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  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,692
    Wait till they play it at 5.15pm next year  - does no-one think about the fans that need to travel?
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,360
    Fans? I don't think the FA know what they are Weegie...
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    I think it was played with other matches this season due to the Champions League Final needing 2 weeks with no game on the pitch. Might be wrong though.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,360
    It was, and next year is going to be the same, plus a 5.15 kick off due to the Euros...
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,495
    I played golf yesterday afternoon. On my own. Course was empty - it was absolute bliss
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,027
    That's what happens when you work in IT and have no friends Leroy.
    ;o)
  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    Paulbaconsarnie - Rooney swore aggressively down the camera at people whereas blotelli said it as a matter of conversation. Still not acceptable however it does not deserve a ban whatsoever.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,495
    Don't I know it Off_It. I wish I was more popular. Oh - wait... no I don't, I couldn't give a shit.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,027
    Ha ha !
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587

    I went on Saturday. My first visit to the new Wembley and my first FA Cup Final. I took Chirpy Junior for his 16th birthday present. I managed to get some Club Wembley passes. He loved it, he'd watch any football match live.

    I really enjoyed the occasion, the atmosphere was brilliant, we were at the Stoke end.

    You can see us on the Sun 360 photo.

     We stayed to see the presentations and Mrs Chirps picked us up at North Greenwich at 6.05pm.

    A great day out.


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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,351
    where did you play Leroy ?
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,495
    edited May 2011
    The Oaks, Carshalton. Parkland, but quite a nice course.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,885
    Algarveaddick

    This is about the FA Cup's treatment of fans: http://www.fsf.org.uk/news/FA-Cup-Final-fans-deserve-more-tickets.php
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,360
    edited May 2011
    Same story every year JM. Even the FSF don't go far enough in my opinion. Why shouldn't virtually all the tickets go to supporters? "The football family" can be rewarded with tickets to international games, Club Wembley "not in direct control" of the FA... who chuffin' owns Wembley then? If the FA are not in control, then they are mugs (err... hang on a sec) for allowing it out of their hands. Even when they do act on misuse of tickets they backtrack in five minutes (See: Bobby Charlton). Not being holier that thou, but I have had opportunities for cup final tickets, and turned them down, as I would not want to deprive someone who supported (or followed) one of the clubs actually there of a chance to go, even though they probably ended up in a neutral's hand, my conscience was clear. I do this in the vague hope that one day, it might be the Addicks (or Luton) there, and karma would find me a ticket... :-) 
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587

    If the FA had not invented Club Wembley then there would have been no Wembley, well not the wonderful stadium it is at least.

     A lot of people paid a lot of money for Club Wembley debentures. What are they supposed to do? Advertise their seats on club websites for every match that their own team is not involved in? It happens at all stadia these days, Twickenham, Lords, Wimbledon, The O2 etc. It is the world we live in.

  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,885
    Not being holier that thou, but I have had opportunities for cup final tickets, and turned them down, as I would not want to deprive someone who supported (or followed) one of the clubs actually there of a chance to go, even though they probably ended up in a neutral's hand, my conscience was clear.
    You'd be better off accepting them and then selling them to a real fan at face value
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,885

    If the FA had not invented Club Wembley then there would have been no Wembley, well not the wonderful stadium it is at least.

     A lot of people paid a lot of money for Club Wembley debentures. What are they supposed to do? Advertise their seats on club websites for every match that their own team is not involved in? It happens at all stadia these days, Twickenham, Lords, Wimbledon, The O2 etc. It is the world we live in.

    But there are far fewer Club Wembley places than the number given to 'The Football Family.' We are bemoaning the latter not the former.
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    The football family as you call them is the FA, it's their tournament and their allocation of tickets is reward for all the work among the county FA's that keep the game running throughout the country.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,360
    As said, they can be rewarded with tickets to internationals Chirps.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,885
    If their is such a thing as a 'football family' then it should operate as such.

    If there is a big event in a family, for example a wedding, you don't get other members of the family deciding to have a barbeque instead of going to the service, or go out clubbing instead of going to the reception.

    This is effectively what the 'football family' do when they play other matches on the same day as The FA Cup Final or move it from a 3pm Saturday kick-off.

    The FA's football family make The Slobs look like the height of etiquette.

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  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Well said Jimmy.

    I have a friend who used to be a ref (failed footballer, but could run rings round me when we played 5-a-side) anyway, he used to get free FA cup final tickets and used to offer them to his mates - sadly, as we all know too well, I had no need of them.

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