#facupprotest

[pass2silva]

At first glance, i thought one of those signs said,

"Hit them where it hurts
Don't buy Dzeko"

 

[VOOMER]

A ticket to the final is roughly the same price as a season ticket in the standing section at Bayern Munich.

Its only £45 for a season ticket in the standing section then ?

To go watch Hannover all season is €75, which is just over £60. So nearly yeah.

Right, so watching City in one of the worlds most historic show piece event, is to be compared with being in the worst seat for 14 games watching your team score 29 goals? If you want to protest about something that matters, try looking at the way domestic fuel bills have gone up every year and how that compares with mainland Europe, otherwise, grow up.

 

[VOOMER]

I'm going to the Cup Final to watch and support my team. To enjoy myself and the weekend not to protest.
I think we are quickly turning into the scousers! Always looking for 'a cause' always being wronged. Always looking for the negative / critical angle so we can 'protest'.
Fucking grow up!

I'm going to watch and support my team as well but football is being stolen from us bit by bit. One day you won't be able to watch a game because it's too expensive, on at an inconvenient time or so many tickets have been given to non-football fans. Then you'll think "We should so something" but it'll be too late.

PB. I know what your saying is right, but there are so many other things that are way more important, that if we change those, football will become cheaper, domestic fuel bills and the cost of fuel at the forecourt, two areas which like a bunch of limp dicks we simply accept. In Germany and France they pay nearly 94% less per unit of electricity, because they passed legislation limiting the increases that power companies could charge per year to being 1% below inflation.

 

[KPXBLN]

I've protested at the last 2 semi's, and the previous final, by buying the cheapest ticket available. I'm not willing to fund the building of new wembley by paying excessive prices, so I never have, and I won't buy anything in the ground apart from a souvenir programme.

I won't be joining this protest, because a ticket for the FA Cup final was £20 LESS than attending a run of the mill league game at the emirates, where I protested by not going, in fact the semi, and the final tickets have cost me only £15 more than the emirates game, and slightly more than the champions league game in amsterdam, where I couldn't even see one of the goals

The final costs more than the semi because its a higher profile game by the way, I think that is reasonable.

Only about 15 percent of the allocation was 45 quid. The rest 65 and over. So your form of 'protest' isnt really an option for most.

 

[Bluemoon230989]

I posted a fan's view on the FA facebook feed which lasted all of 20 minutes before being taken down.
Nice sentiments but can't see it getting any TV coverage or achieving an awful lot.
One club's fans can't change a bloody thing, the suits don't listen.
What would work, but probably completely unfeasible, would be supporters from clubs involved in the 3rd round next season to boycott the games. En masse. See how the suits and sponsors like that?
I say unfeasible because if you supported a non-league club for example, and they got to the 3rd round for the first time in years, you'd go wouldn't you?
Having said that, there must be a supporters' clubs federation or something similar is there?
Fuck it, I've not got the brains to work out how it could be done, but I love the thought!
Anyway, I think a rousing chorus of "Alex Horne's a wanker, he wears a wanker's hat.... etc" would go down quite nicely.
Feel free to join me.

 

[Deleted member 52846]

I'm going to the Cup Final to watch and support my team. To enjoy myself and the weekend not to protest.
I think we are quickly turning into the scousers! Always looking for 'a cause' always being wronged. Always looking for the negative / critical angle so we can 'protest'.
Fucking grow up!

I'm going to watch and support my team as well but football is being stolen from us bit by bit. One day you won't be able to watch a game because it's too expensive, on at an inconvenient time or so many tickets have been given to non-football fans. Then you'll think "We should so something" but it'll be too late.

Where were your protests when 15:00 Staurday games stopped being a tradition? Where were your protests when Monday night Football was introduced? Where were your protests when they made Portsmouth play Newcastle away on a week night? Where were your protests when we had to play at Everton at 11:00? Where were your protests when they moved the Premier League final day after the FA Cup final? Did you boycott Bolton away that day we all tried to get it organised? Did you boycott Arsenal away this season? Where were your protests when five clubs wanted a breakaway league to make themselves rich and fuck everyone else off? Where were your protests against G14 clubs monopolising money in Europe? Where were your protests against the final game of the season being on a Sunday at 16:00 every season? Where were your protests against all seater stadiums? Where were your protests against City charging fans £50+ a ticket?

The truth is the governing bodies started taking football away from the fans three decades ago, it's not just starting now. Nobody's done a dicky bird about it apart from the odd lame half hearted gesture. This is one of them.

 

[Hartford]

Boycotting the semi-finals is the answer to the FA, if the teams come out to a third full wembley they'd soon get the message...

 

[totallywired]

Jesus, some right tossers in this thread, `i`m not protesting, it won`t do any good etc.`. 17.15 KICK OFF IS NOT SOMETHING TO PROTEST ABOUT? So the fans of other teams can watch it after there game! Kin tossers, the game will be so corporate in the future you won`t be able to afford to take your kids or go yourself. MAKE ME FUCKIN SICK THE` DO NOTHING `SMUG FUCKERS.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

A ticket to the final is roughly the same price as a season ticket in the standing section at Bayern Munich.

Its only £45 for a season ticket in the standing section then ?

Not all tickets for the FA Cup final are £45, the point he was making is that some are £115 and how Kids should have a price of £105 is appalling.

The fact that so many tickets are bought for kids at £105 should tell us that a protest about prices is doomed.

 

[Tom_mcfc]

Jesus, some right tossers in this thread, `i`m not protesting, it won`t do any good etc.`. 17.15 KICK OFF IS NOT SOMETHING TO PROTEST ABOUT? So the fans of other teams can watch it after there game! Kin tossers, the game will be so corporate in the future you won`t be able to afford to take your kids or go yourself. MAKE ME FUCKIN SICK THE` DO NOTHING `SMUG FUCKERS.

I think you exploded before you could actually think then. A protest would be to not go. Yeah the kick off time is out of order but the fact we have sold out all of our tickets and Wembley will be rammed with City fans will suggest that even though the time is wrong it hasn't stopped people going.

A load of A4 paper won't bother them. A Half empty Wembley would