19-05-2017, 20:22
(This post was last modified: 19-05-2017, 20:26 by St Charles Owl.)
(19-05-2017, 19:22)theo_luddite Wrote: Sheffield Wednesday1
Steven Fletcher (51')
Huddersfield Town1
Tom Lees (og 73')
Sky Bet Championship Play-off
Attendance: 32,625
Venue: Hillsborough Stadium
Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England has been the home ground of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. since opening in 1899. Wikipedia
Address: Sheffield S6 1SW
Capacity: 39,732
Now I know we only got 2,000 out of potentially 3,700 tickets in the upper layer and the tellybox men would have had cameras perched on a few seats but didn't I read this was a 38,000 sellout? I thought the fancy dress code of looking like a seat cover seemed to extend a bit further than the blue and white stripes they kindly put in front of the Town fans
This has been an ongoing argument between the club and the Safety Advisory Committee all season. Currently they restrict the capacity for all home games (I believe its around 34,000 but you only had 2000 seats in a stand that holds 3700 as agreed by the 4 clubs in the playoffs) and leave huge amounts of seats either as segregation or for other strange reasons!! Every seat that the club was allowed to sell was sold!! For instance there are some seats on the Kop that have a restricted view due to the roof pillars, the club doesn't sell those tickets on advice, the away end is severely restricted as you saw and then there are a couple of blocks of seats in the two side stands near the away end that are not allowed to be sold for segregation reasons. Its madness for games like this but the club has to follow their advice!! Our Chairman has stated that he is not pushing this at the moment with them but has said he is getting tired of it and will start to try to find solutions to stop this excessive segregation in particular.
If you did read this was a 38,000 sellout then that wasn't from the club, we haven't been able to get to that number all season. It was a sell out, as was the Fulham game before it, yet there were nearly 2000 more at the Fulham game, presumably that is the extra away tickets for that game compared to yours.