Some Thoughts On The FA Cup
If you're a glass half-empty kind of person then the focus of FA Cup Third Round weekend will always be on the empty seats that you can see but at Affordable Football I like to be positive (especially about The Cup) and it's worth reflecting that these
are games that people have to actively
purchase a ticket for which hundreds of thousands of supporters did, just a short
time after Christmas and when a number of clubs had had two home games in the
space of a few days.
Comparisons with Premier League attendances are almost always going to be unflattering but Norwich City, for instance, had a second meeting in ten days against Fulham,
hardly a fixture to get the pulse racing and yet almost 22,000 went along to watch it.
Brighton marketed their game against Reading, an
all-Championship affair, from almost the time the draw was made, reduced prices
and drew a crowd of 20,696 to the Amex.
Replays at Watford (against Bristol City) and Fulham
(against Norwich City) have been priced at £15 for adults while Sheffield
Wednesday have pegged tickets at £10 for the match against Macclesfield.
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