I have just completed a fan survey about season ticket holder “seat migration” at the new stadium and I am fuming.
I sit in the Top Balcony, with family and friends, above the half-way line and about half-way up. In the map of the new stadium, our corresponding seats will not be available for season ticket holders; in fact all seats in the West Stand between the two18-yard boxes will not be available for season ticket holders – they are going to be reserved for the prawn sandwich brigade. That must be about 10,000 seats – all unavailable for current season ticket holders in the Family Enclosure, the Main Stand and the Top Balcony.
I remember seeing an early version of the layout of the new ground which intimated that there would be a lot of hospitality seats in the area where I normally sit, but I am surprised to see how many season ticket holders will not be able to get seats anywhere near where they sit at the moment.
This is how we are rewarded for putting up with the (mostly) awful football we have witnessed for the last 10 years.