The Creeping Gentrification of City

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[kevodevo]

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.

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.

no but it's implied

 

[cibaman]

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.

no but it's implied

He does seem to have a thing against Guardian readers, which could be taken two ways. An aversion to readers of left of centre papers or an aversion to non Sun readers. Personally I hope Polly Toynbee doesn't become a City fan.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

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.

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.

Let's have it right while we're at it! They've gotta have blue eyes as well. I'm in!

 

[ManCitizens.]

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.

Surely if your not a "new" fan you will have more than 4-5k points and will get a ticket anyway.

Also, without sounding to harsh, do you not know how to plan ahead? The FA Cup scheme cost me about £65 in total for the 3 games, and £50 for the semi. You are paying £500 (so you say) for one ticket whilst I get 4 tickets for 1/5 of the price. I'm guessing in last years derby (FA Cup) you also paid £45 whilst I enjoyed a £15 ticket?

You're mistake i'm afraid.

Edit: just saw that you have 3500 points, that should be enough.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

So effectively the op is bemoaning his short-sightedness in not signing up for either the cup scheme or having loyalty points,then has a vague class war rant at anyone who reads the Guardian?
I believe this is an example of the free market economy and capitalism in practice.
It's a system we've had for quite a while now,and I don't see it changing anytime soon.

 

[ManCitizens.]

So effectively the op is bemoaning his short-sightedness in not signing up for either the cup scheme or having loyalty points,then has a vague class war rant at anyone who reads the Guardian?
I believe this is an example of the free market economy and capitalism in practice.
It's a system we've had for quite a while now,and I don't see it changing anytime soon.

Exactly, he could have saved himself £400 and gone to an extra 3 games if he went on the cup scheme.

 

[bluehousemusic]

Got a few family members who've had season tickets for years. One of them is well on the ball, who like me was in all 3 cup schemes.

One of the others had never previously enrolled on the cup scheme. Until I pointed out that although he might be ok for a Semi final ticket, he probably wouldn't get one for the Final.

Net result of this conversation, him and his mates all enrolled. All have attended every home FA cup game, all are eligible for tickets for the Semi & the Final if we get there.

If we get to the final, unfortunately I can see a lot of disappointed blues with thousands of points, but no ticket.

If we get to the final and play Wigan then there will be 1000's of tickets available in the "neutral" areas of the stadium that will be a be available, ok some will come with a price, but if we play Wigan, any blue who wants to be at that game, will get the chance to get to the game

 

[mancitymick]

Banging head against a brick wall. The lessons of the cup scheme and its advantages was there for all to see when we played Nited in the Semi-Final two years back.

 

[Harvster]

We used to park on Santiago Street