had to be done.....Those people weren't ever fans - they were just tourists. Anyone who went to any of our games at Wembley know this, we were surrounded by tourists, people just there for the day out; they didn't know any of the songs, they didn't join in, they didn't even care who won. These people are no great loss, they aren't 'fickle fans' because they were never fans in the first place.
There are clips on YouTube of City at Hillsborough in 2004, a night match just before Christmas - so many fans there that they had to delay the kick-off TWICE to get them all in, so many fans that they had to open 'the wing' on the Leppings Lane end to fit us all in, something that they hadn't done for years; this is the match that Boaz Myhill still says was the greatest atmosphere he'd ever played in - those fans all knew the songs, they cared who won. The pity is, a lot of those fans who were there that night are no longer going - these are the ones we miss, not the PL tourists.
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it wouldn’t have taken much engagement to keep that support or most of it.