Bluemoon goes into Meltdown
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Have they seriously managed not to sell out their first ever Champions League game?
Obviously, their team playing the likes of Napoli is beneath City supporters...after all, their team was the last English club to win in the Nou Camp, they have the best website in Europe, and they once beat the mighty Gillingham at Wembley.
They're desperate to give tickets aren't they?
Best website in Europe..... get in!
I actually thought that was a joke
Man City's website is voted best in Champions League by experts - Manchester City FC
So so so so so so so so pathetic
What the actual feck?Rumour from an ITK: City v Napoli tickets are available free with special packs of Monster Munch.
I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt and think, they're having a bit of a laugh at their own expense in this instance.
City v Galati seems like a very realistic final.
You give them too much credit.
Best Website 2011 (better than Uniteds) will now be on their official honours list.
Have they genuinely not sold out or have Napoli not sold their allocation or something? Surely City could sell this out?
Apparently not. It's crazy, their stadium isn't even that big and it's Champions League we are talking about.
Rumours that Manchester is blue have been greatly exaggerated.
Amazing stuff. I've heard they hand out reduced tickets at Manchester University too in order to get people in. Bizarre lack of turn out.
Best Champions League website?!
Best Champions League website?!
This is even better than the "golden glove" award..
Hahahahahaha
Look at that fat cnut in the middle
C'mon lads, lets all do the Poz...lads...lads...
Soccernet lists the attendance at the Napoli game as (44,026)
UEFA lists ground capacity for CL matches at the Etihad Stadium as 45 500.
Wow... big time!!!
Way to show your support lads!
UEFA lists ground capacity for CL matches at the Etihad Stadium as 45 500.
Wow... big time!!!
Way to show your support lads!
At least they won the Champion's league of Web Sites!
And yet their site still looks like a converted Wordpress template...
Has everyone forgotten about them playing their "fans" singing over their own tannoy system!?
To be honest 44026 is nearly a packed stadium and you need to consider Napoli might have not taken full capacity of away sector, and there are usually a few hundred absentees for various reasons anyway. If it had been below 40k it would have been shameful but 1.5k below full capacity is fine.
They have so much money to burn maybe they will start paying people to fill the stadium
Fair enough point, but I think that most would see the massive effort they put into reducing prices, various give-aways and promotions to try and pump up those numbers and still fall short of filling the place as on par with City's "half-assed-ness" that we have come to expect from our friends in blue.
Some are saying that we were 10k below full capacity in our first European game for years in the '90s. Is that true?
After Old Trafford had to be all-seater the capacity was reduced from 58,000 to 44,000.
28,411 v Pécsi Munkás in September 1990,
29,405 v Wrexham in October 1990,
41,942 v Montpellier in March 1991,
44,269 v Legia Warsaw in April 1991.
VERY, very different comparison.
I recall at the time our return to Europe being dealt with a great deal of skepticism... largely due to the fact that English teams were just being allowed back into Europe at the time and United's admission was considered a bit of an experiment or probation for English teams following Liverpool's Heysel debacle. UEFA really didn't want us (us being English teams) there and we (being English football supporters) wanted to tell them (UEFA) to go stuff themselves.
In fact, if a side other than United had won the FA cup the previous season, I think you could make a fair argument that the ban may have continued.
Now lets address the City situation.
To be fair the Cup Winners Cup is NOT, and never was, the champions league as it exists now. Only the world Cup is a larger tournament and many football experts believe that the CL has exceeded the WC as a true measure of determining excellence in the game... as in the caliber of player and the overall skill level is higher in the CL. The Champions league is certainly the premier event in club football.
and Pecsi Munkas and Wrexham (who I believe were a division 3 side at the time) are NOWHERE near the quality or the caliber of opposition as the current Napoli side.
PLUS we didn't hold a ticket give-away campaign to try and fill the ground.
Also we won the Cup Winners Cup that year...
When is the trophy parade?
Well, you could probably compare attendances we had got in CWC to City's attendances in Europa League/UEFA Cup and I recall them playing Groclin Grodzisk and Lech Poznan in stadiums that were about half full.
I'm not bashing them for the Europa league stuff...
But what I do believe is that they (the Club, their supporters) spend too much time concerning themselves with small time matters, and that when something really important actually happens they don't take the opportunity to show the world that they are a club that really matters.
Think Spurs didn't sell out their first CL game last season?
34,709 v Young Boys in Play-off Round, 32,518 v Twente in Group Stage. White Hart Lane capacity is 36,230.
Why would the ban have continued?
Everyone knew at the start of 89/90 that European places were up for grabs the following season again other than for Liverpool who served a longer ban for Hysel out of the English teams.
This would lead me to believe that the capacities are reduced for CL games. Spurs always sell out league games, so the CL should be simple.
Although there were rumors the ban would be lifted, wasn't the ban not officially lifted towards the end of the 89/90 season... and even then wasn't it subject to the good behavior of English fans at Italia 90?
I'm not suggesting that had Crystal Palace won the 90 FA Cup that the ban would have continued... although Liverpool very well could have won the double that season.
There were not rumours. The European ban was lifted 4 days before Hillsborough to allow English clubs to perform in the 1990/91 season with provision for Liverpool to serve a extra three years which was reduced to one. Like I said, everyone knew at the start of the 89/90 season that European places were up for grabs for everyone bar LFC.
It was also clear from the start of the ban that Liverpool were always going to receive a longer one than all the other English clubs.
Feck off ye pretenders! forever in our shadows!