FA Cup Sold Out

25 February 2002

TUESDAY PM: The Club have announced that the game has now sold out. Which is interesting, as season ticket holder seats are reserved until 5pm on Wednesday and the Club are still processing their applications. We can only assume that they have such a large number of applications yet to be processed from people left in the queue when the Ticket Office closed yesterday that any unclaimed season ticket seats will be sold without any problem.

MONDAY PM: To make matters worse, the Club have just announced that they have been having technical problems with the phone lines - apparently this is down to BT problems at the local exchange. In addition, they have stopped people from joining the queue as the ticket office would have been closed by the time they got to the front. Anyone left in the queue when they close for business tonight will be given a form to fill in with their details on for processing by the staff tomorrow.

As a result, the ticket office will be closed tomorrow (Tuesday). This will give the staff time to process the backlog of postal, faxed and emailed applications as well as the forms filled in by those in the queue.

By about 8am there were two or three hundred in the queue, and to start with people were reporting difficulty getting through on the phones - but some are now beginning to get answered, although others are still getting engaged tones. Hopefully most season ticket holders will have taken the option of posting their applications, and will get their own seats without any problem.

As of lunchtime, however, the situation doesn't seem to have improved a great deal. Marie Mills tells us:

"I tried phoning through this morning for tickets and was told I was number 90+ in the queue - after holding on for over an hour and getting down to 20 something the phone line went dead. Since then you are unable to get through on the phone, not even getting an engaged signal now but a dead tone.

I travelled to the ground at about 12.30 and was told I had a minimum wait of 5 hours!"

...and Dankzy added:

"It's absolutely God mental down there, I arrived at about 7.45am and there were at least 300 people in front of me. By the time I left it threaded through the East Stand and back around onto the Brummie Road. But listening to the list of excuses being made over the mobile phone to explain why people couldn't get to work was priceless!

I don't think I'll be overstepping the mark if I say if you don't get hold of a ticket today, you've got absolutely no chance as they'll all be gone by this afternoon."

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  22 February 2002:  Vote for the new shirt

  18 February 2002:  Fulham game confirmed

  17 February 2002:  FA Cup QF: Fulham at home

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