You're obviously on the wind up, but it's interesting that both Man City and Liverpool have extended their grounds to 55 and 54,000, yet both can't sell out in certain big games themselves which is one of the worries that people have if we started at 55,000. Not sure whether LFC were offering their £9 tickets for local fans for the Man United game the other night, but for them to be 1,200 down on Capacity is pretty poor.
Man City often struggle to sell out CL games as well.
Then again, it doesn't surprise me too much as before both clubs expanded, neither had averaged over 50,000 in a season like we have done before, so perhaps the local matchgoing fanbase just isn't there for either of those clubs when they play a big game mid week?
We on the other hand are selling out our 40,000 stadium with weeks to spare with £35-£40 tickets for a lot of games, despite thousands of terrible obstructed views.
I am looking forward to us showing our neighbours how it's done when we move to the new Stadium.