Tourism is good for the city of Manchester, you only have to see the cranes on the skyline to see it's booming. And tourists are good for Manchester City.
However, tourists are not good for us long standing paying supporters as our SC prices and match tickets are increasing year on year. Many have already left the scene, many will be priced out, and many who can still afford it will give up going, disillusioned by VAR, the contrived 'match day experience', the allocation of away tickets, the constant changing of our fixtures to appease Sky and BT etc, loads more reasons why supporters have had enough. I'm at a stage where I'm considering not renewing my SC and just picking odd games I fancy attending.
It doesn't matter to the club how loyal we have been in over two decades of being a shambles both on and off the pitch. If Johnny come lately has more cash to flash, you my friends will become less important to the club in the future, particularly if you can't afford to stump up your hard earned cash to attend(each yearly increase) and spend a small fortune in the souvenir store. Half and half scarves and selfie sticks are becoming more common the more successful we become.
We are flavour of every month we are successful and tourists help take up the spare seats, however many tourists only follow us because of success. The atmosphere is rapidly taking a turn for the worst and getting more sanitised to polite applause over going mental like we used to, partly due to all seater stadia and singing sections divided by away supporters . Plus newbies don't have any natural affinity having turned up (largely) since we started delivering the trophies, so many don't get what we're about nevermind knowing our songs.
We have become a sky blue version of those across town unfortunately, and that is something that doesn't sit easy with me.
I don't know how longer I can stomach paying to watch us in future, especially when we're getting shafted by bent refs and VAR at (seemingly) every opportunity.
