The "Match day Experience"

Eccles Blue said:
I go to watch a football match, I'm not that interested in anything but the game. I'll have a chat to those beside me if I'm early but the football is it for me.
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Well i dont think them views will go down well with the money making men upstairs lol.
On one hand we have fans who pay fortunes to get wined and dined then on the other .fans have to join large queues to get in and get a drink .and then get moaned at for standing up .sign of progress i suppose
 
I got the match going bug as a little kid standing on the terraces in the 80's and early 90's
The unpredictability such as will we win or lose tonight?
To where will we end up once the crowd starts swaying?
The banter amongst men, the feeling that this was unrestricted, a way in which we could escape from reality and just focus on the football.

All this has been replaced by corporate shite, predictable sales spiel with most people sat down, all middle class types being well behaved, fearful of being watched by the cctv control room.
Being pestered by showsick monkeys wondering which seat you are in, making sure you're not sneaking into another block with your mates.
Other blocks being pestered to sit down constantly throughout the match and it doesn't matter if you've been a life long blue, some spotty faced showsick cretin will have you banned for life.

Dancing robots aside, City Square is decent and I applaud the club for this however the way in which the "common" supporter is treated these days is fucking shit.
I'm only here it seems out of habit.
I ain't enjoying the stadium and this is primarily down to the over policing, theatre-like experience with most people sat down in silence.

I'm often asking myself - why don't I just watch the matches from home?
It seems the club want this anyway, I genuinely feel they want us (long term match goers) out so they can free up more space for the corporate and daytripper brigade who would fly with Etihad, stay in the soon to be built hotels on the campus and so on.
 
The actual 'experience' at the ground, rather than anything to do with the match, is worse than it was three years ago.
Getting to the ground is more difficult
Now difficult to get in City Square unless you get there more than an hour before kick off
Queuing to get into the ground has knocked on the head the cheeky pint 20 mins before kick off in the bars near the TVs
Queuing to get in is a complete shambles and a ball ache
Getting a pint before kick off is difficult but not impossible, unlike half time where I've not managed to get a pint since the beginning of the added capacity in 2014.
Showsec making up rules as they go along to create confrontation
The moody and mean men in black patrolling in line putting the fear of God into punters
Removing groups of fans/friends with little notice

Dependent on what happens to my seat next year and where I'm relocated to I may just sack it all off.
Alternatively buy a cheap seat and just go to the away games.
 
It's all about the game for me when I am watching my team I could be at maine Rd or the etihad I get that absorbed in the game.
The other stuff I can take or leave some good some bad still not got a good place to drink before game, we come from Warrington now so it's car in Park up and walk to game would love to go in town before but there never seems time, I now take my 2 grandson's with my daughter and wife so it's always fun with them, so to generally answer the question yes my match day experience has changed from 20 years ago as my life has changed, most for the good a little for the bad.
 
I'm not sure that any matchday experience that includes getting cavity searched and DNA tested before you're allowed in can really be called "improved".
 
PistonBlue said:
My matchday experience is dependent entirely on the football
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For us it's all about the matchday experience.
From closing our front door to reopening it six hours later.
The crack and banter with with an ever increasing circle of friends.
The pre-game drinks leading to the culmination of the match win draw or lose.
The after match scoops and then the journey back home.
The settling back to watch on TV in finer detail.
Analising the unanalisable with a pause fast forward and rewind facilitation.
A trip to the Moon to see who is happy and who is not.
It's definitely the full matchday package for us.
 
Love the Etihad
Love the football

Hate the prices for anything to eat or drink in the stadium
Hate the way people keep repeating the myth Maine road was a buzzing atmosphere every game
Hate the fact that the Council from next season are making it so difficult for me, an out of towner, to attend a match
 
The Pink Panther said:
Love the Etihad
Love the football

Hate the prices for anything to eat or drink in the stadium
Hate the way people keep repeating the myth Maine road was a buzzing atmosphere every game
Hate the fact that the Council from next season are making it so difficult for me, an out of towner, to attend a match
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How's that mate, how are they making it difficult ?
 
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