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MPE Maidstone 11 Apr 13 9.18pm | |
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Was just thinking about that great day, why was we only given 17,000 tickets for such a big occasion? am sure thats all we got. myself, brother and Dad had to get tickets in the man U end, as the palace ones sold out. But the replay they gave us more, and we sat in the palace end. Can anyone remember, was it worked out on average attendance or something?
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martin2412 Living The Dream 11 Apr 13 9.49pm | |
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I'm sure it was based on average attendance, but there was Palace all around the ground. I was sat around the halfway line near the royal box and there were plenty of Palace there.
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MPE Maidstone 11 Apr 13 10.02pm | |
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Yes Martin, there was Palace everywhere. This was of course before our run ins with man U, Cantonna etc, dont think i would do it now, but no way was i going to miss that match.
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Barcelona Based Fan No longer Barcelona, now living in... 12 Apr 13 5.06pm | |
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Am more or less certain we were allocated 14k ?
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Barcelona Based Fan No longer Barcelona, now living in... 12 Apr 13 5.13pm | |
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Took this from an old Bbs post I don't think the FA's motive was to make the allocation's reflect each club's actual average attendance. Traditionally, half of the tickets had been divided between the competing clubs (20,000 each) with the rest going to the FA who gave them to the County Associations, clubs, officials and any other hangers-on that they could think of. It had only been recently that the press had picked up on this and it came to a head with the Wimbledon v Liverpool final of 1988 when the unfairness of both teams getting the same amount of tickets when Liverpool had ten times as many fans wanting to go as Wimbledon. The following season was the post-Hillsborough Everton-Liverpool Final when nearly all the tickets were allocated to the Finalists as a one-off gesture of goodwill and because of that, I (and presumably many other people) naively thought that in future, if one club needed significantly more tickets than the other, then the extra would come out of the 40,000 tickets that the FA handed out to their mate's and God knows who else. It had always been stressed that the iniquity of the existing system was much more to do with the paltry allocation that each finallist got in relation to how many the FA gave away, not so much that both teams got the same amount regardless of the size of their support. Afterall, it was supposed to be a neutral venue so one club having twice as many fans as the other would seem to negate that somewhat. That's why I was appalled that if United were going to get 6,000 more tickets, that they should come from our bleeding allocation which obviously gave them an advantage of 12,000 extra fans rather than taking them from the sodding Cornish FA or The Retired Linesman's Association who whoever the hell it was that usually got them. It really was scandalous. 14,000 tickets for a Cup Final in a stadium that held 80,000. There was no way that the FA were primarily interested in "fairly" making the finallist's allocations reflect their average attendances; they were merely giving in to the interests of the big clubs as long as it was at our expense and not their's. We'll undoubtedly remain on record as the club with the smallest allocation of Cup Final tickets for a Wembley Final in the competition's history. Absolutely scandalous. Anyway, enough. Thinking about it still makes me annoyed.
