New2City

My cost to attend a home game far eclipses yours!

9 for me! But I'm an American who has to travel quite the distance, so I think that's pretty good

I had tried email, but he was completely unresponsive there. 3 emails, no replies.

Nothing will top that for me either. I was laughing so hard at work yesterday reading all the comments, I had to explain myself to my staff. As Americans, I had to start with the basic stuff, the football pyramid, relegation and promotion, derby matches, etc... but once i laid the foundations and started telling them all the funny rovers stories I could think of, I had them all in stitches as well.

As a resident of the USA, I cordially disagree. We don't want them either.

Yes, I'm afraid it's made me more optimistic and hopeful than a typical City fan!

It sounds nicer than saying "brainwashed" or "Stockholm Syndrome" ?

I can't guarantee, but my win % is better than a lot of managers!

You can blame a fellow City fan for that... he promised to take me to a match if I ever came over to visit, and silly me, I didn't even ask what team or anything. UK Border Control always gives me funny looks when I say I'm coming over for the footy and they ask what team I am going to see! I've been to 12 matches in 5 trips since 2013.

and out of date crisps?

I have been to Bath, and yes, it was a very nice place to visit. I will keep this one in mind.

I do have a membership. I always buy one when I'm traveling over just to help out with getting tickets. I guess I was thinking the match always sold out at the season ticket stage.

I have reached out to the SLO, but no response yet. I know impatience is quite an American trait All the fun of being a City away fan is the atmosphere and vibe, singing along, which would be missing if I sat in the home end. I am up to date on all of my immunizations though, just in case

I've been a City fan for 10 years now since my first trip across the pond in 2013, and I'll be returning later this fall for a couple weeks. I always try to take in a couple games, see some new grounds, etc but this time I've apparently picked awful dates for my trip I'll be in England from October 27 - November 6, and the first weekend is unfortunately Cardiff away which I know will be impossible to get tickets to, so I'm looking for some alternative recommendations for that weekend. I thought maybe rugby, but I didn't see fixtures posted yet. Or women's league? Something non-league? I'm good to travel pretty much anywhere in the country. Fingers crossed we make it to the 4th round of the Carabao Cup and get a nice draw, and I'll definitely be getting tickets to see us at home on November 4 against the Owls. Thanks in advance!

I have all the tickets for all the matches I've attended over the past 10 years, and I hope to add to the collection when I hop across the pond later this year!

That's the one It was an adventure. I flew from the US (after a week in Italy) and met a online friend who promised to take me to a game. We missed the bus back to Reading, so we took a black cab (£££) and then I took the train back to London Paddington. I fell asleep on the train and woke up about 30 seconds before the train left for Cardiff! Waking up any later would have been terribly inconvenient. Was that really almost 9 years ago? My, how time flies.

My very first city game was City v Wycombe... October 2013 Obviously not a glory match or even a good result. Clearly an excellent introduction into being a City fan!

You can also buy tickets MONTHS in advance, something this American super struggled with when trying to see City on my trips across the pond.

Was at Charlton in February of 2016; friend's dad had bet Tomlin would be first scorer. His penalty was like a £80 cash out and drinks all around!

Merry Christmas from Alaska! As Santa leaves the North Pole for his annual trip, a winter storm is blowing in, potentially bringing us up to a metre of snow in the next week (with about 2/3 of that coming this weekend).

As an American, every sportsball game I've been to here has had in-seat service, which you do pay heavily for, so taking in my first game in England was a bit of a culture shock. What do you mean I have to go get it myself? But also, explains the obesity % of Americans compared to everywhere else in the world.

Why isn't "phonetically" spelled phonetically?

In laymans terms, no financial organization would want to lend money to a company with zero assets, inadequate cash flow, especially with specialized collateral that cannot be liquidated to offset the potential chargeoff of the loan. I'm pretty sure we are on the same page here. It's an extremely risky investment. Isn't that why they are looking more for a private investor as a bank wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole?

I work in commercial lending (in the USA), but we certainly look at the attractability of the collateral to help determine if we are going to do the loan and at what interest rate. It's one thing to end up repossessing a commercial building; we can sell it or keep it and rent it out for cash flow. It's another thing entirely to take specialized collateral that has no market. Not only do we end up charging off the loan balance and lose the income stream of interest payments, but now we own something with no value as we can't sell it. A triple loss, really. So, we charge a lot more interest and even a higher origination fee to help offset that, unless we decline the loan in the first place.

I'd believe zero. Any number higher than that is surely a pisstake.