Correct. The football really was shit during the lockdowns and no fans attended.
City won the Premier League, EFL Cup and lost in the Champions League final (our first ever one) and it was all just a bit more exciting than a few games of televised draughts would be.
Football without fans is nothing. Yet football clubs up and down England are trying to squeeze out the people who make the sport what it is.
Someone on this thread has given some other examples of other clubs’ increases for next season; maybe it’s time we all pulled together, instead of rivals, as one big fanbase across the country to protest to all the clubs?
Fans should unite on this but they won't. As you rightly say football was shit without fans during the lockdowns and all is we heard was how important and valued the fans are. What a load of utter shite. Maybe it's time we reminded them. A day of action nationwide. Everybody don't attend the first game of the season. That would be the most effective day, all the build up and excitement of the new season hyped up by sky etcetera......then empty seats and terraces everywhere, maybe protests outside. Sadly, just like the country, people won't stick together and therefore will continue to get screwed.