Posted by Marty on February 03, 2001 at 09:15:24:
as some of you may already know a Campaign has been started by a Pete (Region 4 Rep), "Fans Red Card" to
protest over the way in which supporters are being stripped of their ticket rights & abandoning the Loyal Points System.
< http://fansredcard.btinternet.co.uk/
For whom ( Yes you and I ) and I feel its time that we all; man, woman, and child gave the Campaign the support it surely deserves.
We must all stand as one against the F.A. - Numbers WILL get our message over. The F.A. are trying there damdest to remove the current rewards for dedication & loyality.
Those wonderful days of watching England at home and Away, with family and friends will I assure you be a thing of the past. Because it will be near impossible to obtain any tickets once the new E.M.C. is set in place.
150,000 members chasing 5,000 tournament tickets!!
They are clearly set to attract a new set of cash rich Clients as they are now calling Supporters!!! Corporate businesses, Sponsors, plus F.A. dignitarys will swallow the rest.
Leaving a minimal amount to be distributed amongst the ordinary supporters - doesn't that make your blood boil!
For goodness sake they are stealing the entitlement to watch the country play - from the very ones that have trudded around Europe for 10 years and made it so popular.
If the goverment where to start taxing you another 40% on your wages would you do something about it .... sure you would!
Well they FA have already 'nicked' 40% of the ticket allocation. So are you prepared to sit on your backsides and let them take from you something you earned the right to have access to, spent your hard earned pennies on & something you love.
This issue is not about any single one of us, where all in this together.
The new crew at the F.A. are intent on ditching the old club and turn it into a money making machine, all we are asking is that the current members are taken into consideration for their longstanding loyalty and for all of us to have a say in the way the club is run. All the so called reps are saying the same thing the FA have rail-roaded them into this thing - none of them fully support the concept, in fact most of them think it stinks.
If this post has stirred you up great, because it was meant to. I hope you feel the same so please visit the site and join the campaign, sign the "Fans Red Card" Petition to the Football Association.
If we get together now with perserverance and unity, there is a chance that we build the campaign and protest to something the FA will have to take notice of.
If we don't the FA will be chuffed to bits.
Yours Marty
http://www.fansredcard.btinternet.co.uk/
Don't forget to tell your mates.