Seems confirmed by Andy Mitten
Absolute cowards
100% afraid they'll be shown up as not being the "real" Manchester team
Absolute cowards
100% afraid they'll be shown up as not being the "real" Manchester team
U18 FA Youth Cup Semi Final - Old Trafford 7pm GMT.
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What a joke.
And some on here want these cnuts to win the league...
That is so Manchester City post 2007.
If they can’t arrange their main stadium, i’m sure we are more than happy to lend them ours for a share of the proceeds. Would defeat their intentions i guess. Should be a requirement that the final is played at a proper stadium.
Seems confirmed by Andy Mitten
Absolute cowards
100% afraid they'll be shown up as not being the "real" Manchester team
Hahaha. They've absolutely bottled that.
Would have been 10,000 reds there.
Massive missed opportunity for the players aswell. Would have been a great chance to play in front of such a big crowd.
I hope this gets to be a big news story in Manchester, for some of those lads that have been through their system, a night at the Etihad to try and win the FA Youth Cup would have been the best thing that they ever got to do. Manchester City have put their pride before allowing them to have that. They can not claim to be doing what is best for the players that come on board with them in their academy and then be pulling ego-driven nonsense like this.
How utterly pathetic by City. fecking wankers.
Should still be played over 2 legs, home and away.
Not surprised. Oil's become too expensive for flying in fake fans to fill up a larger stadium.
Plastic Club
If they had been playing Palace instead you can bet it would have been at the Emptyhad no problem
Looks like we offered to play the match at OT but City said no
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cjepxdpd5exo
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cjepxdpd5exo
How do I get tickets at this pathetic little setup then?
Yep. Two years ago they played Leeds in the final, and of course it was at the Etihad.
While there is an 11-day gap between their match against Crystal Palace and the last game of the campaign against Aston Villa, club officials argue playing the final in that space will rob them of essential time to complete construction work on the North Stand, which is planned to open for Villa's visit.
The club also have a test event booked for 20 May.
Sums up how pathetic and tinpot they are.
Absolutely shit scared of how it would’ve made them look.
Absolutely shit scared of how it would’ve made them look.
I think they had similar dilemma when they won it a couple of years back against Leeds. Leeds wanted something like 20k tickets and got about 4K of total 20k attendance. Moving to OT would actually be really good experience for their own players, large hostile crowd etc. real shame, really toned down a huge occasion for this young players
The latest is 'in due course'. I'm starting to think it will be a bad allocation too, like just one stand or some equally pathetic shit. What a wasted opportunity for the city and the revenue could have gone to a decent cause.
FA Youth cup final was at OT a few years back and a very good turnout, Forrest I think, I took my old man.
Well said
Less than 1000 tickets for United fans.
Absolute joke - bitter blue bastards !
This is a great example of almost the gentrification of football fan culture.
The types of people that would have turned up (both red and blue) would have been mainly local with a higher percentage of those that are working class. . These are the kind of people they don't want associated with clubs anymore.
They'd rather lose money in the short term and lose out on a fantastic atmosphere created by 40,000+ then welcome some "undesirables"
The types of people that would have turned up (both red and blue) would have been mainly local with a higher percentage of those that are working class. . These are the kind of people they don't want associated with clubs anymore.
They'd rather lose money in the short term and lose out on a fantastic atmosphere created by 40,000+ then welcome some "undesirables"
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Its really that City have very little history as a big club and because of the way that they've achieved success not being built on the club and community itself but on foreignmoney that only gives platitudes to the city, its easy for them to take a cynical view of things like this and kill the game for the sake of saving face
JJ Gabriels dad blames the FA for allowing this to happen, not City.
Doesn't want to burn any bridges I assume...
Doesn't want to burn any bridges I assume...
And he is right. It is City’s choice to do what is best for them. It is on the FA (and the Premier League with PL2, when City broke the rules there) to take action and make sure a suitable stadium is provided and to change it when there isn’t. City do what they want because they consistently are allowed to.
Allocation of less than 1k according to the BBC article.
The FA must step in here. All because the Berties are afraid of being outnumbered at the Emptyhad. This is the biggest day of these lads careers so far and possibly ever in some of their cases
Tickets sold out in 5 mins,
Thanks for sharing, first time I've seen an actual reason for their decision.
Fair play to MUST
Would it not make sense to play the final at a large ground based in the north west if they dont want it to be played at ot?
Surely Everton's new ground would be an acceptable compromise when players family and friends can't get tickets.
Surely Everton's new ground would be an acceptable compromise when players family and friends can't get tickets.
I'm not a huge fan of Simon Stone but fair play to him pushing the right agenda here.
Seems too late now unfortunately and no will for change from the FA anyway
Maybe they will look at rules around it for future seasons
Given City are the only team incapable of hosting FA youth cup finals at their ground, maybe they should be barred from hosting them?
City struggling to sell out their allocation, just give it to us.
Latest Talk of the devils podcast said United have been given 900+ tickets.
Just because the useless tw@ts wouldn’t pause “construction” work for one day and have the game there… and because they knew United fans would outnumber them … definitely would have gone.