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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Salsa Party Animal on May 08, 2011, 11:57:01 AM
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I am not renewing my season ticket for next season due to three reasons.
1. My very strong passion for Salsa dancing which mean I love to do Friday and Saturday night out and plus very late night out and early getting up for work (ie 3.5 hours sleep on Friday night (Saturday morning) ) Make it very difficult for me to cope as I was struggling to stay awake yesterday afternoon. I could have sleep in Villa Park, I was that tired. Some Saturdays I have no energy for Saturday night out after football.
2. My job as postman make it hard for me to enjoy my game on Saturday and from August starting time will change from 6-12 to 7-3 and I can never been sure if I will finish for 2.
3. Not enough quality games from Aston Villa this season to make the game enjoyable. Some midweek crap game I was left wishing I was at X for Salsa Dancing instead. (I do most Wednesday)
I went to every home game but 2 Small Heath and Blackburn in League due to holidays.
I will stick to Sunday games for next season and go to Saturdays match if I am not working on that week (I work 5 X 6 days a week work and get a week off every 6 weeks)
I will renew my season ticket if I get a better paid job and working 5 days a week, which is unlikely and I am not looking for one and big changes happens. I want to see how the big changes at work affect me first as I will get my own walk (according to the boss at work, assuming he is correct)
For now Salsa Dancing take over priority to football. I can't believe it :)
I think I will enjoy football more if I don't have to watch it every other week and see players like Ashley Young make my blood boil at time.
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I am not renewing my season ticket for next season due to three reasons.
1. My very strong passion for Salsa dancing
This must be the first time in H & V, or football history, that somebody isn't renewing because of Salsa dancing.
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I am not renewing my season ticket for next season due to three reasons.
1. My very strong passion for Salsa dancing
This must be the first time in H & V, or football history, that somebody isn't renewing because of Salsa dancing.
I can just picture you doing your post round and salsa-ing through the gardens.
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I am not renewing my season ticket for next season due to three reasons.
1. My very strong passion for Salsa dancing
This must be the first time in H & V, or football history, that somebody isn't renewing because of Salsa dancing.
It's a good way to meet women apparently.
That true, Salsa?
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I'm renewing on the understanding that next season cannot possibly be as bad as this one.
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Yes :) as you spend 5 minutes with lot of ladies on dance floor and some night you can dance with 20 ladies :) Made lot friends that way as well.
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I thought after the wolves game we couldn't possibly get worse but i think we just managed it yesterday.
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Yes :) as you spend 5 minutes with lot of ladies on dance floor and some night you can dance with 20 ladies :) Made lot friends that way as well.
Bollocks to football then!
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Will be renewing BUT not with great deal of enthusiasm as I have no confidence in players or coaching staff at the moment.
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This is the best start to a thread ever!!!
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I'm not renewing because I need to commit more time to my fighting beetles.
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I'm not renewing because I need to spend more time organising my collection of belly-button fluff.
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Is Heskey World Salsa Dancing Champion......or should i go to spec savers.
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I'm not renewing as I didn't have one this season. I will be getting one next season though.
That's if time allows me to, due to my love of taken photos of people who wear odd socks.
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Of all the reasons people will give not to renew over the coming weeks and months I don't think interference in a salsa-dancing lifestyle will be topped.
A late entry for post of the season.
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Yes :) as you spend 5 minutes with lot of ladies on dance floor and some night you can dance with 20 ladies :) Made lot friends that way as well.
Sounds just like Peppermint Rhino, but cheaper I would imagine.
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I am not renewing my season ticket for next season due to three reasons.
1. My very strong passion for Salsa dancing which mean I love to do Friday and Saturday night out and plus very late night out and early getting up for work (ie 3.5 hours sleep on Friday night (Saturday morning) ) Make it very difficult for me to cope as I was struggling to stay awake yesterday afternoon. I could have sleep in Villa Park, I was that tired. Some Saturdays I have no energy for Saturday night out after football.
