Pep’s Spurs (H) Post-Match Interview

[urban genie]

Pricing out the fans.
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Now I am sure this is true but what fans are being priced out?

people who go occasionally and pay premium?

And I know some are, I have friend who had had to stop his season tickets for finacial reasons, and could only do 4-5 games aseason after, but many fans are long term and ther season cards are passed on or they pay for their childrens cards the idea the next genreation are being exclduded has be said since I first went in the late 80s

Because near me the fans are the same ones who have been there 10 years + and stand and sing and none booed.

plenty of the 39000 season ticket holders back the team every home game and it seem disengenous

this myth no one under 40 can get a home ticket is bollocks as is that we were previously a loud and chanting fanbase, the kippax was deathly silent many a time a season bar the area near the cage.

nothing has changed for 30 years atmosphere wise we just win stuff now, and we are easier to be criticised for not being vocal

 

[Cricket Blue]

What does playing with flowers meant to mean?
I don't get it

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Now I am sure this is true but what fans are being priced out?

people who go occasionally and pay premium?

Because near me the fans are the same ones who have been there 10 years + and stand and sing and none booed.

plenty of the 39000 season ticket holders back the team every home game and it seem disengenous

this myth no one under 40 can get a home ticket is bollocks as is that we were previously a loud and chanting fanbase, the kippax was deathly silent many a time a season bar the area near the cage.

nothing has changed for 30 years atmosphere wise we just win stuff now, and we are easier to be criticised for not being vocal

As long as day trippers keep rocking up and spending £100 in the club shop, Soriano will be happy. The same day trippers who sport half and half scarves and film the match on their phones.

Us ‘legacy fans’ are dispensable. But that comes at its own price - a muted atmosphere. Not sure if that’s lost on Pep or not.

 

[urban genie]

As long as day trippers keep rocking up and spending £100 in the club shop, Soriano will be happy. The same day trippers who sport half and half scarves and film the match on their phones.

Us ‘legacy fans’ are dispensable. But that comes at its own price - a muted atmosphere. Not sure if that’s lost on Pep or not.

I am a legacy fan and have no issie with day trippers tbh

although half and half scarf wearers deserve death by torture ;-)

 

[GaudinoMotors]

I remember sitting in the Platt Lane, Main Stand and the North Stand, way back when, with the so called Legacy Fans. Hardly a vociferous bunch then.
We seem to have ye olde blue tinted specs (hearing aids) on. The Kippax had it's moments - when it was a standing area, but not so much different to the south Stand now.

 

[Paul1970]

100% correct

He’ll not be here much longer if the fire doesn’t return from players and fans I’m sure

Think he will but sone if the players won’t . Gundo is going Bernardo is going cancelo I think will go Walker is nearing the end kdb is starting to decline aswell so I think in the sumner we will start to see a revamp in midfield and younger faster players coming in and they will be hungry to win titles . Haaland will go on a run now I think aswell.

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

I am a legacy fan and have no issie with day trippers tbh

although half and half scarf wearers deserve death by torture ;-)

Haha agreed. I’ve no issue with the day trippers as people, I just take issue with the club’s approach.

We’re being called out for being shit and subjected to (even more) ridicule, but the club charged £68 for a Thursday night game that was on telly. During a cost of living crisis.

If Pep wants a tinder box atmosphere he needs to tap his mates in the boardroom on the shoulder.

 

[jrb]

Now I am sure this is true but what fans are being priced out?

people who go occasionally and pay premium?

And I know some are, I have friend who had had to stop his season tickets for finacial reasons, and could only do 4-5 games aseason after, but many fans are long term and ther season cards are passed on or they pay for their childrens cards the idea the next genreation are being exclduded has be said since I first went in the late 80s

Because near me the fans are the same ones who have been there 10 years + and stand and sing and none booed.

plenty of the 39000 season ticket holders back the team every home game and it seem disengenous

this myth no one under 40 can get a home ticket is bollocks as is that we were previously a loud and chanting fanbase, the kippax was deathly silent many a time a season bar the area near the cage.

nothing has changed for 30 years atmosphere wise we just win stuff now, and we are easier to be criticised for not being vocal

You obviously haven't followed or read the ticket price thread. Numerous people posted they and their kids were priced out of last night's match. City fans who can't get sold out season tickets, but still want to go to the matches.

 

[John Wayne]

We have become the very thing we despise, local working class fans priced out and replaced by Johnny foreigners who seems to have unlimited cash but are not going to sing their hearts out for the lads.A Group of ‘Soccer’ fans at my work UsA decided to go and watch English premier league games this weekend and got four very expensive tickets for Arsenal v Rags and four slightly less expensive Palace v Barcodes, money money money

We average nearly 20,000 more than we did 20 years ago. We've never really been a 50k+ sort of club until fairly recently. To fill our ground, we have to get fans from somewhere. Whilst the notion that we price out young people may be true, it's certainly not unique to City. Why is it we have a loud away following? These people can afford to go to home and away matches so I'm not entirely sure there is a correlation between affluence and atmosphere.

I think it's just down to the fact that society has changed and the people who go are absorbed in watching a more technical and better standard of football played on the ground.

 

[jrb]

Seeing more Hong Kongers at the Etihad. Loads have moved and are still moving to Manchester from Hong Kong after China took over Hong Kong and cracked down on democracy and free speech.