The Creeping Gentrification of City

[Tim of the Oak]

I agree, admission to City games should be soley reserved for working class men in their 40s and 50s. Any under 30s who go to away games and are on the cup scheme should have to prove their working class credentials by filling out a questionaire asking where they were born, brought up, went to school, work, shop, drink. Anyone who shops at Waitrose and drinks imported Japenese beer should face an automatic ban, Fletcher could send them a letter.

Then we'll ban all the accountants and solicitors, and guarantee tickets for all the factory workers and labourers. Then for the people in the middle - the lower paid office jobs and higher paid tradesmen, maybe we could have some kind of Battle Royale to decide who's hardest? Only the strong survive and get a ticket?

They could stage a running battle with weapons at City Square before a big game. It would really add to the "match day experience" and we could stream it live on mcfc.co.uk, charge a quid per view, should help with FFP. I bet our twitter and facebook followers would double, especially in the lucrative Far-East market, they love a bit of blood sport.

he hasnt said that or sounded like that. He makes a good point with regards to paying for season tickets and the distrbution of semi final tickets.

Any point the OP was making got lost among the inverted snobbery, which is just as bad as the other kind IMO.

I thought it was a description of Arsenal. That said my padded seat is wasted on me because my arse is fat enough for cushioning.

I agree with Santiago that plans for parts of the ground (i.e. Level 2) are pro commercial types and anti traditional Blues. Equally, the good prices for cup games is introducing a new generation of Blues, no doubt following in the footsteps of their families.

Trust in the Sheikh and Khaldoon

 

[Davs 19]

We now support a club that let's people buy loyalty. Sad, but that's the modern game.

 

[Blue2112]

Here's my gripe for what its worth.

Ive got a mate who hasn't been to an away game since the late 80's early 90's where as I and my daughters have only stopped going to away games the past two seasons, but like myself he has been a season ticket holder in that time. He could afford to go on the cup scheme happy in the knowledge he had the money in the bank for whenever it was required to pay for the tickets. I unfortunately couldn't guarantee the money would be available on whatever day it would be needed. In the past two years he's got cup tickets on the scheme but not gone to the game whereas I've bought my tickets outside of the cup scheme and been to the various rounds. He bought Platinum as he could afford it whereas we bought Gold. He gets his ticket this week whereas i'm sat twiddling my thumbs gambling on the points going as low as my youngest daughters points otherwise its ITV for us.

 

[Corky]

The cup scheme tickets are a lot cheaper than final and semi tickets.

The cat 1 ticket for just the semi is more expensive than the FA cup scheme was on its own this season.

 

[CC1]

I pay about £650 for my ST, don't go away much, aint a points whore so I bought gold not platinum and as such I only have about 3500 points.

How fucking poor is it that people in my boat who've forked out £650 aren't guaranteed a semi final ticket yet some little spoilt Hooray Henry who's been to 1 or 2 games where he spends most of his time playing on his ipod can jump the queue based on nothing more than some marketing exec's plan to "enhance the brand" by attracting bourgeois parents prepared to overindulge their offspring to the nth degree. So I'll have to splurge probably the best part of £500 sorting a ticket for the semi and god willing the final

Plenty of people bigging up City's role in the community, funding colleges, building footy pitches in East LA (ffs) etc but as the old adage goes charity begins at home which in a football club's case should mean the fans who've been there through the hard times. I'm lucky that I can afford to pay over the odds occasionally for special occasions but how many thousands of dyed in the wool blues are there who are missing out on the glory days by what seems like an almost deliberate campaign to ostracise working class fans from City

People will no doubt counter with the old "our prices are amongst the cheapest in the PL" argument. The cheapest Bentley in the showroom is still fucking dear.

Sort it out City before we have a ground full of chablis sipping, Leica clicking, Guardian reading consumers, there only to be entertained. And people wonder why the atmosphere's bobbins these days.

Sorry mate, I have to ask, how many seasons have you paid for a season ticket? The platinum season ticket has only been going for a couple of years so it's not just down to this that you haven't got enough points. There are thousands of city fans who have had season tickets for years who witnessed crap football year after year and who DO go to away games in all weathers and even went to YORK away!! It is these fans that are, quite justifiably preventing those with only 3500 points going to Wembley!!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I agree, admission to City games should be soley reserved for working class men in their 40s and 50s.

There were never any middle class people at City when I was stood on the Kippax in the 80's and 90's.

Apart from me, obviously.

I felt like Robinson Crusoe at times.

 

[alib]

Keep hearing everyone with a ST will get a ticket so why do the kids thing anyway?

Surely parents will be able to get one if they wait til the points reach Johnies level.

Anyway I'm 'live' tomorrow so I'm not that fussed but the OP makes good points.

Well said

If parents wanted to ensure their kids got Wembley tickets they should have signed them up for the FA Cup scheme?

 

[Corky]

Keep hearing everyone with a ST will get a ticket so why do the kids thing anyway?

Surely parents will be able to get one if they wait til the points reach Johnies level.

Anyway I'm 'live' tomorrow so I'm not that fussed but the OP makes good points.

Well said

If parents wanted to ensure their kids got Wembley tickets they should have signed them up for the FA Cup scheme?

I bet most did - same goes for adults too.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

I agree, admission to City games should be soley reserved for working class men in their 40s and 50s.

There were never any middle class people at City when I was stood on the Kippax in the 80's and 90's.

Apart from me, obviously.

I felt like Robinson Crusoe at times.

It was dress down Saturday in the 90s though.

I have a City lambs wool jumper so does that qualify me as a Hooray Henry?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I have a City lambs wool jumper so does that qualify me as a Hooray Henry?

Given the fact that some on here laughably describe me as "posh" I reckon in their eyes, it makes you a fully paid up member of the Bullingdon Club.

This wasn't you on the left the day you signed up for Junior Blues was it?