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Post by darrellbutler on May 19, 2007 18:12:51 GMT
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Post by villager on May 20, 2007 7:11:13 GMT
For the first time ever ... I actually turned the TV off (after 24 minutes).
Another English Classic Sporting Event destroyed by money.
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Post by jp on May 20, 2007 8:45:54 GMT
Did you notice how many empty seats there were at the ground? Corporates who had tickets but didn't turn up. I heard that Jeremy Clarkson, a mna who detests football, had two tickets for the final provided for him. But the FA would prefer 2 empty seats sold for £5k each rather than 2 full seats at £50 a piece.
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Post by bobbyg on May 20, 2007 15:51:19 GMT
theyve been advertising alot of ten year seat licences which reserves a seat for anything between 4 and 16 grand plus an annual season ticket charge to see all matches at the stadium. i dont know what percentage of the seating is sold in this way but it cant help the atmosphere.
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Post by dorothy on May 20, 2007 19:15:26 GMT
The majority of tickets for any final should go to the clubs involved, with a small number available to the sponsors. Why do minor FA officials get a jolly. They get paid for doing the job as it is. There are plenty of volunteers out there who deserve a chance of tickets.
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Post by Mark on May 21, 2007 8:23:30 GMT
I spent ages yesterday trying to get hold of tickets for the Championship play off final all to no avail. Derby and West Brom both have 33500 tickets to sell. So if the stadium holds 90,000 where are the remaining 23,000 tickets  All held back for the corporate people and theur guests I suppose  |
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2007 9:44:09 GMT
Mark, it will be interesting (and hugely frustrating) to see how many empty seats there are at that game.
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Post by Mark on May 21, 2007 9:46:04 GMT
Hugely frustrating is an understatement.
I'm not sure how sales are going for the Baggies, but if they have been anything like what I have heard about at Derby, it' s likely that all 90,000 tickets could have been sold.
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Post by jp on May 21, 2007 9:50:03 GMT
I don't think that all the tickets should go to the two clubs involved in a final, and one reason that they don't has been the clubs irresposible attitude to managing ticket sales, with huge numbers ending up in the hands of the touts. Having said that, then I would not think it unreasonable that the number of tickets provided to each club should have some relationship to a) the number of season ticket holders a club has and b) the average crowds for that club. I think it is very wrong that season ticket holders at a club are denied tickets to a Cup final, after all, they've funded the club in advance often for many years.
There must be a better way than the way it is done at the moment.
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Post by B*ue dragonstander on May 21, 2007 12:10:15 GMT
Have a best of three final. That should allow fans and players to participate fully.
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Post by darrellbutler on May 22, 2007 19:53:13 GMT
Make them go to a replay if they draw!
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All held back for the corporate people and theur guests I suppose 
