Thursday, 30 April 2009

Chelsea ticket sales

Here's the thing. I work in London and alongside some Chelsea fans. Season ticket holders. Not the ones you see on TV drinking red wine in the stands at home matches or those we all remember from our days of visiting Stamford Bridge in the 1980s, but proper ones who were there when they weren't very good.

Anyway, they got their cup final tickets today. Like Everton, there was a point-based system but no ballot. So each one was able to log onto the club website this morning, select a price bracket and 10 minutes later they have an email not only confirming the sale, but also what section in the West Stand they will sit in. So all of them can sit back, relax and plan their day.

The worst element of this revelation came when I described Everton's allocation approach to be greeted with nods all round and the line "yeah, ours used to be like that 10 years ago".

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