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@tommmmmmm
I’m hoping the fact that spurs haven’t had to move (though it’s taken all sorts of dealings and machinations) from our neighbourhood means that we don’t get that disenfranchisement, despite the idiocy of our impending season ticket pricing policy alienating our core support.
There’s something about the rituals of going to a match, the places that you gather that can’t be replicated when you move, and which most clubs in the rush for the cash seem to forget about. Staying close by means that stuff isn’t lost.
I remember riding past Maine road when I lived in Manchester and being in awe of this massive stadium that just appeared out of this mass of terraced housing. And thinking how inextricably linked to that community that club was.
You can’t move too far away from your roots no matter how much financial incentive there is if the fans are going to have a shit time...In the case of Man City, did winning alleviate the pain of moving stadiums? And do city fans feel that stadium is “theirs”?
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our neighbourhood
Where is that exactly?
PS Shouldn't you be catching up on sleep or something?
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though it’s taken all sorts of dealings and machinations)
Some of them illegal, allegedly.
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I’m sure with Man City, the ground was a selling point for Shinawatra and then the Abu Dhabi mob when they invested so presumably all has been forgiven.
None of City fans I know seem to pine for Maine Road.
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though it’s taken all sorts of dealings and machinations
And fires
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mikec
Ha. Where’s this from?
The fact is that most clubs have had to move. Some have adapted and settled in but it’s completely killed the experience of going to watch some teams. Bolton were ripped out of the town and are now six miles away on a horrible retail park. I’ve got mates who won’t go because the trains are shit and you end up drinking in a Harvester before the game.