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Mags Giving Away Tickets


My old dad was a mad keen Sunderland fan

Back in the Keegan era he was offered corporate tickets to watch Newcastle Barcelona at St James.

He admonished the corporate exec telling him how awful it was to offer a Sunderland fan tickets to a game like that when there were Newcastle fans who had followed their team for decades locked out. People who would give everything for a ticket, only for a Sunderland fan to take their place

The corporate exec was silent, chastened. Hushed. After a long moment my dad said

"only joking, of course I'm coming. Força Barça"
 
SAFC_Marc said:
Made their beds when they bent over and accepted the Saudi's I'm afraid. Many outside their bubble could see exactly what was coming down the road, but they couldn't or didn't want to see it.
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As soon as demand outstrips supply it will be the same at Sunderland. Will that be ok for normal fans to miss out. You lot have, after all, been demanding a return to Premier League football.
Fans across the country being shit on.
 
Biffo The Bear said:
As soon as demand outstrips supply it will be the same at Sunderland. Will that be ok for normal fans to miss out. You lot have, after all, been demanding a return to Premier League football.
Fans across the country being shit on.
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Are you sure? Everything is pointing to KLD extending the SoL should we be in the position where we sell out regularly and establish ourselves.

SAFC have a real opportunity of becoming THE north east team, who actually represent our region and not just a sports washing project.

See also the fact we have given 85 and over free season cards
 
Peace said:
Never understood slating the mags for their support.

By all means hate your rivals but you can't fault the mags for their support, they have a bigger fanbase than most clubs in the country including Sunderland.
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Never used to sell out their away allocation until the Saudi's turned up.

They use the excuse that they were protesting against Mike Ashley yet EFC fans have sold out home and away the past few seasons despite protests against the former board who accused a fan of assaulting the CEO with no proof or report made to Merseyside police of the incident.

Every fanbase is great during the good times, its the bad times that seperate the top fanbases from the fair weather ones in my opinion.
 
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Nowt wrong with clubs giving back to the less fortunate.

In this case though it’s to private school kids and they took the piss out of us for giving Sunderland school kids free or discounted tickets so fuck em.
 
Biffo The Bear said:
As soon as demand outstrips supply it will be the same at Sunderland. Will that be ok for normal fans to miss out. You lot have, after all, been demanding a return to Premier League football.
Fans across the country being shit on.kyril
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Biffo The Bear said:
As soon as demand outstrips supply it will be the same at Sunderland. Will that be ok for normal fans to miss out. You lot have, after all, been demanding a return to Premier League football.
Fans across the country being shit on.
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Sunderland will extend the stadium to fill the demand your lot won't
 
Peace said:
Never understood slating the mags for their support.

By all means hate your rivals but you can't fault the mags for their support, they have a bigger fanbase than most clubs in the country including Sunderland.
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Purely through accident of geography as discussed. They’re the only major football club between Glasgow and Newcastle, and Cumbria has no real clubs other than Carlisle.

They have all of Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle (roughly 800k people) all to themselves plus almost all of Gateshead (190k), half of Durham (250k), half of South Tyneside (100k), etc.

There is nothing inherently special about the club they just happen to have a monopoly on 800,000 fans.
 
It's the filth all over this.

I've got absolutely no problem with ANY club giving some free tickets for low demand fixtures to LOCAL schools. There'll be plenty of kids in deprived parts of the city who are filth daft who would be absolutely delighted with tickets to any filth game never mind Barcelona.

To give them free to kids at an elite fee paying TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS A YEAR school almost 200 miles away is an absolute disgrace,

It's nailed on that one of the dignitaries / parents at the school has some seedy link to the filth corporate and this is a 'payment in kind'. It's way too random for this to be a school plucked from thin air.

How many Magedia outlets will pick up on this? Will the local MP say anything?

I'll bet at the total of FUCK ALL any as they way too afraid of speaking out against the regime. Let's be honest, the Mag journalists have hardly been empathetic to their peer Khashoggi since the Saudi state moved in.

They're utter scum. Always have been. Always will be.
 
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Frijj said:
Shocking PR for the mags like

£20k a year private school in Dundee getting tickets to sell to their kids

Local lads missing out on tickets

Colours aside it’s shite for local folk to be priced out in favour of some posh kids hundreds of miles away

We’d be foaming if for example play off final tickets were being given free to a school in Chester whilst our own lads were missing out

Why does their club hate their local fans from Walker and Byker?
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Have you seen the clip of those fuckers
 
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