I'm getting near to being entitled to my pension, the world moves on, 
changes, improvements progress.... or so you would think. Reading about 
the farcical situation surrounding the allocation of tickets for the 
play off final: fans queuing all night, no facilities, a mass scramble 
around the ticket office when it opened, disillusoned fans drifting off 
having queued for hours without getting a ticket, well it took me back 
to my days as a fanatical Leeds fan. April 1970 to be exact. I'd 
attented most of the matches that season, home and away, every round of 
the FA cup, all three semi final matches. I queued all night from six in 
the evening till 10 the next morning to get a ticket to Wembley, all to 
no avail. I was even on News at Ten on tv seen clambering over a crush 
barrier, forlorn, ticketless and distraught, no Wembley final for me 
then despite having travelled the length and breadth of Britain in fog, 
rain and high winds to support my team. I watched the 2-2 draw against 
Chelsea on tv. Nearly 40 years later fans are still having to put up 
with the same shit. Power to your elbows lads and lasses! However, will 
we ever get people running the club worthy of the wonderful fans that 
support the club? We can but live and hope! I bet there are thousands of 
corporate leeches at Wembley on Sunday, not watching the match but 
stuffing themselves on the fare provided, waffling away, doing deals. 
Footy - dontcha love it?


Woody, cynic

Good post Woody,
                              Been a Man City fan since 1970, and gave up my 
season ticket 3 years ago for the very reasons you state, (and the fact that 
it was the best part of £500 a season) We, the fans are treated like shite 
no matter which club we support,  Its not just Leeds, My boss has just 
renewed his season ticket at old t******d.... £819 a season for a bog 
standard seat for 19 league games, with the stipulation that he HAS to pay 
extra for ALL the cup games (even if he does'nt attend) Thing is, if he 
does'nt renew it, some other dickhead will willingly buy it. In other words 
They've got him by the bollocks.

"Woody"  wrote in message 
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> I'm getting near to being entitled to my pension, the world moves on, 
> changes, improvements progress.... or so you would think. Reading about 
> the farcical situation surrounding the allocation of tickets for the play 
> off final: fans queuing all night, no facilities, a mass scramble around 
> the ticket office when it opened, disillusoned fans drifting off having 
> queued for hours without getting a ticket, well it took me back to my days 
> as a fanatical Leeds fan. April 1970 to be exact. I'd attented most of the 
> matches that season, home and away, every round of the FA cup, all three 
> semi final matches. I queued all night from six in the evening till 10 the 
> next morning to get a ticket to Wembley, all to no avail. I was even on 
> News at Ten on tv seen clambering over a crush barrier, forlorn, 
> ticketless and distraught, no Wembley final for me then despite having 
> travelled the length and breadth of Britain in fog, rain and high winds to 
> support my team. I watched the 2-2 draw against Chelsea on tv. Nearly 40 
> years later fans are still having to put up with the same shit. Power to 
> your elbows lads and lasses! However, will we ever get people running the 
> club worthy of the wonderful fans that support the club? We can but live 
> and hope! I bet there are thousands of corporate leeches at Wembley on 
> Sunday, not watching the match but stuffing themselves on the fare 
> provided, waffling away, doing deals. Footy - dontcha love it?
>
>
> Woody, cynic

On 23 May, 17:18, "Alan"  wrote:
> Good post Woody,
> £819 a season for a bog
> standard seat for 19 league games, with the stipulation that he HAS to pay> extra for ALL the cup games (even if he does'nt attend)

Even if he DOESNT attend???

Yes, The condition is that when he buys his season ticket he HAS to purchase 
a ticket for cup games played at old t******d even if he does'nt go.

"nigeleeezzzz"  wrote in message 
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On 23 May, 17:18, "Alan"  wrote:
> Good post Woody,
> £819 a season for a bog
> standard seat for 19 league games, with the stipulation that he HAS to pay
> extra for ALL the cup games (even if he does'nt attend)

Even if he DOESNT attend???

On Thu, 22 May 2008 23:38:10 +0200, Woody
 wrote:

> I bet there are thousands of 
>corporate leeches at Wembley on Sunday, not watching the match but 
>stuffing themselves on the fare provided, waffling away, doing deals. 
>Footy - dontcha love it?

There were certainly plenty of cockney leeches selling £30 tickets for
£200... Ended up having to watch it in a curry house near the stadium
with about 20 other people including one fella who'd payed £400 for
his two kids to go in but couldn't get in himself. 

Seeing those scabs counting out big bundles of cash at an adjacent
table whilst the telly panned around the thousands of empty seats at
the stadium was not good...