So an update in relation to the reason for ban.
After City’s email offering people the chance to purchase 2 more tickets for the game he posted on HIS OWN facebook page asking if anyone fancied going as he can get two more tickets.. This has somehow and I don’t know how got back to City, maybe someone reported him I don’t know.
However the reasoning seems to be is that as he is offering tickets and not to a specific person he is contravening the rules as selling to a ‘third party’ In reality his nephew and his girlfriend took the tickets and paid face value, didn’t misbehave, didn’t get thrown out.
Meanwhile as of five minutes ago
Livefootballticket.com have 217 tickets for the derby available from £128.25 to £712.50 excluding their fees
Hotfootballtickets.com have numerous tickets on sale from £139 to £277
And that’s just on two sites I looked at. City though seem more interested in penalising the fans selling for face value or in a lot of cases less for games they can’t attend or in this case where they are offered more than attempting to stop this daylight robbery.
A lot of companies monitor Facebook to spy on their employees, indeed many sign a social media policy contract. I wonder where all these tickets are coming from? They will sell for a derby with the usual kicking off in the stands as a result.