, but buying for someone who's not even a blue when your not attending
Thanks for your thoughts and comments in such a long post. For clarification I am going the the Real Madrid game
Here's my long post, try to understand where I am
I really believed that £50 was too much for the PSG game and I really hoped that the club would have priced the semi at what I believed was reasonable, £35
In hindsight the £35 for the semi is too low, but I still truly believe that £50 for PSG was too high
What I really hope is that supporters who are on the cup scheme remember what happened with regard to ticket prices and poor performances and on the cup scheme you have no option other than to buy no matter the cost
The upside to being on the cup scheme is what happened on Monday. City's IT was absolutely piss poor when the semi tickets went on sale with the system in melt down and the club royally fucked up on the way it allowed seasoncard holders, such as myself, to purchase two tickets per card
The first season the cup scheme was introduced I joined, but found that because of low demand for the cups these were the best games for me to take the kids, which in turn meant I had to contact the ticket office to relocate because of the two other tickets I was buying. So apart from the loyalty points the cup scheme really had no advantages for me. And this is the crux of the cup scheme. Unless you need to have double loyalty points, there's absolutely no reason to be on the cup scheme. We have a 55,000 seat stadium and 40,000 season ticket holders. If you're a season card holder and want a ticket for a cup match you will always get one. That is of course if City get their fucking arses into gear and only allow one ticket per card for the really big matches eg. Champions league semi final
Now onto me purchasing these extra tickets for my friend and his son
The PSG match only just sold out. It actually sold out the day before the match and I believe the stadium was full of "tourists" as these people snapped up an awful lot of the tickets that supporters such as myself decided to swerve for whatever reason
As I have already said, he asked if I could get him Barca tickets last season and the opportunity arrived on Monday where I could get him two, not only for a top quality team from his homeland but also in a Champions league semi final and he'll probably never get a ticket to see a match of this importance again in his life
I bought the extra two (and he will pay me for them) knowing that it would sell out, but the stadium would have a number of tourists in there anyway. So what's another two!
Is it my fault that I was allowed to buy extra and did, or is it City's for the way they priced the PSG game so sales were slow which made them panic over semi final sales?
Onto ticket prices in general. I went to Wembley for the rags semi final and the to the Final itself vs Stoke
The cup run that season, culminating in us winning our first silverware since 76, was total euphoria and worth the money
The following season I allowed my friend who I sit next to at the Etihad and who is also a season card holder, to use my number to purchase a semi ticket vs Chelsea and the cup final vs Wigan and for the two league cup finals we've played in since. He took members of his family to these games
I didn't go because I believe that it's just too much money for the tickets that aren't in the gods, plus all the other expenses of a day out at Wembley, plus I've done it now and nothing will beat the feeling of that long awaited cup final win
Football is entertainment and I think it's too expensive considering all the money that is swilling round in the game. I love my football that's why I buy a season ticket, but the club has to be careful because a lot of supporters are on that line now of not renewing as we've read in the season card thread and we've all had our opinions regarding the PSG ticket prices
