Wednesday, 1st October, 2014
Manchester United legends Paul Scholes and Rio Ferdinand have criticised the atmosphere at Manchester City's Etihad Stadium during last night's Champions League clash against Roma.
Having lost their opening Champions League game to Bayern Munich, the Citizens were in desperate need of a win against the Italian giants.
37,509 people turned out to watch the match, which ended in a 1-1 draw, well down on the stadium's 45,500 capacity for Champions League matches.
And former Manchester United midfielder Scholes was not impressed, being quoted as saying by the BBC: "When you come here it just doesn't have a European night feel to it. You go to Liverpool, you go to Old Trafford, you go to Chelsea, they have a special feeling for it.
"Do the crowd realise how lucky they are to be in this competition? I don't think they do."
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Another Manchester United great, Rio Ferdinand, took to Twitter to suggest Manchester City do not need to increase the capacity of the Etihad Stadium as planned.
"How many empty seats are there at the city vs Roma game by the way….big CL game & fans would rather Ramsays Kitchen or something at home", he tweeted.
"Expanding the stadium for what though?? For who though???"
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