Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Manchester Citys stay-away fans are an unintended consequence of FFP | Paul Wilson

The Champions League is what every club aspires to but it aint cheap and the new bottom line is that clubs need to make even more money from their supporters

Premier League prices defy very culture that built the game

Manchester City struggled once again with the first home match of a Champions League campaign on Tuesday, but at least Paul Scholes (on television) and Rio Ferdinand (on Twitter) enjoyed themselves counting the empty seats at the Etihad.


There were roughly 10,000 missing fans for the Roma game, making Citys Were not really here song seem unusually appropriate and giving United supporters and former players endless opportunity to make unfavourable comparisons between the shallowness of the Etihad atmosphere and the boiling cauldron of excitement that is Old Trafford on European nights.


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