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Manchester City - "Emptihad"
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
From bbc: "Loud roars from all around Etihad Stadium when that Chelsea equaliser went in... and huge cheers when the replays were shown of Jose Mourinho's reaction. A lot of people must be watching on their phones or tablets, because it's not on any of the big screens."
The mind fecking boggles at these small timers
Cheering an equaliser from a team likely to be one of your biggest title rivals for the season.
The mind fecking boggles at these small timers
Cheering an equaliser from a team likely to be one of your biggest title rivals for the season.
They were advertising tickets for the upcoming CL fixture on Talkshite.
Talking about those big European nights at The Emptihad.
So big, they have to advertise on national radio to try to get a few people to watch.
Talking about those big European nights at The Emptihad.
So big, they have to advertise on national radio to try to get a few people to watch.
I didn't cheer although a draw was a good result for us. The game was being shown on screens in the concourse.From bbc: "Loud roars from all around Etihad Stadium when that Chelsea equaliser went in... and huge cheers when the replays were shown of Jose Mourinho's reaction. A lot of people must be watching on their phones or tablets, because it's not on any of the big screens."
The mind fecking boggles at these small timers
Cheering an equaliser from a team likely to be one of your biggest title rivals for the season.
They don't excist.
Where is that SupaFella guy, it was funny to read his cringe explanations.
Don’t see anything wrong with this at all. United are city’s biggest rivals and always will be. The city game hadn’t even started at this point.From bbc: "Loud roars from all around Etihad Stadium when that Chelsea equaliser went in... and huge cheers when the replays were shown of Jose Mourinho's reaction. A lot of people must be watching on their phones or tablets, because it's not on any of the big screens."
The mind fecking boggles at these small timers
Cheering an equaliser from a team likely to be one of your biggest title rivals for the season.
They would have to expand OT if Pep was our coach and we were playing and scoring as much as they are right now.
Wow, City and their owners are desperate! All morning I’ve heard radio adverts offering City tickets at £9 for adults and £1 for children!
Then my colleague told me about a school he knows where they have been given a load of tickets, but they can’t get rid of them!
Then my colleague told me about a school he knows where they have been given a load of tickets, but they can’t get rid of them!
I thought they were playing away on Monday?
They are.
It was their next home game vs Southampton.
those are for the Fulham game, not the Southampton game
Ah, is the Southampton one cheaper?
yeah, and you get a free balti pie and entered into a draw to get a gobble of moonbeam
They give tons of tickets away to the Student Unions too. Large bundles go unclaimed. This all goes a long way to explaining the empty seats. How can they be declaring games as sold out when they have given away the tickets though. Are they actually declaring the tickets are give aways? A suspicious person may believe they are giving tickets away but Mansour is putting them down as sold & using his own money to buy them.
Haha even if he was buying say 5000 tickets a game at £30 thats only 2.7m a season which is less then half of 1% of total revenue
Just saying before on Talkshite that the stadium was empty.
Who knew?
Who knew?
They need to funnel some of their dirty illegal funds into buying some people to sit in the ground during games.
Their game was on at the pub at the same time as the United game.
I swear you'd never have known they were playing. All those goals and not a peak out of anyone.
I swear you'd never have known they were playing. All those goals and not a peak out of anyone.
There are ghosts in Emptyhad?
let's hope that Raheem does not remain possessed:
www. youtube.com/watch?v=rX1qGR4GtWc
let's hope that Raheem does not remain possessed:
www. youtube.com/watch?v=rX1qGR4GtWc
Quietihad
Destroying a good European team in front of an empty stadium the night we win away in turin. Sums up both clubs and everything about them
Kind of reminds of newspapers giving free copies away free at say universities and airports and using it bump up their circulation figures.
If I lived in Manchester I'd go to quite a lot of City games. They play some gorgeous stuff.
- muppet club.Already proven fake. The club is cutting ties with TRIBE after they allowed this to be posted.
It sounds like the work of an overexcited person at Tribe. Still the fact that it could be true tells us an awful lot about City I think.
They should let Bury and Bolton play their home games before and after the City games. That would add a few thousand to the gate.
How is this "proven fake"? Looks more like damage control to me.
It’s been common knowledge for many years that City lie about attendances. Why should they do that? Well if you are trying to attract genuine sponsors you can say we get X 1000 at every home game, the sponsors are likely to cough up. If the crowd is less and/or the club is not popular nationwide then the genuine revenue will drop. This is why City have so many Abu Dhabi based sponsors.
Big sponsors don't just accept whatever numbers Man City gives them, they do due dilligence. The number of spectators can be boosted by a bit by utilizing a few things: Counting every season ticket holder as in attendance, regardless if they're there or not, plus count tickets that have been donated/given away as in attendance. Every club does this, even us.
That being said, the people in stadium attendance, even with a full stadium, don't even come close to justifying the cost of even a pitch side banner on the stadium, let alone shirt sponsors. 40-50-60 even 70 thousand people who view your logo or message at a match won't generate a lot. For a foreign sponsor, stadium attendance is almost irrelevant. The only thing it gauges is positive spin around the team, which does have an impact, but its not the primary impact. Sponsors are interested in the TV audience, and online audience. That's where the potential new customers are, as they number in the millions worldwide.
My company advertises heavily online, and I have been an event sponsor for large sporting arrangements before, and they yield almost nothing. TV and Online is where the revenue are, the crowd are just for show.
Agree, I think most of the top clubs don't really need a full stadium to generate the cash, it's as you said tv online etc, more of an audience there. It's just cosmetic to have a full stadium now, fans are fickle always will be. But it's sad to see an low crowd in a Top European match. The Fans are really Missing out. A European night is fantastic best I've had when at OT.
Fair comment, but doesn’t showing empty seats at a major event become a negative to sponsors?
Yes and no, it really depends. But you are right that a whole section of empty seats would be a bad impression. The number isnt so important, but it has a lot to do with the 'feelgood' spirit around the club, a big cheering crowd is a great thing and can definitely have a positive sponsor impact
Reads like the work of a bitter little boy. AMIRITE, guv?
City sacked the PR firm