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TimperleyTangerine

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So I’ve just read that of the 8000 fans at the City v Spurs final, only 50% will be real fans, no doubt with corporate looked after and some hangers on. Nothing changes in the approach of football hierarchy.

I know some tickets will go to NHS etc, but how many and why is it necessary. The best way to reward these fantastic individuals is with decent pay, not free tickets.

Worse still and not good for the play-offs, no u18’s are being allowed in. That‘s a disgrace, when that age group is not entitled to a jab. Quite how is it safe for them to attend school or uni, or work, but not be allowed into an almost deserted football stadium, filled mostly with people who have been vacinated?

This age group is the most tested, with lateral flow tests twice weekly. All fans attending need to have a flow test in advance, so why can that also not apply to u18s.

I can say with certainty that I won’t be attending any games without my son. It‘s outright discrimination and I hope clubs apply pressure, because this is likely to carry over into next season.

Sadly, many won’t give a toss, despite the fact that these kids have already lost so much due to COVID.
 
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My Granddaughter has had to be picked up from school today with Winter Vomiting disease which is going around the school.

My poor daughter already has our grandson off school with severe Cortisone withdrawal symptoms, now this on top and starting a new job on Thursday. Life, for her, is a bugger presently, and there is little we can do to help apart from cook and shop for her.
 
Curryman said:
My Granddaughter has had to be picked up from school today with Winter Vomiting disease which is going around the school.

My poor daughter already has our grandson off school with severe Cortisone withdrawal symptoms, now this on top and starting a new job on Thursday. Life, for her, is a bugger presently, and there is little we can do to help apart from cook and shop for her.
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Incredibly difficult for parents and kids, and those supporting them. Hope the grandkids get better quickly.
 
Curryman said:
My Granddaughter has had to be picked up from school today with Winter Vomiting disease which is going around the school.

My poor daughter already has our grandson off school with severe Cortisone withdrawal symptoms, now this on top and starting a new job on Thursday. Life, for her, is a bugger presently, and there is little we can do to help apart from cook and shop for her.
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It’s not “there is little” Wilf - you are doing your best to help and I’m sure your help is very much appreciated, hope they all get well soon.
 
Wizaard said:
If the child is a season ticket holder then its just wrong that they can't get a ticket. Might be different for playoffs as there is less corporate interest
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Hopefully, if we get there.

The restrictions are well over the top, even for a test event. They were quite relaxed at the one we had at Bloomfield Rd compared to the Corabao Cup Final.
 
20togo said:
It should be 4 thousand from each club. Ridiculous that in the situation we are in that tickets are allocated to anyone else including NHS staff.
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Agree 20’s
It goes without saying that NHS workers have bee stalwarts throughout this pandemic but there are also thousands of unsung heroes but regardless of their heroics it seems totally ludicrous that they should be offered tickets instead of genuine supporters.
I do wonder who comes up with these ideas and I would love to know just exactly how many have been given to NHS and local residents.
 
But let's face it, as much as we all disagree with it, t'was ever thus at Wembley.

Back to the old ground and 100k capacity for Cup Final day. I think I'm right in saying that the official allocation for each club was 26-27k? So just under half the tickets distributed to all league clubs, FA officials, family of players, Battersea Dog's Home, Santa's Elves and Bobby Charlton.

A good idea in principle, sadly spoilt by the tickets mainly eventually finding their way to more fans at vastly inflated prices.

And since the creation of the overpriced, money pit replacement it's gone down a new route of thousands of corporate seats that are always embarrassingly empty 10 minutes either side of halftime. Just like the equivalent at The Open, those nearest the clubhouse that magically fill up with the leaders in sight of home. Or Wimbledon, for that matter.

There seems to have been a lot of good work done by various fan groups over the years, but they've sadly stopped short of organising a coordinated protest of boycotting something like a final or an England friendly maybe to highlight our game's awful self serving administration.
 
CGP1 said:
But let's face it, as much as we all disagree with it, t'was ever thus at Wembley.

