Interesting email from the FA given the complaints about the ridiculously early/ill-timed Christmas/NY deadline to reserve Europa League R16 home tickets...
What the hell are you talking about?! I've said nothing about the away game.
My beef is with the deadline for STHers to buy their seat for the home game - on 2 January, 72 (SEVENTY TWO) days before game - at such an expensive time of year.
It seems totally unneccesary. Yet to hear a reasonable...
Wait, the club has a free pass to treat 'customers' as it wants without complaint or feedback?
Pints up £1? Sweets up £2? No kit in shops until 2025?
No.
The fact that you assume everyone buys just ONE ticket speaks volumes.
And, no, there's little difference between the Christmas period (on-sale date) or "immediately after in January" (off-sale). That's the frigging point!
You're not personally inconvenienced. You lack empathy. We get it!
I wonder, how many people - truly, honestly - expected these tickets to go on sale before Xmas?!
The club could have literally 'won' by opening the sale to STHers today, but giving an extended period to buy - well into January, for example.
That would have inconvenienced literally no-one.
Booooo! That's annoyingly and unnecessarily early given everyone has Christmas costs to deal with this month.
It's 86 days away - that's longer than the close season in the summer!