I’m not particularly enjoying going to the match anymore. The place is rife with non-City fans. They’re everywhere! The match day experience is aimed at kids and the club don’t understand football culture one bit.
I feel like an outsider to what the club want. If they could get me to fuck off so they could get someone in my place (whether they were a City fan or not) who’d pay a bit more for their ticket and spend more in the shop, their reaction would be “excellent, got rid of another!”
Feeling like that makes me think about not renewing, a lot. As well as continual price hikes, hugely above the rate of inflation, it’s like having two fingers stuck up at you every season for long standing support that means precisely fuck all to our board room.
And VAR is fucking shit. I’ve not celebrated a goal all season. Not properly. In the back of my mind, every time the ball has hit the net, I’ve held back massively and can’t stop thinking “wonder what that could be disallowed for?” rather than thinking “YYESS YEEEEES FUCKING YYYEEESSS!!!”
But I’m obsessed with City, always have been. I love the team the manager the shirt the badge the 126(almost now) years of history... so it would be very hard to give it up.
It all depends on whether they increase prices and by how much.
I think the first step would be to ask one of my mates to share a seasoncard with me so we can half the price and go to half the games each. I have a few mates who do that already. Three lads share two seasoncards and share the games between them.