Suddenly coming free this weekend, thought I'd treat myself to day at Milton
Keynes a scant 3/4 of an hour or so up the road - only my second sighting of
the Gods this season.
No probs buying a ticket - still a fair few available. Set up nicely for
Saturday.
Imagine my shock when the email below arrives (and just as well I checked email
before tomorrow else I'd have had an abortive trip) ...
Dear Mr Longbottom
Thank you for your order. Unfortunately due to strict
segregation policies that we have in place here at stadiummk I have had to
cancel your order for the following
reasons.
Any order that we have received from anyone who is
not registered on our ticketing database has been checked with Leeds united to
ensure that we have no away supporters in
the home end of the ground. When we supplied your details to them they have
confirmed that you were registered with them.
I do apologise for any inconvenience this may have
caused but I hope you understand the reason behind my decision.
Should you wish to discuss this please feel free to
contact me on the number below. Your card has been refunded today for you.
Kind regards
Call ticket office and have long and ultimately fruitless discussion but they
refuse to sell me a ticket. Not because I'm a Leeds supporter (obviously I am -
but they don't know that), but because they suspect I am. Not because I'm a
member of the club, or an away season ticket holder etc., but because I'm
"registered" at Elland Road i.e. I've bought a ticket at Elland Road using a
card and/or my home address before.
Note - they also tell me this just 45 minutes before the ticket office closes
so I've had to madly ring round mates who would lend me a credit card for a day
etc. and have never bought a ticket at Leeds and track one down before they put
up the shutters, and now have the time-wasting task to drive over and borrow
his card so I can pick up the ticket using the same card as bought it.
I can't believe how criminalised I feel just for trying to buy a ticket to a
footy game.
Presumably there is now no place for a supporter who goes to occasional games
anymore. We are all either away thugs, or ardent home fans who have a track
record of buying regular tickets.
Sure hope we wallop them this week
Graham/glongbot
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