Big Match Cup Tickets – The Old Way

[Fox Talbot]

Part One – Norfolk Road, The Early Risers

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“I’ve been here since 1871.”

[Fox Talbot]

Part Two – Suffolk Road, The Cold and Hungry

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“I’ve been here twice as long the game will last!”

[Fox Talbot]

Part Three – The Tilehurst Slope, The Late Arrivals

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“Someone said there’s only one window open with just one bird from the club lottery doling tickets left, right and centre!”

[Fox Talbot]

Part Four – Tilehurst Road , The Doomed

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“I’m missing church for this.”
“Why don’t you get over the road then and pray for an interactive computerised ticket system, usable from home any time of day or night, that acknowledges transactions by text to your mobile phone and recognises your previous loyalty to the club?”
“Yeah, and pigs might fly …”

[RoyalBlue]

Was that queue for the 1971/72 Arsenal FA Cup game? If so, I was in there somewhere. I can remember the queue going right around Elm Park and beyond with tickets being sold out of a ticket office that wasn't much bigger than a walk in wardrobe! IIRC Brenda in the ticket office used to be quite a looker!

If anyone wants the programme from that game:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/READING-V-ARSENAL ... 1081886956

Great goal by Barry Wagstaffe but as usual we scored an own goal in a massive game.

Just under 25,000 crammed into Elm Park for the game, so plenty of bandwagoners back then too!

[Red]

Good work Fox Talbot

[Deadlock]

Just under 25,000 crammed into Elm Park for the game, so plenty of bandwagoners back then too!

Including that windbag Nick Hornby, who got his mum to get him a ticket. He later patronised our fans in Fever Pitch, the oxf*rd.

[Bandini]

Just under 25,000 crammed into Elm Park for the game, so plenty of bandwagoners back then too!

Including that windbag Nick Hornby, who got his mum to get him a ticket. He later patronised our fans in Fever Pitch, the oxf*rd.

And in the film they used the wrong badge.

[Tutti Frutti]

Bizarre organisation. In '95 they used teh South Bank turnstiles. Much more like it.

[coyrls]

Was that queue for the 1971/72 Arsenal FA Cup game? If so, I was in there somewhere. I can remember the queue going right around Elm Park and beyond with tickets being sold out of a ticket office that wasn't much bigger than a walk in wardrobe! IIRC Brenda in the ticket office used to be quite a looker!

If anyone wants the programme from that game:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/READING-V-ARSENAL ... 1081886956

Great goal by Barry Wagstaffe but as usual we scored an own goal in a massive game.

Just under 25,000 crammed into Elm Park for the game, so plenty of bandwagoners back then too!

I was there too. Queued for 4 hours I think. I tried to see if I was in any of the photos but to be honest I don't think I'd recognise me as a 16 year old!

[Mr Angry]

Was that queue for the 1971/72 Arsenal FA Cup game? If so, I was in there somewhere. I can remember the queue going right around Elm Park and beyond with tickets being sold out of a ticket office that wasn't much bigger than a walk in wardrobe! IIRC Brenda in the ticket office used to be quite a looker!

If anyone wants the programme from that game:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/READING-V-ARSENAL ... 1081886956

Great goal by Barry Wagstaffe but as usual we scored an own goal in a massive game.Just under 25,000 crammed into Elm Park for the game, so plenty of bandwagoners back then too!

Stuart Morgan, with a fantastic header from the edge of the penalty box; Deathy had no chance!

[North Somerset Royal]

Was that queue for the 1971/72 Arsenal FA Cup game? If so, I was in there somewhere. I can remember the queue going right around Elm Park and beyond with tickets being sold out of a ticket office that wasn't much bigger than a walk in wardrobe! IIRC Brenda in the ticket office used to be quite a looker!

If anyone wants the programme from that game:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/READING-V-ARSENAL ... 1081886956

Great goal by Barry Wagstaffe but as usual we scored an own goal in a massive game.Just under 25,000 crammed into Elm Park for the game, so plenty of bandwagoners back then too!

Stuart Morgan, with a fantastic header from the edge of the penalty box; Deathy had no chance!

Yes I remember it well. I can't see us in the picture but my ex-wife (then my girlfriend) and I got to Norfolk Road in the early hours thinking we would be first in line only to find that there were around 20 people already there. Got two tickets in the stand and sat next to two Arsenal supporters who spent the entire game complaining about the state of the pitch and that it was worth a goal to us. Was gutted when Stuart Morgan scored the own goal. He was a great bloke & one of my favourits at the time.

[Jackson Corner]

I remember Soton in 78 you had to go to the York game to get a voucher that secured you a ticket for the game. Which was good work by the club as 12,000 turned up for York double the season's average and 25,000 for the Soton game.

[SHORT AND CURLY]

I think Hartlepool was the voucher game for Arsenal.
Might be mistaken.
I too was there somewhere as a spotty oik/yoof

Gawd I feel old looking at those pics

[Fox Talbot]

I think Hartlepool was the voucher game for Arsenal.
Might be mistaken.
I too was there somewhere as a spotty oik/yoof

Gawd I feel old looking at those pics

It was Barrow. Same trick, raised the crowd to 11,000.

Some nobber was on recently saying it was his first game and who scored? I've got the picture if he wants it posted.

[coyrls]

I think Hartlepool was the voucher game for Arsenal.
Might be mistaken.
I too was there somewhere as a spotty oik/yoof

Gawd I feel old looking at those pics

I know what you mean. I suspect most people don't realise that they are colour photographs ..... that's how things looked then.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Was it like that for the 1995 play off final, were the queues that long or was the club able to be more organised...?

[coyrls]

Was it like that for the 1995 play off final, were the queues that long or was the club able to be more organised...?

Much better in 95. They sold tickets at the South Bank turnstiles with a different turnstile for each price category. We were at the front of the queue for the most expensive seats and spent so long negotiating our exact seat row and number that after we got our tickets the staff were told not to allow people to choose their seats!

[AthleticoSpizz]

Good work Fox Talbot

+1
my mates dad is there somewhere in that queue getting our tix

[Royal Lady]

Just under 25,000 crammed into Elm Park for the game, so plenty of bandwagoners back then too!

Including that windbag Nick Hornby, who got his mum to get him a ticket. He later patronised our fans in Fever Pitch, the oxf*rd.

tbf he was a school friend of my ex hub and he went to a few games with him.