RichardDunneOwnGoal
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I don't agree, there's been plenty of discontent about the continued prices increases. What there has been however has been a continued kind of self-policing from a vocal, but minority, section of our support who browbeat anyone who was critical of these increases. The increases could always be rationalised some way or another, they could always be justified by the investment poured into the club, the quality of the squad, the 'price of success' etc. There was always that taboo of not wishing to be perceived as ungrateful for our present fortunes made possible by that investment, and the turnaround we've made as a club as a result of it, via criticism of actions the club take from then on.
It's almost as if the people who argue those points are arguing that we are now legitimate passive observers, that we've ceded any voice in the club's future; that the rag's corporate whore model we once derided was actually the ticket, and we're right to now mirror it as best we can.
Thankfully however people are beginning to see through all that nonsense, and more and more blues are having no qualms raising their displeasure about this issue, but if it's left untackled for much longer people like Soriano and Tom Glick will see us as the passive and weak mugs we clearly must appear to them as. And with that will come more increases, a further regression towards becoming the sellout we once derided United as being.
Everyone recognises the nature of the modern game as it is, but with the way the game'ss changing match day revenue is becoming an increasingly insignificant fraction of a top club's revenue - the standard, non corporate, seating in particular. There is no justification for any further increases, none. There's a perfectly valid argument that we should see decreases.
If these increases continue it will leave permanent scars on our support. Every other day you read on here about people becoming increasingly dillusioned with City due to this specific issue, of season ticket holders of decades calling time on their attendance.
We have to be vocal about this, and you're in a position where you could hold real influence and utilise it for genuine good if you had the will mate.
I appreciate you might have more going on in your life at present, but it's something worth thinking about and I hope you do.
At the very least don't allow the invitations to black tie events from the club to cloud that fundamental reality that you're one of us. For all the stick we give the dippers, at least they stick together, and look after their own.