underestimate Everton's fanbase as it is huge club. Half an hour's drive up the road to collect a ticket from a tout or online with no question. I hope I'm wrong.

All depends on resources doesn't it, I've seen it go horribly wrong outside the Etihad even with ample Police presence. Whatever the result, I hope the away fans are kept in the ground for a bit afterwards.

The vast majority of fans are reluctant to buy tickets in the home end. Especially for a televised match.

 

[mayo31]

So called journalist slags off people who may not be in a position to afford to go or simply choose not to.

Journalist who probably has not had to pay to go into a stadium for years or chose not to as they usually sent.

I going tonight and I think it is about time these journalists were taken to task

 

[blueloon]

The club need to think more about the availability of tickets to away fans in the home areas. Do the club give away more tickets to away fans in games like this, or do they have any smaller area where both fans can mix like they have at Fulham? Hope I'm wrong, but I can see some flair points around the stadium, whatever the result...

 

[Gary James]

I've just read the "article" in The Mirror by David McDonnell regarding the attendance for the upcoming game against Everton.

The title of the article might as well be "Moneybags City in advertising tickets shocker".

The theme of the piece is that the game "isn't sold out" that Sergio Aguero, among other players has "had to plea to fans" to attend and that City have even had to take out a double page spread in the Evening News in a desperate attempt to drag fans to the game.

I'm sure Mr Mcdonnell will forgive me for not providing a link to his "article" but if he's reading this, I'd like to point one or two things out to him. Assuming if he works for the Mirror he's a Liverpool fan, or at the very least a Liverpool sympathiser.

There will be over 50,000 fans attending this match, some 10% more than attended the semi at Anfield.

City's average attendance this season will be north of 53k. That is higher than Liverpool have ever achieved in their illustrious 'istree.

You seem to be obsessed with how many seats are unsold as opposed to how many are sold. If we had a ground as small as Anfield, this game would have been sold out a few days ago, and we wouldn't need the "desperate begging" of Sergio to flog the extra 10k. You appear to be punishing City for having a bigger stadium than Liverpool, which is, frankly, bizarre.

On the subject of unsold tickets, what was the % to capacity of Liverpool's attendances during the halcyon days of the 70s and 80s? How does that compare with City's percentages now?

The Mirror, which prides itself on being a left wing paper for working people should know better than to try and take the piss out of hard working fans who in the last week of January, the week in the year where finances are at their most stetched, might have other priorities than a Capital One Cup game.

You've embarrassed yourself and your newspaper today, and I suggest you take that story down and start reporting news as oppossed to baiting fans in to clicking your article in a desperate attempt to hit your monthly site traffic targets.

Ignoring the LC semis at 76k capacity OT, which of course included 1 against City that had lots of Blues in 'home' seats, only one League Cup semi attendance gas beaten the figure we are likely to get since 2008. I've not bothered checking before that date. It's likely to be our third or second highest LC attendance of all time as well.

That article is just lazy journalism, looking for a negative that is actually a positive - for fans of a club in 4 major competitions, with expensive trips in Europe and away games in FAC, to have bought tickets for any late January midweek fixture in such numbers is significant. As fans we need to stress the positives, after all this journalist is attacking us. We're the people bucking the trend in the LC.

 

[Ban-jani]

i think Newcastle would sell out with being in the doldrums for years, a semi final for them is rare,the whole town would be out

Not saying they wouldn't but my point is tonight we're likely to have the highest attendance in the competition this season.

The Cunting Mirror didn't go after the Rags did they when they only had 32k and over 40k empty seats.