I too struggled to stay awake at Villa Park yesterday. And during the Stoke game. And during the Newcastle game. And, come to think of it, during almost every game this season. I can't dance for shit, though.
After 90 minutes at Villa Park, i have no energy for life, let alone dancing.
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Salsa Dancing?... maybe our friend Monsieur Houllier should have cut down on the Break Dancing.
Perhaps we could organize a mass protest 'I'm Not Renewing' Salsa Dance on the steps behind the Holte.
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Salsa Dancing is indeed a big pull which many may find difficult toresist when it comes to ST renewals.
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Never had a season ticket at Villa although there have been a couple of season where in retrospect it would've been cheaper for me to buy one...I agree about falling asleep during the Stoke game, it was one of the most coma-inducing games I've ever been to, in equal part owing to Stoke's anti-football and Villa's inability to find a way out of it.
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Does Nicola Keye et al know about this Salsa dancing issue? I really, honestly think I've heard it all now.
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Maybe there's a new commercial opportunity here:
'Salsa at Villa Park!'
The club could hold dance lessons, create a salsa-dancing team to enter competitions under the great Aston Villa name, open a Mexican restaurant serving salsa-based dishes (expanding the brand a little!)...
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Maybe it's time to chop H&V in for a salsa dancing fan site
Instead. Sounds amazing but I think I'll stick with the villa. For better or worse...
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http://www.latinmotion.co.uk/
On Wednesdays it's at Solihull Ice Rink - now I don't know much about salsa dancing but that's got to make it harder!!
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It is a good place to start :) We are dancing in a suite next to the ice rink. So we can see the ice hockey training next to the room :)
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I would like to try salsa always had a thing for latino women be nice to go to a salsa club and boogie the night away but i'm not sure of going there instead of the football you must describe the women for me.
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How is your back anyway? Was it you looking to use Bodymoor's jacuzzis or summat?
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Postman by day, salsa-dancer by night. Imagine his stinking feet.
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This thread is hillarious
Is that for all postmen? I know a few postmen that go, If its going to be 7-3 on a sat they have no chance
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I would like to try salsa always had a thing for latino women be nice to go to a salsa club and boogie the night away but i'm not sure of going there instead of the football you must describe the women for me.
I have a feeling that the women Salsa dancing at a Birmingham ice rink on a Saturday night may not be the sultry Latino lovelies your are imagining.
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Yeah, there was about fifteen of their mob all doing tangos, waltzes the lot. But we showed 'em how to salsa good and proper, and they were on their toes sharpish. Proper result!
Of course we follow the football, but we all just love a good salsa really, it's the adrenalin rush it brings.
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Yeah, there was about fifteen of their mob all doing tangos, waltzes the lot. But we showed 'em how to salsa good and proper, and they were on their toes sharpish. Proper result!
Of course we follow the football, but we all just love a good salsa really, it's the adrenalin rush it brings.
Salsatastic!
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I would like to try salsa always had a thing for latino women be nice to go to a salsa club and boogie the night away but i'm not sure of going there instead of the football you must describe the women for me.
I have a feeling that the women Salsa dancing at a Birmingham ice rink on a Saturday night may not be the sultry Latino lovelies your are imagining.
Villadawg speaks the truth
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what is the point of this thread at the end of a very bad season when emotions are running high against everything Villa related? Surely the time to say "fuck it" is if nothing has changed in the next 12 weeks. I don't think next season will be anything like this, because I cannot believe for a second that Randy/Faulkner can't see what we all see. In fact the General alluded to as much. If I were in their position I'd be even more anxious than the fans for the season to end so it can be learned from and buried, and start postively planning for the next.
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I would like to try salsa always had a thing for latino women be nice to go to a salsa club and boogie the night away but i'm not sure of going there instead of the football you must describe the women for me.
I have a feeling that the women Salsa dancing at a Birmingham ice rink on a Saturday night may not be the sultry Latino lovelies your are imagining.
