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Important to remember that Stuart Broad sarcastically absolutely clocked it from the start
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It boggles the mind but it really is as simple as that. There’s a group of consulting firms whose owners expect to be led to the trough whenever something like this happens, and if they are not they get mad. So our government pays them, every time. That’s just how the UK runs.
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THE CITIZENS TRUST - MANCHESTER CITY SUPPORTERS' UNION
STATEMENT ON PREMIER LEAGUE VERDICT
Have your say, join the trust: thecitizenstrust.org/join-th…
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good job we launched @MCFCtrust this year eh...
probs more important to join than ever, we'll reinstate the £5 discount *again* as of tomorrow morning, but there is also a free membership (just doesn't come with voting/shareholder rights)
take a look 👉 thecitizenstrust.org/join-th…
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"this is a league-wide crisis that should be addressed at every club, regardless of rivalries + history. Without drastic changes, there will be no rivalries in the future vision for football shared by the decision makers."
Spot on. We are in full support 🤝
On Sunday there will be no flag display on The Stretford End. In its place, a single banner will hang above the players’ tunnel with a clear message to the owners, directors and decision-making staff at Manchester United:
“THE WAY YOU TREAT US IS A DISGRACE”
This isn’t a ‘TRA’ message, it’s a message on behalf of every genuine fan group, match-going supporter, supporters’ club and fan representative who has either contacted us directly or been negatively impacted by the recent behaviour of The Club. It’s an honest, heartfelt cry for recognition from the maligned, vilified, and misrepresented beating heart of our football club – the generational match-going supporters.
Neither is this solely a ‘Manchester United’ problem, this is a league-wide crisis that should be addressed at every club, regardless of rivalries and history. Without drastic changes, there will be no rivalries in the future vision for football shared by the decision makers.
Whilst we still advocate for a change in ownership, we believe that there should be a realistic roadmap for any protest if it is to act as a catalyst for change.
Match-going supporters should be prioritised over all others within the Club’s Fan Engagement model and all aspects of the Fans’ Forum process should be reviewed & improved to ensure that its fit for purpose. Dedicated fan representation that engages openly and regularly with the match-going supporters and proactively fights to ensure that they are treated as a priority by The Club is essential. Unless our generational match-going support is given a real voice that is actually listened to, the little that remains of our fan culture will soon be gone forever.
TRA aren’t a protest group, we’re an ‘atmosphere’ group but we’ve never shied away from making our position clear when we believe not doing so would be to the detriment of the interests of match-going supporters. We hope that you’ll understand and support our decision and that those of you who are asking for meaningful change and are able to help will stand up and be counted when called upon in the near future.
Until then, we’ll continue to fully back and support the players and manager throughout, starting with the derby on Sunday.
MUFC
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If you reckon you can help out on collections, then let us know - you'll be joining a top team of fellow Blues! 🩵
We're proud to have been the first fans foodbank in the country to regularly collect at women's games, we particularly need help at those collections if you can 🤞
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Our volunteers are back Sunday, entering our SEVENTH SEASON of collecting donations for Mancunians struggling in our communities via @McrFoodbank 🤝
Blues or Cherries, come say hi at the usual spot 12 - 13:30. Share the news, we've missed yous! 🩵
#HungerDoesntWearClubColours
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Only a small part of the Kevin Keegan story but I was completely in love with his City team, Ali Benarbia, Eyal Berkovic, Shaun Wright-Phillips etc. You had to be *such* a football optimist and romantic to build a team like that in the Championship, especially 25 years ago. RIP.
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We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas
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Hi all, Alex here! I am pleased and proud to announce my new book, 'For the Love: How Football Supporters Can Change the World' 🎉!
It's about football supporters, community activism and hope at a time when that can feel hard to come by.
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Liberal economics tells us this isn't possible because the landlords will compete with each other to lower prices, in reality landlords aren't stupid enough to start self-ruinous price wars and instinctively understand that the tenants are the enemy!
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the Club's 10-game policy needs to be scrapped and reworked with a fans first approach. As long as the seat is full, it shouldn't matter.
Our members agree, most Blues agree - this approach is insensitive at best, discriminatory at worst.
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Our Memberships Officer has been doing their best to support many Blues who have reached out to us at the Trust (whether Trust members or not), and the personal stories we've read that the Club are refusing to listen to are truly upsetting.
There's still time to sort it @ManCity
So my appeal for my and my son’s season ticket renewal failed. Kicked out after 50 years of supporting the club. Appalling by City. So upset @ManCity
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Another nail in the coffin for the "stop whinging" and "protesting doesn't work" brigades 🤝
We welcome @LFC decision to no longer proceed with its previously announced three-year ticket pricing model. Thank you to everyone who helped support action during this.
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been thinking about this all day, more I do the more it sinks in how much of a win it's been.
this is vindication for all who "moaned" online, fan groups giving up free time to campaign, fans getting off their arses to protest.
if you organise & keep pressure on, we can win ✊
Manchester City freeze season ticket and matchday prices for the 2026/27 season.
The club have also changed the unpopular ticket transfer system and will have a new category for some midweek games (£25 adult tickets)
Well done to all involved 👏 #mcfc
manchestereveningnews.co.uk/…
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🚨BREAKING Deal agreed to end bins strike after 15 months!
It is an absolute abhorrence that this deal has been blocked not just once but twice by unelected unaccountable commissioners and officers at Birmingham City Council.
Congratulations to the Unite members who stood firm throughout, backed by their union.
“The move made today by the leader of the council is a vindication of the bin workers’ struggle for a decent deal” @UniteSharon
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Well said Pep!
Money can always be found "another way" that isn't taken out of the pockets of loyal supporters 🤝🩵
Pep Guardiola on #ManCity freezing season ticket prices: "Hats off for my Chairman and for my CEO. This business, it doesn't work without the fans.
"Imagine playing how it was in the Covid time. I'm pretty sure the club needs financially and has other resources to buy the best players as possible, to continue to pay players, and it's necessary. But when the club thinks, 'We can find [money] another way', and the situation in the world is difficult, and not increasing the season ticket [prices] means a lot.
"Again, how special is this club, how good it is. Hopefully tomorrow they'll come and especially at the end of the season in the last home, they can be there..." 🩵
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Protests and fan organisation has resulted in 2 years of consecutive price freezes. Goes to show what fan power can do 👏 well done to all fighting the good fight for our club
Following extensive consultations with its fan engagement network, City Matters, Manchester City can confirm its approach to pricing for the 2026/27 season.
ℹ️ mancity.co/2627TicketingUpda…
