FA Cup Final | Crystal Palace (N) | Sat 17 May 4:30pm

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paulchapo said:
It would have been more than that in 1974. When I started going in 1968 it used to be 2/6d to go into the scoreboard and if it was pissing down and you decided you needed a roof over your head you could pay another 6d and use the transfer gate into the Kippax. This was for a junior and pre decimalisation.
Me and my mate sussed out that if we paid into the scoreboard as soon as the gates opened ( Around 1pm ) we could jump over the wall, run along the concourse and jump the next wall into the Kippax so saving 6d. Those were the days lol.
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You cheapskate, you!
Interesting that, though. I started going same time as you. I didn't know — never realised — that it was half-a-crown for the scoreboard end too. It was through the schoolboys entrance to the Kippax, that's for sure. (Some bloody big “schoolboys” with bushy sideburns going through that entrance, I can tell you). On a few very rare occasions, I sat in the Platt Lane end on the benches, and one of my very first matches must have been in the Main stand. Otherwise, I don't think I sat with the posh folks in the Main stand more than about three or four times. Once, on the one time I took my former wife with me (1982, must have been). She cared nothing about football, and I felt it was a bit rough to take her on the Kippax.
I don't think I ever once stood on the scoreboard end, either before or after it was covered. It was the away supporters end, wasn't it?
 
Mr Grumpy said:
I'll be deeply disappointed if we don't sell out our allocation for the final.
It will be a terrible look for the long term image and good of the club and give the "No fans" brigade all the validity they need for the next 20 years.

I'll be watching the match on my TV at home obviously. (I live remote).

Being a football fan is a journey of contradiction at times.

Big thumbs up to those who do go. Safe journey and hopefully you have a great day.
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What the fuck are you talking about?
 
paulchapo said:
It's just pure contempt for normal match going fans and that's always been the case, not just here but worldwide too. Look at how they're treated in every champions league final, like some sort of beggars who've gatecrashed a private party.

Fans have to get organised and stage a one days strike. One weekend no fans. It would send shockwaves throughout football and they'd soon realise without fans there is no game.
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No it wouldn't work for City.

The numbers prepared to go ahead with a boycott would be limited. If it was a high profile match, such as a major final, plenty of others would take up the tickets. If it was a lesser game it would just fuel the arguments for the 'empty seats' brigade.
 
Really_here said:
It's not neccessarily apathy. Some people just can't afford to attend every game even if they wanted to and therefore have to choose which games they go to and which games they don't?
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I know mate. Everyone has their own reasons for not going. I was just responding to the poster saying it was apathy when apathy is a thing that’s always existed amongst some (not all) fans, no matter who they support
 
Mr Grumpy said:
You'd be quite happy to see empty seats again in Wembley?

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No, of course he wouldn't, but he might be asking why the football authorities are prepared to profiteer at the expense of loyal football fans who have forked out year after year for increasingly expensive match tickets, ridiculously priced food, scandalous transport costs at decidedly awkward times and then criticise these same fans who may have coughed up thousands of pounds over the years but now have had to choose to feed and house their families rather than to take them to a football match.

So, enjoy it on the TV - that's how I'll watch it, but for quite different reasons to you.
 
Mr Grumpy said:
You'd be quite happy to see empty seats again in Wembley?

Ok.
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People who never do this journey to Wembley never understand why it isn’t the “magical” experience it is often sold as. After god knows how many trips it just becomes another game. Football attendances always fluctuate under those circumstances.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
People who never do this journey to Wembley never understand why it isn’t the “magical” experience it is often sold as. After god knows how many trips it just becomes another game. Football attendances always fluctuate under those circumstances.
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Personally, it's the occasion rather than the venue for me tbh.

Interesting the 1st time out but after that, who cares?

It's not like modern stadiums are the knackered wooden sheds of old. Wembley is not that special or superior to other, modern stadia.

Capacity is the only real differentiator that I can see.
 
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