IanBishopsHaircut
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Anyone know how the tickets are going?
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FA Youth Cup 2014/15 Thread
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alberto0292
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I think East Stand is almost full and the West Stand is filling up
still space in North Standing area (1894 Group will be present) and I think south standing area is not on sale at the moment
Monday night not helping but hopefully we will be there in good numbers
still space in North Standing area (1894 Group will be present) and I think south standing area is not on sale at the moment
Monday night not helping but hopefully we will be there in good numbers
SaddleworthBlueRhino
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The only chanting I have seen or heard has been from North Standing. Crew bought a few away fans and probably out sang everybody, but then again I was sat near them!CityStu said:Where's the best atmosphere likely to be?
blue b4 the moon
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Anyone had tickets through the post yet?
SaddleworthBlueRhino
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No from cloudy Uppermillblue b4 the moon said:Anyone had tickets through the post yet?
alberto0292
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CityStu said:Where's the best atmosphere likely to be?
North stand
Mad Eyed Screamer
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Paul Lake on the current team and the 86 team
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Lake 'longing' for Man City youth stars to make step up
But the legend admits he will be "emotional" if one of the club's current prospects makes the breakthrough into the senior squad.
Paul Lake admits he will have a tear in his eye on the day one of Manchester City’s bright young Mancunians makes his first team debut.
And it is not just because it will bring back memories of the day he first pulled on that blue shirt and strode out, his heart thumping with pride.
The City legend, whose promising career was cruelly cut short by injury, will be rooting for the latest crop of talented young Blues when they face Chelsea in the first leg of the FA Youth Cup final at the Academy Stadium on Monday night.
But he is looking forward to the day that the young academy hopefuls – especially the local ones – start to filter through to the first team squad.
Manchester lads Brandon Barker, Tosin Adarabioyo, Kean Bryan, Aaron Nemane and Cameron Humphreys are all key members of the team that has blitzed its way to the final, scoring 22 times and conceding four.
Barker and young Spanish left back Angelino have already been talked about as challenging for a first team squad place, with the others not far behind, and that has excited Lake.
“I am longing for that day when Brandon, or Tosin or Kean – or any one of those boys - pulls on that blue shirt and steps out,” says Lake, who works fas liaison between the Premier League and several academies, including his beloved Blues.
“It will be an emotional day for them and their families, but it will also be emotional for me, as it means so much to get someone in,” he says.
“The most exciting part for me is that when that home-grown player gets in there, especially if he a Manchester lad, it will give the stadium a lift – the Etihad will rise a foot off the floor because it will mean so much to everyone in the stadium to see that one of our own has got in.
“They will be given more time to settle in, they will get the patience, and then it’s about how it gets managed – but luckily we have good, wise people at City, and then it’s down to the player to take the chance.”
Like many City fans, Lake has been annoyed by the popular perception that this City youth team is stocked with foreigners.
“I was asked on social media, in a disparaging way, how many of our youth team are English – I replied ‘Never mind that, how many of them are Mancunian?!’
“There are a heck of a lot of boys from Manchester in that squad, which is really exciting, and one or two of them have experience of being in the first team environment.”
Denton-born Lake was part of the 1986 team that won the FA Youth Cup by beating United in the final – and then provided the nub of a very good late 80s team. By the time they played in the final, Steve Redmond and Paul Moulden had already broken into the first team.
Lake, Andy Hinchcliffe and Ian Brightwell followed soon afterwards, but Lake said more patience and preparation is needed today.
“It was different in our day,” he said. “We were good enough to play in the first team, otherwise we wouldn’t have played.
“We were not only encouraged, we were pushed towards the first team because it was a small squad to begin with and, with respect, the quality wasn’t massively high.
“We had the luxury of playing men’s football straight away . I came to City as a scholar and before my 17th birthday I had played ten to 12 reserve team games against players who had played 400 league games.
“My reserve debut was away at Hull – Andy Hinchcliffe also played and got man of the match, and the next reserve game we beat Leicester 4-2 and I got man of the match - two 16-year-olds playing in the reserves.
“But physically we were up to it because of the environment created by the coach. We did have physical problems later on, such as my knees, but up to that point I was able to cope with that.”
In his job, Lake sees the way today’s academies work, and says it is entirely different.
“My chance of getting into the first team was a totally different entity to those of Brandon, Tosin or Kean,” he says.
“It’s so much more difficult for those boys, but if the belief is there, which it is, and there is a connection with the club, the community and the player - and some of these boys are from Manchester and are City fans as well – you put that into the mix.
