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And now for the heartache...
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So it's back to Wembley in a few weeks time and back to that hoary old chestnut, ticket allocation!
With a smaller capacity than the old Wembley and with the seats allocated to the Wembley 'members' (or whatever they are called) as an added complication, nearly half the seats available will go to others aside from supporters of the clubs involved, many of which will appear for sale on e-bay or reach the hot little mits of touts.
I've long given up hope that the FA will ever address this issue appropriately so this post is not a plea for them to do so...because I know they won't.
No, what this post is about is how uplifting it was to see all those youngsters really enjoying the experience of a trip to Wembley, from playing in the fountain to just soaking up the atmosphere and being just as anxious about the game as us grown ups! Most of these young Blues have never experienced anything like that before, you'd have to be about 21 to have been there in 1995 and remember it.
But with 26,000 or so tickets coming our way, many fans (and this includes Chelsea's too) including a lot of those kids are going to be disappointed, perhaps even heartbroken, unless their mum's and dad's can afford the £200 that tickets were going for yesterday (they'll probably cost even more for the Final) many of them will miss the opportunity to go to Wembley on an even bigger occasion. Many of us grown-ups will be disappointed too, but we've all been disappointed before... the first disappointment is always the worst!
Dave Roberts, Posted 20/04/2009 at 08:34:13
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1 Posted 20/04/2009 at 07:53:13
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I will hopefully share my thoughts on our performance and our superb fans in and outside the ground in the next few days but game, especially at half-time whilst swapping stories with other toffees the one thing that was sticking in my mind was the extortionate prices that fellow Evertonians were charging other blues for tickets.
If you couldn't make it then why didn't you sell at face value+costs or if you did get one but decided you wanted the money.... then you're obviously not a fan at all cos money could never reproduce the feelings and emotions that we went through inside that ground. We expect it from 'professional' touts but fellow blues charging £120, £200 + for £24 & £44 tickets is a fucking joke. An if you did that, you're a cunt, simple as.
Apart from that, we hopefully showed the whole country what makes us a big club is something that money cant buy.....our history, our pride, our amazing support, our passion. Like one of the flags said.....
Class & Dignity.