Now, now. As I was told when I complained about City's silence, and the chairman saying we played our part as fans but then putting up ticket prices again, we've just done a treble so you don't have the right to complain about anything,So, even the head of the most corrupt and incompetent organisation in the world is now publicly acknowledging the problems in Istanbul. Meanwhile the deafening silence from MCFC continues.
Inhumane treatment. I am amazed there wasn’t a riot.They put on a fans park at Yenikapi with drinks available then ask people to go without a bog break for up to 3 hours to get to the ground.
Our group has a scale of 1-10, 1 being we don’t need a piss to 10 which is the one before you piss yourself. We were all 9’s and 10’s when we got to the ground, many fans got off buses to have a roadside slash. Young disabled wheelchair user on our bus, shouted for a break after an hour, driver wouldn’t have heard him but I felt so sorry for him.
If this was the dippers it would have kicked off
Wembley and Munich will run perfectly and that is the problem. Everyone will pat themselves on the back, huge bonuses will be paid and then we move onto Azerbajan or Malta followed by Philadelphia.The main reason I didnt go was I wasnt prepared to pay so much to be treated like dirty I was also aware of the stadium and paying to watch a football match in a stadium with an athletics track isnt for me, a match that is the pinnacle of world football should be played in a top notch football stadium UEFA has strict regulations for their events and this didnt even meet those. The venue was chosen pre-covid and UEFA clearly had to fulfil their obligations.
UEFA should contract the event to a company who specialize in these type of events regardless of the country it is held in, there are plenty of them about and they should have 100% responsibility for all aspects with penalty clauses for any issues. UEFA should have a fans charter with a promise that includes compensation.
Čeferin has a least acknowledged the problem, yes, the term "not everything was perfect" is political speak, hopefully he will ensure that Istanbul and Paris never happen again, he now has one chance to get it right, he's lucky because Wembley and Munich are the next locations and hopefully things should be "perfect" not withstanding what happened at the Euro Finals
Should have said there would be a bus to pick him up but not only would it sit in an airport car park for 45 minutes, nobody would tell him where the bus is, the driver won’t know the way, no water on board and the heating would be turned up to replicate 30 degrees. And it will be a two hour drive to do 12 miles. Meanwhile not a peep from City about what a shit show it was. Maybe the 1894, OSC and City Matters can write to the club asking where the compensation is and why did they allow fans to be put in jeopardy. Why were no warnings given?Im assuming Ceferin arrived at Manchester airport..... Could he not have been told he had to walk to the conference in the City Centre?
Wembley and Munich will run perfectly and that is the problem. Everyone will pat themselves on the back, huge bonuses will be paid and then we move onto Azerbajan or Malta followed by Philadelphia.
I am sick of them getting it wrong, sick of fans being an after thought and pissed off with City for saying nowt.