Worsleyweb
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well i have been to over 200 grounds and attended 1500 games so i think i am a proper football fan. Just don't enjoy Wembley experience hence the thread.
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Who else is Wembleyed out?
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well i have been to over 200 grounds and attended 1500 games so i think i am a proper football fan. Just don't enjoy Wembley experience hence the thread.
Newman Noggs
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I'm not doing F.A. Cup this year. After last years 2 games I was knackered.
I'm 66 now had a bypass 2 years ago.
It's a long long day.
Hopefully I'll be able to do the CL then it'll be time to have a rethink.
I do wonder what the age demographic of our fan-base is because that would affect the club's planning. Bearing in mind we had phenomenal support even when we were shit, I'd imagine that we have a high proportion of "legacy" (ie old) fans like ourselves who are of, or coming up to, "concession" time and are, on average, living longer. Can that be sustainable in terms of the "business" ? I'm not sure.
Manc Born & Bred
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It's a painful experience not helped by shit kick off times and hardly any decent public transport back. If we reach the final we have no idea what time the ko will be. ITV is fucked as they will be showing the rugby union's Champions Cup final which starts at 2.45 and probably won't want that on ITV2 or 4 or even clashing with the FA Cup final so no doubt the final will be at the mercy of the broadcasters again regardless of the fans.
What about if you enjoy it on the telly because you can’t be there. Does that count or are we still not proper fans?If you enjoy it on the telly other than being there you can't be a proper football fan
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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well i have been to over 200 grounds and attended 1500 games so i think i am a proper football fan. Just don't enjoy Wembley experience hence the thread.
Just a completely neutral question. Not getting at you. Did you enjoy the old Wembley more?
5 Hit Gibbon
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In general I love a trip to Wembley to watch City. I will probably avoid the Community Shield in future, as it's just a glorified friendly, but apart from that I would always try and go.
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Hopefully the team and club never get "Wembley out".
Impossible. Teams change. Managers change. Even owners and stadiums change. What's the one thing that remains fairly stable, decade after decade after decade?
Worsleyweb
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Just a completely neutral question. Not getting at you. Did you enjoy the old Wembley more?
Yes i did.
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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I do wonder what the age demographic of our fan-base is because that would affect the club's planning. Bearing in mind we had phenomenal support even when we were shit, I'd imagine that we have a high proportion of "legacy" (ie old) fans like ourselves who are of, or coming up to, "concession" time and are, on average, living longer. Can that be sustainable in terms of the "business" ? I'm not sure.
I think that is precisely the whole thing behind the various acrobatics in recent seasons with the season card (Silver, now Flexi etc.)
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I did but thats just a nod to my youth, the old Wembley ended up being a shithole but i still got off on the history of the place.Just a completely neutral question. Not getting at you. Did you enjoy the old Wembley more?
The new Wembley is just a huge bowl, no character at all, its a very beige stadium.
In saying that, i hope we keep getting to play there regularly ha
HelloCity
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Yes i did.
Do you think you would have if you went there as much as we did to the new one and in such a short space of time?
I only went once, for the play off final, and even as a 14 year old I could see it was an absolute dump.
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Yes i did.
I understand you, but can you expand on that a bit more?
Bar the additional cost at this time of the season, and the faffing about with traveling, delays, etc, it’s the match day experience at Wembley. If people think the match day experience is bad at the Etihad, it’s even worse at Wembley.
OK, my points maybe petty, especially as it’s about watching City at Wembley, but I really detest Wembley, and how fans are managed inside the the stadium.(by the FA) Escalator stewards, stewards walking around the concourses in large groups, why?, the service, the beer quality, the prices, announcements to tell you to get to your seat for kick off, like an announcement you get in an airport for your flight, getting to your seat and finding a little plastic flag placed there for you to be wave, pre-match entertainment, high wire acts, things going on the pitch which I’ve got absolutely no interest in, digital displays of clapping hands on the scoreboards, really annoying music like rocking all over the world being blasted out of the speakers, the national anthem sang by an opera singer drowning the fans out, and just the plasticness of the whole time inside Wembley.
Then you get to the trophy presentation that takes ages, and Instead of letting the fans celebrate vocally with the players, fucking shite music like we are the champions, etc, is pumped out that loud you can’t hear the fans singing. In the end every body gives up singing and just stands there talking and looking at the players on the pitch with the trophy before drifting away for a 3 to 4 hour journey home.
OK, my points maybe petty, especially as it’s about watching City at Wembley, but I really detest Wembley, and how fans are managed inside the the stadium.(by the FA) Escalator stewards, stewards walking around the concourses in large groups, why?, the service, the beer quality, the prices, announcements to tell you to get to your seat for kick off, like an announcement you get in an airport for your flight, getting to your seat and finding a little plastic flag placed there for you to be wave, pre-match entertainment, high wire acts, things going on the pitch which I’ve got absolutely no interest in, digital displays of clapping hands on the scoreboards, really annoying music like rocking all over the world being blasted out of the speakers, the national anthem sang by an opera singer drowning the fans out, and just the plasticness of the whole time inside Wembley.
Then you get to the trophy presentation that takes ages, and Instead of letting the fans celebrate vocally with the players, fucking shite music like we are the champions, etc, is pumped out that loud you can’t hear the fans singing. In the end every body gives up singing and just stands there talking and looking at the players on the pitch with the trophy before drifting away for a 3 to 4 hour journey home.
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Its cool to say that you are Wembleyed out or enjoyed the Stuart Pearce days more lads, even cooler if you pretend not to enjoy any games at all.
If anyone else wants to be as cool as me, from now on I'm not gonna bother taking my seat to watch the game, just gonna stand in the concourse all game instead, obviously just stopping going and not saying owt would be the normal thing to do, but I wouldn't get attention then.
Won't be watching them on TV either as thats also cool.
Might look up the results on Ceefax though
If anyone else wants to be as cool as me, from now on I'm not gonna bother taking my seat to watch the game, just gonna stand in the concourse all game instead, obviously just stopping going and not saying owt would be the normal thing to do, but I wouldn't get attention then.
Won't be watching them on TV either as thats also cool.
Might look up the results on Ceefax though
pride in battle
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NonsenseIf you enjoy it on the telly other than being there you can't be a proper football fan
its a Barm
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No I'm not but I have to pick what games I go to now, following city is not cheap as it use to be, peps fault winning all them trophies.
@Worsleyweb in shit post shocker....
Can't afford it and being (to use the term) Wembley out are separate reasons I would say.No I'm not but I have to pick what games I go to now, following city is not cheap as it use to be, peps fault winning all them trophies.