How many games a season do you do?

London based Blue, ST since 1988 and pretty much home and away since, cups, Europe (including Lokeren, Poznan, Santander, etc) and obviously York away like the other 300,000 Blues. Only big game missed that I really regret was the Wembley game against the Rags in 2011 (in the middle of Kenya). But...like others, its not what it used to be...Avanti West Coast picks almost every other weekend to do engineering works, the drive now between London and Manchester gets longer every season (lucky to do it door to door in less than 4 hours). There is nowhere to park, and if you are on the train, you cant take your iPad into the stadium as your bag cant be bigger than a postage stamp, and forget mid-week games - getting home at 3am as the M1 and M6 are down to a single dirt track. And I hate to say it - but the cost, the effort, the increasingly sterile and commercial atmosphere and yes - the growing half and half scarves - its just not the match day experience is was. I think the weight of expectation just makes it less enjoyable in a way - I love our success, watching the amazing football and players I thought I would only ever see at World Cups - but there was something slightly more authentic and wonderful about not having the weight of the world on our shoulders in years gone by...but I'm just an old fart these days.
 
When I was working, used to do about ten or eleven. Flying in from continental Europe works out very pricey. Now that I'm retired (and my finances severely curtailed), I should be able to manage about five, six at most, I would imagine, if I juggle it well. Obviously, Covid restrictions both ways have suspended it for me until very recently. Last game before the first Covid lockdown was Spurs at their new stadium (grrr!! bad memory, how those fuckers manage to beat us while actually being outplayed every time is just unfathomable). First match back was Liverpool at the Etihad the other day. Over for the final game against Villa because, champions or not, I want to see them off for what has been a great season. Just booked flights and trains. These days, obviously, my time is my own, so I try to combine it with seeing friends, making a week or so of it.
Aah, the Etihad, and the new megabusiness of football — global corporate capitalism on a square of green — in the twenty-first century! And gormless tourist fans taking selfies, wearing their half-and-halfs. I do understand those who say they don't enjoy it like they used to, and who stopped going. It's not like Maine Road, it's not like Buzzer, Colin et al running out of that tunnel. But then, nothing is. Time changes everything. It's something to do with the age you were at, perhaps the mates you were with, and just looking into the future and thinking that just about anything was possible. But there's still enough of a fourteen-year-old somewhere in me that when I walked up those steps from the concourse on level 2 of the south stand the other day, saw that patch of blue at the top, and then at the top, seeing the immaculate green open up expansively before me, yes, I still get enough of a rush to make it worthwhile. Watching on a screen just does not — and will never — do it for me. It also ramps up my paranoia unbearably, since I don't have the 180° view of the pitch that somehow, weirdly, makes me feel I have some control over the players.
 
Before lockdown I used to miss maybe one or two home games a season. During lockdown I vowed to never miss another home game. I realised just how much going to City matches meant to me. Not missed one since. I've got 18.5k points so go to every away I'm eligible for and some that I'm not.
 
GrumpyLegacyFan said:
London based Blue, ST since 1988 and pretty much home and away since, cups, Europe (including Lokeren, Poznan, Santander, etc) and obviously York away like the other 300,000 Blues. Only big game missed that I really regret was the Wembley game against the Rags in 2011 (in the middle of Kenya). But...like others, its not what it used to be...Avanti West Coast picks almost every other weekend to do engineering works, the drive now between London and Manchester gets longer every season (lucky to do it door to door in less than 4 hours). There is nowhere to park, and if you are on the train, you cant take your iPad into the stadium as your bag cant be bigger than a postage stamp, and forget mid-week games - getting home at 3am as the M1 and M6 are down to a single dirt track. And I hate to say it - but the cost, the effort, the increasingly sterile and commercial atmosphere and yes - the growing half and half scarves - its just not the match day experience is was. I think the weight of expectation just makes it less enjoyable in a way - I love our success, watching the amazing football and players I thought I would only ever see at World Cups - but there was something slightly more authentic and wonderful about not having the weight of the world on our shoulders in years gone by...but I'm just an old fart these days.
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That's a big commitment and I can understand why you're getting a little cheesed off with it but you lost me at the half and half scarves sterile bit
 
The last few years: 0. Never missed a game at Maine road when working class people could afford it. When I DO get the money together and choose a game, i can't get a ticket.
 
Home bird really. All home prem games and most cup/champ matches. Did Wembley on Saturday which was my first away from the etihad since an away at Barca a few seasons back!

I'd love to do more aways but have a small family now
 
Coming from outside dublin. Do about 10/11 a season. Last Sunday journey started at 9 15 Saturday morning ( going to work) stayed in dublin before heading to airport at 2 30. Stayed overnight and arrived back at 9 monday night. You Manchester lads dont know how lucky you are
 
Around 25ish per season, mostly home matches with a sprinkling of cup matches and 1 away.
Think I've sold back 3 home tickets this season but mainly because my lad was doing his A level mocks and i felt it was unfair to go without him.
 
Every home game in all comps and then Wembley trips as well. No away games
 
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