Everton (home) Semi Final Tickets

[Prestwich_Blue]

I thought this earlier mate. I read an article in the Mail online about the game and it had a couple of lines about the low attendance, Sergio "begging fans to come" and the double page spread advert in the MEN. I thought it's surely not a coincidence that it was pretty much word for word what Mcdonnell had written in the Mirror.

So when you say "stoke the fires" what do you mean mate? Wind up City fans to get them to click on the articles, generate some interest in the game, or encourage casual City fans to dig deep and buy a ticket for the game?

If it was the latter I'd assume it was a brief from the club, but we're not that desperate, surely?

About 3 years ago, when Mancini was manager, someone at City told me that the red-top journalists would habitually get together after his press conference and discuss how they were all going to spin it. So if he'd been asked "Does it bother you that this isn't a sell-out?" and replied "Well it's important that as many fans as possible buy the remaining tickets and support the team" it would probably get spun something like the stories we're seeing today.

I got accused by Daniel Taylor on here of talking out of my arse but he certainly wasn't one of the journo's I accused of this plus I know who told me this and that they are 100% reliable.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

What a fuss over nothing. I have lost count of the number of matches home and abroad I have had to watch from the home end. In fact during the 70s and 80s it was usually safer at Anfield and Goodison to avoid the City end totally. I have no issue with any Everton fans in my block as long as they don't take the piss. Should be a cracking atmosphere tonight. As for the Mirror story. No surprises it was written by the same reporter who claimed that City fans were chanting about the golden jubilee a few weeks before the AIG Munich anniversary derby in 2008. In fact it was heresay based on gossip someone had told him in a pub in Chorlton. For me the Mirror is a paper which hates real football fans and caters only for the sneering JCLs who don't attend matches but are full of themselves on social media.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

No, certainly not complicit with the club in any way. They wanted to blindside Pellegrini yesterday with questions related to what they had planned. Our PR people were less than impressed. It is a cheap shot, nothing more.

IMO, there are a couple who might be sweating on actually being allowed entry tonight.

The motive, lazy journalism and the need to reinforce their need that City are not a big club.

 

[Puppet Master Silva]

Looks like it could go close to a sell-out with people buying at the game.

 

[cibaman]

Games like this one have become all too precious these days, it really could be a cracker in terms of atmosphere purely due to the fact that we are playing a team with something to go for and fans who will try everything to get tickets. Their incentive increased tenfold after last night's game, imagine if that were ourselves. To have 8k in the away end is brilliant anyway, the extras dotted around the ground will just serve to ramp it up even more.

I've been in wrong ends at plenty of grounds over the years, sometimes it's just the only way to see games, at times it's been awkward but in general as long as you don't showboat most are ok, when I've had trouble it never seems to come from those next to you, it's usually some mouthy prick from the safety of a few rows away who lights the touchpaper.

That's been the reason that I've bought tickets in home ends.

If Everton go through, their fans in the away end will have a fantastic night. The ones in the home end? Not so much. Most of them will keep quiet rather than celebrating. They'd have a better time watching the game at home on the telly. Or in an Everton pub.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

About 3 years ago, when Mancini was manager, someone at City told me that the red-top journalists would habitually get together after his press conference and discuss how they were all going to spin it. So if he'd been asked "Does it bother you that this isn't a sell-out?" and replied "Well it's important that as many fans as possible buy the remaining tickets and support the team" it would probably get spun something like the stories we're seeing today.

I got accused by Daniel Taylor on here of talking out of my arse but he certainly wasn't one of the journo's I accused of this plus I know who told me this and that they are 100% reliable.

They already had their line before the press conference.

 

[coleridge]

I know a few Evertonians who live and work around South Manchester [one from Uni in the 80s - he never left!]. Scouse accents and all. They could purchase seats anywhere in the ground, obviously! People do move around 'these days'. My mates are upstanding professionals who enjoy living in Manchester. They are the last people to cause any trouble. Some posters seem to be living in, erm, 1981...

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I've been in the home end of Goodison for City games a few times, I even did a mini fist pump when Micah equalised in the last minute years back. Just don't be a tit and you won't bother anyone. Same goes for every ground.

I was in the Main Stand there for the game that Neguoai got sent off about 5 minutes after coming on. Fortunately we didn't have anything to cheer so it wasn't that hard bt they knew we were City fans and we had no bother. Two Evertonian relative have used my seat for games against them in the past and they've been twigged but were sensible and it was fine.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

My Everton supporting mate is going and is sitting in the home end. I don’t think he is planning any fighting based on his mild manners and not to mention his 9 year old city supporting son that will be sat next to him.

Atmosphere will be great tonight but it will be the hardcore in the away section and the usual home sections that make the most noise. How the game pans out will have a big bearing on the noise level, an early city goal will go down very well for us.

 

[Lescott]

So, out of interest, and in the spirit of good faith and no animosity, how many of your 550 are travelling with tickets that aren't in the away end?

Personally purchased by myself are 40 and a further 16-20 purchased by individuals.