Afternoon all,
In a bid not to get ripped off on train tickets, as I frequently did last season, and bearing in mind
@Elfsborg_Addicks excellent advice on train tickets I’ve built myself a little calendar in Excel of when the train tickets for each away game should go on sale (12 weeks before is the general rule). I turned it into a .CSV file which you can import straight into your Outlook calendar and it will pop up 12 weeks before each away fixture to remind you to get your train tickets booked.
For some reason I don’t seem to be able to sign in from my laptop (writing this on my iPhone) but I’ve sent the file across to my brother who will upload the .csv file shortly.
If you’ve never used a .csv file to import calendar dates into your Outlook calendar it’s dead simple (below is for Outlook 2007 but other versions should be broadly the same);
Simply save the file to your hard drive – don’t open, go to your calendar screen, click “File”, then “Import and Export”, then Import from another programme and file, then Comma Separated Values (Windows), browse and find your saved file and “allow duplicates to be created” then click next, select Calendar and then “finish”.
If all has gone well you should now have a calendar entry for 12 weeks before each game to remind you to sort yourself out and get the train tickets booked. Hopefully this will save you a few bob over the season.
If you don’t use Outlook, below is a list of the dates –
Date of fixture
Train tickets should be on sale
Sat Aug 18 Birmingham City A
18/08/12
26/05/12
Sat Sep 1 Nottingham Forest A
01/09/12
09/06/12
Tue Sep 18 Derby County A
18/09/12
26/06/12
Sat Sep 22 Ipswich Town A
22/09/12
30/06/12
Sat Oct 6 Blackpool A
06/10/12
14/07/12
Tue Oct 23 Leeds United A
23/10/12
31/07/12
Sat Oct 27 Wolverhampton Wanderers A
27/10/12
04/08/12
Sat Nov 10 Bristol City A
10/11/12
18/08/12
Sat Nov 17 Burnley A
17/11/12
25/08/12
Sat Dec 1 Millwall A FA Cup R2
01/12/12
08/09/12
Sat Dec 15 Bolton Wanderers A
15/12/12
22/09/12
Sat Dec 22 Sheffield Wednesday A
22/12/12
29/09/12
Tue Jan 1 Watford A
01/01/13
09/10/12
Sat Jan 19 Blackburn Rovers A
19/01/13
27/10/12
Sat Feb 2 Crystal Palace A
02/02/13
10/11/12
Sat Feb 16 Hull City A FA Cup R5
16/02/13
24/11/12
Tue Feb 19 Leicester City A
19/02/13
27/11/12
Tue Mar 5 Peterborough United A
05/03/13
11/12/12
Sat Mar 9 Huddersfield Town A FA Cup R6
09/03/13
15/12/12
Mon Apr 1 Brighton and Hove Albion A
01/04/13
07/01/13
Sat Apr 13 Barnsley A FA Cup semi-final
13/04/13
19/01/13
Tue Apr 16 Cardiff City A
16/04/13
22/01/13
Sat Apr 27 Middlesbrough A
27/04/13
02/02/13
Comments
Bristol I have a place to stay, will be good to grab a weekend with a mate. Ipswich is easy, and Leicester... I want to see the return of the Kerminator there! Hopefully there will be more when I grab a map and practice my geography skills. :P
I will start a thread immediately cheap tickets become available for each game.
(Thanks for the kind words SE9, must buy you a drink for that!)