I was surprised by that. Without being partisan I would have thought that he first Steel City derby i. Qui te a whole would have attracted a near full house. I have read on hear before that Sheffield U do not travel with hords of fans, but this is on their doorstep.
It near enough "sold out". SYP cut off huge swathes of seats, and either them or Wednesday limited Sheff United to about 2,000 odd tickets. And yet SYP were then happy enough to have Wednesday fans in the lower tier of the Leppings Lane end, with United fans above. Our resident police force really are the most hopeless tossers in the world when it comes to football matters.
Wednesday limited United's allocation tit for tat. United were only given the West Upper, with the bottom half a dozen rows blocked off, because Wednesday were below in the West Lower. There was also a whole gangway blocked off in the North Stand, which seemed unnecessary because the North-West corner is deemed unsafe and left empty anyway and there were only Wednesday fans in the West Lower.
Empty seats were all over the North Stand not the segregated areas. They haven't the support they think they have.
I am not surprised at £47 a pop. We can take the piss all we want but I would not pay that for any standard championship game of football. I don't care who the 2 teams are, £47 is taking the piss and it would have been just if there were 10k fewer there than there was.
I would not pay 47 quid to watch Barnsley play a championship game at Oakwell. Another example of the football fan being ripped off.
Hillsborough's capacity is only a little over 33,000 now I believe due to various restrictions placed on the club by SYP and SAG. The whole Leppings Lane End and corner section holds over 7000, but only about 4500 seats can be sold I read. The North Stand and South Stand end blocks are seldom on sale, again overly enthusiastic segregation. The 'lad' element of Wednesday's support used to and still do to an extent stand in the corners and so guessing this is why. Think the Kop is also restricted as well to some degree. Decent attendance considering the ridiculous pricing. SYP and SAG seem over the top with segregation. Bramall Lane has been restricted too, the end block of the main stand is usually closed and away fans cant use either end block of the already limited lower tier of the away end.
I completely agree but while ever fans keep paying these extortionate prices the clubs will continue charging them. Fans have the power to do something about it but they won't, not in sufficient numbers anyway.
Folk on here were moaning at paying 30 quid for villa on our 130 year anniversary and now trying to take piss out of Wednesday and united who forkedd out 47 a pop when it was on sky. Decent turn out considering chansiri trying to milk the derby imo.
Dun't dar know it's t'massive dorbeh? Dey war fotty billion locked ahhhhhhhrtttttt. This citeh graaaahnds to 'olt fer a week beefooer dey play, an' dun't sleep neet afooer. Bornsleh fans corn't knoooor. (If they charge us £47, I'm staying at home. And I live far too close to the rusty blue skip for my liking. Still, they can ram it.)
If police are restricting clubs attendance they will say it's on grounds of safety and lost revenue is worth it to guarantee public safety. Ok i get the logic. However when the villa fans ran on the the pitch at oakwell around 30 police officers between the West stand and away end stood there doing quite literally nothing. Surely to justify the money spent on them and the public safety concern argument, they should have intervened. Otherwise they were just there to watch the match in fancy dress?
I found the whole 130 year thing a bit bizarre. Since when has 130 years been a milestone to be celebrated. 100 years definitely, 150 years maybe.
Teams do celebrate these milestones though I remember going to blackpool under flicker when we beat then 2-1 they were celebrating their 125 year mark and was only 12.50 to get in. They also did other things I do believe although didn't take much notice as only got in ground 30 seconds before kick off
I don't think there's anything wrong with a bit of a celebration every ten years. Save the pyrotechnics for 100/150/whatever, but a multiple of ten (under the decimarchy*) seems to be to be as good an excuse to get some former players in. *This may not be a real word.
