What an opening month. City away (at the Etihad) followed by us playing Arsenal and Liverpool at home.
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Sounds good to me. Even if that doesn't happen, and we play at Leigh as normal, it's a good weekend for a big match. We're scheduled to play (away) to Spurs in the October break and Chelsea in the November break.The March home fixture against City takes place during an international break in the men's game.
There was talk last season of the women playing a match at Old Trafford. If that is still the intention, then the derby game seems like a sensible choice for the fixture to be hosted there.
It’s really not very fortunate. If we hit the ground running, well enough, but otherwise it might batter a lot of the confidence out of a newly promoted team if there are a lot of negative results at the start.Not an easy start then! 5 tough matches in the first 6 games, with Spurs away being probably the easiest one out of those 6.
Yes, Arsenal won the league last year - the only teams they dropped points to were City and Chelsea (City beat them in the league cup final as well). City were WSL runners up, and won the League Cup and FA cup. We couldn't get a tougher start really.It’s really not very fortunate. If we hit the ground running, well enough, but otherwise it might batter a lot of the confidence out of a newly promoted team if there are a lot of negative results at the start.
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BBC red button and website as well for the Chelsea game.Can watch game for free here (requires an account)
On the crowd record, the Chelsea v Tottenham match today was expected to beat it with up to 40,000 expected.Just a few observations on the crowd. It was a good turnout and a decent atmosphere. Not as intense as a men's derby of course, but a lot of the fans are novices at live stadium football (more kids, more women) or at women's football.
Though there was a distinct United end, and a predominantly City section, most of the ground was mixed and I'm not sure how they felt about the etiquette of that
Having been in Paris for the WWC19 match between USA and a France and seeing mixed zones simultaneously singing both sets of chants (different fans!) - whilst still having distinct sections as well I'm hoping that one day maybe we can have matches like that. But who knows, maybe we'll go straight from the awkwardly polite to the too tribal - I hope not though.
Crowd wise, well United have already had a couple of 5k crowds at Leigh. Arsenal might be a tricky one as it's a Monday night (in a week when the men are at home on Saturday and Thursday). But the Liverpool match should be a good turnout. We shall see.
40k free tickets where taken up. Obviously a lot stayed home.On the crowd record, the Chelsea v Tottenham match today was expected to beat it with up to 40,000 expected.
Just found it on the read button, 24,000 it is then
I don't know, others probably will though.40k free tickets where taken up. Obviously a lot stayed home.
What where the ticket prices of tge Manchester Derby?
£7 adult, £2 concessions - but there were also some routes to let kids get free entry as well. I don't know the sales figures in each category - but there were more kids there than you see these days at OT, but the overwhelming majority of the crowd were 16+40k free tickets where taken up. Obviously a lot stayed home.
What where the ticket prices of tge Manchester Derby?
"Not the bottle ones though," according to my City going niece - just the draughtThe full range of hot and cold drinks supporters will be able to enjoy include: tea, coffee, hot chocolate, diet coke, coke zero and sprite zero.
That'll be an annoying change if the have made it. That not only stops me getting to both games it even gets in the way of matchgoing fans seeing the other match on TV.Does anyone know what time kick off is for the City Conti Cup match? I've seen in some places it says 12pm (eg. last night's programme, email from Utd 4th Sept & FA website), others 2:30pm (eg. Utd website, Utd ticketing website, Utd app).
I'll have plenty of time to get to OT for the Liverpool match if it's 12pm, but not 2:30pm.
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