Match Day Thread Europa League Final

Third cheapest ticket prices in the league as well. Easy to pick up fans when a ticket for City is less than a ticket for Burnley, and Utd's ground is always sold out.

 

Their facilities are great. I go for my bodywork repair up that way, whenever the wife has bumped the car and I'm always amazed at how good it looks (the facilities, not my car). They have spared no expense and they have everything to make it right to the top, apart from the support. I know a few who've given up season tickets, and their reason was that they just feel disconnected from the club, too many changes too quickly. Saying that, I can't fault the club for how they've reacted this week.

 

The biggest problem for City and building that fan base, is that unfortunately for them they are from the same City as us. We already had most of the support along time before City started fighting at the top end of the table.

The only supporters they can really take are new ones, as it's just not in any supporters nature to change the club they support.

It's the same problem with building a fan base internationally, when you think of Manchester and football, Man Utd are the team everyone knows. So no matter how big City get they are always going to struggle to compete with us for fans.

The fact they have to sell tickets cheaper than Burnley to get a close to full stadium pretty much sums it up for them.

It worked better for Chelsea, as they where still a well supported club before the money, and London is a much bigger city, with a much bigger population. Even saying that, despite having way more success than Arsenal over the last decade, they still can't compete with Arsenal's fan base, as Arsenal historically have had the more success.

You can buy success on the pitch all you like, but it's a lot harder to buy support, and more importantly long term revenue through that support.

 

I used to work in the Far East and bars and clubs would be packed to the rafters in their early hours just for fans to watch us play a very ordinary weekend fixture. I've never seen that anywhere else, for any other club - and that includes Barca and RM.

 

My friend who's African, is a huge Man Utd fan, and he says the whole of Africa are mad for Premier League football, and the 2 teams they support are Man Utd and Arsenal. He says when either team is playing the bars are packed even more than they are over here.

He says the Premier League is by far the most supported league out there. None of the others come close.

 

Got my peg in the pub. Happy now.

An hour and a half worth of pints should settle my nerves.

 

The winning team -

 

Losing team

Ajax XI: Onana - Veltman, De Ligt, Sanchez, Riedewald - Klaassen (c), Schone, Ziyech - Traore, Dolberg, Younes

 

Good Luck Manchester

 

Ajax are workingman like team. Press them high and we're be fine and hopefully we don't sit back.

 

Good luck lads Bring it back to blighty.

 

Anyone got a link suitable for iPad please?

 

tough match ..
GOAAAAAAAAL

 

just as I was typing .. let us hold on

 

Great strike from Pogba

 

Come on Manchester!

 

sitting back too deep and allowing them to control ... and every time we take the ball back , Rashford is alone and easily marked out of the game

 

no pace .. Mata .. Felllani and Mkhitaryan.. Rashford completely isolated

 

Bloody Hell, let's hope we've more ambition than that!

Ajax have the odd little almost staged set piece attack here and there. Bar that we should aim to get a couple more then ****ing enjoy it.

 

Is it too soon to say get this Mkhytarian bloke off?

Martial or Lingard on, he's a waste of ****ing space.