It’s probably a piece I least like doing (less mentioned about them the better, especially in a City Blog) but around this time of year I calculate my season-long-collated attendance results of both City and Manyoo. More accurately, I look at the empty seats of both teams in every game – league, domestic cups and Europe.
Why? Well…simply put, having taken grief from embittered fans for many, many, MANY agonising seasons; it’s become very apparent to a lot of us Blues that they no longer have any sticks left to beat us with apart from one, which has been getting increasingly worn out over the last few season and, which, has the words etched on it, “Empty seats”.
So starting in season 2012-13, I started to collate my own statistics…
First of all…
…sticks now consigned to the garden-waste
recycling bin:
“You’ll never finish above us” - BINNED!
You’ll never be as rich as us” - BINNED!
“You’ll never get into Europe” - BINNED!
“You’ll never win a trophy” - BINNED!
“You’ll never win the Premier League” - BINNED!
And, so, they pull out the only stick they really have left, which is, of course, the “empty seats stick”.
Seasons
gone by (since I started collating my stats)
2012-13 season - Manyoo
finished 1st and Manchester City finished 2nd:
Manchester City capacity Manyoo capacity
47,805
domestic 75,765 all competitions
45,500
Europe
Manchester City’s least number Manyoo’s
least number
of empty seats (highest attendance) of empty seats (highest attendance)
30 v Real Madrid (Champs League) 160
v Reading (Premier League)
Manchester City’s most number Manyoo’s most number
of empty seats (lowest attendance) of empty seats (lowest attendance)
19,790
v Aston Villa (League Cup) 29,407 v Newcastle Utd (Lgue Cup)
Manchester City’s number of Manyoo’s number of
empty seats all season empty seats all season
45,797 51,892
-
Least number of empty seats at a match goes to
Manchester City
-
Most number of empty seats at a match to
Manyoo
-
An overall, season different of 6,095 more empty
seats at Manyoo
Summary of the season: Manchester City come out WAY on
top in this first season of ‘stats gathering’, with the least number of empty
seats at any one game as well as seeing Manyoo with the highest number of empty
seats at any one match. The most empty seats overall throughout the whole season
also goes to Manyoo and, therefore, the
last stick is very quietly put away in a draw somewhere…
2013-14 season – Manchester
City finished 1st and Manyoo finished 7th:
Manchester City capacity Manyoo capacity
47,805
domestic 75,765
all competitions
45,500
Europe
Manchester City’s least number Manyoo’s least number
of empty seats (highest attendance) of empty seats (highest attendance)
79 v Barcelona (Champs League) 397
v Aston Villa (Premier League)
Manchester City’s most number Manyoo’s most number
of empty seats (lowest attendance) of empty seats (lowest attendance)
22,286 v Wigan Athletic (League Cup) 17,102 v Norwich City (League Cup)
Manchester City’s number of Manyoo’s number of
empty seats all season empty seats all season
82,786 51,097
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Least number of empty seats at a match goes to
Manchester City again
-
Most number of empty seats at a match, however, to Manchester
City too
-
An overall, season different of 31,689 more empty
seats at Manchester City
Summary of the season: Although Manchester City claim
the least number of empty seats at any one match; Manchester City also have the
most-empty seats at any one game this season as well as the overall
empty seats record and, so, the last stick found again and waved
around for the mere difference of 1,093 more-average empty seats than Manyoo per
game. Strange attendance results after the previous season and, also, in a season where we won the Premier League and Manyoo came 7th…
2014-15 season – Manchester
City finished 2nd and Manyoo finished 4th:
Manchester City capacity Manyoo capacity
46,300
domestic (a change) 75,765
all competitions
45,500
Europe (a change)
Manchester City’s least number Manyoo’s least number
of empty seats (highest attendance) of empty seats (highest attendance)
357
v CSKA Moscow (Champs League) 280 v QPR
(Premier League)
Manchester City’s most number Manyoo’s most number
of empty seats (lowest attendance) of empty seats (lowest attendance)
13,954 v Aston Villa (League Cup) 1,254
v Cambridge Utd (F.A.Cup)
Manchester City’s number of Manyoo’s number of
empty seats all season empty seats all season
49,533 8,620
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Least number of empty seats at a match goes to
Manyoo this time
-
Most number of empty seats at a match to Manchester
City again
-
An overall, season different of 40,913 more empty
seats at Manchester City
Summary of the season: Despite finishing a creditable 2nd
after a late surge; we had an awful season performances-wise and we don’t come
out of this too well at all. Manyoo take all the
records this season – the lowest number of empty seats at any one match whilst,
at the same time, we have the most number of empty seats at any one game. Chuck
in an average per game of 1,515 more empty seats per game than Manyoo too
(although I have to add that this season we played 7 more home games than our
neighbours from Trafford to accumulate those
stats) and ‘the
stick’ has now been varnished and even given its own rack on the wall!
THIS SEASON
Manchester
City finished 4th and Manyoo finished 5th:
Manchester City capacity Manyoo capacity
55,097
domestic (a change again) 75,765
all competitions
53,000
Europe (a change again)
Manchester City’s least number Manyoo’s least number
of empty seats (highest attendance) of empty seats (highest attendance)
0 v PSG (Champs League) 220
v Swansea City (Prem League)
Was actually 39 OVER allowed
capacity for European games
Manchester City’s most number Manyoo’s most number
of empty seats (lowest attendance) of empty seats (lowest attendance)
16,851
v Hull City (League Cup) 19,028 v Ipswich Town (League Cup)
Manchester City’s number of Manyoo’s number of
empty seats all season empty seats all season
87,802 56,307
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Least number of empty seats at a match goes back to
Manchester City
-
Most number of empty seats at a match to
Manyoo this time
-
An overall, season different of 31,495 more empty
seats still at Manchester City
Summary of the season: Manchester City claim the award this season for the least number of
empty seats at a match whilst Manyoo, this season, also have to ‘suck up’
having the emptiest number of seats at any one game. Although Manchester City still have
the most overall emptiest seats at an average, this season, of 1,105; the season
just gone sees the largest number of empty seats Manyoo have had in the last 4
seasons by a figure of 4,415.
And yet
many of them, this season, have STILL pathetically taken the newly-polished
stick from his rack on the wall and waved it at us vigorously whenever they get
an embitteRED attack of ‘lemons & limes disease’! I would say, I alone,
have had this pulled on me at least 12 times this season by various individuals
masquerading as Manyoo fans who, ironically,
never - or hardly ever - attend Scaffold Trafford.
Whatever next? “Our
pies are nicer than yours”?
