It's right to have a beef. Because it's not just about how supporters are treated it's about the club we care about. Businesses that get complacent run into trouble. It bears repeating - when we were kids the idea that people wouldn't be buying print newspapers, records or going to the cinema would have been unthinkable. Fashions change, something comes along to disrupt the business model and suddenly the party's over. The PL has to do more to recognise the fact this is not a country where living standards are rising fast. Many folk are going to be poorer than their parents' generation and there are many other distractions to compete for time over time and money than PL football. Even if you're doing alright, taxes are only going one way. There's already lots of kids who may never develop the habit of going. They'll play it, they'll listen to YouTubers chat shit about it, but they haven't developed the attention span to sit in a ground all afternoon. If you break a link between a club and a community, if you price people out and take their loyalty for granted, you don't have a product. Tourists don't want to sit in a ground looking at 60,000 other tourists and they have lots of other things to spend their money on. Captive audiences who provide a recurring income should be cherished.I'll tell you one day. I''ve got a very good example of that.
You only have to look around on a match day to see how our home support has changed, aided by the club and their insatiable drive to increase match day revenues by selling tickets to tourists and day tippers who may not support City. I've never seen anyone I know wearing a half and half scarf, especially for a Manchester derby.
Damned right I've got a beef. So have a lot of other City fans. Is that ok with you? Or should I not be arsed about the way tickets are now being sold, siphoned off, and no new season tickets are being made available by the club? Obviously you couldn't give a shit. That's your choice. Maybe I'm wrong about that?
Hopefully when the North stand is open and there are an additional 8000 seats to fill more legacy City fans will be able to buy those seats? And more season tickets, in whatever shape or form, will be made available for legacy City fans to buy.
And yes, I would put a legacy City fan in-front of a tourist or day tripper, who possibly doesn't support City, anytime when it comes to selling them tickets.
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