JackSUFC
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Obviously over the last decade, Man City have won trophy after trophy, have arguably the World’s best Manager and squad of players, but are their older fans truly happy? Hear me out here.
Got off the tram at the Etihad yesterday and walked towards the away entrance but felt more like I was at a Christmas market than a football match. Tourists taking selfies, Hot Dog stands etc (Sadly I didn’t get to see the player catwalk thing). It was anything but the intimidation factor you usually feel walking through masses of home fans pre game. Inside the ground, the stadium had the atmosphere of a morgue.
They’ve sold their soul. They’ve truly become the definition of the sanitised, Premier League commercialism of today. It’s sad to see as they used to be a traditional, working class club, like us. Now they have a squad of players with no connection to Manchester, bar Phil Foden who barely plays.
Sure, it must be great to watch your team winning everything, but for me the novelty would wear off very quickly. Don’t think I’d even enjoy going to games expecting to win every week. There’s much more to football than that.
I hope we never, ever become like them. I think I’d stop going. I can’t be alone thinking that, surely?
Got off the tram at the Etihad yesterday and walked towards the away entrance but felt more like I was at a Christmas market than a football match. Tourists taking selfies, Hot Dog stands etc (Sadly I didn’t get to see the player catwalk thing). It was anything but the intimidation factor you usually feel walking through masses of home fans pre game. Inside the ground, the stadium had the atmosphere of a morgue.
They’ve sold their soul. They’ve truly become the definition of the sanitised, Premier League commercialism of today. It’s sad to see as they used to be a traditional, working class club, like us. Now they have a squad of players with no connection to Manchester, bar Phil Foden who barely plays.
Sure, it must be great to watch your team winning everything, but for me the novelty would wear off very quickly. Don’t think I’d even enjoy going to games expecting to win every week. There’s much more to football than that.
I hope we never, ever become like them. I think I’d stop going. I can’t be alone thinking that, surely?