Manchester City - "Emptihad"
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
That's embarassing. Surely that's not at the peak time?
I mean near the stadium by looking at the shirts. It was a sea of blue shirts with the occasional red ones.
Both clubs received the same number of tickets, but there was I think a large number of tickets that could have been bought by other people, and I assume most of those were bought by City ones. Or there were just so many City fans that went near the stadium for the experience (pretty much every pub nearby was reserved for City fans). If was crazy, the exact opposite of what I would have expected.
City and United have each been allocated 30,500 tickets, combining for 61,000 of Wembley’s 90,000 capacity.
Adult pricing is £145 ($181), £115, £70 and £45 for Category 1, 2, 3 and 4 tickets respectively. Concessions cost £135, £105, £60 and £35 respectively.
As the showpiece event in the FA’s calendar, the governing body also uses the final as an opportunity to distribute tickets to volunteers from across English football, who represent counties, leagues, local clubs and charities.
The remainder of the tickets will be distributed among the FA’s commercial partners and Club Wembley, the national stadium’s membership club.
I’m not going to argue about the amount of fans wearing club colours on the day but the ‘sea of blue’ might be because city fans notoriously wear their club colours compared to United who notoriously DO NOT wear club colours in the main.
In the group of 10+ lads that I was with all day at Wembley, there was zero red shirts between us all day.
There is no way that United were outnumbered near Wembley, in fact, I was astounded how quickly the swell and outnumbering of city fans was changed when I got off the train at Wembley. From Uxbridge to Wembley was a fairy uncomfortable 30 mins with the amount of city fans compared to United but as soon as we got inside the station, the number of United fans increased considerably and unsurprisingly, the city fans couldn’t be heard anymore more.
I’m not sure I heard a city voice again outside the stadium. Don’t get me started on post-match! Their fans were embarrassing on a whole other level
Honestly, as I said my opinion was based on the number of shirts (it was easy 3 or 4 City shirts for every United ones), and for pretty much every pub I checked being booked for City fans.
Probably they were just more organized in pre/post events.
Yeah maybe but like I said, city have always worn more ‘shirts’ than United in my experience.
In terms of pubs, I think that boiled down to the area. Uxbridge was amazingly blue.
Seems to me it is.
Yeah that plays a big part surely.
It was 1967, Grandma didn't follow football but she liked George Best!You were a smart boy.
And way to go grandma!
Wasn't a fun place to be when they beat us though, with my Dad's brother there were 3 of them + all the locals because St Mark's was round the corner and that's where City were founded
Very true! The (hopefully) next one will be especially special, though, considering how long it will have been since our last one.
That's part of fandom, though. A game of one-upmanship with your rivals. It's especially meaningful when you're from Manchester and surrounded by blues.
Pickford
The difference between United and City's transfer policies is United have wasted a fortune buying big name players for large fees regardless of whether they fit in the team be ause they have been run by inept people with zero knowledge of how to do transfers whilst City have taken a tactic Pep copied from those that managed him and let Txiki Begiristain spend a fortune buying a top player for every position in it.
There was a photo from above that spanned the whole front and back page of a newspaper of the parade in 99. Stuck it to my wall. It said there were 1m people
I was in a group of 8. None of us went near the stadium, none of us wore United colours. That's pretty normal for Wembley (or any other away trips) - not sure why City (and Newcastle) fans feel the need to drape themselves in the club shop, but whatever works for them I guess.
You know, for all the memes about how empty and lame their home stadium is, they are much better at home regardless.
We used to think home advantage had to do with atmosphere, intimidating crowds, but for City it isn't that, and yet they look very ordinary away, but very strong at home.
We used to think home advantage had to do with atmosphere, intimidating crowds, but for City it isn't that, and yet they look very ordinary away, but very strong at home.
Your grandad refused to speak to his 5 year old grandson for months because of a football team?
Yep, I was the first to support United, he got over it, eventually!Your grandad refused to speak to his 5 year old grandson for months because of a football team?
Well, it could still be that because that's what they face away from home.
But why wouldn't their lame home stadium make away teams confident in getting results though, are you saying Man City are so good that its only their away nerves that keeps them from being even better?
Half the time teams dont turn up at the Etihad, they basiccally accept defeat before a balls been kicked and just sit back in their own half hoping not to conceed too many.
Ive seen teams go to the Etihad and hardly move out of their own half then the same team has come to Old Trafford the next week and played their hearts out for 90 minutes.
Their pitch is one of the biggest in the PL - slightly wider than ours which is also one of the biggest. Both are bigger than Wembley.
Isn't that what most big teams do though, large, wide pitch?
Why wouldn't every team that aims to dominate, just max their own pitch?
Probably to do with regulations on space around the pitch and some teams preferring less width (though the lengths vary too). Some grounds are pretty cramped and increasing the size of the pitch would be pretty much impossible.
And what's exactly your point here?
That is changing with big characters like Martinez and Varane and I dont think Mount isn't a team player.
We wont buy Pickford (hopefully).
Without trying to delve too deep into the psychology of home advantage, yes.
It’s such a footballing tragedy what a dead atmosphere they have. That final whistle was greeted with such muted cheers. It was like clapping off the batsmen for lunch in a cricket test match.
They had to quickly stick on the music to disguise the graveyard silence.
They had to quickly stick on the music to disguise the graveyard silence.
They can win all they want with their oil billions, they remain a soulless, plastic club
Maybe because their style of play is boring.
Heard Andy Gray having a pop at 1/2 time saying:-
"1 shot 1 goal.
Not my idea of football"
or words to that effect.
They've taken the joy out of the game and their atmosphere reflects that.
Pep's legacy.
Heard Andy Gray having a pop at 1/2 time saying:-
"1 shot 1 goal.
Not my idea of football"
or words to that effect.
They've taken the joy out of the game and their atmosphere reflects that.
Pep's legacy.
Plenty on the caf will take up that offer
thats about as funny as being owned by a slave state
Who are they to offer amnesty? If you switch allegiance to City, surely it’s not City you need to worry about?
Stupid.
But i thought they were a MASSIVE club?
You lot wouldn’t recognise a parody even if you looked in a mirror.
my first thought too.
Pretty shit parody to be fair
