Nothing breathtaking or, in truth, particularly gripping fill the back pages of today’s papers.
Several stories concern the various turnovers and wage structures of Premier League clubs and City always feature prominently in such articles these days, though whether financial break-downs and suchlike make riveting reading or not is open to question.
One snippet in the Daily Express is, however, a little mystifying.
Matthew Dunn, writing in his ‘Said & Dunn’ column, claims the Blues are trying to ‘bribe’ supporters into attending the upcoming match with Birmingham City.
“Money is not a worry at Eastlands but filling the stadium clearly is,” reckons Dunn. “And for the second week in a row, they are bribing fans with a junior shirt on top of a hugely reduced £30 adult-and-junior ticket.”
With an average gate this season of 45,202, the Blues are currently the third best supported club in England and are set to post a record City of Manchester Stadium average attendance - the highest home crowd, in fact, since the mid-1970s.
That doesn’t sound like a club struggling to fill their ground, does it?
Also, in an economy where every penny counts, is it not also to be commended that a club is not only offering a terrific ticket deal for a parent and child to attend a game, but also a junior home shirt, too?
If this is how Dunn defines ‘bribing', the definition in the dictionary I’ve been using all these years is incorrect
so i know lets charge £50 like they do at the swamp for these games and lets see Dunn say something in the lines of , RICH CITY FLECCE THERE FANS, what a @@@@, mind he could be a rag
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