Watching the city game and I can't believe how many empty seats there are. It's disgraceful, we would sell this game out countless times.
For Champions League games its capacity is 45,500 – UEFA-governed football. So not much more than Anfield, we would never have so many empty seat. The Arsenal game has a load too.
I can somewhat understand Arsenal, but City are playing Dortmund! Dortmund has got class all over the pitch.
Now, I like City and I always have done, but it seems very much like their fans are getting way above their station. If it's not Bayern Munich, Milan, Madrid, Inter, Barca or an English side, they'll never sell out for a Champions League game. Arsenal are no better either. Their attendances are always listed as being over 60,000 for league and Champions League matches, yet there are always swathes of empty seats when they play, say, a Wigan or Olympiakos. I went with a friend to a League Cup game at the Emirates once, and the attendances was listed everywhere as being in the 57/58,000 region. There must have been 15,000 seats empty.
Prices go up. Attendances go down. Ticket prices are getting to tipping point for alot of people so fans pick and choose which games they pay for. Wont be long before its common place in the premier league too I think
Pretty sure City have very low prices. not sure for CL games but they were banging on about it the other week. Their owner subsidises like £200 of their season ticket prices. They have no excuse.
But that's because City are proper football fans. For them winning the PL is the be all and end all, as it should be. The CL is hyped up so much by Sky that United and Liverpool fans just **** it off. Don't get me wrong I'm glad we won the CL due to the sheer bad luck we'd had in the past and the media/rival fans rubbing our noses in it but give me the PL trophy anyday. If you ask most proper football fans which trophy they'd want to win most they'd say PL followed by the FA Cup and then CL. If today had been a PL game City would have sold out
I agree that the EPL is a good thing to win, but to play Europe and Germany's best team at home and not selling out is shameful. I expect us to sell out tomorrow night with our youth team playing Udinese.
They took thousands to Madrid to be fair and will no doubt take Thousands to Amsterdam and Dortmund. They've got Sunderland at home on Saturday as well. Speaking as I near priced out fan myself I couldn't afford 2 games in a week. If its a choice out of a PL game or a midweek group stage game I'm choosing the PL game every time. 43,000 is decent, it's near enough what Arsenal got tonight if you take out the corporates
Take out Citys corporates aswell then.... and proper fans? Because they pick and choose which games. The **** are you on about? Dortmund are proper fans, most PL clubs could learn a lot from them, your erm, claims of City being proper fans based on them not being interested in the Champions League is a truly brilliant comment. Ive made some daft comments before lad but this trumps anything I or anyone else has ever said
City don't have corporates they're not at that stage yet where the hardcore have been priced out and the JCL's have taken over. Proper and proud Mancunian football club for the Mancunian people
They got their nearly new former Commonwealth Games Stadium from Manchester City Council on a long cheap lease then the new owners family sponsor the Stadium in naming rights for 400k surely the least the fans could do is fill it.
Every club has proper fans, but you seem to be generalising quite a lot here. Those who supported City before the Arab money, fine, they must be elated and immensely proud of their club as we all would be, but it's no coincidence that the number of people claiming to be City supporters skyrocketed as soon as it was clear they were on the up. That doesn't make them proper fans any more than the Chelsea or United glory hunters. As for the PL being the "be all and end all," I have to strongly disagree there. The PL is an endurance race, a measure of consistency of the quality of teams, and it commonly shows what teams are on top, and where the quality lies but the CL is THE competition. Finding the best team in Europe (and more than likely the world, based on the attraction Europe has to players everywhere) is surely more important than finding the best team in Britain. If the CL was a league, would you say the same thing about winning the PL? The League just has a bigger lure to it because you're competing with 19 other teams, whereas in the CL team you're competing against whoever is in your group or up against you next.
Not sure if you were around or not at the time of what happened but OT was bombed in WWII and the ground was unsafe for matches for the duration of the war, your neighbours allowed Utd to still function during those years by allowing them to play home games at their ground. So why all the hate?
A great gesture by City, one I am well aware of ( wasnt alive you cheeky **** just know my clubs history ). It didnt allow us to function as such but it did give us a home for a while, I suspect if needed we would of found alternative accommodation but City were very hospitable. No hate either, City have some great fans, ones reading the thread right now for example. One who appreciates the great things going on at his club and takes advantage of it. They have been through alot, just dont understand why more fans are not taking advantage as one day, like United and Liverpool, Arsenal and others it will be nowhere near as easy.
