Akin to saving your half time pie foil in my book. The Day 1 queue will be made up of stamp collectors and train spotters.
I concur. Can never find my season ticket upon demand, never mind other folded gnarled colour soggy/dry drained been-through-the-washer cardboard bits. And can remember little about the Burnley game. Can describe the goal. And we won. Ovo I demand deliverance of the ground cctv footage to prove my attendance (don't pan in too close as I may have my eyes closed).
I have been hunting around for mine from Hull...looked in the drawer where we keep all that stuff..... no sign of the Hull ticket but I did find Colchester Utd V Sheffiedl Wednesday, and Man Utd V Crystal Palace. Doh!
Got to say anyone who doesn't keep them must be mad...even if we don't get to use them in a cup run your grandkids will be able to sell them on e**y in 35 years time
I must admit even my endless optimism had been reduced to such an extent this year that I gave up keeping them by Christmas
The real question should be will the stubs be returned with a club stamp on the back or not? Stubbers need to know these things.
I've got stubs going back to games in the 70's. Seems I didn't keep that Arsenal one though. Gaps start appearing once I hit drinking age though, as the tickets tended to remain in the pub with the programmes/my return train ticket, etc!
Yet another reason why my electronic entry card system should be introduced! Keep all fan information on the computer and it will be immediately obvious who all the "reight fans" are...collect points and then categories would be something like: Day 1. People will 10000 or more reight fan points Day 2. People with 8000 or more reight fan points etc etc Day 12. Non-reight fans Years ago I used to save the ticket stubs in a scrap book but for the last ten years or so they've gone in my back pocket after the match, I've forgotten about them, and they've subsequently been destroyed in the watching machine.
In 1998, whilst on work experience, I built several computers at a company to be used in the offices at Oakwell, running Windows 95 - they're probably still using them now.