Photo IDs for Season ticket holders! What a load of cobblers!
- By Dan Hammond
- Published 03/29/2007
Dan Hammond
Season ticket holder for 12 years. Been watching Wednesday since 1985. Spent 2 years - 1999-2001 - editing the Sheffield Wednesday fanzine Spitting Feathers and the next 5 years contributing regularly to Out of the Blue. Many people have chosen to take great offence at what I have written in the past and most just aren't clever enough to see when a piece has been written simply to create interest and discussion. Quite often they mistake what I say for what I believe.
"Using borrowed season tickets means that certain areas of the (North) stand have become overcrowded."
The above is a quote from the official SWFC website, citing the reason why they have felt the need to introduce photographic ID for all season ticket holders.
To the explanation that using someone else's season ticket creates overcrowding I can only scratch my head and wonder "how?"
Surely if I buy a season ticket and then decide to lend it to someone else they will still only be using the same number of seats as would have been used had I actually attended the game. On several occasions this season I have been unable to attend a match due to other commitments and I have passed my season ticket onto friends or family. After all I have paid for the use of the seat for the entire season and not just when I'm able to attend.
I find it unacceptable that the club trots out this overcrowding b******s when what they mean is that a group of fans hell-bent on winding up the opposition fans has infested the corner of the North Stand near to the Leppings Lane end, and the club doesn't know how else to try and combat the problem. It's much easier to hit ordinary fans like you and me than to get rid of the people causing the problems. Once again (as with the OAC) the club shows how out of touch it is. In attempting to deal with the problem-element that follow our team they are once again hitting the very people they should be trying to keep in the ground. This will not rectify the problems we have and to use such lame excuses as overcrowding is ridiculous.
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2 Responses to "Photo IDs for Season ticket holders! What a load of cobblers!" 
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said this on 06 Sep 2007 5:46:59 AM MST
I recently lent my season ticket out and because everyone was standing up my season ticket was taken by the stewards. It has cost me £420! for that ticket and i have only been 2 one match! £420 is alot of money to me and i carnt see the problem in sum1 borrowing it 4 matches i carnt attend. Do you want empty seats Dave Allen?! You are killing the club! You must be a pig fan the way you are treating this club!!!!!
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said this on 10 Nov 2007 4:26:38 AM MST
Dan Hammond. is quite right, it is outrageous, the photo id. You have made a contract for that seat for that season. End 0f story. Who sits in it is no business of the club.
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