Ticket queuing at Villa Park.

[bertlambshank]

http://www.itnsource.com/en/shotlist//ITN/1960/03/06/FS060360004/?s=aston+villa+1960&st=0&pn=1
What's the longest you have waited for the ticket office to open?

[PeterWithesShin]

About 10 hours. For FA Cup final tickets as I didn't have a ST that season but had enough stubs to be get them first stubs day. Me and my Albion mate arrived at the North Stand car park around 11-11.30pm and spent the night there.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

About 10 hours overnight for me for the 2000 Cup Final. ST holder but I wanted to make sure of getting the best tickets and view I could. As it turned out there was no best view.
I am sure a few will mention the queues round VP for Man U S/F tickets in 1970. Tickets were sold out the turnstiles of the Holte on the Trinity Road side, we joined a few yards down Witton Lane round the Holte pub but I think the queue at one stage was right round and onto Nelson Road.

[bertlambshank]

About 10 hours overnight for me for the 2000 Cup Final. ST holder but I wanted to make sure of getting the best tickets and view I could. As it turned out there was no best view.
I am sure a few will mention the queues round VP for Man U S/F tickets in 1970. Tickets were sold out the trunstiles of the Holte on the Trinity Road down, we joined a few yards down Witton Lane round the Holte pub but I think the queue at one stage was right round and onto Nelson Road.

2000 for me went after work at 2am.

[Pete3206]

League Cup final in 94 was a bit of a mission.

[Lambert and Payne]

League Cup 2010, it was my first season without a season ticket in 11 years, had enough stubs to get tickets on 12 stubs, got there at 11 am and it was absolutely freezing, one bloke put a deckchair in his space and slept in his nice warm and cosy car (lucky barsteward)
In fairness to Villa they opened up the ticket office early and gave us all a cup of tea, when it opened up the que was huge and we were 11th in line. It was the most excited I've ever been as a Villa fan. I was too young to really appreciate Wembley 2000 and thought we'd win it the next year anyway. Still waiting to see my Villa boys hold up a trophy

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I was too young to really appreciate Wembley 2000 and thought we'd win it the next year anyway.

Are you mad? As regards the FA Cup Villa fans stopped thinking like that sometime between the wars.   

[Lambert and Payne]

I was too young to really appreciate Wembley 2000 and thought we'd win it the next year anyway.

Are you mad? As regards the FA Cup Villa fans stopped thinking like that sometime between the wars.   

8 years old and back from Wembley after watching a video of the Tranmere 1994 game the night before, anything seemed possible as a Villa fan
I soon learned

[dave.woodhall]

I was too young to really appreciate Wembley 2000 and thought we'd win it the next year anyway.

Are you mad? As regards the FA Cup Villa fans stopped thinking like that sometime between the wars.   

And start thinking it again at the beginning of every January.

[somec]

I remember in the 99/00 season I didn't go to many games, but the games I did go to were against the lesser teams, Wimbledon, Derby etc and luckily there was a points system so these stubs were more valuable when it came to getting FA cup final tickets.

So when they announced that the last batch of tickets were on sale the following morning I realised I had enough points to get a ticket, so I got myself to VP for around 10.30pm and there was already 2 people waiting in front of me!

The fact that I queued up for so long made the result and especially the performance even more disapointing.

[DBTW]

I queued from 3am for tickets for the Slavia Prague away game, I still to this day don't know why I did that?

[LeeB]

About 5 or 6 hours for Liverpool away, FA Cup '91.

[Damo70]

I seem to remember queuing up for a long while a few times for away tickets and possibly even a home cup game during our purple patch in the '89-'90 season. Was it after that they brought in the stamped card for away supporters? I ask that because I don't remember going through the same thing in '92-'93.

[Dave Clark Five]

The 1970 LCSF queue was legendary but I got there about 0730 on the day of sale so only had to queue a few hours.

[steamer]

The 1970 LCSF, I took my position in the queue at about 10.00 on saturday evening, I was about half way down Trinty Lane stand.
The office opened the next morning at 9.00? when I got my ticket, the queue stretched pavement deep around the Holte Pub and down Witton Lane.
some young scallywags ( later steamers} were pushing in at the front, buying tickets and selling them for a serious profit to middle aged guys at the back of the queue.