FootballSense
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- 29 Sep 2014
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I am not "happy" with any increase for anything in life however there may be many ways in which the extra income can be used. And, of course, the increase does not correlate to better team performances. It is though more understandable when City have just won 5 (or 6) trophies in 2 years and broken almost every record in the books whilst playing great football.
For eaxample, there are lots of `free` activities that City arrange for local children and groups which you or I may not participate in but play an important part in community relations and future support generation. The club has to arrange these and pay for them. There are a huge amount of off the field activities, day and night that the club leads the way in.
Similarly, like you, I do not need the tin in which the seasoncard arrives. I understand why it is open to question. However, instead I gave it to an old bloke who I got chatting to at my Mum`s sheltered housing accommodation who turned out to be a big Blue who watched all the games on TV. He in turn gave it to his grandson who was chuffed to bits with it - now he uses it as a pencil case and has it on his desk at school displaying the big City badge. Times change. I scribbled on the side of my cloth one with Bell, Lee, Summerbee etc.
I agree, the frustration is the apparently relatively small amount to be generated compared with what appears to be wasted money across the CFG, when a lot of goodwill could have been garnered by keeping prices at the current levels.
My earlier point though remains, we have the most able and stable top management in world football - Chairman, CEO, Director of Football and Coach. They are human and therfore imperfect but who else would any of us prefer?
