When Is The Club Going To Stop Selling Tickets In The Home End To Away Fans?

[threespires]

City head of security has no interest in keeping City fans safe, thats obvious from a number of incidents over recent years, hes much keener on throwing out / banning City fans , he literally boasts about the high number of fans he bans and throws out

If a fan gets hurt in a fracas involving away fans in the home stands I don't see how the club isn't liable; they must have a duty of care and they seem to very visibly breach their own security policies on a regular basis. Might take someone suing the club to make them pay attention, they wouldn't win given the mismatched resources but might generate enough publicity to make them take it seriously.

 

[give it to gordon]

I don't think they want to draw attention to the fact that we have so many fans who won't attend CL games for whatever reason.

I don't attend because of cost post covid. Use to do about 3 or 4 CL games before covid. The cost of everything has gone thought the roof lately, hotel rooms, travel, days of work, price of tickets.

We didn't qualifie for last seasons RM tie. So now CL games are out of the frame for us

It now seems the club want us to spend a small fortune on the less glamorous ties to be able to apply for the bigger games.

 

[daveyboybluemoon]

I came back a bit late after half time and there were half a dozen Feyenord fans blocking my way to 209, singing their songs. I walked through them chanting City. No big deal

The stewards must have been aware of this and many other issues.

Is this the area they have to give to the away team for UEFA matches? or is that the other side of the ground?

"Premium seating in between the 18 yard box and the half way line" might explain it?

I got in the ground early last night and about 7:30ish a pissed Feyenoord fan turned up in 314/315, identified by waving his scarf everywhere (wasn't even half and half) and talking to the away end and other blues.

To be fair to the stewards as soon as they saw him they called for the stewards in the bright yellow to remove him which they did within 5/10 minutes. The issue was, given I and everyone else had to undo my coat when being searched to get in last night, how was someone that pissed with a Feyenoord scarf on (and i doubt he was being subtle about it) allowed in?

 

[Cellarite]

I've seen more and more that the club don't give a fuck about our loyal support ever since the introduction of selling loyalty points with season tickets. That was so wrong on the club's part and morally wrong of everyone who paid extra to gain (not earn) loyalty points.

Against Celtic in the group stage, I attempted to buy tickets with my long term membership. The lad on the phone said there was a fault and I'd have to open a new membership account which I did and bought the tickets. When I got to the turnstiles, my tickets were refused so I went to the ticket office to be told that my tickets had been cancelled due to having no ticket purchase history. I was told, and I quote, that I was "a security risk".

Luckily, my Dad wasn't at the game and I was able to move to another window and buy tickets on his account. I made my way through groups of Celtic fans who were abusive to City fans and openly singing IRA songs and got in the ground about 10 minutes after kick off. When Celtic scored, pockets of the scruffs were jumping up and celebrating all around us.

Against Young Boys, we all saw the firework display. It was ridiculous that a group of supporters were able to get that amount of pyros into the stadium. My daughter was almost hit by a coin thrown from the away end. A boy of around 9/10 was hit in the ribs by a coin. An elderly gent was taken out with blood pouring from a cut on his head where a coin had hit him. He was the only person I saw escorted out of the stadium.

Against Copenhagen, me and my lad were stood near the away fans. They were holding their phones up with pictures of oil cans on them, throwing coins and spitting over the segregation. Me and the lad responded by holding up our phones with pictures of Brondby's badge on. A police officer immediately came to tell us that if we did anything else to incite the away fans, we'd be thrown out and banned. My lad tried to reason and asked if Copenhagen fans were allowed to throw objects, spit at us and do the same thing that we were doing. The copper replied "They don't want to watch the next match here but you do."

Last night, we were about 6 seats away from where the trouble started in block 111. A Feyenoord fan outed himself when they scored their first. A young City fan confronted him (OTT in my opinion) and wouldn't let it go until the Dutch bloke moved. I might be wrong but it looked like an older City fan went over to try and resolve the situation and it seemed like he would be allowed to climb over into the away end. As he stood on a seat, he appeared to slip and the young blue and a few others threw a couple of digs at him. That sparked the away end into action and they stormed the police line almost breaking through it a number of times.

