The Man City Thread*******

Most Spanish are on their holliers on the islands in August

Man City's average attendance last season was 46,800 which is still one of the biggest in England but % wise it's near the bottom in England, when you're missing 10,000 heads every game in a season where you've broken the points and scored records there's something badly wrong.

I recall a conversation I had with a Man City fan when I was at working at the Stadium of Light with a ST holder from the 80's. less than 3 hour trip on the road, easy 3 points, should be 3000+ sold easy but there only 600 and I asked why and there's a pick and choose environment and ignorance among the fanbase. 

He also noted that City hadn't sold out their allocation for the League Cup final the following week either because the general mindset was why stump up all that cash for a League Cup final when you can do it for a FA Cup final instead. 

Unlucky for them they haven't reached a FA Cup final for nearly a decade to this day but it highlights the ignorance of turning up to support your team.

David Conn's excellent book, 'Richer Than God' describes this brilliantly.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/45158878

I like David Conn so I’ll defo check this out. Nice one for the recommendation 

It wasn’t really, as I said in my initial post, these two clubs, the biggest two clubs in the world, have plenty of empty seats at matches week in week out. 

You said their stadium is a lot bigger than City’s which of course is true; so I pointed to the attendance figures of one of their games so far this season. Not even half full. 

My point was that every team has empty seats, but only City get mocked for it. Ah well, rival fans need something to point to these days I suppose.

Anyway, we’ve digressed from the clubs financial figures being released today. The truth of the matter is that ticket sales don’t matter that much at that level of the game. It’s all about TV money and commercial deals. 

I think they get mocked for it because for years they always went on about how no one in Manchester supports United, they all support city and so on. That's now being shown up as crap. 

Apart from that, it's quite strange that with all the Arabs have bought for them and with the team been the best it's ever been, they still can't sell out games. They've even had to resort to heavily discounted tickets and buy one get one free plus other promotions like a free shirt and so on. 

I'd find it hard to believe that the likes of Newcastle, Everton, Villa and so on wouldn't sell out their games. It's a strange one. Even band wagon jumpers and tourists aren't arsed with it. 

This is intriguing. The Man City project has been pretty much purpose built for Pep. He's the best in the world, has an endless supply of cash, the whole support of the board and amazing infrastructure already in place. It will be interesting to see where he can go with this.