Gingers Dad
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I'm on just over 19.5k, I'd add Goodison to the list sometimes and definitely Brentford
Away tickets and points?
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Blue Smarties
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Isn’t that the point though mate? Surely the club allocation should be a small % for staff and family of players only and not travel companies?
Realistically it’s already a broken system, so if there’s a chance of tourists getting tickets directly from a club allocation given to travel companies, then that’s going to prevent regular match going fans with accumulative points from going in order to accommodate a one off visit. Fine for home games where there’s tens of thousands available, but for your Liverpool or United away, that’s going to cause unrest.
At 29, I’ve no chance of getting tickets for Liverpool or United away direct from the club. With the current system, that’s fine as my points don’t qualify. Totally accept that, it’s the way it is.
However, when fans are narrowly missing out and they see some people can get tickets direct from travel companies, that’s understandably going to frustrate them.
Pretty sure that @Prestwich_Blue once told us the breakdown as told to him by the club and it was 60% to points holders which many people thought was too low. 40% is bang out of order. Maybe someone on here remembers the split and can confirm or deny.
Which is exactly the point the original poster was making.
Why are they going to these people and not season ticket holders ?
As I’ve always said when they brought in the collect in destination lark and stopping points because people were buying to sell on Just to get the points (obviously some truth but not much as the criteria is just as high)
The biggest ticket tout here is our beloved club…..
The biggest ticket tout here is our beloved club…..
Which answers the question 'how the fuck did those (insert country here) get tickets.No we shouldn’t be grateful for the small allocation our own club give our long standing fans for away games.
From what I’ve read on here recently, City hold back over half of our away allocations and don’t allow us to buy them. They go to corporates and those wankers on the tricket tout sites who sell them to daft foreigners for as much as £250 a ticket for some games.
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Channel 4 did a documentary about ticketing like this a few years ago. It was music industry ticketing for concerts, rather than football, but the gist will be the same: it found that it was the bands, their tour companies and record companies, and the arenas staging the concerts who were all in it together putting these tickets on these kind of sites, and not fans who’d bought the tickets to re-sell.
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Over the years, I’ve experienced or heard of:
A group of Belgians in our away section at Arsenal
Arsenal fans in our away section at Arsenal
United fans in our away section (that lower bit by the side of the main section) at Old Trafford
Liverpool fans in our away end at Anfield
Hadjuk Split fans in our away section at Anfield getting behind Liverpool
Germans (Koln fans? Can’t remember now) in our away section at Huddersfield not supporting City
An American woman who sat next to my mate at Wembley when it was Spurs’ home ground who paid £300 for her and her son’s tickets and she nearly fainted when she asked my mate how much he paid and her told her £30.
And countless random foreigners who are negligibly wanting City to win if not wanting the home team to win at many away grounds over the last decade.
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I love it how the 2 teenage girls at Everton away last year got 2 tickets. Spent most of the game on Tik Toc and touching up their make up. How many points have they got???
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Ballot seems the best way forward now, even though amazingly you will still see the same faces at away games
Add to that list that if you were mates of ticket office employees you could have bought a ticket for more than £30 for certain away games allegedly. Celtic fans in our end for a CL game when ticket criteria was meant to be very strict.