Villadawg speaks the truth
she'd go through the fucking rink and will rely on Australia being there to stop her fall off the earth.
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I'm renewing on the understanding that next season cannot possibly be as bad as this one.
I did that twice, some time ago, admittedly, and was proved wrong.
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what is the point of this thread at the end of a very bad season when emotions are running high against everything Villa related? Surely the time to say "fuck it" is if nothing has changed in the next 12 weeks. I don't think next season will be anything like this, because I cannot believe for a second that Randy/Faulkner can't see what we all see. In fact the General alluded to as much. If I were in their position I'd be even more anxious than the fans for the season to end so it can be learned from and buried, and start postively planning for the next.
Spot on. Some people (real people, not just on the internet) are talking as if next season is nailed on to be a repeat of this one. Very little chance of that, IMO.
Still, I doubt I'll be renewing, but only because I haven't got a pot to piss in at the moment. Well, I have, but not much else.
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what is the point of this thread at the end of a very bad season when emotions are running high against everything Villa related? Surely the time to say "fuck it" is if nothing has changed in the next 12 weeks. I don't think next season will be anything like this, because I cannot believe for a second that Randy/Faulkner can't see what we all see. In fact the General alluded to as much. If I were in their position I'd be even more anxious than the fans for the season to end so it can be learned from and buried, and start postively planning for the next.
Spot on. Some people (real people, not just on the internet) are talking as if next season is nailed on to be a repeat of this one. Very little chance of that, IMO.
Still, I doubt I'll be renewing, but only because I haven't got a pot to piss in at the moment. Well, I have, but not much else.
sorry to hear that. Here's hoping that your personal situation improves along with the fortunes of our football club.
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what is the point of this thread at the end of a very bad season when emotions are running high against everything Villa related? Surely the time to say "fuck it" is if nothing has changed in the next 12 weeks. I don't think next season will be anything like this, because I cannot believe for a second that Randy/Faulkner can't see what we all see. In fact the General alluded to as much. If I were in their position I'd be even more anxious than the fans for the season to end so it can be learned from and buried, and start postively planning for the next.
Spot on. Some people (real people, not just on the internet) are talking as if next season is nailed on to be a repeat of this one. Very little chance of that, IMO.
Still, I doubt I'll be renewing, but only because I haven't got a pot to piss in at the moment. Well, I have, but not much else.
I know what you mean, but I think for a lot of people it isn't so much a conviction that this season will repeat itself, rather just another step along a gradual path of getting pissed off with the game, which has brought about a depressive fatalism.
If you look at Wolves, for example - man for man, a vastly, vastly inferior squad to ours, with financial backing which is piddling in comparison. They may very well go down, but at least if they do, they have shown considerable spirit this season.
Our lot, well, we're not going to go down, but displays like yesterday - spiritless, aimless, careless, uninterested - are a world away from some of these other teams in the relegation zone who are prepared to fight and scrap.
Yesterday our lot seemed to spend most of their time arguing with the referee (Ashley, Heskey, Collins were all dreadful offenders) or pointing the finger at a 20 year old kid (I saw Petrov, and he wasn't the only one, giving Albrighton a right ear bashing).
When you have a season like this, where the results have been piss poor, and you factor in the kind of witless, frankly offensive performance we saw yesterday (and many other times this season), and think about the escalating costs of watching football, and whether it is worth it to watch 11 multi multi millionaires laugh in your face like yesterday, then I don't really blame anyone else who suspects they'll get more of the same next year, or becomes fatalistic about the whole thing.
Looking around us yesterday, I saw hundreds and hundreds of people all looking uttterly fucking miserable, and I really can't blame them. It's one thing to say optimistically that we'll do this or we'll do that next season so it won't be as bad, but fuck me, it's been a horrid thing to watch this season.
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Looking around us yesterday, I saw hundreds and hundreds of people all looking uttterly fucking miserable, and I really can't blame them.
This is true.
Everybody has looked thoroughly depressed at most of the home games.
