Give the two teams 40,000 tickets each and then ditribute the remaing 10,000 or so to the associations and 'club wembley' mugs. Why should all these associations and grass roots people get any tickets? QUOTE]
This happens every year with every FA Cup final and everyone has to understand how it works because they dont explain it clearly enough.
25,000 efc
25,000 cfc
17,000 club wembley
23,000 FA Association
It aint fair but the Club Wembley people (Me included) have paid minimum £4,500 each for a 10 year licence (money to pay for the stadium)
In addition they pay a minimum of £1600 per season for all England Home games Both FA Cup Semi finals Carling Cup Final Charity Shield and the peach the FA Cup FInal.
So the FA Can't renege on this deal ever so that leaves 73,000 between all supporters why they need 23,000 for all associations and FA bigwigs & sponsors I dont know. As for the Carling Cup Final they can give 30,000 to each teams supporters and they only held back 13,000 for themselves which is a bit fairer.