By now, coins, lighters, vapes, lagers, seats and other objects were being thrown into 111 constantly. I saw a Feyenoord fan stood on his seat showing a City fan two miniature bottles and telling them he was going to throw them into 111. He stayed on his seat whilst he necked one of the bottles - a whisky miniature. One of his cronies spent part of the first half stood on his seat openly drinking lager and smoking a large joint. My eldest lad was hit by two vapes and my younger lad hit by a pound coin. We just about dodged 3 fifty pence coins so could barely look away from them for our own safety.

I went down to a steward and a police officer about the glass bottles and pointed out the fan who had them. The police officer radioed someone but fuck all was done.

The safety of City fans is being compromised almost on a weekly basis and until someone is seriously hurt, not a finger will be lifted to change it.

The club don't give a single fuck. They will continue to charge us as much as they think is possible to wring out of us. The ticket office will continue to be a clusterfuck. Season tickets will be phased out in a constant quest to find "supporters" who are likely to spend more. Fanzone fucking Danny will continue to patronise fellow blues because "I'm alright Jack", away tickets will continue to be sold to people who have never attended a City match.

I'd dearly love to see our fans boycott a cup match and put fuck all into the coffers. Let those in charge see what they are doing. Piss poor gate receipts and really empty stands. I'd love to see this done nationwide but it won't happen because unlike German football fans, we are a nation who bends over and spreads their collective arse cheeks.

 

[wolfie1988]

For all the social media presence City fans have no one seems willing to call this out on those platforms

Cheeseman, Steven Mcwhatever, Big Steve, the McfcLads etc

They should be mentioning it more

The middle two are on the clubs payroll and frequent Matchday Live at time. They are never going to criticise their paymasters

 

[Stephen Ireland's pants]

Fucking joke tonight. Gangs of school kids wearing every top through the premier league. Squealing when they scored in the East stand.

I would imagine the school kids being there is linked to some element of city going into schools as they do at my daughters. I won't go too much into the politics of it but it doesn't matter who you support. A certain element of kid's in her year spend all day Wednesday having a sports/play day and are often rewarded with tickets and city traininggear . It's nailed on the same kids every week and if your not causing trouble at school you don't get that privilege/reward. The criteria to get these tickets at my daughters school is definitely not a high bar .

You cannot beat paying loads for your ticket to be surrounded by loads of non City kids at a champions league game, none knowing where they are sat, up and down every five minutes,hardly any interest in the game. I fully understand why people are walking away

 

[BlueRockape]

Possibly when it kicks off good style

 

[David White]

what a group of 10 stone wet throughs dealing with it. The club don't give a fuck, Soriano has turned our ground into a theme park, so much so the experience is monumentally shite, but not content with that, they have also turned our peak away games into a theme park, our identity has been eroded to the point of no return. Season tickets unavailable for the next generation, tickets prices that are comparable to London, add in the fact there seems to be a game every 4 days the whole thing is unsustainable. From 2012 City had the opportunity to grab the lions share of the local support and secure the clubs future support for generations, instead their eyes lit up and saw pound signs and they target everyone except whom they should, the biggest irony is ticketing makes up about 10% of our revenue

Spot on mate. This is mainly due to the fact that they employ people with no connection or affiliation to the club. They’re tenure as ceo/head of this that and the other is short and they want to make a splash.

They genuinely don’t give a fuck about who has been there for the club or what has happened before they arrived. It will bite them on the arse when the internet driven football tourists fuck off and start watching tennis or something.

They did it at Barcelona their ground is either empty or rammed full of twats wanting to take pictures in half and half scarfs. For all the good the takeover has done and the memories it has created for actual fans there’s a hell of a lot of things they’ve absolutely ruined.

 

[David White]

Always dipper fans at the back of CBL3.

I think that was Eintract Frankfurt, they took about 30,000, mental.

They did it at Arsenal too didn’t they? All wearing white tops

 

[DD]

Wouldn't it be better if everybody could just grow up and tolerate people supporting another club? I go to many games in Germany and see away fans in home ends all the time without there being a problem.