Guess how many tickets Man Utd/Chelsea fans get for the FA Cup Final?

[Bazza]

It would seem a lot of people only value the FA Cup enough to want to pay to see it when they want to go to the Final.

....a perfect example being 40,000 "neutrals" then.

My season ticket included domestic trophies up to the quarter final a few years ago. It no longer does. Prices are going up.....it's a big problem.

Why not take the family up to Manchester? Yes, potentially 8 hours back in the car would be lovely with all the kids. A bargain too!

I was at Gatwick on Sunday morning going to France and there was a flight full of Chelsea fans going to Manchester. If you don't want to spend all day in a car, you have to fly. Not cheap.

Have a look for flight prices to Athens on Champs League final week.....Already they are staggering.

 

[revol68]

"Hangers on", hmmm. I think that'll end the conversation for me.

yeah, the FA should only be about facilitating football and fans not taking up close to have the stadium as a 'reward' to their chums, especially since we all know where all the touted tickets come from.

 

[Bazza]

Mate i've had trouble getting tickets for Man Utd games when the oppurtunity has arose. Once I was in Manchester for a congress and had tried to get a ticket for Old Trafford, not a chance. Infact the only way I can get a ticket for Man Utd games is if I pay through my ass for a lame package deal with cheesey hotel. Though now i've knocked the political activism significantly on the head and have a full time job i think i'll be heading over to a few games next season.

Point being Man Utd could have sold their allocation twice over for that semi.

Tis fine. Didn't want justification, people have their reasons. Just don't like it when they use attendance as a slur.

 

[revol68]

Tis fine. Didn't want justification, people have their reasons. Just don't like it when they use attendance as a slur.

yeah but the sad fact is i would be at alot more games if Man utd's attendance wasn't so bloody good!

Still got to join a supporters club, but i don't want to be another tosser just joining in order to get tickets and put nothing back in.

 

[Bazza]

May I suggest switching your allegiance to Chelsea where, apparently, you'll have no such trouble

 

[revol68]

May I suggest switching your allegiance to Chelsea where, apparently, you'll have no such trouble

I'm a football fan mate, i'd rather suck off Robbie Fowler than watch Chelski play their boring shite.

 

[Bazza]

BRING ON THE NEXT MONTH!! We'll show you boring.

(This, my friend, is fighting talk)

 

[revol68]

BRING ON THE NEXT MONTH!! We'll show you boring.

(This, my friend, is fighting talk)

yeah you can over pack the midfield with your boring workhorses and spartan warrirors and then maybe steal one by punting the ball up to Drogba.

 

[SpookyFrank]

If a season ticket holder can't get a ticket over someone then I think there is something wrong.

This is true, people who can afford season tickets are better than everyone and must be allowed anything they want in life, including dead baby sandwiches at half time and bovril made from dinosaurs.

People who have supported Chelsea since they were knee-high to Shaun Wright-Phillips yet cannot shell out the staggering amount of money needed to acquire a season ticket? Well they can fuck off.

Too bloody right. In fact I'm so inspired by your post I'm going to immolate myself right now with grandpa's flamethrower for the good of football, being as I am one of the abovementioned poor scum.

...but wait, maybe the people without season tickets should get to watch their team play once in a blue moonaaaaAAAAAAAAARRRGH!!!

*goes up in flames*

[the remainder of this post is written by spookyfrank's mum]

Now look what you've done, the poor lad's incinerated himself because you made him realise how worthless he was. Well I hope you're happy, his dad's season ticket fund will have to go on the funeral instead now. Who's going to tell him? You? I thought not.

For shame.

 

[Bazza]

SpookyFrank....I like your writing style. However,I do think you took my point grossly out of context though and ultimately wasted your time in trying to be funny. Of course I wouldn't preclude members either or non-member/ST fans. I sense you think I have some kind of ST arrogance.....again misguided. Why the flip would I make out you're scum?

I focus on season ticket holders because the fact of the matter is that previously season ticket holders get 1st option on the tickets, then the members, then general sale.

The fact of the matter this year is that there are less allocated tickets than there are ST ticket holders. That's Chelsea, nevermind Manchester United. That's also bearing in mind the fact that the new Wembley is a lot bigger.

Members are out of the running instantly it seems and this too is a shame.

*Looks at the embers of SpookyFrank's body.....pisses on it, has a quick wank, spits and walks off*

This fucking place gets on my tits the amount of people getting on my case by taking things I say out of context and then being sarcastic.

 

[SpookyFrank]

SpookyFrank....I like your writing style. However,I do think you took my point grossly out of context though and ultimately wasted your time in trying to be funny. Of course I wouldn't preclude members either or non-member/ST fans. I sense you think I have some kind of ST arrogance.....again misguided. Why the flip would I make out you're scum?

I focus on season ticket holders because the fact of the matter is that previously season ticket holders get 1st option on the tickets, then the members, then general sale.

The fact of the matter this year is that there are less allocated tickets than there are ST ticket holders. That's Chelsea, nevermind Manchester United. That's also bearing in mind the fact that the new Wembley is a lot bigger.

Members are out of the running instantly it seems and this too is a shame.

*Looks at the embers of SpookyFrank's body.....pisses on it, has a quick wank, spits and walks off*

This fucking place gets on my tits the amount of people getting on my case by taking things I say out of context and then being sarcastic.