Back to the old ground and 100k capacity for Cup Final day. I think I'm right in saying that the official allocation for each club was 26-27k? So just under half the tickets distributed to all league clubs, FA officials, family of players, Battersea Dog's Home, Santa's Elves and Bobby Charlton.

A good idea in principle, sadly spoilt by the tickets mainly eventually finding their way to more fans at vastly inflated prices.

And since the creation of the overpriced, money pit replacement it's gone down a new route of thousands of corporate seats that are always embarrassingly empty 10 minutes either side of halftime. Just like the equivalent at The Open, those nearest the clubhouse that magically fill up with the leaders in sight of home. Or Wimbledon, for that matter.

There seems to have been a lot of good work done by various fan groups over the years, but they've sadly stopped short of organising a coordinated protest of boycotting something like a final or an England friendly maybe to highlight our game's awful self serving administration.
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Spot on post. It's no surprise that money talks but endlessly sickening all the same. How is Wembley doing anyway? Wasn't it built on a mountain of debt? Do I recall sometime before the pandemic a hoohah over a botched attempt to flog it off?
 
CGP1 said:
So just under half the tickets distributed to all league clubs, FA officials, family of players, Battersea Dog's Home, Santa's Elves and Bobby Charlton.

A good idea in principle, sadly spoilt by the tickets mainly eventually finding their way to more fans at vastly inflated prices.

There seems to have been a lot of good work done by various fan groups over the years, but they've sadly stopped short of organising a coordinated protest of boycotting something like a final or an England friendly maybe to highlight our game's awful self serving administration.
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They should have allocated some to Snow Whites seven dwarves, then at least someone would have been happy.

You've made some excellent points though. FSA where are you?
 
I wouldn't be surprised if many of the NHS staff and local residents sell their tickets on the black market, in the unlikely event they can get away with it.

Either way, most of them will have absolutely no interest and won't bother going.
 
It’s difficult to comprehend the incompetence of how the FA can make such a monumental cockup of allocating a paltry 8000 tickets, this is a real kick in the teeth for football and the true fans.
 
The answer is very simple, change only comes when fans apply pressure by routinely boycotting games. However, that will never happen at the top level.

Going forward and specifically on COVID, I fear football, unlike the theatre for example, will be subject to all manner of weird and ridiculous restrictions.
 
Whilst it’s a tad premature to be discussing Wembley I will not be going should we be lucky enough to make it, as I wouldn’t be comfortable knowing no under 18s were allowed in & mine are much older. A real shame as I have a good chance as a ST holder.
 
This is part of the government’s “Events Management Assessment “. How on earth can they assess anything if the people attending are not representatIve of the fan base who would normally attend a football match.
Its utter madness and just sounds like some knee jerk decision or worse still an excuse to give some chosen few a JBO
 
Well, I guess the obvious response is for ALL football fans to boycott Carabao and do it vociferously.
I doubt the sponsors will be too happy about that?
 
The cynic in me would suggest no under 18s maximizes revenue ensuring every seat delivers maximum yield.

I've been telling my lad we've got a chance of a day out at Wembley for months. He gets to go to school which he hates, I go to work which is a bag of shit but we can't watch a football match together? I can't sit with my own son , but I can sit with someone else I've never met.

Why?

Pissweak English fans will just roll over and accept it though. Raging on at each other about fuck all and being incapable of acting as one against the vampires that run the game.
 
td53 said:
The cynic in me would suggest no under 18s maximizes revenue ensuring every seat delivers maximum yield.

I've been telling my lad we've got a chance of a day out at Wembley for months. He gets to go to school which he hates, I go to work which is a bag of shit but we can't watch a football match together? I can't sit with my own son , but I can sit with someone else I've never met.

Why?

Pissweak English fans will just roll over and accept it though. Raging on at each other about fuck all and being incapable of acting as one against the vampires that run the game.
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Spot on.

It doesn't stand up to rational scrutiny because it's a decision based on profit.
 
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