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

Cellarite said:
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.
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I stayed on Gold out of principle and now have dropped right down the pecking order. I know lads that don't ever go but have got three times as many points as me for the one or two games per season they want to attend. I go to every home game although I wish I could fuck the CL off but its a srug watching this club. I'm 59 and the family have 4 season tickets for almost 30 yrs, having had mine personally since 1977.

100% agree with everything you've wrote. Fuck that Erling Haaland three times over the tannoy shit off everytime he scores as well.
 
Blue2112 said:
I stayed on Gold out of principle and now have dropped right down the pecking order. I know lads that don't ever go but have got three times as many points as me for the one or two games per season they want to attend. I go to every home game although I wish I could fuck the CL off but its a srug watching this club. I'm 59 and the family have 4 season tickets for almost 30 yrs, having had mine personally since 1977.

100% agree with everything you've wrote. Fuck that Erling Haaland three times over the tannoy shit off everytime he scores as well.
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Yesterday, not even that. If I am correct, his name was announced only once. :-(
 
Cellarite said:
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.
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Someone has already been seriously hurt.

We played Liverpool in 2022 in the Carabao Cup and a teenage girl was left needing stitches after a pint cup filled with coins was thrown from the Liverpool end above.

City learnt from this and never put away fans above home fans again, not really they don't give a fuck
 
adopted_manc said:
Yesterday, not even that. If I am correct, his name was announced only once. :-(
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I heard it announced once when the teams were read out, I must admit i didn't notice after his 2 goals as I automatically go into hate mode so probably just presumed it was said. Hopefully somebody has told him to stop it.
 
There were stacks in CB level 2 with half and half scarves leaning over singing 'always look on the bright side of life".

Partly due to being an foc and partly because I find the Dutch accent quite comical I didn't really take much offence but if that was one of our "friends" from the PL may well have been very different.
 
BungleBear said:
When we played Schalke away in 2008 there were a lot of visible City fans the home sections either side of the away corner, and they were not treated badly.
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Unlike 2019 where fans were leaving by the same exits and a City fan was nearly killed by a Schalke hoodlum (he was punched and cracked his head on the concrete floor).
 
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Norman kneejerk said:
There were stacks in CB level 2 with half and half scarves leaning over singing 'always look on the bright side of life".

Partly due to being an foc and partly because I find the Dutch accent quite comical I didn't really take much offence but if that was one of our "friends" from the PL may well have been very different.
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The Dutch sound funny because they have childhood soft palate trauma' I like the Dutch but get the idea that in their own language they sound scouse.
 
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