Falling Star said:City and the COMS has all this pleasure to come when you finally land some silverware!
Family-friendly stadia and prices to match, higher expectations and impatience, global marketing and bigger club profile, more regular tv exposure and regular foreign away trips... all these beautiful things will soon come to a stadium near you and then you will have a battle on to retain your identity and keep the gold-digging, day-tripping, glory-hunters at bay
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Corky said:Falling Star said:City and the COMS has all this pleasure to come when you finally land some silverware!
Family-friendly stadia and prices to match, higher expectations and impatience, global marketing and bigger club profile, more regular tv exposure and regular foreign away trips... all these beautiful things will soon come to a stadium near you and then you will have a battle on to retain your identity and keep the gold-digging, day-tripping, glory-hunters at bay
Trust me on this
Already happens on a small scale, the Premier League being beamed everywhere helps make it worse (even though there were games shown abroad before the PL). Hopefully it will stay cheap enough (6% reduction next year) so the real fans can keep their season cards and the football tourists struggle to get in.
Rags have been struggling to sell tickets for there cup games, seems the credit crunch affects everyone then!Falling Star said:True, Utd used their corporate 'fans' well in the beginning but now they can afford to piss as many fans off as they want, eg: automatic cup scheme etc, and they almost always sell out but then they are being very successful at the moment so its easier for them. Wembley is doing the same as we can see from the huge gaps of empty expensive seats in the half time interval and afterwards. Its sometimes hard to plan for the winter when everything is rosy in the garden....
Nothing wrong with football tourists matey...Corky said:Falling Star said:City and the COMS has all this pleasure to come when you finally land some silverware!
Family-friendly stadia and prices to match, higher expectations and impatience, global marketing and bigger club profile, more regular tv exposure and regular foreign away trips... all these beautiful things will soon come to a stadium near you and then you will have a battle on to retain your identity and keep the gold-digging, day-tripping, glory-hunters at bay
Trust me on this
Already happens on a small scale, the Premier League being beamed everywhere helps make it worse (even though there were games shown abroad before the PL). Hopefully it will stay cheap enough (6% reduction next year) so the real fans can keep their season cards and the football tourists struggle to get in.
100% correct.Falling Star said:City and the COMS has all this pleasure to come when you finally land some silverware!
Family-friendly stadia and prices to match, higher expectations and impatience, global marketing and bigger club profile, more regular tv exposure and regular foreign away trips... all these beautiful things will soon come to a stadium near you and then you will have a battle on to retain your identity and keep the gold-digging, day-tripping, glory-hunters at bay
Trust me on this