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Significantly higher than that, given that HW'sT specifically asked for the likely PRETENDANCE. There are 17,000 'Club Wembley' debentures, no? These will surely all be counted, regardless of bums on seats.

Don't forget the gesture includes transport, too. This is going to cost Otamendi and Ederson a FORTUNE.

There will be MORE than 35,000 Albion there Saturday, too. If these last few sell, than that is what we have officially sold. Probably fair to assume close to another 1,000 in the neutral / club Wembley / corporate sections, either blagged through work, through contacts, or bought through...

And because you could buy tickets for £20.

Believe so, yes.

They were not Albion tickets. They were additional seats offered to us by the FA, presumably when it was clear that their commitments to (uptake from) their sponsors / 'Partners' etc left some spare.

No it hasn't. You can drive to the ticket office tomorrow morning and buy the tickets you want, without a membership. If you don't want to do that, that's your prerogative, of course.

Very generous assessment

So we've sold all our allocation, and a few of an extra bonus FA allocation, on top. Look forward to assorted Palace MORONS crowing about us 'not selling out for a semi final', even though we'll actually have the most fans there of all four teams involved...

A few will do this I guess. I've no issue with that, so long as they take the trouble to give away the cheap ones to family or friends. No empty seats, please.

33,000 IS 'over 30,000'...

You've misspelled 'sadly'. To be honest though, even in such a 'culture' we wouldn't have a terribly strong bargaining position. I'd imagine they'd just back themselves to roll us over twice.

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In what way? Transport links? Sunlight?

I'm sure I will too - all part of the pantomime. Though in truth, the traditional baiting of small away followings has always seemed a bit WARPED. Barnsley bring 200 to the Amex on a Tuesday night, and we sing "Is that all you bring away?", "Your support is ****ing shit" etc, to the committed...

That was my point. Its not embarrassing at all, that their fanbase are almost exclusively Mancunian. (I guess a prolonged period of success will see that change somewhat, though.)

The fact that it is the cheapest seats that are selling slowest, suggests that this is absolutely not the issue - for the Albion allocation.

Just to be clear, you DON'T think that the football club should be trying to maximise attendance at its football matches? Or make a profit?

United or Liverpool (or LEEDS) would sell out no problem, even if they had been to Wembley as often as City have, purely because they have such widespread fanbases. United or Liverpool could sell their entire 33,000 allocation to fans within 50 miles of Wembley, so the kick off time, the travel...

Personally, I don't think that a few hundred £20 notes is either here or there. I think the strategy is all about 'exploiting' the lure of a one-of glamour occasion, to get people signed up / tied in / invested in the club. Once they have them IN, they can utilise that investment, to try to get...