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The albion let down disabled supporters tonight



Grunty

New member
Jan 16, 2004
325
Worthing
The Albion gave away 40 disabled parking spaces to Sky Sports vehicles.
This meant some disabled supporters missed the kick off.

SHAMEFULL !!

i hope they do not do the same to disabled fans on Friday.

BOO
 








Gully

Monkey in a seagull suit.
Apr 24, 2004
16,812
Way out west
Another reason to hate Sky!
 






Spamdrew

New member
Jan 29, 2011
85
as a club we should really make sure this does not happen again. It would be truly atrocious if this happened every important game!
 




magoo

New member
Jul 8, 2003
6,682
United Kingdom
Are these the same parking spaces that have already been paid for? I assume cup games don't count though and were not up for sale in the first place?
 














middletoenail

Well-known member
Jul 2, 2008
3,580
Hong Kong
Sky Execs: Hello Mr Bloom, we would like to screen your game against Liverpool and we will pay you £100k but we need to have parking spaces within a close vicinity of the stadium to facilitate the moving of our camera equipment and press box.
Mr Bloom: Thanks for the offer, but I cant accept it because I am going to get it through the neck from some whingers on NSC.
Sky Execs: OK, fair enough. We will do West Ham instead.

Thats how it could have gone.
 






tinytears

New member
Feb 5, 2010
113
Are these the same parking spaces that have already been paid for? I assume cup games don't count though and were not up for sale in the first place?

Yes they are paid for. When the the permit was purchased pre season it was for the league games & 7 cup games.
 


Bozza

You can change this
Helpful Moderator
Jul 4, 2003
57,300
Back in Sussex
Sky Execs: Hello Mr Bloom, we would like to screen your game against Liverpool and we will pay you £100k but we need to have parking spaces within a close vicinity of the stadium to facilitate the moving of our camera equipment and press box.
Mr Bloom: Thanks for the offer, but I cant accept it because I am going to get it through the neck from some whingers on NSC.
Sky Execs: OK, fair enough. We will do West Ham instead.

Thats how it could have gone.

Wrong.

(It was £300k)
 




ROSM

Well-known member
Dec 26, 2005
6,776
Just far enough away from LDC
I'm assuming that these trucks didn't just turn up unnannounced? (we'll leave that kind of thing to the group next Tuesday).

I dont blame the club for letting it happen (300k says it was the right thing to do) but I do question why those affected couldn't have been advised and alternatives put in place? This really isnt rocket science.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - we've gone from a club in a small stadium in league 1 to a club that is instantly 5 times bigger given the size of the ground PLUS the added exposure we now have. There are many people who work for the club that are still in the small time mentality and I think at this point next year we'll see that sadly some of them will have been replaced either with managers coming in above them or someone taking over their role. The seemingly regularly overwhelmed customer services (that covers all things disability as well as other bits and pieces) seems to be most in the spotlight at present since the club appointed the transport manager and eased many concerns in that direction.
 




wallington seagull

Active member
Sep 8, 2003
426
We cant turn down that sort of money for 40 people if we want to be a progressive club. What we should have done though, is informed the affected supporters beforehand and offered alternatives.

Sorry, but you are so wrong here! We should never take extra revenue above addressing the needs of our disabled supporters. If they missed the kick off because of this, then that is disgraceful, as for offering an alternaive, then OK as long as the alternative does not put them at any further disadvantage.
 




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