Cup final dilemma

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I've acquired two tickets for the little match in Cardiff on Saturday but I have a dilemma - just who should I support. Is it to be Dirty Northern B*st*rds with cheating little git up front or should I go for Soft Southern Poofters? Advice welcome!

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2001

Answers

OK, you've had 30 seconds - why no replies?

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2001

Has to be the SSP's Jacko, just think how insufferably smug the Micky's will be if they win all three cup competitions.

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2001

My vote is for DNB, though hoping the little turd has a bad day. SSP are too boring for me. ;-)

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2001

Hope one of the teams scores off the ref's arse.
Can't beat a good old British farce.

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2001

SSP as they don't have that lanky Gorman tosser playing for them.

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2001


It has to be Arsenal - I hate the car thieves.

However, you should find a fan of either team & sell your ticket at face value. After spending hours on wembley way trying to get into 3 Wembley matches, I deplore the way tickets are given to daytrippers.

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2001


Has to be Arsenal. Our mockery of ManUtd has blinded us to what gloryhunting twats LFC are.

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2001

Liverpool. As a resident of Highbury I don't think I can handle another victory parade - also play over the park on a Sunday with a load of smug Gooners. I was brought up to always go for North over South (with obvious exceptions to the rule - mackems, smogs, Man U, Leeds).

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2001

Sell them to the highest bidder. It'll pay for your Port Vale season tickets.

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2001

No chance of a Rogue State (tm George Bush Jnr 2001) suddenly bombing Cardiff? F**k em both - if they ain't wearing our colours I'm not interested.

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2001


Dave, I appreciate your sentiments and believe me, I didn't go touting for these tickets, I was actually offered them without asking if you can believe it. And whilst you may see me as a day tripper in the sense that I am not a fan of either team, the fact that I have seen over 60 Prem, Nationwide and assorted cup games this year means that I'm not actually a day tripper in that sense of the word. Also, I do a load of unpaid work for Port Vale, regular programme contibutions and the like, so if some "hangers on" have to get these tickets, I think I'm a little more deserving than some. At least I know who's playing and who the players are! I also regard it as a pay back for 1974 when I couldn't get a final ticket for love nor money!!

I wouldn't dream of selling these whatever anyone offered because I have had to sign a paper from the FA saying I won't. I have never sold a ticket at over face value in my life.

Sorry if I've offended you.

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2001


Jacko, you deserve some reward from Port Vale or the local FA, the cup final is for those fans of the clubs that make it.

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2001

Moving the FAC Final to Cardiff has finally reduced it to just another match. The Final used to be the highlight of the footy season, but it has now been devalued to the point where it is of no greater signficance than the Worthless Cup.

I might not even watch it this season, but probably will - as my wife says, it does have 22 men kicking a ball around a field after all!

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2001


This argument about what happens to cup final tickets raises its head every year. It is a fact that a propotion of the tickets (it used to be half but is now considerably less) goes to each club in Prem, the Nationwide, county FA's etc. In many cases, people associated with those organisations pass on the tickets to supporters of the clubs concerned. That's how I got my tickets for the 98 final. The bloke from whom I got these tickets approached me and asked me if I wanted them. He did this partly because he had got me tickets before and this year, NO ONE ELSE had asked him for any. He was actually astonished at this because usually he has people queueing up from the semi-final onwards. As I only got the tickets last night, there is no way they could have made their way back to either of the participating clubs in the time available.

I don't feel any guilt about this in the circumstances. And as the tickets actually say "Liverpool Area" on them, despite being in the supposed neutral zone, it is one of our charming scouse cousin who have bloody cup finals coming out of their ears that I am depriving!

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2001


am going to France on le shuttle on a booze trip - such is my interest. Largely down to the Toons performances of late I want to stay clear of football.

Mind you Im scouring the net in search of a glimmer of us getting Carrick, Clarke, Bridges.....

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2001



Screw the moaners Jacko - you don't make rules, just go and enjoy yourself.
Hope it's a great game - and don't forget the obligatory event report. Yacky-bloody-da! ;-{)

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2001

Jacko - I was in a similar position last year at Cardiff. I was made to go to a rugby match. I had never seen a rugby match in my life, not the slightest bit interested, never will be, can't understand the game, and this was their World Cup Final. Australia vs France or was it South Africa? See, I don't even know, certainly no affinity for either nation, or even the sport itself. After Rolf Harris and Max Boyce or whoever had done their turns I sat for 15 minutes bored out of my brain and feeling so so guilty in having a seat at something other people would die to be at. Every one around you going mental and it meant nowt to me. So I went for a wander under the stands and at Cardiff you can walk round and round the whole stadium under the stands - spent an hour chatting to stewards, doing laps of the ground and trying to get another drink. I had a miserable and guilt ridden day out on a corporate freebie- like hundreds of other ungrateful twats.

Fortunately you're a man who enjoys football and deserves a ticket - and you won't be surprised if the occupants of the empty seats around you are found wandering aimlessly around the stadium looking for something to do before going back to their hospitality tents.

Anyway, Liverpool for me. Just to remind the plastic Mancs of the world that there are other clubs

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2001


Shags, Don`t know personally but Jacko is a lady who apart from her Toon roots supports/assists one of our less glamourous clubs, Port Vale. It is also my hunch that she does extra curricular work in her own time with young children in the name of football, unpaid and time consuming. The only way the FA can reward these people in who put a lot into our National game is to issue a limited no to the County ASs

If for instance our new national stadium held 100,000 and why not/, Cup Final between Ipswich and Southampton, 50,000 each !!!! The argument always surfaces when two well supported teams compete in the final. In Scotland Celtic (average gate 60.000) play Hibs (ave approx 12,000) Mac may correct me but in a 52.000 cap st , both teams will receive 21.000 each,10.000 to the SFA and rest assured out of that lot Tennants the sponsor will get their whack, any publican who keeps Tennants for instance receives two tickets. To think not so long ago we were talking 134,000 capacity.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2001


OK, go and enjoy it, depriving the gloria hunting scousers if fine really. After all, there were plenty of spare seats in their end at the semi so you're right to make the most of it.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2001

Buff, thanks for those kind words but I have to admit that the extra- curricular work I do with children is largely along the lines of indoctrination!!

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

Jacko - I suppose you know Kevin Kent - he works as Social Club Manager at our place. I don't suppose you've any dirt I can take the p*ss out of him with ?

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

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