Dear Mrs Winton, As you are well aware we will not discuss a return to standing at football matches. Our main reason is that if a law existed on this subject then standing would most certainly be against it. A return to standing would almost certainly mean that ticket prices would go down and, Cantona forbid, people would begin to enjoy going to matches rather than simply turning up and parting with their hard earned cash. If ticket prices went down, this would leave poor penniless footballers like your own Rio Ferdinand struggling to get by on only £100,000 a week
The point you make over the pitch invader is a good one. However, since this was the only piece of entertainment that has gone on at the Riverside all year, we are going to let it slide. It gave us something to cheer about and life up here is pretty grim. As for victimizing Manchester United fans, we sought advice from Sir Brian Barwick Chief Over-Lord of the FA and he confirmed that we are well within our rights to single out and victimise one set of supporters, especially, in his words, "if it's those Manc Bastards". Mr A Jobsworth --- In [email protected], "Oli Winton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Sir or Madam > > According to the media this morning, the supporter who entered the field of > play on Saturday and ran half the length of the field, before hurling > something at the management team, will not face prosecution nor a ban from > the stadium. He will be free to attend the next home match at the Riverside. > > However, Manchester United supporters who had the audacity to stand up this > season and were ejected from the stadium are facing 3 year banning orders. > > Please could you explain how this discrepancy has occurred which is, > clearly, ridiculous. Manchester United supporters have been discriminated > against by your football club for many years now, facing reduced allocations > for standing and, even more incredibly, one year 2000 seats cut for one > supporter caught smoking. No other club penalises us in this way, and nor > does Boro treat any other supporters in this way despite the Premier League > report concluding that 6 sets of Premiership supporters continuously stand. > > Regards > Oli Winton > Please use [email protected] for general discussion. To unsubscribe send a blank message (from the email account in question) to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join as a full member of IMUSA today: http://www.imusa.org/join.htm Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imusa/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
