Manchester Evening News

[Ric]

Even by their standards, this is a staggeringly poor article:

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The Chelsea game was sold out.

Those empty seats were presumably season ticket holders who couldn't make the game (probably kids given that it was an evening midweek game).

 

[nickson71]

very poor article

 

[Damocles]

That is stunning in it's ignorance. Really, I'm actually stunned that this is printed in a newspaper.

I see the idea of quality control has just disappeared from the MEN

 

[shinpads]

the individual seats they have picked out and circled in red could just be people who have gone for a piss, its not swathes as they seem to think but one or two here ore there. Bandwagon journalism

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I cannot fucking believe I have just read an article by a dorky looking teenager in my local paper where he has drawn rings around half a dozen "Empty" seats for a game which has been sold out for weeks and weeks. Now I've constistently defended the MEN as just a plodding local paper running trite positive stories, but that one is utterly laughable. The type of thing some clueless and biased blogger would write and get 32 views.

Pathetic. Laughable.

 

[dronefromsector7g]

The headline could read 'Photos of the stadium showing when some supporters were having a piss, or absent through holidays/sickness'

 

[chris85mcfc]

Am i right in thinking that they have put up a picture of a part of the stand that has 6 or 7 empty seats in it.

I'm just going to throw it out there, and I know it might sound a bit left-field, but could it be that perhaps one or two had nipped for a slash or up to the bar?

Christ how do they even get the go-ahead to write this garbage.

 

[fiddlesticksblue]

Errm, there does seem to be people in the aisles...maybe they were sat there???

 

[Damocles]

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He's actually defending it.

I cannot believe that that is an article in a paper like the MEN

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

So 500 odd seats scattered around the stadium becomes 'swathes'. The idiot who wrote that garbage needs to invest in a simple Oxford School Dictionary!

Even with a 'full house' there will be gaps. There are endless reasons why fans cannot make a particular game played at 8pm on a Weekday.

Just part and parcel of the Agenda and another example of puffed-up Raggery.