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A football weekend…
Just wanted to tell a bit of a story about my weekend in Manchester. For context, we are a family of Bournemouth fans, the last PL away game we made it to was at Anfield just three days before the Atletico ‘super-spreader’ game at the start of the pandemic.
I’ve been to the Etihad before, watched Bournemouth lose 4-0 that day too. On that previous occasion I’d been with my mate and my father-in-law and really didn’t enjoy it; the away fans were squeezed into a very narrow fillet of all three tiers and there was no real scope for atmosphere. Also I didn’t really get all the corporate fluff around the stadium beforehand; seemed a bit over the top and detracting from the actual football match. This time, I had my 10yo with me and he absolutely loved it. Being a nice day they had loads of activities for kids outside the ground, table tennis, football games and the usual face-painting and so on. With my ‘dad’ hat on rather than the more laddish approach six years ago I could see how this stuff gets the kids hooked and City are clearly doing a great job. Would just be nice if away fans could go in the outside bar!
In the ground, they were filling up water bottles for free no questions asked – and letting you keep the lids, in a welcome relaxation of rules. Meat and potato pie was rubbish however. It is still a narrow section for away fans but given the smaller travelling support now we only had two tiers. The view is pretty good from anywhere to be honest and I am a big fan of the safe standing. City fans built up a fairly strong atmosphere for kickoff, welcoming Haaland and celebrating the title win but the blue smoke served only to hide the pitch for the first five minutes. As we weren’t anticipating much, our end was quiet apart from the usual small tiny quota who would still prefer Bournemouth to be in League 1. Unfortunately they were standing right next to us. Despite their throwback and abusive songs and self-professed ‘casuals’ attitude not once did I see these fans at Millwall, Luton or Huddersfield last season. You’re only embarrassing yourselves, lads. Props to the official club coach travel steward who put them in their place.
On the pitch, we’d kicked off then settled…
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