Leeds away

That was given before I wrote to them. They can’t do anything about the prices, but they can show support for their fans who are trying to do/say something about it. What I’ve asked them to do is:

• Publicly demonstrate support for those fans that are choosing not to attend the Leeds. It will be a hard choice for some of them and to know that the club and supporters club are behind them will be of comfort.
• Recognise that the boycott is about saying that it is wrong to charge those sorts of prices, not to pay them. Whilst it would be great if there was 100% non-attendance at the Leeds game this should not be about driving rifts between anyone who chooses to boycott and anyone who chooses to attend.
• Promote the attempts to raise money for The Brick Homeless charity via a Virgin Money Giving page at http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/LeedsBoycott
• Make contact with Leeds Utd FC and their supporters’ organisations to make it clear that there is an active boycott, that you support it and support the idea of making football affordable.

Too much?[/quote]

And did the club agree to support it, nrp?

Players to support first 500 tickets sold

http://www.wiganlatics.co.uk/news/article/wigan-athletic-players-fans-boxing-day-leeds-2137680.aspx

I think this is what you’d call a dilemma.

I don’t think the original boycott set out to get charity but now you’ll have at least 500 people there and Leeds get 500 x £36 which defeats the point people originally set out to make.

Also, a great gesture by the players but 500 x £36 / 26 (players) is £350 a player – hardly breaks the bank. Now if they stood it for all pre-sales…………

I know bah humbug

No change there then :P[/quote]

It’s funny you should say that George, I once went to Scarborough watching the tics many moons ago and went with my mate and his dad.

We meandered up to the Turnstiles and I followed the owd chap, he was about 70, into the ground and his lad went through the adjacent turnstile. It was only part way through the match when I said to my mate, not bad prices here, to which he replied, why how much have you paid. I’d only gone through the juniors and OAP turnstile.
At that time I would have been in my 30’s so took it that they thought I was a junior rather than an OAP. :dry:
Can you remember the game, there were quite a few of our lads thrown out and they sat on a bank located outside one corner of the ground, watching the game with a few coppers round them for company.

It might have been the season we gave them a tonkin at Springy when Martinez notched a blinder. :cheer:[/quote]Was that the same game,the stewards fetch the riot cops just before halftime.if so our fans all got tinnys from a petrol station cross the road,we got beat that day. :(