Really? I've never had a credit/debit/bank card delivered in anything but A1 condition, We've had three that have been renewed in the past month or so, 2 Mastercards and a Visa.
That's not why the figure is inflated. The club has adopted the same method as most other clubs in reporting the number of tickets sold, including all the season tickets, not the number of people through the turnstiles. If no-one attended a game, the attendance would equal roughly the number of...