Would it? I thought it would be a categorised game to a level whether there are a few extra thousand away fans or not. Maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't think the police were that number sensitive that a few thousand extra fans would make a difference to a game they'll be policing on an assumed...
27,000 capacity. Just say an average ticket price is £25, that is a max match day ticket revenue of say £675,000.
They'll have what, 12,000 empty seats for this game, £300,000 lost ticket revenue. Steward off a section of the West Stand, move a few ST holders give them a voucher or something...
Just got 4 tickets together by some sort of miracle over the phone at 15.27. (not that I was worried about 4 together to be honest).
The sales guy reckoned he had about 30 left, and was taking a call every 3mins.