[Football] Man Utd fans losing season tickets for passing on their Brighton tickets

[Thunder Bolt]

Apparently, MUFC staff were checking ID against tickets on Sunday. It seems 16 people have been given three year bans for passing on their tickets.

https://twitter.com/FSF_FairCop/status/1032705102996492294

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https://twitter.com/crackers2205/status/1032706764549107712

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[dazzer6666]

Apparently, MUFC staff were checking ID against tickets on Sunday. It seems 16 people have been given three year bans for passing on their tickets.

https://twitter.com/FSF_FairCop/status/1032705102996492294

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https://twitter.com/crackers2205/status/1032706764549107712

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This is the best reply in response to the 3 year ban one has been given....

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Do United have ANY right or jurisdiction to do this? Couldn't the fans have simply ignored them and gone to the entrance anyway?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

So if I were a manure st holder and pased my ticket on to my son I'd get a 3 year ban? Bollocks to that.

 

[mothy]

sounds a bit familiar

 

[Goldstone1976]

sounds a bit familiar

Only Man U have actually done it rather than threaten to.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Do United have ANY right or jurisdiction to do this? Couldn't the fans have simply ignored them and gone to the entrance anyway?

Paul Barber has mentioned Brighton doing the same for our fans ie checking ID against tickets.

I don't know where the Man U staff were, maybe inside the barrier? Some clubs are bringing their own stewards with them now.

The caseworker for the FSF has said the appeal is unsuccessful, so not a lot can be done. The last tweet shows that some tickets were being sold on Facebook.

 

[Lurchy]

Only Man U have actually done it rather than threaten to.

Nope. We have as well....

https://www.brightonandhovealbion.com/news/2018/july/albions-ticket-tout-warning/

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15567430.Albion_bosses_ban_250_fans_for_ticket_touting/

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15598129.Touts_force_Albion_to_cancel_100_tickets/

 

[dejavuatbtn]

There a difference between giving your mate a ticket if you can’t go and putting it up for auction/lottery. Quite how that is policed I have no idea, other than stop unofficial transfers happening altogether. So if there is an infrastructure in place to facilitate exchanges then happy days.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Nope. We have as well....

https://www.brightonandhovealbion.com/news/2018/july/albions-ticket-tout-warning/

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15567430.Albion_bosses_ban_250_fans_for_ticket_touting/

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15598129.Touts_force_Albion_to_cancel_100_tickets/

I should have been more specific. AFAIK, we haven’t checked ticket holders ID against the name on the ticket at away games...though Barber did threaten it.

 

[Screaming J]

Nope. We have as well....

https://www.brightonandhovealbion.com/news/2018/july/albions-ticket-tout-warning/

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15567430.Albion_bosses_ban_250_fans_for_ticket_touting/

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15598129.Touts_force_Albion_to_cancel_100_tickets/

I may be wrong but isn't that different? The Argus articles seem to be about touting - i.e. selling your ticket; whereas what Man Utd seem to have done is stop you passing it on, even if no money has changed hands ??

 

[Superphil]

Considering how hard it is to get United away tickets, and how many are on the list trying to get tickets, what’s the problem? If you’re lucky enough to be entitled to a ticket then use it, if you’re not so entitled, then tough shit, life isn’t always fair. If for some bizarre reason you are successful in their ballot to get a ticket for an away game then ‘suddenly’ find you can’t go, sell your ticket back to the club, they’ll be able to sell it on to another deserving fan.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Do United have ANY right or jurisdiction to do this? Couldn't the fans have simply ignored them and gone to the entrance anyway?

Probably done in partnership with BHA who would then deny entry to any fan refusing to show ID. Utter boxxocks and football is eating itself.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I may be wrong but isn't that different? The Argus articles seem to be about touting - i.e. selling your ticket; whereas what Man Utd seem to have done is stop you passing it on, even if no money has changed hands ??

The last tweet on my op, shows a ticket advertised on Facebook, so that is touting, not passing it on to a mate or relative.

 

[AmexRuislip]

I should have been more specific. AFAIK, we haven’t checked ticket holders ID against the name on the ticket at away games...though Barber did threaten it.

There were Albion stewards at Watford, just showing people to their seats, in a kinda theatre styleee

 

[smiler]

I should have been more specific. AFAIK, we haven’t checked ticket holders ID against the name on the ticket at away games...though Barber did threaten it.

Yes they have checked ID at Palace away

 

[Goldstone1976]

There were Albion stewards at Watford, just showing people to their seats, in a kinda theatre styleee

Yes they have checked ID at Palace away

Then I stand corrected - I didn’t see them, but totally accept they were there if you say they were.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Then I stand corrected - I didn’t see them, but totally accept they were there if you say they were.

I had ID checked at Selhurst for the first playoff game.

 

[timbha]

I had ID checked at Selhurst for the first playoff game.

Was also checked last season

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

Paul Barber has mentioned Brighton doing the same for our fans ie checking ID against tickets.

I don't know where the Man U staff were, maybe inside the barrier? Some clubs are bringing their own stewards with them now.

The caseworker for the FSF has said the appeal is unsuccessful, so not a lot can be done. The last tweet shows that some tickets were being sold on Facebook.

I have seen BHA stewards at our away games, and it was CPFC2010 stewards that let in the CPUltras and their whizz bangs, so yes other clubs and ours bring their own stewards