The great queue of '99

[BlueLlama]

What really pissed me off was the fact that a ten year old could have done the maths. e.g. I think they had about 10 to 15 windows selling tickets. So on average anyone who went to Main Rd for tickets for a league game new that on average it used to take about 3 minutes to conclude the transaction but the buyers knew the ground. Now for the wembley match with us not knowing the ground, wanting to look at seat options and the odd cheaky one trying to con extra tickets 5 minutes would be a reasonable guess at how long the process would take. We had 36000 tickets to sell.
One window would sell about 24 to 48 tickets an hour assuming most buyers were getting on average 2 to 4 tickets. 15 windows would sell a maximum of 720 tickets an hour. 36000 divided by 720 equels 50 hours. Now the maths are accurate the assumptions may not be but they clearly were never going to cope with 15 windows and no system of priority. Even if you halved the time to conclude the buying of tickets you still end up with 25 hours. I just hope they have learnt from the experience.

 

[Pigeonho]

I'll never forget that night. Was living at home then and got a taxi down to the ground at half 3, got there just before quarter to 4. I got to work in Moss Side at half 10AM, was knackered, fucked and any other description of tiredness known to man! Was worth it though. Unfortunately though I was one of the ones who walked out at 2-0 like the 21 year old bell-end I was! I heard the Horlock goal and said, 'fuck em', itsa consolation at best....then the Dickov goal went in!!!!! Managed to run back in and get back to my seat. Penalties was awesome! I remember looking down a few rows and saw the distinctive face of a guy who was qeueing with me from 4am at the ground. He was looking up at us with his back to the pitch as Weaver saved the decisive penatly. What a day, never een bettered yeet, not even at Ewood Park the year after. Quality. Right, off to the game now.