It definitely is. My missus has a season ticket opposite side of the ground and it's consistently dead there. The few derby's i've been to there with her it's been silent that side too. The 4-1 this year we completely drowned them out, even at 4 down.
The 'Manchester Is Blue' Thread
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Fair enough but if the fans had gotten behind the players and gave them a raucous cheer, chants etc it could have spurned the team on. You should never underestimate the fans as the 12th man.
11 and 1/2 man, in this case.
This article is something else LOL. City fans are a delusional bunch. Read this if you want a good laugh.
http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/17/manchester-a-city-not-united-as-blue-and-red-converge/
Here are a few quotes:
Why is it that City fans are so vocal outside of the Emptyhad instead of being vocal inside of it? That place is dead half of the time.
http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/17/manchester-a-city-not-united-as-blue-and-red-converge/
Here are a few quotes:
Why is it that City fans are so vocal outside of the Emptyhad instead of being vocal inside of it? That place is dead half of the time.
Sheikhs are people too.
Going from the evidence currently being broadcast on Sky... bump 
Well I would imagine this season there are a lot of supporters of both clubs feeling very blue at the moment.
Also from the Guardian Matchtracker
8.25pm BST
25 mins It is almost silent in the Etihad.
Also from the Guardian Matchtracker
8.25pm BST
25 mins It is almost silent in the Etihad.
Watching the game on the tv. Danny Mills was trying to excuse the emptiness because its Easter Weekend and people are away. Its just empty there, it has nothing to do with Easter.
Looks like a fake tbf, Villa aren't even wearing their home kit...
Removed. My bad.
But the point still stands, their average crowd is way lower than their current stadium capacity, yet they want to expand the stadium.
If you build it, they will come.
No they won't. They haven't filled their stadium when they're four points off the title. They have no chance in an average game.
Or not.
I'd suspect when they expand it they will end up getting more than their current attendance, probably not much but they will get some more. In fairness to them a few of the empty seats will be season ticket holders who haven't gone to the game. It was rearranged so people might have had plans they couldn't rearrange etc.
The capacity isn't being extended just for City either, they have quite a few gigs and events on in there which would fill the stadium
Lots of blue seats turned up today.
Eh? That makes no sense.
They have one built and they struggle to fill it..
"If you build it they will come" is from a baseball movie (Field of Dreams). It was kind of a joke but if they add 10,000 seats they will fill them for the big games which might be worth the cost of construction.
Games don't come bigger than this.
You lot didn´t fill 45000 not very long ago.
This game was sold out. Few empty seats around the pitch because of the rain but I bet it was sold out.
They've got a bigger game on Sunday
They're a parody of themselves now.
Its "if you build it he will come"
Damn it, I was close! Okay, City build an extra 10,000 seats and Kevin Costner's dad will be the only one that shows up to sit in them.
Field of Dreams, like that film, I should have remembered.
Still gunna make me sick when City win it. Seeing fuxking Noel Gallagher celebrating. Eww. Nasri. Urgh. Another reason to hate Liverpool, making me want City to win the league.
It is Noel right? I can never remember which brother it is.
It is Noel right? I can never remember which brother it is.
Or even Shoeless Joe Jackson
They're all unbearable. The brothers, that is. I do still like "Don't look back in anger", though. Can't help it.
They need a bigger stadium for their 1 big game each season.
It does beggar belief when you hear City fans speak.
My favourites in that piece are:
1. United are a manufactured club, City are hardcore. Unbelievable, so from world war 2 until today we have been assembled piece by piece. Apparently during all that time we were successful, never had hard times and got the largest support through being successful. Interesting, I certainly don't recall my early years being successful and I seem to remember a certain 26 years of hurt as well. Also, absolutely no recognition that Manchester has a significant red following. If they asked their dads and their dads they would probably be told that they use to go to see both teams after the war. God knows when their bitterness and delusion started.
2. The vast majority of United fans have only experienced success. Have they seen the age groups of home and away going Reds. We not only have one of the oldest squads are match going supporters will be on zimmer frames soon. The youngsters can't afford to go. Sort of implies we are all JCL fans. They really haven't got a clue.
I worked for the GMP for a couple of years before I left Salford and the UK. Always found it interesting the number of City fans working there, all from South Manchester, giving it large about being die hard City (but actually not going to matches) and then being so bitter towards the Reds. They were only ever really happy if City won AND United lost, if we won it killed their weekend.
I have met those people, and they only like city because they don't like X player or Fergie. Strange how South Manchester is home to a lot of United fans, like me and our stadium, yet we get this lot!
I've never really got the whole Stockport is all City fans idea. Nearly everyone at my school supported United and only in the last 5 years have people wearing City shirts suddenly turned up.
Stockport isn't South Manchester! I'm on about Stretford, Old Trafford etc, you get a minority of people who support city for the reason that SalfordRed said.
If you go to city center after a City match, most of the buses from Piccadilly gardens with Blues on go in the direction of Stockport.
Most of the polls done also tend to suggest that the majority of people living in the South and East of Manchester say they are Blues fans. Doesn't mean there aren't reds there.
When United met City at Wembley we went down early and stayed in a Hotel and met a lone City fan staying there. We wound him up by asking if he was from Stockport, he looked at us strange and said he came from Salford. In his view Salford was more blue than red, and he was deadly serious.
South and East Manchester would house a lot of the City support (however little it is). I'm residing near Heaton Park and I rarely see Blues round this neck of the woods, and Blues in Salford/Trafford are as rare as Stevie Me Premier League medals.
I know what you mean and I've seen the polls and graphs in question, I was just saying that it doesn't really match my experience given how many people supported United compared to City amongst my friends and at my school.
Every game since the beginning of the 11/12 season has officially sold out.
Dry them eyes mate.