“And then you step it up so you are in the environment of training day in, day out with Silva, Toure, Aguero, Kolarov - players with technical brilliance - so you will raise their standards. Put good players in that mix and they will get better.
“I am just hopeful more and more that the boys get a chance. We don’t know, as fans, what the model and structure is. But the people at City are experienced and knowledgeable, and are doing things for the right reasons, to get boys into our first team.”
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/lake-longing-man-city-youth-9051090" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... th-9051090</a>
Lake 'longing' for Man City youth stars to make step up
But the legend admits he will be "emotional" if one of the club's current prospects makes the breakthrough into the senior squad.
Paul Lake admits he will have a tear in his eye on the day one of Manchester City’s bright young Mancunians makes his first team debut.
And it is not just because it will bring back memories of the day he first pulled on that blue shirt and strode out, his heart thumping with pride.
The City legend, whose promising career was cruelly cut short by injury, will be rooting for the latest crop of talented young Blues when they face Chelsea in the first leg of the FA Youth Cup final at the Academy Stadium on Monday night.
But he is looking forward to the day that the young academy hopefuls – especially the local ones – start to filter through to the first team squad.
Manchester lads Brandon Barker, Tosin Adarabioyo, Kean Bryan, Aaron Nemane and Cameron Humphreys are all key members of the team that has blitzed its way to the final, scoring 22 times and conceding four.
Barker and young Spanish left back Angelino have already been talked about as challenging for a first team squad place, with the others not far behind, and that has excited Lake.
“I am longing for that day when Brandon, or Tosin or Kean – or any one of those boys - pulls on that blue shirt and steps out,” says Lake, who works fas liaison between the Premier League and several academies, including his beloved Blues.
“It will be an emotional day for them and their families, but it will also be emotional for me, as it means so much to get someone in,” he says.
“The most exciting part for me is that when that home-grown player gets in there, especially if he a Manchester lad, it will give the stadium a lift – the Etihad will rise a foot off the floor because it will mean so much to everyone in the stadium to see that one of our own has got in.
“They will be given more time to settle in, they will get the patience, and then it’s about how it gets managed – but luckily we have good, wise people at City, and then it’s down to the player to take the chance.”
Like many City fans, Lake has been annoyed by the popular perception that this City youth team is stocked with foreigners.
“I was asked on social media, in a disparaging way, how many of our youth team are English – I replied ‘Never mind that, how many of them are Mancunian?!’
“There are a heck of a lot of boys from Manchester in that squad, which is really exciting, and one or two of them have experience of being in the first team environment.”
Denton-born Lake was part of the 1986 team that won the FA Youth Cup by beating United in the final – and then provided the nub of a very good late 80s team. By the time they played in the final, Steve Redmond and Paul Moulden had already broken into the first team.
Lake, Andy Hinchcliffe and Ian Brightwell followed soon afterwards, but Lake said more patience and preparation is needed today.
“It was different in our day,” he said. “We were good enough to play in the first team, otherwise we wouldn’t have played.
“We were not only encouraged, we were pushed towards the first team because it was a small squad to begin with and, with respect, the quality wasn’t massively high.
“We had the luxury of playing men’s football straight away . I came to City as a scholar and before my 17th birthday I had played ten to 12 reserve team games against players who had played 400 league games.
“My reserve debut was away at Hull – Andy Hinchcliffe also played and got man of the match, and the next reserve game we beat Leicester 4-2 and I got man of the match - two 16-year-olds playing in the reserves.
“But physically we were up to it because of the environment created by the coach. We did have physical problems later on, such as my knees, but up to that point I was able to cope with that.”
In his job, Lake sees the way today’s academies work, and says it is entirely different.
“My chance of getting into the first team was a totally different entity to those of Brandon, Tosin or Kean,” he says.
“It’s so much more difficult for those boys, but if the belief is there, which it is, and there is a connection with the club, the community and the player - and some of these boys are from Manchester and are City fans as well – you put that into the mix.
“And then you step it up so you are in the environment of training day in, day out with Silva, Toure, Aguero, Kolarov - players with technical brilliance - so you will raise their standards. Put good players in that mix and they will get better.
“I am just hopeful more and more that the boys get a chance. We don’t know, as fans, what the model and structure is. But the people at City are experienced and knowledgeable, and are doing things for the right reasons, to get boys into our first team.”
SaddleworthBlueRhino
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Mine arrived this morning . Looking forward to this one. Wish they would buck their ideas up and let us know details etc for the second leg. I will travel on my own and book a hotel but would rather travel with blues and know that I have a ticket for a City area.