Manchester Metropolis and Arsenal meet this afternoon.

The 2 finest groups within the nation clashing on the Etihad.

That is an ongoing battle, as these final two seasons have seen Manchester Metropolis and Arsenal preventing it out as champions and runners-up, the identical very a lot on the cardboard for this 2024/25 marketing campaign.

Nonetheless, the pair of them share a significant downside.

Manchester Metropolis and Arsenal struggling to persuade their followers to show up frequently.

Each the Emirates and the Etihad infamous for what number of empty seats which are on present at so many matches.

The 2 golf equipment taking drastic measures, threatening their season ticket holders that in the event that they don’t flip up for extra video games, they face the opportunity of dropping their season tickets.

Manchester Metropolis used to require their season ticket holders to show as much as solely 10 of the 19 Premier League matches every season, now that has been raised to a minimal of 14.

For Arsenal season ticket holders, this season their 4 league matches within the Champions League are included of their season ticket, their membership has ordered them to make use of their seat for not less than 19 of the 23 Premier League and Champions League (league) matches.

Manchester United season ticket holders are additionally below orders to show up extra. Beforehand they needed to flip up for not less than 14 Premier League matches, now that has been raised to fifteen of 19 this season.

It’s a shame.

Fashionable soccer gone mad.

So many followers of those golf equipment would like to have the possibility to go to matches, but different followers pleased to depart their seats unfilled on so many events.

I noticed this story on the Manchester Night Information (see under) and their report was sparked by so many Manchester Metropolis followers failing to show up for his or her 4-1 win over Ipswich in August, their membership sending them a warning/reminder after not bothering to show up.

The factor is as effectively, this was a 3pm on a Saturday non-televised match, not an 8pm on a Monday evening Sky Sports activities recreation. Clearly, so many Manchester Metropolis followers not bothering to show up as a result of it was ‘solely’ Ipswich.

I might hate to see this ever occur at Newcastle United. There’ll all the time be events the place some Newcastle followers find yourself discovering it not possible to get to matches and use their season tickets, for every kind of causes. Nonetheless, if you end up speaking 1000’s of followers it clearly isn’t the case on the likes of Arsenal, Manchester Metropolis and Manchester United.

Manchester Night Information report – 28 August 2024:

‘Manchester Metropolis season ticket holders who missed the Ipswich recreation swiftly discovered an e-mail ready for them from the membership.

The message famous that they’d not attended Saturday’s match and reminded them that they have to use their season card for not less than 14 of the 19 Premier League video games on the Etihad in the event that they need to preserve their ticket for subsequent season. That quantity has been bumped up from 10 in recent times, that means followers now should attend greater than two-thirds of matches the place they used to should attend simply over half.

[Manchester] Metropolis are considered one of a variety of Premier League golf equipment to have launched minimal quotas for followers to make use of their season tickets. [Manchester] United moved their threshold up from 14 to fifteen this season, whereas Arsenal require followers to make use of their ticket for 20 out of 23 matches (together with 4 Champions League video games).

Some followers really feel that they need to have the ability to attend as many or as few video games as potential as soon as they’ve purchased an annual ticket, though the quota is in place to make sure the environment is pretty much as good as it may be as typically as it may be in addition to to cease folks utilizing season tickets simply to allow them to guarantee a seat for sure matches.

If anybody can’t attend a match for any motive, it nonetheless counts as their ticket getting used in the event that they switch their ticket to a different fan, in the event that they record it on the ticket alternate, or in the event that they donate to Metropolis within the Group.’