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Ah yes of course - didn't go, so forgot. Hopefully the hand-writing of names will be consigned to the past very soon. But I've just received my Stoke ticket....the handwriting I have to say is impeccable, and they've even spelled my name correctly, which is not always the case!

Some poor sod has to hand-write 3,000 names on tickets for every single away match (probably more like 4,000 for Stoke). You'd like to think that the club would organise a few more ID checks - if only to give the admin guy some job satisfaction.

Reading this just reminds me (yet again) why I stopped going to Palace away. The play-off semi was the last time I went. Always grim. I suppose if you want a throw-back to the 70s/80s, fair enough. But this nostalgia for a “real football” experience (which the media hype up when swooning over...