Man City fans in trouble for booing during the EUFA anthem. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34603517
Kicked off a bit ahead of the game as well... http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...chester-city-match-with-sevilla-a6703116.html
They don't like the tune, and they don't like EUFA. They seem perfectly happy to be in the competition, watching their team play in said competition and to take the riches that come from aforementioned competition. Manc ****s.
Yep and my points above remain. Still go. Still pay money to them. Still happy to be in that competition, however briefly. Funny too aint it, that sort of fine would destroy most clubs. How fortunate for them eh?
"The City fans have absolutely no love for Uefa, it's clear. "Do Uefa seriously think the threat of sanctions is going to have an impact? Everybody has got a right to a freedom of expression. City fans are just using that right to say we don't like that tune and we don't like Uefa." Attendance last night to watch their team in the UEFA Champions League - 45,595 ESSEX GULL
Sept 2014 "City were fined £50million for the FFP breaches but will only have to pay around £20million if they comply with the break-even rules in future seasons." Posted before seeing OLM's message.
Indeed, you're right, they've only actually paid £20m so far, what they may pay on top of this seems rather vague.
Was confused at the time! I stopped being lazy and did a search. A Guardian article suggests you are both sort of right. They did accept 49 mill fine but will get 20 mill back if they are good over next three years. Article also stated rules were then relaxed as they might stop clubs development? Bit like Barca transfer embargo which ended up being fudged by allowing them to sign players on pre contract terms or some such malarky. Really glad this wonderful game of ours is run by such clear forward thinking bastions of honesty and fair play!
Independe Read elsewhere that they paid £!6m with the rest suspended for two years. With the change of FFP rules and dramatic cutbacks at the club I believe MC will fall within the rules and won't be paying anymore.
I would like to see Uefa win this argument. Yes the booing is childish and petty but Uefa have now acted in a far worse way. Laughable really. FIFA and UEFA both need root and branch reform - not to mentioned new people at the top. +++++ Bayern Munich fans @ Arsenal on Tuesday had there own protest over the £65 match ticket price. They only entered the stadium after the game had started. The Arsenal fans applauded the action. What overall good it will do is another matter like but at least the Bayern Munich fans will feel better I suspect.
That Bayern protest was needed, but I can't see how missing a chunk of the game you've still paid the high price for is going to bother the decision makers, especially as Bayern's not exactly peanuts for away fans.
No two ways about it, the prices now are a piss take, but (cue the Dvorak/Hovis music) I can remember plenty of games where we rustled together the turnstile money on the way down it was so cheap, but the grounds were much emptier. Now the grounds are much nearer capacity, through people that probably never went in the lower cost days.
Indeed so. And much warmer compared to the past. The open spaces @ Boothferry Park when a cold chilly wind blew over Kempton. The steam from the gents hole in the ground @ bunkers and all for less than £10.
Quite an unfair and misinformed thread Just to make it clear why we do it. It stems from the issue over CSKA Moscow last season, when they were forced to shut parts of their ground as punishment for persistent racist abuse of black players. That involved their games against Bayern then us. Both sets of fans(both sold out 3000 allocation)had already bought tickets, paid for travel (and it's not a cheap trip) and Russian visas. No change from £500 for us and that was for the shortest, overnight trip. Bayern were the first to play there after the ban but their fans weren't allowed in, despite not being the ones banned. Some enterprising ones hired an office in a block overlooking the ground but that's as close as they got. However there were loads of home fans in the stadium, who were in the "corporate" areas, which of course were open as UEFA wasn't going to upset its sponors. Some City fans went to Moscow to do the same but the building was sealed off by police. A few enterprising ones got into the ground, posing as press but they were ejected, while hundreds of clearly home fans in the corprorate areas were allowed to stay. UEFA were approached to refund those City & Bayern fans who'd been prevented from attending the games but they refused. So at the next game, which just happened to be City v Bayern, both sets of fans agreed to boo the anthem to show their displeasure with UEFA and that's carried on since. We've also been fined for being a minute late back onto the pitch for the second half and for throwing paper planes at a CL game. In the former case certainly, we got a higher fine than another club got for racist chants by their fans. I'm taking some strepsils with me to Seville in a few weeks,they've heard **** all yet the spineless twats