I'm continually sitting there waiting for the referee to put me out of my boredom so I can get to the pub.
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The provision of good quality salsa dancing teachers round here is nearly as fucking diabolical as the postal service. Thank you for doing your bit on both fronts.
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I think for a lot of people paulie, a clear and distinct break from this season is required. And I can understand that. That very much includes the management team and off course certain players. As much as wanted to see what Houllier was capable of given the summer and in hiring some key coaching staff, I think the board will come to the conclusion that they need somebody new that will share and continue their long term vision, but is able to breathe life into the club again. Almost a MON type of appointment, but in 2011.
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I think for a lot of people paulie, a clear and distinct break from this season is required. And I can understand that. That very much includes the management team and off course certain players. As much as wanted to see what Houllier was capable of given the summer and in hiring some key coaching staff, I think the board will come to the conclusion that they need somebody new that will share and continue their long term vision, but is able to breathe life into the club again. Almost a MON type of appointment, but in 2011.
Whatever they do, they MUST do it as early as possible.
The absolute worst thing they could do would be to faff about till July waiting to see if Houllier is going to return. And that's assuming they are interested in what he wants to do, there's the entire question of whether he should be allowed to.
Last year from August onwards was rough on and off the pitch, and we made some mistakes. That's maybe understandable the first time around, but making the same mistakes again is not an option.
If we're looking for a new manager, I also hope we don't hear any of this "we'll only approach managers who aren't in a job" idealistic rubbish again.
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Agreed that the decision needs to come quickly, one way or another. And I think it will. Given the scope of the project, they'll want to give themselves as much time as possible to get things sorted. By mid-July we need to be in a position where the staff and players know where they stand, and that pre-season is unaffected by doubt or controversy.
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I am not renewing my season ticket for next season due to three reasons.
1. My very strong passion for Salsa dancing which mean I love to do Friday and Saturday night out and plus very late night out and early getting up for work (ie 3.5 hours sleep on Friday night (Saturday morning) ) Make it very difficult for me to cope as I was struggling to stay awake yesterday afternoon. I could have sleep in Villa Park, I was that tired. Some Saturdays I have no energy for Saturday night out after football.
2. My job as postman make it hard for me to enjoy my game on Saturday and from August starting time will change from 6-12 to 7-3 and I can never been sure if I will finish for 2.
3. Not enough quality games from Aston Villa this season to make the game enjoyable. Some midweek crap game I was left wishing I was at X for Salsa Dancing instead. (I do most Wednesday)
I went to every home game but 2 Small Heath and Blackburn in League due to holidays.
I will stick to Sunday games for next season and go to Saturdays match if I am not working on that week (I work 5 X 6 days a week work and get a week off every 6 weeks)
I will renew my season ticket if I get a better paid job and working 5 days a week, which is unlikely and I am not looking for one and big changes happens. I want to see how the big changes at work affect me first as I will get my own walk (according to the boss at work, assuming he is correct)
For now Salsa Dancing take over priority to football. I can't believe it :)
I think I will enjoy football more if I don't have to watch it every other week and see players like Ashley Young make my blood boil at time.
Why don't you contact Nicola Keye to see if she can find a suite for you to have your Salsa Classes in after the game. I'm sure Habib Beye and Robert Pires could assist with the instructing?
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Your spot on Toronto but it needs to be sorted before the end of June really as pre-season starts then and the transfer window opens on 01/07/11
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what is the point of this thread at the end of a very bad season when emotions are running high against everything Villa related? Surely the time to say "fuck it" is if nothing has changed in the next 12 weeks. I don't think next season will be anything like this, because I cannot believe for a second that Randy/Faulkner can't see what we all see. In fact the General alluded to as much. If I were in their position I'd be even more anxious than the fans for the season to end so it can be learned from and buried, and start postively planning for the next.
Spot on. Some people (real people, not just on the internet) are talking as if next season is nailed on to be a repeat of this one. Very little chance of that, IMO.
