Man City empty seats idiots detract from an important issue

Everyone has done it.

Your team aren't playing that night but your rivals are so you feel like you have to spend your evening watching them and trying to tweet screenshots of the crowd whenever you spot empty seats. Or, if you can't see any then just Photoshop them in like one individual did recently.

Oh wait, not everyone has done it because most people accept that life is too short to waste it being that sad. Except plenty still do, and Manchester City's match with Brentford on Tuesday was another occasion for some to bask in some world-class basic screenshotting.

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Everyone is entitled to spend their time doing whatever they like, but you do wonder if these people realise that when they think they're being smart they actually just come across stupid or ignorant. Whatever point they think they're making either doesn't apply, or is happening across many clubs in the country.

Presumably nobody is callous enough to mock ordinary fans for not being able to afford to go to every game, particularly in a world where poverty chanting at matches is rightly condemned. Beyond any such hypocrites, an important and interesting topic in the game is reduced to ridicule for the sake of a few retweets.

The best kind of examples are the ones who think this is some kind of smoking gun that condemns City of the charges they are accused of by the Premier League of misrepresenting their finances. As if an investigation over many years was definitely overkill when @SalahKing or @Berrada7 has spotted 20 empty seats together in the family stand at the Etihad to crack the case.

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