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Watford fans locked out (11/08/02)


Hundreds of Watford fans travelled to Leicester on Saturday to be turned away without seeing the game.

The Watford end sold out, and between 2-300 Watford fans were left outside unable to get in.

Watford chief executive Tim Shaw apparently tried to intervene to get his fans in, but to no avail.

Now FFS has a couple of thoughts on this...

We'd checked out the Watford website the previous day and although it was clearly advising Watford fans that it would be a good idea to buy before they travelled it was definately implying there would be some on the door as it wasn't a sell out yet.

But if we'd have been Watford fans would we have risked travelling all that way without tickets knowing it was the first game in a new stadium and likely to be a sell out?

We can understand the Watford fans being annoyed on two counts though once they were there...

one, there were Leicester fans buying tickets on the door and sitting in the Watford bit, and two, more irritatingly, they knew damn well there were hundreds of seats in the stadium unfilled, where City hadn't been able to sell seats to the corporate w*nkers, as well as many in the Watford end that were covered for the attempt at "segregation.

Well that was pointless when Leicester fans were buying tickets for in there wasn't it?

And City lost nearly £5,000 in ticket sales not to mention food and beer sales.

This could well be a problem for many travelling fans this season. There are a lot of Midlands teams bringing large numbers of fans to see our new stadium. Will we have to make it all ticket so they're not disappointed on the day? Otherwise how do we stop City fans getting in there?

Most disappointing news of the day was to hear that City fans were being thrown out of the Watford end for spitting at Watford fans. If this is true they should be throroughly ashamed of themselves.

Watford fans...mail us with your experiences.

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The sold out Watford corner

The empty corporate seats

 
 
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