That’s a good point. I wondered why this (an insignificant thing, really) of all the shit we’ve got in the media, would be the thing that City lodge a complaint about… but it makes sense now!I thnk the poster who mentioned earlier about our sponsor, Etihad, being the butt of the quip as much as City, is spot on.
Very dense of Beglin to think that nobody connected with Etihad would be watching the game on BEIN, and not feel his little joke could damage the brand.
City may have let it go, but the expectation for a major brand sponsor and long term partner will be for us to highlight it lest it damage their brand.
A concept lost on so many rags and dippers.Going to the game is a big part of the answer because that’s what a passionate fan base does. Not every fan to every game of course.
I don’t worry about the other Clubs or a few empty seats. I just like to see good support for the lads at the match.
Our support IS very good, you can laugh all you want.Hahahahahaha. Lolololol
Plus the small matter of Covid unless the ridiculous remarks about the club being somehow devious in allegedly NOT getting it includes fans not getting it as well.Agree.
Every club has the same problem with empty seats and atmosphere. As Gorton says its only City that this is pointed out plus our transfer fees. That's why Beglin said it, it's now subconsciously in their minds. Commentators have called us utd on tv, happens more than I would like. The press/media keep saying utd are in Manchester clearly a lie.
It is now becoming very expensive to get tomatches with higher petrol costs, household cost, food, heating etc the premier inn for midweek games lol.
Did you see the post earlier when our own Trev called Liverpool ‘the dippers’? Should he have got sacked?
The answer, as with Beglin, is no.
I have been saying as much to a Dipper this morning. I noticed on MOTF that each time the Dippers got a corner in the first half of their game against Brentford, there was a sizeable group of empty seats.A concept lost on so many rags and dippers.
There's a simple solution to your ire.This is the thing. It was a PLP broadcast shown across the globe. Such defamatory remarks are taken in by the audience and taken as gospel. You only have to look at the replies to any City article on twitter from people in Scandinavia to Africa to Australia, all repeating the same Emptihad, no fans, plastic fans and they really do believe it.