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I remember selling tickets at Filbo in the car park when we were going to the play-offs.

I was situated in one of a few sheds, basic but what an atmosphere.

we didn’t have tills in those days it was cash only and we put all the money in a walkers crisp box behind us.

I got more money in tips than the actual pay.
 
Around Xmas '91 I was back at my parents. So I caught a few games. I'd just been offered my second chance at university ( I'd ****ed the first effort up). I knew I couldn't be forced into a training course so I'd pop down from Cumbria to watch a game. Every time I'd walk out the stadium I'd look at the ticket booths and think **** it. I think I hitched to every home game after that, except one.
 
camberwell fox said:
I remember selling tickets at Filbo in the car park when we were going to the play-offs.

I was situated in one of a few sheds, basic but what an atmosphere.

we didn’t have tills in those days it was cash only and we put all the money in a walkers crisp box behind us.

I got more money in tips than the actual pay.
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I remember queuing as a kid and being desperate for the loo - had to find a shop willing to let me use theirs as the club didn't have any outside ones.

Beat that, Robby Savage.
 
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Not to mention hugely unfair as one of the participants isn't from that far from Wembley
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Hang on... wouldn't we like chelsea to shithouse their way into the final to give us a better chance? Good call FA, load up the stadium with cockneys!
 
Hmmmm... it must be just a floated proposal which, on further thought, is deemed practically unworkable. How and where would it be enforced?
 
10k fans spread thinly around a 90k stadium would be tragic.

I can't really think of a stadium I'd want to go to less in such circumstances.

Even more so if, as I suspect, the tickets would almost exclusively go to friends of the ticket office/staff and supporters club freaks.
 
So, tickets sold only from the club ticket office to punters proving Wembley post codes? What could possibly go wrong? More loopholes than a crochet pattern. Still plus side, spivs Wembley way could coin it. Boris loves a bit of free marketeering.
 
If the Leicester game is chosen as the trial game i have a friend that lives in Wembley so could potentially get tickets but the 1830 kick off on a Sunday is the shit part, never thought I would say this but it would probably be better watching it on t.v
 
In the 80s sometime, I went to Wembley to watch an American football game between to 2 NFL teams (Shittown Arsewipes & Bolloxville Bogeysnots, or some such) A stadium of curious nonpartisans don't create much of an atmosphere... and I suspect there were more than 10,000 of us. Still, it was a day out I suppose.

It's such a seriously bad idea that it could only be one dreamt up by someone that really doesn't have a clue. If they can't get real fans then don't bother at all. It's just a sham otherwise.

Edit: to be fair, there were probably real fans of the 2 teams, and the game, there... so they possibly enjoyed even if it was a little surreal.
 
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BBC Sport understands there will be up to 4,000 spectators at one of the Wembley semi-finals and the following weekend the Carabao Cup final could test an attendance of double that.
 
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