F.A. Cup Tickets

[HertsVilla]

I've been offered two 'club Wembley' tickets, £150 a pop mind. Anyone sat there before ? Worth paying the money ?

Waiting on a couple of normal tickets and keep hearing different stories regarding sales, one mate went down the office yest and told there's only a couple of thousand left, and another told there was 6k, so who knows!

I have bad memories from my experience in 2010 and would urge you to err on the side of caution. It is a mixed area serving alcohol which, coupled with the pressured atmosphere of an important cup game, prompts tensions to rise and, on the odd occasion, spill over into trouble. The stewarding of the area is robust enough, but having opposition fans (in my case plastic Manure fans from Surrey) going out of their way to gloat in your face is extremely upsetting. Perhaps, I'm bitter because we lost; although, I do remember the pain of losing being magnified enormously by being in close proximity to jubilant opposition supporters. Most were tactful, several were absolute pricks.

I hope you get tickets!

[PGW]

I had two Club Wembley tkts for manure game which turned out to be in ''their end'' we just went to our end, you can walk all the way round, and found a couple of manure fans going into our end they were happy to swap.

[chrisw1]

Not sure if anybody has posted this Newitts.com competition to win two semi final tickets?

Hope this is allowed?  If not please delete:
http://gvwy.io/py2tznn

[Duncan Shaw]

I've been offered two 'club Wembley' tickets, £150 a pop mind. Anyone sat there before ? Worth paying the money ?

Waiting on a couple of normal tickets and keep hearing different stories regarding sales, one mate went down the office yest and told there's only a couple of thousand left, and another told there was 6k, so who knows!

I have bad memories from my experience in 2010 and would urge you to err on the side of caution. It is a mixed area serving alcohol which, coupled with the pressured atmosphere of an important cup game, prompts tensions to rise and, on the odd occasion, spill over into trouble. The stewarding of the area is robust enough, but having opposition fans (in my case plastic Manure fans from Surrey) going out of their way to gloat in your face is extremely upsetting. Perhaps, I'm bitter because we lost; although, I do remember the pain of losing being magnified enormously by being in close proximity to jubilant opposition supporters. Most were tactful, several were absolute pricks.

I hope you get tickets!

If there was a set of fans less suited to an alcohol fuelled need to not gloat it's plastic Man U fans.  The next team you wouldn't want to be surrounded with in those circumstances are plastic Liverpool fans, but if it's the way to be there then bite your lip and enjoy it if you can.

[chrisw1]

I didn't have any problems in Club Wembley last time - if you can get them and afford it, I'd go for it.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Liverpool's criteria list from highest to lowest priority:

Shell suit wearing scallies
Steve Gerrard
Anyone in the media who would like to make love to Steve Gerrard
Anyone who is related to Steve Gerrard
Anyone who has been punched by an irate Steve Gerrard
Ruddy faced, fat Irish blokes over for the day
Over excited Norwegians in jester hats
Vaguely frightened Japanese people in half and half scarves
Fat man-babies who still live with their parents, aged 40, in Liverpool themed bedrooms. In Croydon.
"Full kit wankers"
Anyone who was a main character in Brookside (Grant family, for example)
Anyone who was a medium frequency character in Brookside (Tommy McArdle)]
Anyone who was in Brookside for between 1 and 20 episodes (Petra, who Barry Grant had an affair with)
Anyone who overproduces saliva and therefore speaks like a Scouser
Anyone who finds John Bishop even remotely funny
Anyone who has a few stories about the Cavern Club back in the day (Cilla)

Inspired!
May I add, anyone who had a non-speaking part in any Carla Lane 'dram/com* from the 80s.

[Comrade Blitz]

Ruddy faced, fat Irish blokes over for the day
Over excited Norwegians in jester hats
Vaguely frightened Japanese people in half and half scarves
Fat man-babies who still live with their parents, aged 40, in Liverpool themed bedrooms. In Croydon.
"Full kit wankers"

Awesome. I'm pissing myself laughing in an empty office.

[richard moore]

Club Wembley wouldn't be for me. I would never resort to violence, but am very easily wound up, especially by gloryhunters of the classless chavs, bindippers or Manure ilk. They make me see red, excuse the pun in two out of three cases. I had a bad case of verbals on the tube after the semi against the chavs when some fat twat in a Chelsea shirt of about an age where wearing football shirts and gelling your hair up isn't such a great idea was mouthing off about us as if we were Halifax Town. I wasn't proud of myself and it was very immature - and yes, I'm a bad loser - but boy it felt good.

[Jimbo]

Liverpool's criteria list from highest to lowest priority:

Shell suit wearing scallies
Steve Gerrard
Anyone in the media who would like to make love to Steve Gerrard
Anyone who is related to Steve Gerrard
Anyone who has been punched by an irate Steve Gerrard
Ruddy faced, fat Irish blokes over for the day
Over excited Norwegians in jester hats
Vaguely frightened Japanese people in half and half scarves
Fat man-babies who still live with their parents, aged 40, in Liverpool themed bedrooms. In Croydon.
"Full kit wankers"
Anyone who was a main character in Brookside (Grant family, for example)
Anyone who was a medium frequency character in Brookside (Tommy McArdle)]
Anyone who was in Brookside for between 1 and 20 episodes (Petra, who Barry Grant had an affair with)
Anyone who overproduces saliva and therefore speaks like a Scouser
Anyone who finds John Bishop even remotely funny
Anyone who has a few stories about the Cavern Club back in the day (Cilla)

Inspired!
May I add, anyone who had a non-speaking part in any Carla Lane 'dram/com* from the 80s.

Shareholders in Kleenex.

[alan_clarke]

Does anyone know if the Paypal Buyer Protection covers me for sending money to someone I don't know for a ticket if it doesn't turn up?

[wozwebs]

Not 100% sure. If they seem genuine then ask to pay 50% now and 50% when ticket arrives.

[PeterWithesShin]

Does anyone know if the Paypal Buyer Protection covers me for sending money to someone I don't know for a ticket if it doesn't turn up?

Should do as long as you don't send the money as a gift to family/friends. Get them to send it signed for to cover both of you.

[Damo70]

Liverpool's criteria list from highest to lowest priority:

Shell suit wearing scallies
Steve Gerrard
Anyone in the media who would like to make love to Steve Gerrard
Anyone who is related to Steve Gerrard
Anyone who has been punched by an irate Steve Gerrard
Ruddy faced, fat Irish blokes over for the day
Over excited Norwegians in jester hats
Vaguely frightened Japanese people in half and half scarves
Fat man-babies who still live with their parents, aged 40, in Liverpool themed bedrooms. In Croydon.
"Full kit wankers"
Anyone who was a main character in Brookside (Grant family, for example)
Anyone who was a medium frequency character in Brookside (Tommy McArdle)]
Anyone who was in Brookside for between 1 and 20 episodes (Petra, who Barry Grant had an affair with)
Anyone who overproduces saliva and therefore speaks like a Scouser
Anyone who finds John Bishop even remotely funny
Anyone who has a few stories about the Cavern Club back in the day (Cilla)

Can I throw in my cousin who has a Liverpool themed den in his house where he watches the football despite being born in and living in Northampton all his life.

And Nicholas Lyndhurst's brother off of Butterflies who was briefly in Brookside before becoming a cross dresser on Corrie. Last known whereabouts being a producer at The Lichfield Garrick Theatre.

[ClaretAndBlueBlood]

how about anyone who obviously watched too much Brookside (pauliewalnuts)

[joe_c]

how about anyone who obviously watched too much Brookside (pauliewalnuts)

I'm wondering when The Magic Rabbits become eligible to get their tickets.