Why??? That has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It's not like Southport is a million miles from Manchester is it?
I’ve no knowledge of this guy’s motivations but I know three separate people who were decades long, season ticket holders at City, who’ve all switched to watching non league live and just watching City on the TV these days.
Had gone to a club where they still have paper tickets?
Was he Geoff Capes ( RIP), cos those fuckers were thick back in the day like a telephone book ;)This for me was an iconic moment for City fans. The guy did what everyone was thinking at the time and couldn't handle watching anymore of our performances.
Does anyone remember it? Does anyone know the guy? Where is he now?
He was told by the club that he could only renew if he produced his previous ticket suitably sellotaped together.Why??? That has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It's not like Southport is a million miles from Manchester is it?
One of our early League Cup Finals.These days after winning everything and due to the rising costs of watching us I can understand it. At the start of our success or even a couple of years into it though,no, it's bizarre. If you were at Maine Road on that dark day, voted quite rightly in my opinion as the worst match in our long history, then cared deeply enough to go onto the pitch and rip your season ticket up in sheer exasperation, it's strange. Of course he may have recently stopped attending, who knows?
I remember asking a guy who sits next to me in the South stand if he was going to Wembley to watch us in the league cup final, one of our early ones. He said no he couldn't be bothered. I was incredulous. After bloody 35 years of mediocrity I was determined to soak up every single minute of the good times.
One of our early League Cup Finals.
1970/1974/1976 ??
good hustle, I seem to recall the colour of the books changed each season??Those old season ticket books were used for my first ever side hustle, as a young ‘entrepreneur’
Me and my mate would keep all the old books from previous years and as he lived local, he’d nip down to the ground a few hours before each match to see which number they were using. We’d go through all the old books to see if that number was unused from previous years and if not sell them outside the ticket office.
Never had any comeback, so can only assume the gatemen either didn’t notice or didn’t care that they were old tickets.
Club would return it to your Apple WalletTried to rip mine up at the weekend but these modern phones are too strong, bloody Apple!