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Why does the club give out false attendance figures?
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Qwerty
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This, every club does it. Dunno if that's the figure they have to give out.
The Fitter
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Because no man can count up to 25,000 from the turnstiles closing to the attendance announcement, reckons my mate from Newcastle 
superlamb1971
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Income tax reasons.
Hull_Mackem
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How do you know they do?
I think this is taken as a given, when people under estimate how many people are actually there.
You could be right, but I'm not saying it's a given like in true SMB style seems to have become a fact.
So you have 20,000 gate but say you have 28,000 for income tax reasons.
Monkey Hanger
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Surely it would be straight forward enough to calculate scanned tickets???
Kubicki85
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This. Some season card holders miss games and are counted other than that I think 2o-24k empty seats seems about right.
knitting away
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FA or FL or Premier League or whoever rules isnt it?
Granger
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All clubs have to publish Tickets Sold figures by Premier League/EFL rules.
Since every ticket sold is subject to VAT this makes it harder for clubs to fiddle their gate receipts to the taxman.
SAFC will know the true physical attendance figure since they use electronic turnstiles but choose to keep it a secret.
Many other clubs do likewise.
Since every ticket sold is subject to VAT this makes it harder for clubs to fiddle their gate receipts to the taxman.
SAFC will know the true physical attendance figure since they use electronic turnstiles but choose to keep it a secret.
Many other clubs do likewise.
Twisted
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I'm 99% certain the answer is 'who cares'
houghton cut head
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They don’t, they correctly give the attendance based on the number of tickets sold.
Anything different and the league and HMRC would be on our case.
Anything different and the league and HMRC would be on our case.
Lefty Frizzell
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Maybe they should change the announcement that they during the second half from, "today's attendance is ...", to "tickets sold today is ..."
The announcement is misleading imo
The announcement is misleading imo
Maximus
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Is it a rule though? Most clubs give the actual away attendance or number of visitors. We have had sellouts but the actual numbers excludes tickets not scanned.
Does this rule only apply to home games does anyone know?
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