Paul Barber - ID checks of fans at away games?

[Springal]

http://www.seagulls.co.uk/news/arti...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Bit surprised about this if I am honest. I understand the problem but not sure that is the right way of going about it. How many fans do they think are using other peoples fan numbers?

What next, picking tickets up on the motorway 3 hours before kick off?

 

[KJP]

Seems fair to me

 

[Was not Was]

And I don't think you need to be a hotshot lawyer to work out that they have no right to do this. Asking to see someone's ID? They're having a laugh.

 

[Easy 10]

FFS, pathetic.

We're going to a frigging FOOTBALL match for christs sake. I use my own fan number anyway, but if some jobsworth herbert in a high viz came up to me at a match and demanded I produce ID, I'd tell him to poke it.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

And I don't think you need to be a hotshot lawyer to work out that they have no right to do this. Asking to see someone's ID? They're having a laugh.

If they are selling you a ticket, and they add this to their T&C that they have the right to do so ("In completing this purchase you hereby agree to our terms and conditions", click this little box to agree), then why wouldn't they??

 

[Titanic]

And I don't think you need to be a hotshot lawyer to work out that they have no right to do this. Asking to see someone's ID? They're having a laugh.

Perhaps they do have the ability to deny you access to their facilities if you can't prove you are the legitimate owner of the ticket?

Would seem a bit odd for Barber to go out on this limb if he hadn't checked??

 

[hans kraay fan club]

FFS, pathetic.

We're going to a frigging FOOTBALL match for christs sake. I use my own fan number anyway, but if some jobsworth herbert in a high viz came up to me at a match and demanded I produce ID, I'd tell him to poke it.

So what's the problem?

Say you want to go to Norwich for a hypothetical promotion party, and all the eats are sold before the loyalty points drop to your level, so you miss out. How do you then feel if you find out 200 people with less points than you - perhaps who'd been to no games all season - DID get tickets?

 

[Springal]

Perhaps they do have the ability to deny you access to their facilities if you can't prove you are the legitimate owner of the ticket?

Would seem a bit odd for Barber to go out on this limb if he hadn't checked??

Be interested to see what the FSF say about this. Might wave it in front of them

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Perhaps they do have the ability to deny you access to their facilities if you can't prove you are the legitimate owner of the ticket?

Would seem a bit odd for Barber to go out on this limb if he hadn't checked??

They do it at high profile concerts, so it stands to reason they'd have no issue doing the same at football.

 

[Chinman3000]

So what happens if you buy a ticket but cant make it anymore

 

[matski_98]

How big of a problem is this that PB feels the need to issue a statement? I could understand it if there was a massive black market in away tickets or we had a big hooligan problem but surely we're only talking about a very small portion of people buying tickets for other people as season ticket holders can only get one ticket anyway.

Feels like a heavy handed approach which penalises against people who may have legitimate reasons for passing tickets on because they can't go.

 

[Easy 10]

So what's the problem?

Say you want to go to Norwich for a hypothetical promotion party, and all the eats are sold before the loyalty points drop to your level, so you miss out. How do you then feel if you find out 200 people with less points than you - perhaps who'd been to no games all season - DID get tickets?

I have about 1100 or 1200 points. I've never failed to get a ticket to a game I REALLY wanted to go to, because I get my arse into gear early and am fairly organised on that front (or one of my mates is), and on the whole certainly in this division the away ends are usually big enough to accommodate.

If I still missed out, well then, that's life isn't it. Not the end of the world. If the game is that big then its invariably on TV these days anyway.

 

[n1 gull]

They do it at high profile concerts, so it stands to reason they'd have no issue doing the same at football.

Glastonbury as well you need to show ID

 

[Easy 10]

So what happens if you buy a ticket but cant make it anymore

Just what I was thinking. What if I bought a ticket, then couldn't go. I can't pass it on to someone without them presumably running the gauntlet with the ID Gestapo in the away end and getting turfed out.

This is a ridiculous policy, complete overkill for what is undoubtedly a very small percentage of occurrences.

 

[Tarpon]

He is raising the issue early ahead of next season on the basis that we'll probably go up.

 

[Titanic]

Just what I was thinking. What if I bought a ticket, then couldn't go. I can't pass it on to someone without them presumably running the gauntlet with the ID Gestapo in the away end and getting turfed out.

This is a ridiculous policy, complete overkill for what is undoubtedly a very small percentage of occurrences.

How on earth to you 'police' that? If you can't buy it for someone else to use, then you can't pass it on just because you decide you can't go.

 

[n1 gull]

Just what I was thinking. What if I bought a ticket, then couldn't go. I can't pass it on to someone without them presumably running the gauntlet with the ID Gestapo in the away end and getting turfed out.

This is a ridiculous policy, complete overkill for what is undoubtedly a very small percentage of occurrences.

I agree. It's a football match. This is so heavy handed it's madness. If a big group want to go but a mate isn't a season ticket holder they now can't go - total overkill

 

[Ernest]

FFS, pathetic.

We're going to a frigging FOOTBALL match for christs sake. I use my own fan number anyway, but if some jobsworth herbert in a high viz came up to me at a match and demanded I produce ID, I'd tell him to poke it.

Reported to Paul Barber VIA the anti IDIOT hotline

 

[Guinness Boy]

As usual there's a small but real problem that we seem to be taking a sledgehammer to. Only going to get worse if we go up. Be careful what you wish for.


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[n1 gull]

Remember people sit in your correct seat and no messing around!!