That's the issue, both clubs took 37k is but the FA through greed and over pricing only flogged 6k to corporate/neutrals/footballing family meaning 10k short of capacity. Therefore for the final it makes perfect sense to reduce the allocation to the clubs and increase neutral allocation.
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Who else is Wembleyed out?
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Didsbury Dave
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Nobody ever, ever gets the Wembley ticket thing (except you and me and a couple of the Seat Counting Elite).We did sell out - both our initial 34,000 allocation and the 2738 extra tickets we were given.
However, regarding those extra tickets I do wish people would stop saying they were returns from the other club. They weren't. Chelsea sold out too and also sold out the extras they were given. It's not just City fans - fans of pretty much every club seem to think that when they get extra tickets then it must be returns from the other club.
For every game each club gets half of the upper and lower tier which equates to around 35,000 each. Over the last few years that has been supplemented with about 2000 from the middle tier. Not all of these 37,000 seats are given to the clubs to sell, which is why club allocations vary but the numbers on the day are always the same. If City get an allocation of 28,000 for the xup final there will still be 37,000 in the City end but the FA will have sold these seats - to City fans only- through their member clubs. So if these 9000 "extra" City end tickets aren't sold by the FA they are returned to City to sell. this didn't happen when we played Stoke but it did to Stoke because demand was higher from our fans. They got an "extra" 2000 tickets which they would have got anyway.
There are around 3000 lower tier tickets and 14,000 middle tier tickets which ARE neutral and only sold to corporate/Club Wembley people.
Did the old Dinosaurs at the FA really think they could shift 22,000 tickets to people who didn't support either City or Chelsea? Clowns!
The Rag-Cov game only got 83,000 so not a lot of FA tickets sold for that it seems.
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Only stadiums in the north of the country that could handle it are Anfield or St James'. Assuming we want a neutral venue.