Seems we have gone a little OT !
Cheap seats selling fast. 300 left in the south, 40 in the North and 300 in the south to go
29,000 will be a good effort, as that is 27,000 home fans. By comparison, Middlesbrough got 23,700 for their last home game - 3,500 home fans fewer than what we will probably get tonight.
With 11 hours to kick off the following is still available....
North: 35 (singles only, middle and NE sod out)
WSL: 472 (singles only apart from southern 2 blocks)
WSU: 67 (singles only)
ESL: 144 (singles only apart from 5 pairs in family and 16 in E1H)
ESU: 286
South: 284 (about 100 pairs still left, mainly behind the goal in S1F next to the away fans)
This ain't going to sell out but if you want to sit with friends or family and don't want to spend top dollar on ESU there is not much left. FWIW I think S1E will be a great place for atmosphere this game due to the very small sterile area between th fans.
I predict 29,000, based on the fact there will be about 600 of those above still available, the sterlie areas will account for 500, the school shelf will be 100 short and Fulham won't sell 200 of the additional 400 they were allocated.
I do think the ESU is overpriced, especially when compared to the WSU. Does the ESU offer anything over the WSU other than sun in your eyes of afternoon games?
As for sitting with friends though, there is the option on moving somewhere cheaper, at the moment at least.
On the other hand, a ESU ticket is a tenner more than behind the goal.
In the old Goldstone days, it used to be 26K+ fans that cranked up the atmosphere.
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So looks like the sell rate is currently at about 50/60 an hour which suggests we might just top the 29k mark. Not bad going.
I for one will be trying to jump ship from work early to give some extra embibery time to loosen the old vocal chords!
Great word, wrong spelling. Imbibery, from the verb to imbibe.
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You could have blamed a typo and claimed that doing a bit of sewing is what gets you fired up for the game. But that would have been more embarrassing.consider myself ashamed for getting it wrong. I can't even blame auto-correct as it didn't have a clue!
*in my opinion,
ESU has got the best view in the stadium. ESL is what is overpriced, especially near the front. ESU atmosphere is the poorest in the stadium, with parts of west lower, south end.
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