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city bribing there fans

PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:59 pm
by CITYSTEVEDON
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

Re: city bribing there fans

PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:07 pm
by Mark (Blue Army)
It really is laughable, the only reason the club are doing these offers is to get rid of there stock not to 'bribe' the fans.

Re: city bribing there fans

PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:46 pm
by Dazzacity
Unreal..Where do they get these tossers from .

Re: city bribing there fans

PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 6:41 pm
by dikdik
I like the Daily Express... it's soft and strong and very long...

Re: city bribing there fans

PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 6:54 pm
by steveo_88
What's wrong in a harmless promotion or two to get an extra few people in the door who wouldn't normally think of coming to mid-week games especially when there's little to no away support "ahem" Wigan!

Re: city bribing there fans

PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:25 pm
by bluej
Hang on, so Premier League clubs are taking the game away from the masses by inflating ticket prices, but when they reduce them they are bribing the fans?

BROKEN BRITAIN

Re: city bribing there fans

PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:40 pm
by Beeks
'their'

That is all...

Re: city bribing there fans

PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:53 pm
by Ted Hughes
IanBishopsHaircut wrote:'their'

That is all...


Cheers Poindexter ;)

Re: city bribing there fans

PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:56 pm
by glossopblue
yeah right of course we are. wankers the fuckin lot of em!!!!

Re: city bribing there fans

PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:38 am
by M147WN
On the face of this and recent journalistic bollox re. the club we're all more than qualified to call ourselves journalists!
There are one or two decent ones but the vast majority couldn't write a shopping list!