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At £40 a ticket Cambridge Utd made £1.2 million from their share of the gate receipts last season. We’d have to sell over 6500 ST at £180 to raise that type of dough.
Perhaps Sharpie can persuade Man Utd to charge £100 a ticket!
What you need to remember though is that unless Man Utd draw a top 5 premier league side at OT, then a fair percentage of their ST holders, given the choice, would probably not attend.
The fact is, they don’t get a choice (well they do, but it comes with consequences).
In a way I feel sorry for their fans. If they hadn’t shelled out close to £50 to see them turn over a very poor Reading side in a one-sided affair that was played at lunchtime on TV, they’d be banned from attending the home match against Liverpool.
They sell the tickets because they force their adult ST holders to enrol in an auto payment scheme for all FA Cup ties. If their ST holders don’t pay for an FA Cup ticket, their ST is deactivated for the following league game, and not allowed to buy tickets for away fixtures and cup finals.
Thank fuck Sharpie hasn’t adopted that draconian approach or we’d be playing Brentford with three stands empty!
At £45 a ticket and the chances of it being on TV being very high, only the most loyal fans or the very rich ones will be in attendance for this one, which is a shame.
All the other clubs seem to charge a very reasonable figure for FA Cup ties in January – why is it that Man Utd feel the need to continually fleece supporters?
Although its only 4 years since we played Man Utd every season, I get the feeling that this is the only way we’ll get a fixture against them for many years to come.
