The league cup ticketing farce
- Posted on January 19, 2007 11:51 AM
- 2 comments
A statement from Arsenal Football Club:
"In relation to the ticket allocation for away supporters for the tie at Emirates Stadium, the Club is pleased that the Football League upheld its decision to cap the number at 5173, as we want to shaft the Tottenham supporters. Emirates Stadium has been designed to host up to 9000 away supporters for a cup competition fixture in line with the 15% regulation. However, to date, we have not hosted a cup match at Emirates Stadium and were therefore advised by the Football Licensing Authority and Islington Council, as well as supported by the Met Police - who obviously don't want to deal with 9,000 yids and endure a potentially less that easy night on the job, that it was unsafe to make the considerable increase from 3000 to 9000 away supporters in one single step.
"On the upside, as a result of accommodating only 5000 away supporters for the first time at Emirates Stadium on January 31st, even though the rules state 15% of the capacity - we know we can do this thing again and get away with it. This will hopefully enable the Club to provide visiting teams with the maximum 15% allocation for the FA Cup and Carling Cup competitions. However we cannot promise we won't shaft other teams in the future and pump out this callous nonsense again.
"We now look forward, to what we hope will be, two exciting derby matches between the two north London sides with no atmosphere - just how we enjoy our home games."
Comments (2)
Chris
And how many are Tottenham offering Arsenal at S**te Hart Lane?
Posted on January 24, 2007 11:49 AM
Rob
The same percentage that the scum are only offering us!
Posted on January 24, 2007 11:58 AM
Post a comment
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.seatwaveblogs.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/270
