by bigmick » Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:36 am
The old OOTer argument never fails to get 'em going eh? In fairness to Mr Dodd, though I disagree with his views he is correct in saying that he didn't resort to name-calling so therefore probably doesn't deserve some of the abuse he copped. That said, to say to a fella who asks whether he has any chance of getting a ticket, No and whatsmore I hope you don't get one either seems a little silly to me.
While I think it's reasonable, correct and laudible for the club to operate a priortity system for loyal and local fans, there are other ways of getting tickets to any oversubscribed event, be it of a sporting nature or the theatre or whatever. I talk of course of the tout, and before anybody jumps on their high horse about touts being the scum of the Earth (which they ususally are in my experience anyway) and of them denying "real" fans access to tickets, it is in my opinion the legitimate method of the occasional and less worthy supporter of obtaining a ticket. It's the price you pay, don't go regularly and you'll have to cough up three or four times the face value at least, to get in.
To those local and regular matchgoers who believe that this practice denies them access to maybe 500 or so extra tickets I would point out that in the majority of cases these tickets wouldn't be on general sale anyway (ie they come from the players and staff) and would also ask what other method somebody not from the local area is supposed to use.
Failing that, I suggest those who aren't from Liverpool are simply not allowed in and we operate a kind of accent apartate. As a concession, could us non-scousers possibly request that we are allowed to attend reserve or Youth Cup games instead? Maybe that's the problem, we simply don't know our place.
"se e in una bottigla ed e bianco, e latte".