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kayjaybee orpington 12 Apr 13 5.21pm | |
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i was a season ticket holder at the time and if i remember correctly dear ron (bless him) tried to make you renew your season ticket so you then would be certain of a final ticket, if you didn't you weren't guaranteed one, remember queueing overnight around the sainsburys car park then when ticket office opened everyone just rushed to the front of the queue, the relief was unbelievable when i actually got hold of the tickets,i had to go for swift pint or three
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kayjaybee orpington 12 Apr 13 5.25pm | |
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just remembered as well that a few clubs handed their allocated tickets to us as they felt it unfair that our allocation was so small
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radsyrendot From Coventry now in Leicester 12 Apr 13 5.28pm | |
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Quote kayjaybee at 12 Apr 2013 5.25pm
just remembered as well that a few clubs handed their allocated tickets to us as they felt it unfair that our allocation was so small
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goodersgold Hastings 12 Apr 13 6.40pm | |
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Quote Barcelona Based Fan at 12 Apr 2013 5.13pm
Took this from an old Bbs post I don't think the FA's motive was to make the allocation's reflect each club's actual average attendance. Traditionally, half of the tickets had been divided between the competing clubs (20,000 each) with the rest going to the FA who gave them to the County Associations, clubs, officials and any other hangers-on that they could think of. It had only been recently that the press had picked up on this and it came to a head with the Wimbledon v Liverpool final of 1988 when the unfairness of both teams getting the same amount of tickets when Liverpool had ten times as many fans wanting to go as Wimbledon. The following season was the post-Hillsborough Everton-Liverpool Final when nearly all the tickets were allocated to the Finalists as a one-off gesture of goodwill and because of that, I (and presumably many other people) naively thought that in future, if one club needed significantly more tickets than the other, then the extra would come out of the 40,000 tickets that the FA handed out to their mate's and God knows who else. It had always been stressed that the iniquity of the existing system was much more to do with the paltry allocation that each finallist got in relation to how many the FA gave away, not so much that both teams got the same amount regardless of the size of their support. Afterall, it was supposed to be a neutral venue so one club having twice as many fans as the other would seem to negate that somewhat. That's why I was appalled that if United were going to get 6,000 more tickets, that they should come from our bleeding allocation which obviously gave them an advantage of 12,000 extra fans rather than taking them from the sodding Cornish FA or The Retired Linesman's Association who whoever the hell it was that usually got them. It really was scandalous. 14,000 tickets for a Cup Final in a stadium that held 80,000. There was no way that the FA were primarily interested in "fairly" making the finallist's allocations reflect their average attendances; they were merely giving in to the interests of the big clubs as long as it was at our expense and not their's. We'll undoubtedly remain on record as the club with the smallest allocation of Cup Final tickets for a Wembley Final in the competition's history. Absolutely scandalous. Anyway, enough. Thinking about it still makes me annoyed.
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Joe Bloggs Nr Norwich 12 Apr 13 6.50pm | |
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I think that we suffered as a result of Wimbledons failure to use their ticket allocation when in their cup final.
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South Devon Eagle Newton Abbot 12 Apr 13 7.18pm | |
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Great day! Was only 12, but got in. Red & Blue balloons, blow up bananas (bet you wouldn't get those in ground anymore) and those massive Fly Virgin inflated tube things everywhere!!
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MPE Maidstone 12 Apr 13 8.09pm | |
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Quote Barcelona Based Fan at 12 Apr 2013 5.13pm
Took this from an old Bbs post I don't think the FA's motive was to make the allocation's reflect each club's actual average attendance. Traditionally, half of the tickets had been divided between the competing clubs (20,000 each) with the rest going to the FA who gave them to the County Associations, clubs, officials and any other hangers-on that they could think of. It had only been recently that the press had picked up on this and it came to a head with the Wimbledon v Liverpool final of 1988 when the unfairness of both teams getting the same amount of tickets when Liverpool had ten times as many fans wanting to go as Wimbledon. The following season was the post-Hillsborough Everton-Liverpool Final when nearly all the tickets were allocated to the Finalists as a one-off gesture of goodwill and because of that, I (and presumably many other people) naively thought that in future, if one club needed significantly more tickets than the other, then the extra would come out of the 40,000 tickets that the FA handed out to their mate's and God knows who else. It had always been stressed that the iniquity of the existing system was much more to do with the paltry allocation that each finallist got in relation to how many the FA gave away, not so much that both teams got the same amount regardless of the size of their support. Afterall, it was supposed to be a neutral venue so one club having twice as many fans as the other would seem to negate that somewhat. That's why I was appalled that if United were going to get 6,000 more tickets, that they should come from our bleeding allocation which obviously gave them an advantage of 12,000 extra fans rather than taking them from the sodding Cornish FA or The Retired Linesman's Association who whoever the hell it was that usually got them. It really was scandalous. 14,000 tickets for a Cup Final in a stadium that held 80,000. There was no way that the FA were primarily interested in "fairly" making the finallist's allocations reflect their average attendances; they were merely giving in to the interests of the big clubs as long as it was at our expense and not their's. We'll undoubtedly remain on record as the club with the smallest allocation of Cup Final tickets for a Wembley Final in the competition's history. Absolutely scandalous. Anyway, enough. Thinking about it still makes me annoyed.
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