Still, I doubt I'll be renewing, but only because I haven't got a pot to piss in at the moment. Well, I have, but not much else.
sorry to hear that. Here's hoping that your personal situation improves along with the fortunes of our football club.
Thanks TV. I'm afraid it's a question of survival until the pregnant Mrs P is able to work again. Until then it's all on me.
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Your spot on Toronto but it needs to be sorted before the end of June really as pre-season starts then and the transfer window opens on 01/07/11
by mid July, I meant that the key managerial components are already in place, and that many of the players that need to be shifted out, are gone and not still going. So it falls very much within the timelines you are suggesting. June will be very, very critical if the balance of the summer is to go as planned.
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what is the point of this thread at the end of a very bad season when emotions are running high against everything Villa related? Surely the time to say "fuck it" is if nothing has changed in the next 12 weeks. I don't think next season will be anything like this, because I cannot believe for a second that Randy/Faulkner can't see what we all see. In fact the General alluded to as much. If I were in their position I'd be even more anxious than the fans for the season to end so it can be learned from and buried, and start postively planning for the next.
Spot on. Some people (real people, not just on the internet) are talking as if next season is nailed on to be a repeat of this one. Very little chance of that, IMO.
Still, I doubt I'll be renewing, but only because I haven't got a pot to piss in at the moment. Well, I have, but not much else.
sorry to hear that. Here's hoping that your personal situation improves along with the fortunes of our football club.
Thanks TV. I'm afraid it's a question of survival until the pregnant Mrs P is able to work again. Until then it's all on me.
good luck with the soon to be Villa fan Percy. See if Mrs P will allow you to pipe in commentary to the little one of great games in Villa history. It will good if at least one us has no recollection of the past season!!
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It always plays on my mind when I consider not renewing: "what if we have a great season and get to two finals?".
If I didn't renew, I'd be afraid of missing out. Now, the likelihood of that happenings is pretty low...ok, non-existent. But what if???
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As a friend friend of mine once said at this time of year: 'I'll renew because I'm too stupid not to'
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I can't believe this thread has strayed so far off topic, you lot are a disgrace.
It's not the quality of the football, it is salsa dancing and the Royal Mail which are the key, key issues here.
Personally I can sympathise. My own passion for abducting and murdering female health workers often makes it very hard to attend games. Often I am up half the night on Fridays, burning clothing and digging shallow graves.
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I wondered where you'd been. Took a bit longer this weekend, then?
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These new Royal Mail vans are too small. you either have to leave the feet hanging out, or try to fold them in half.
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Please do not bend.
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Salsa dancing, dont you just relish it
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I'm not renewing because I need to spend more time organising my collection of belly-button fluff.
But if you renew we can all hand you ours. You'll have a huge collection in no time at all!
Or is it only your own you want?
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That would be too much for me.
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Salsa dancing, dont you just relish it
haha, very good.
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To be fair, I would sooner eat my own flesh than go salsa dancing, but I would salsa to Dundee and back rather than relive yesterday afternoon
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To be fair, I would sooner eat my own flesh than go salsa dancing, but I would salsa to Dundee and back rather than relive yesterday afternoon
I know what you mean; at the game yesterday my brother, stirred from his slumber by my tirade of abuse towards the pitch, observed that the veins in my neck appeared to be throbbing and my eyeballs were bulging and he helpfully suggested that I get my thyroid gland checked and immediately start a course of beta blockers.
With the deep depression of the economy and at the Villa, perhaps we should just salsa like it's 1929.
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I still can't work out why yesterday was stressful, rather than just boring. I can honestly say I've never enjoyed a game less, and like all of us I've seen some stinkers.
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I didn't renew this year for the first time in years and am glad. You can get a ticket to any game you want to as we never sell out and as long as you are organised you can sit somewhere half decent.
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I sit next to, or near to, a couple of Royal Mail workers. Don't know if they're van drivers.
I'm going to be a little wary next time I take my seat.
And as I'm not renewing, maybe better the devil you know....