...I suppose I'm just cranky because I'm too young to remember the good old days when people could afford to go to football matches

And like you say, with more season tickets than cup tickets my chances of getting to the final are in the low zeroes, whilst there's a good chance that several thousand people who do get tickets will be people who couldn't really care less about either team. That'll make for less of an atmosphere and ultimately less of a match, which is a shame even for the poor plebs at home watching on the idiot box.

NB. United fans may just as well not go to the final at all, given the utter humilation they will be subjected to whilst watching their 'football team' crushed mercilessly like hedgehogs in a combine harvester.

 

[revol68]

NB. United fans may just as well not go to the final at all, given the utter humilation they will be subjected to whilst watching their 'football team' crushed mercilessly like hedgehogs in a combine harvester.

yeah cos youse really steamrolled Arsenals Youth team in Cardiff.

 

[mhwfc]

But the ticket were cheaper than for Prem games, it was an afternoon kick off, why not take the family, espeically the kids ?

It would seem a lot of people only value the FA Cup enough to want to pay to see it when they want to go to the Final.

The semi final ticket prices were £45 behind the goal and £55 in the side stands, not many families can realistically afford that, football's got to the stage now where the majority of the population can't seriously justify paying the ticket prices.

Even if they can afford it you have to jump through hoops to get a ticket, for example there were a couple of thousand empty seats in the Watford section at Villa Park, the main reason for that was the FA insisted you had to be in Watford's membership scheme to get a ticket, as Watford took 21,000 to the Southampton semi in 2003 I assume we'd have sold out easily had tickets been easily obtainable, when it gets to that stage people want to go for the day out and to support the town.

 

[Anspaugh]

The decision to host all future semi-finals at Wembley is awful

You could end up with Liverpool/Manchester/Newcastle/Sunderland being dragged a horrendous amount of miles south for an overpriced game in a crappy London suburb

However the FA know that the likes of Liverpool, Newcastle, Man Utd will pay the prices and sell out, as they always do.

But the FA are going to get a massive wake up call if the teams with larger stadiums/support don't get through

As for grassroots FA getting tickets? So fucking what?! I'm sure they'd much rather the face value in funding as opposed to hanging around with corporate nobs as a neutral fan (I can't think of owt worse) and if they don't and demand those final tickets then they are a cancerous leech on the system

Football...if you've got the green

I bet all those twats who paid £10,000 for their Wembley Life Boxes are feeling ever so smug...one can only hope they fall over the balcony and rupture an artery with that complimentary wine

 

[London_Calling]

The semi final ticket prices were £45 behind the goal and £55 in the side stands, not many families can realistically afford that, football's got to the stage now where the majority of the population can't seriously justify paying the ticket prices.

Even if they can afford it you have to jump through hoops to get a ticket, for example there were a couple of thousand empty seats in the Watford section at Villa Park, the main reason for that was the FA insisted you had to be in Watford's membership scheme to get a ticket, as Watford took 21,000 to the Southampton semi in 2003 I assume we'd have sold out easily had tickets been easily obtainable, when it gets to that stage people want to go for the day out and to support the town.

If you're a proper fan, surely you'd be in the Membership scheme, why wouldn't you be ?

Fwiw, there were 5,000 empty seats at Villa Park for that semi, 26,000 empty seats at Old Trafford for the other.

Everyone loves a Final though.

 

[Gromit]

It seems silly that Wembley will be used for the semi's as it makes the final a little less special.

However, new stadium. They need to make their money back. Obviously they are going to try and grab as many events for it as poss. Don't be surprised if the quarters are held there next year too.

 

[CyberRose]

Since when have Man Utd and Chelsea fans been "real" fans?!

 

[Bazza]

It seems silly that Wembley will be used for the semi's as it makes the final a little less special.

It's not the first time though is it.

Gazza scored a stunning free kick against the Gooners in a semi at Wembley.

Mark Hughes scored a late belter against Oldham in 1994 - also at Wembley.

I don't think it's the end of the world.

Since when have Man Utd and Chelsea fans been "real" fans?!

Oh god...sheep alert. I was a real fan from John Hollis's time until Abramovich took over, apparently, according to people like you, I became an instant plastic from that moment on.

Interested to know what constitutes a real fan? You obviously seem to be one.

 

[kained&able]

If this happens evey season i will be slightly annoyed however for the first one then i have no real problems with a lot of club officials being invited. Its also my understanding that a hell of a lot of kids will be getting tickets which is a good thing.

If i was a chelsea or man utd fan in need of a ticket though i would be pissed.


dave

 

[Bazza]

Dave, exactly, I might well get a ticket - It's just a pre-emptive feeling of being pissed off.

Cyberrose, I'm away for the weekend, however, when you're back could you please explain why I'm not a real fan. When writing, try to consider the fact that Chelsea were formed in 1905 and not 2003.

 

[CyberRose]

Cyberrose, I'm away for the weekend, however, when you're back could you please explain why I'm not a real fan. When writing, try to consider the fact that Chelsea were formed in 1905 and not 2003.

Other than the fact I was only jokin, you support a big, rich and successful club, and real fans just don't do that!

 

[Bazza]

That's good. My week has started with the resolution not to argue with people on the internet!