Last year turned up on the day at Orient and bought a ticket from the ticket office 10 minutes before the game started. In the home end too. Maybe the London accent helped, but they seemed to be quite happy to sell me a ticket (actually three).
Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Longbottom" <[email protected]> To: "Leeds List (E-mail)" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 1:26:43 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [LU] MK Dons - what a f56king palaver 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 _________________________________________________________________ Get the best of MSN on your mobile http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/147991039/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist http://www.worldnet.org.uk WorldNET2009 _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist http://www.worldnet.org.uk WorldNET2009
