[BFC SITE] Manchester United Cup Tie Confirmed

I like that. I'm going to tell people I bought DKD.

 

Gotcha

 

Guessing it’s cos the FA get a % of the gate revenue in cup games.
Interestingly it also seems in cup games away fans get a bigger allocation than in the league too.
I would guess this is for the same reasons.£££

 

Is there anyway to get occasional Man City tickets without paying £25 to sign up for their cityzens thing?

 

I moaned at the £39 for Mansfield but I'll be taking the young un to this. Problem l have is that he's half Mancunian, unlike half the kids in Barnsley that are City/Utd he has family ties to those clubs! Mrs arguing that if he wants to go in the Utd end he can, over my dead body he will.

 

Behave - if the club had nothing to do with it then great; I was hardly trying to bash them.

My point still stands. It’s horrendous greed from the so called biggest club in the world.

 

I didn’t mean you in particular,I was talking about people in general.

 

For the Glazers and Manchester United, of course, it’s a nice little earner, since they’ve found an outrageous way to break the link between the attractiveness of the match and the ticket price charged for it. This is their infamous ‘Automatic Cup Scheme’ (ACS), under which all season ticket holders are obliged to buy a ticket for all home cup ties in domestic and European competitions, whether they want to attend the game or not. This ensures that Old Trafford will be full or just about full – or, more accurately, ‘sold out’ or just about sold out – whatever the price, with every adult season ticket holder being charged for a ticket whether they turn up or not. If they don’t purchase a ticket, their season ticket will be suspended for a subsequent league match.

This pricing is patently unfair on Manchester United supporters – but that shouldn’t surprise anyone, as this ACS has been much-talked about and much-criticised since 2007 when it was introduced. But away supporters are affected by this pricing too,

 

Immediately after the draw is known the two clubs concerned must mutually agree the prices.

Taken from the EFL Cup rules 're tickets.

 

Do you want a headstone.

 

Not really. Premier league games are one ticket per membership and so are the big Champions League games. Occasional cup games and some Champions League games they will allow you to buy more than one ticket but you still have to be a member to access tickets. I've got a membership and have only managed to get two premier league tickets this time as they all go on sale at the same time.

 

I can see how that conversation went -

ManUtd "We think £40 per adult is fair"

BFC "How about £20, it is only a league cup game"

ManUtd "So we're agreed, £40 it is then"

 

£41 to watch us against the biggest club in the world. I'm having a bit of that. Costs more against Wednesday.

 

Exactly. People pay 30 to watch us at the Toughsheet.

 

Dynamic pricing starting in football
In a statement, the FSA said: "With impeccable timing after the Oasis fiasco, voices in football have started to float the idea of infecting football with dynamic pricing.
"Never underestimate the potential for the most greedy owners in football to try and import terrible ideas from other industries to exploit supporter loyalty.
https://news.sky.com/story/english-...ish-sides-adopt-controversial-system-13209461

 

If we were Aston Villa in the Champions League with these prices fleecing their fans.....

 

Thought Wednesday were the biggest club in the world?

 

I think Utd will play their strongest 11 because they'll probably not win anything else this season.

 

"all season ticket holders are obliged to buy a ticket for all home cup ties in domestic and European competitions, whether they want to attend the game or not"

That's not true this season.
Only ST holders that gave 'opted in' to the Carabao are obliged to purchase.
I guess there'll be plenty of takers, but will be interesting to see how it goes - potentially less than 60k.