Man City fans savagely mocked with more ’empty seats’ jokes on away trip to Romania

The football season is back, and so are all the jokes about Manchester City fans and empty seats.

With Pep Guardiola taking charge of his first competitive game of the club at home to Sunderland on Saturday, many expected the Etihad to be full to capacity as City fans welcomed in an exciting new era for their club. However, with a few clusters of unoccupied seats visible on TV, it wasn't long before tweets such as this one were doing the rounds... https://twitter.com/Ash_DC_/status/764520296078598144 Having beaten Sunderland 2-1 in their Premier League opener, City have travelled to Romania for the first leg of their Champions League qualifier against Steaua Bucharest. But not even a trip to the other side of the continent is enough to spare City supporters from being the butt of the empty seat jokes. When this Bucharest-based journalist's tweet started racking up the retweets, you had a sense of what was to come. https://twitter.com/Emishor/status/765470147608018944 And sure enough, minutes after the game had kicked off, the predictable happened. An image of (some of) the '450' City fans that had made the trip was being circulated. https://twitter.com/MourinhoMindset/status/765630954484404225 https://twitter.com/UnitedJosh/status/765629159787859968   https://twitter.com/EFCFansCorner/status/765625107486216194 https://twitter.com/Philswagielka/status/765624678190870529 https://twitter.com/RobertFulton78/status/765618050821394432 https://twitter.com/KemlynRoadStand/status/765625139048411136 https://twitter.com/TheAnfieldChat/status/765621814013952000 Those City fans that did make the trip saw their side take control of the tie in the first half. Goals from David Silva and Sergio Aguero put them two goals up at the break, despite the Argentine missing two - yes two - penalties. Read more: