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Nice to see you back posting Alfie.
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Nine, I think Mouriniho actually said the same in the post match interview. “He knew Jones woukd miss” really strange thing for a manager to say.
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Mouriniho looks and sounds like a broken man !
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Bollox didn’t want to draw Derby in the next round! ?
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Foden played well according to news feeds and match reports. Played 90. Got his first City Goal and an assist. The lad has a bright future. So so pleased for him.
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Genuinely intrigued as to why there are so many empty seats at Old Trafford tonight? Any ideas Ed?
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Add Fred to that list if the tabloids are to believed Brian.
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Very pleased for Gundogan and Mahrez. Not been impressed with many of Gundogs displays so nice to see him play well.
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Hightown, I don’t know depends on where you sit. Typically ive been paying £35 in the family stand the past few seasons. Some tickets are more expensive in the CB stand, some are cheaper up in the gods. I had a quick look after my post yesterday and found this table. Clearly it shows that Lyon was a bit of a one off. Last season our average CL attendances were much higher.
https://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/champions-league-2017-2018/1/
Cheers Jim
Ps can I also add that we only really don’t sell out champions league group stages and midweek league cup games. The vast majority of PL games and especially weekend ones are sold out. And there are several thousand on the ST waiting list. My guess is there isnt enough to justify extending the north stand yet.
But you are right, it’s not just City that has this problem. I could post links about United having the same issue for midweek games. Even Liverpool didn’t sell out all their CL group games at Anfield last season. Out of interest i checked and you were about 6k short of capacity for one game. And Liverpool and United have by far the biggest fan bases in the country and compulsory cup scheme certainly for United. So some fans are forces to buy cup tickets and still don’t bother to go.
Football is very expensive these days and fans are placed last as always. Look at the twenty is plenty campaign. The PL just couldn’t except that and had to cap it at 30! It’s pathetic really.
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Ian is right Cardiff are a team of cloggers. Bennett on Sane was as bad as they get.
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Evening chaps, looking forward to tomorrow games. I’m over the midweek debacle . Luckily I was one of the many empty seats as I had to work late. First CL game I have missed for about 4 seasons i think. Felt really guilty to be honest. Below is my take on the empty seats which is down to a number of factors.
The first one is that Lyon wernt that an attractive game. If it had been Barca I have no doubt it would have sold out. Have some fans got a bit piccy with the games they attend having been spoilt and a bit complacent with the quality of recent years? Most definitely.
Secondly Brian is right we don’t have the fan base that United or Liverpool have. I think we have a loyal core support probably closer to 40k than 30k these years. We also have several thousand fans who travel big distances and they just can’t be arsed taking days off for a game vs Lyon.
Thirdly getting to and from the Etihad is a nightmare. Transport infrastructure to and from the Etihad is woeful. I travel on train for about 18miles rather than drive in like I used to on a mid week games. 3 seasons ago it was regularly taking me two and a half to three hours to drive in!
Forthly there is a certain apathy from City fans in general towards UEFA they don’t like us as the rich new boys on the block they have fined us and banned our fans for no reason at all in Moscow. Also many including myself rightly or wrongly see it as a competition a step down from the PL.
Finally we don’t have a compulsory cup scheme ie to be a season ticket holder you don’t have to buy Europe tickets. I believe some clubs like United?? Make you buy into the cup scheme to get a season ticket?
It is also expensive as Brian’s states.
I would also add that we are not alone in not selling out group stage CL games. Chelsea didn’t regularly a few years ago. United don’t, I have a mate who’s a red and he says OT is regularly 25k short on a CL midweek game. And its been published in media outlets now and again. Continental games also rearly sell out at this stage from what I can make out?
I admit it looks a bit poor. But I’m not that bothered by it , I followed City through some really bad times when we still had 30k watching awful football. So I’m not that fussed when several thousand newcomers don’t turn up.
Ps Brian do you see Doris and Olga the 102 and 97 yr old sisters at Fulham who have been ST holders since the 1930s? Do you know them or did you possibly date them?? ?
I will leave you with this little fact. Olga and Doris watched City in an English record crowd for a club game outside Wembley. 84569 vs Stoke in 1934 in the Cup. A record that still stands today.
Cheers
Jim
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Nightmare performance.
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Just seen Liverpool’s next signing score a peach of a goal! Hojbjerb
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Hightown, club rivalries aside, I don’t think you can really compare the media coverage of Hillsborough after a criminal conspiracy by those in authority with anything.
Ps Sterling gets better every month! He had a great game yesterday.
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Prefer Delph defensively than Mendy to be honest Adlab so perhaps that’s not a bad thing. Think Mahrez isn’t getting enough ball out wide when he comes on. Half the team don’t seem to be aware he’s on the pitch!
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Happy to help and put some perspective on things for you Hightown!? cheers Jim
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City stepped off The gas 2nd half. But a comfortable win still. Great to see Sane start and score. Good win for LFC Hightown. Easy to be motm when you join a team that finished 25pts behind the champions. Milner seems to have found his level ?
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Agree Ed it certainly wouldn’t filter down to the fans that’s for sure. Always the last in line for everything. That’s my biggest gripe about football.
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Ozil Barkley and Sturidge are the ones who have a lot of to be thankful to their agents for.
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