Seat Counters 25/26

Dodge said:
In addition to the nigh on 1,000,000 tickets sold, £50m revenue to the FA/Wembley and 332 million miles travelled...

19,500,000 Pints sunk
500,000 Jerk Chickens - with the subsequent boost to bog roll sales
150Kg of cocaine
2,500,000 bifters
1225 divorces
500 arrests
3.2 million gallons of boiled piss

Our contribution to the brewing industry, the cartels, the courts, the chicken farmers, the exchequer and the boiled piss industry cannot be ignored.

I salute you all.
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Talking of Jerk Chicken, A little food van has opened up at the car wash behind where the Mitchell Arms was! Hope it’s not a franchise - @Worsleyweb
 
fathellensbellend said:
we havnt sold 30000 per match, charity shields against Leicester and Arsenal were sub 20k, lots of charity shields have been way below 30k
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That may be true but I’m sure we broke all sale records for the Wigan final I’ve got 48k stuck in my mind if I’m right then that could well keep the average at 30k
 
EastMidlandsBlue said:
I dont think they'll take this into account.

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This is Birmingham fans in Level 3 directly above Peterborough fans in level 1 during the EFL Trophy final last year
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It was the other way around against Wigan in 2013.

Wigan had up to the halfway line both ways round in the top tier, same as we did (well, we actually had slightly more as our allocation in the top tier went just past the TV gantry, slightly into their half). Then we had the bottom tier from the dugouts on the halfway line, all the way around past the corner flag on the other side.

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You can see the segregated divide round the corner opposite this picture.

I’d estimate that to be about 12,000 extra on top of our usual 33,000ish allocation.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
I think Wigan was higher. 48k sounds closer to what we had against Gillingham mate
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I think we formally sold 35k through the club it was estimated we had sold plus acquired ie Wembley Club etc so we probably had over 60k in the ground I’ve just checked we unofficially got credited with having the biggest following at a Wembley final However the official record is held by Pompey who sold out a 50k allocation
 
youngbob said:
In all honesty, I just fucking hate the Wembley experience and have done for a while.

Went to all the games back in the early days because I wanted to witness special moments with my mum, but the last one we went to was the Sunderland final in 2014. Tough day getting down there, an even longer night on the way back, and dickheads all round me during the match (including one bloke who missed all four goals because he couldn't go 45 mins without a pint or a piss and spent the entire game getting up and down).

Went down in 2024 for old times sake. We had an even worse experience that day. A huge stress getting down there because of traffic, a huge stress getting to the stadium, a huge stress getting in the stadium, then three escalators and two lifts broke in our bit of the ground so my COPD-suffering mum had to do seven flights of stairs. We pretty much missed kick-off, with a load of other blues as well, because of everything that went wrong.

Then once we were in our seats we were surrounded by racist dickheads shouting abuse at Rashford and Onana all game.

Just can't be arsed with it anymore. The cost of petrol, the cost of food, the cost of hotels, the cost of tickets, the time it takes getting there and back in the car (or the rush to get to Euston if you've gone on the train). It's a shite stadium and a shite experience. When it was all new and exciting and I was still a teenager and my mum was in her late 40s/early 50s, the novelty overshadowed the problems - but not anymore. The FA can stick it.

Old Bob.
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youngbob said:
In all honesty, I just fucking hate the Wembley experience and have done for a while.

Went to all the games back in the early days because I wanted to witness special moments with my mum, but the last one we went to was the Sunderland final in 2014. Tough day getting down there, an even longer night on the way back, and dickheads all round me during the match (including one bloke who missed all four goals because he couldn't go 45 mins without a pint or a piss and spent the entire game getting up and down).

Went down in 2024 for old times sake. We had an even worse experience that day. A huge stress getting down there because of traffic, a huge stress getting to the stadium, a huge stress getting in the stadium, then three escalators and two lifts broke in our bit of the ground so my COPD-suffering mum had to do seven flights of stairs. We pretty much missed kick-off, with a load of other blues as well, because of everything that went wrong.

Then once we were in our seats we were surrounded by racist dickheads shouting abuse at Rashford and Onana all game.

Just can't be arsed with it anymore. The cost of petrol, the cost of food, the cost of hotels, the cost of tickets, the time it takes getting there and back in the car (or the rush to get to Euston if you've gone on the train). It's a shite stadium and a shite experience. When it was all new and exciting and I was still a teenager and my mum was in her late 40s/early 50s, the novelty overshadowed the problems - but not anymore. The FA can stick it.
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Jesus!

Do you post in the match day thread under 28 different user names?

Wembley is what you make of it, mix it up and do different things.
 
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