Accy cyclist
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Does/do West Ham(pton) count?🤔 😉
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Does/do West Ham(pton) count?🤔 😉
No Ta Doctor
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laurentian
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Yeah - the "Hampton Derby" is probably the furthest to travel!
Interesting that the two top sports teams in each place are called The Saints too . . .
T4tomo
Legendary Member
your confusing them with Hampton Court Crystal Palace.
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- Essex
I hope you have sorted this out.
My season ticket with West Ham is also digital(Google Wallet) but if i can't make a game i can go on to my account on the website and transfer it to a listed family or friend.They will then receive an email which includes the transferred ticket and barcode, then they can print it off and take it to the game.
Digital ticketing is now used by a lot of clubs and imo is a pain in the ass.It was so much better when you had the physical plastic card for a season ticket.
Best of luck for the new season
The Crofted Crest
Veteran
Utrecht still gives you the option of a physical card. It costs €5 extra but it adds to the collection.
How depressingly predictable.
Football starts again and racists chants are made.
All these Kick it Out, Respect(for refs) and all the other well meaning initiatives seem to fail miserably.
Players,teams, managers seem to respect the officials up until the point a decision is made against their team. Then they surround the ref screaming in his face or hurling abuse from the sidelines etc.
Everyone makes the right noises about eliminating racism from the game but as night follows day some charming person will shout or gesture etc.
Yes racism and abuse of officials happens elsewhere but football seems to be the worst.
Football starts again and racists chants are made.
All these Kick it Out, Respect(for refs) and all the other well meaning initiatives seem to fail miserably.
Players,teams, managers seem to respect the officials up until the point a decision is made against their team. Then they surround the ref screaming in his face or hurling abuse from the sidelines etc.
Everyone makes the right noises about eliminating racism from the game but as night follows day some charming person will shout or gesture etc.
Yes racism and abuse of officials happens elsewhere but football seems to be the worst.
PaulSB
Squire
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- Chorley, Lancashire
Thank you
I use Google Wallet a lot and I'm comfortable with it but the season tickets are a problem for us. Ours work in exactly the way you have described with one difficulty. At present it appears I can only transfer to people on the Rovers data base with a ticket purchase history. My eldest boy is on the database, my youngest isn't. Add to this I sometimes have to ask a paid carer to take my lad and that's yet another person that needs adding somehow. For the moment I can only add my eldest son, the other options aren't available.
The ticket office, who were very helpful as always, told me last year's plastic card will still work. I'll try that today. If this is the case the problem is solved for this season. However Rovers are going fully digital nexty season so the problem will arise again. My season ticket and my disabled son's have been linked for 30+ years. When the club began to move to online sales of any sort there were issues. It's clear the technology struggles with anything which doesn't match the norm and that's not surprising. Linking two seats out of 30,000 for a specific purpose can't be easy and probably has to be tailored club by club. Over the years the issues have been resolved, this move to digital tickets is simply creating another set.
I'm not complaining. The Rovers ticket office has always been superb stretching back decades to the little paper books! My lad is short and can't see if anyone stands in front of him. This is a big problem at away games if we get allocated the next random seats. If asked the ticket office literally get the physical bundle of tickets from the home club and go through them to find seats in the first two rows!
Another little example. For the League Cup Final against Spurs I needed five tickets, it was one per season ticket holder. We had four season tickets. With three young children, one disabled, a trip to Cardiff without my wife's help was impossible. In the queue, the enormous queue, I was fretting about this. I told the guy next to me. His was response was "speak to Tom Finn (club secretary), he'll sort you out. He's over there" I went over and explained the problem to Tom. His response was "write to me when you've got your match tickets. I'll organise this for you." I did so and a few days later a fifth ticket arrived in the post. It was directly in front of one of the seats I already had and complimentary!! This was in the days before online sales. When you bought a ticket, you bought a ticket. Hard to beat.
No Ta Doctor
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I'm not quite sure why you conflate racist chanting and abuse of officials here, I think they're completely separate things. And while racism in football is bad, it's nowhere near as bad as racism in politics and government where it's married to the power to make life-changing (and sometimes fatal) decisions and policies.
AndyRM
XOXO
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- North Shields
Based on the video and subsequent report from last night it was one person who was swiftly identified and wheeled away by the police. Not to try and justify the behaviour, but generally (in the UK) racist abuse comes from individuals rather than large groups and isn't tolerated.
Oh they're not connected and I didn't mean to infer they were. it's just two examples of problems which plague football in particular.
Also not sure in politics you get individuals shouting racist words(?).
No Ta Doctor
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Well Kier Starmer basically started quoting Enoch Powell the other day, and he doesn't need to shout, he's got a microphone and a media presence. I'm also fairly sure the Windrush scandal victims who were deported to the West Indies or refused medical treatment or kicked out of jobs despite being British subjects would probably have preferred someone shouting some nasty words at them if they had to choose.
Sorry, I didn't really want to turn the thread political and i know that's frowned on here (there's a separate forum, I know), I just get a bit tired of football being held up as some horrific example of sociological depravity and societal collapse
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
I just get a bit tired of football being held up as some horrific example of sociological depravity and societal collapse
Especially when it's someone's first post in a football thread on the weekend of the return of the EPL...
And what happened in the first game of said football?
Maybe you'd rather pretend everything is rosy.
Doesn't matter if it's first post or the millionth, the fact is unfortunately some things never change.
And whole point of my original post was despite all these measures nothing ever changes.
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