Man City v Roma

There's always empty seats unless it's a derby, hence the barbs on social media last night quipping about why the stadium is being expanded.
 
I think it would be interesting to know what the prices were before judging.

Our have gone up to £50, and some of my mates pay £60 for the CL this season.

I think City's medium/long term plan is to have a bigger ground, but cheaper seats in certain sections to encourage more and newer fans to attend. Time will tell if successful.

But still considering their lack of success for 35 years, you would have though a sell out. It was the same for the League cup semi against us the other year, they only had about 35,000 home fans for the first leg of a semi, Liverpool took 5,000 and could have taken 10,000 plus if given more tickets.

Still, the prices are getting so out of hand that seasoned people who never missed a home game if 30 odd years are now having to pick and choose.
 
My cousin goes to quite a few Chelsea games,last week tickets for 3 games went on sale on the same day.
He couldn't afford to purchase tickets for 3 games so had to choose.
It's too expensive for the average working man/women to follow their clubs nowadays.
 
I was there, the problem is we have rich owners but not rich fans, most of our support is working class and this game, although priced at a reasonable £35 it was played between Hull City £50 and Aston Villa £45 so anyone attending all three faced 3 matches in a week at £130, out of the reach of a lot of supporters, Celtics last two league crowds have been less than 30k by the way.
 
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Cityfanbrian said:
I was there, the problem is we have rich owners but not rich fans, most of our support is working class and this game, although priced at a reasonable £35 it was played between Hull City £50 and Aston Villa £45 so anyone attending all three faced 3 matches in a week at £130, out of the reach of a lot of supporters
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Wouldnt most of chosen £35 to watch roma rather than £50 to watch hull city tigers?

bet its full on nov 2nd even with reduced away allocation .............
 
pbrown7582 said:
Wouldnt most of chosen £35 to watch roma rather than £50 to watch hull city tigers?

bet its full on nov 2nd even with reduced away allocation .............
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most league games sell out as the premier league is more important in my view, it's easy for people to criticize a teams support when they don't even watch their own local team....happens all the time
 
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Cityfanbrian said:
most league games sell out as the premier league is more important in my view, it's easy for people to criticize a teams support when they don't even watch their own local team....happens all the time
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Thing is though. Without those people not supporting their local team city will never become world beaters. Not with Ffp. You can't tell me all 40k or whatever that film the Etihad are mancs. Yeah maybe a higher amount than at old Trafford. But you had ole ty new fams arrive when the money came in. All big clubs need glory hunters. Well, they need their cash at least.
 
Papas1982 said:
Thing is though. Without those people not supporting their local team city will never become world beaters. Not with Ffp. You can't tell me all 40k or whatever that film the Etihad are mancs. Yeah maybe a higher amount than at old Trafford. But you had ole ty new fams arrive when the money came in. All big clubs need glory hunters. Well, they need their cash at least.
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Predictive text/twaddle turned on?
What does that say in English, matey?


Slime.
 
Papas1982 said:
Thing is though. Without those people not supporting their local team city will never become world beaters. Not with Ffp. You can't tell me all 40k or whatever that film the Etihad are mancs. Yeah maybe a higher amount than at old Trafford. But you had ole ty new fams arrive when the money came in. All big clubs need glory hunters. Well, they need their cash at least.
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You are spot on.
If you look outside the Etihad on match day there are no coaches from London or Devon. The club is trying to become everything we have hated about Manchester United but it wont happen over night.
 
Cityfanbrian said:
You are spot on.
If you look outside the Etihad on match day there are no coaches from London or Devon. The club is trying to become everything we have hated about Manchester United but it wont happen over night.
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It happens to everyone who has a sustained period of success, at some point.

I was speaking to an old geordie friend a few years ago and he said that during and after the Keegan years more and more non-geordie sounding fans were starting to appear.

MikeH picked up the Everton bug in the mid-80's, fair play he has stayed with them, but what an unlucky sod.;)

If city have another 5-10 years of it, they will come, so prepare the coach park now.
 
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