| Everything I hate about football 19:01 - Aug 24 with 11357 views | Mullet |
Half and half scarves, a massive stadium and no noise, people leaving after half an hour both halves, some weird sheet presentation on the pitch beforehand, VAR not making sense, a big queue for the bogs. As an experience, that was about as poor as it gets for me. Even watching two dozen of them Poznan was a bit pitiful and made me feel sorry for them rather than sneer.
It was great taking the lead, the away end were a credit to us too, but apart from that it’s hard to pick out highlights. Everything else is either filed under damage control or hope for the future.
Muric was hopefully trying too hard because he did make that decent save in the second half. But he also made some bizarre kicking choices alongside the obvious rick. The penalty was weird as in the stadium the ref pointed to a goal kick. The replay looks like it was a penalty so fair enough.
But not giving the Davis one, let alone looking at it when going in at 3-2 might have turned our mindset a little is huge for me. I don’t get why it wasn’t checked or given. It’s annoyed me.
I didn’t like Szmodics swapping his shirt at the end, for me it shows you don’t see yourself as equal. But it’s not a big deal, and given I wasn’t fussed about signing him he’s turned out to be a revelation. Hard to see where Chaplin fits in, alongside a few others who’ve featured so far.
Delap looks a proper player, I really hope he gets a decent return this season. If he gets more chances than he has had so far he will no doubt be a danger. My big hope is that rather than free hits, this start has been a benchmarking exercise for everyone.
Can’t blame City fans when you shell out that much money as fans, but they’ve lost their club completely. Soulless and sterile. I’d hate to see that happen to us.
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| Everything I hate about football on 11:23 - Aug 26 with 631 views | Mullet |
| Everything I hate about football on 20:11 - Aug 25 by The_Romford_Blue |
‘Their biggest away fixture in 20 years’
In what world is it even remotely close to being our biggest away game in 2024 let alone 20 years? Do they just think football doesn't exist below the premier league? |
It’s just ignorance of some of them, rather than anything meaningful. A lot of them won’t have followed city when the Thai fella took over, let alone before then. | |
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| Everything I hate about football on 15:17 - Aug 26 with 523 views | withyblue |
| Everything I hate about football on 19:49 - Aug 25 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
“If they stay up, I doubt they’ll sell out next year”
Don’t know much about us do they, it’s been near impossible to get away tickets for years unless you have a shed load of points. There are Town fans that would step over their own nan to get tickets for Peterborough away let alone PL.
Just got to laugh it off, they have a tonne of casual fans that know f all about football and have never been within 50 miles of Manchester, let alone attend games. |
What? We've only had a priority system for 12 months and about half our away games last season made general sale. You could get a ticket for City away if you went to just 5 away games last season and had a membership for 23/24 and 24/25. Don't kid yourself about demand for tickets. |  | | |
| Everything I hate about football on 15:40 - Aug 26 with 472 views | jayceee |
| Everything I hate about football on 19:35 - Aug 24 by Sawtrich |
I thought the same. Soulless corporate stadium with no noise from home fans that are stuck in a loveless marriage with owners that have cheated their way to countless trophies. They know it, we know it, but we all have to go through the motions. We have the audacity to take the lead so VAR gets involved. Missing League One. |
Missing League One
LOL - I wouldn't go that far back - but understand the sentiment. As our players are learning to adapt, we as fans need to adapt too - and will go bonkers for every goal scored and every point earned, and not be depressed when we lose to the 'giants'. Our time will come. |  | | |
| Everything I hate about football on 15:55 - Aug 26 with 448 views | jayceee |
The best and worst of them in two subsequent posts:
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