LATER this month England U21 footballers play an international game against Germany U21 at the Boro's Riverside stadium. It would be an exciting match to take my grandson, Jack, to see. Jack lives in Northumberland and is a fanatical Magpies fan ("bless") though he proudly sports red and white when we go to Boro home games.
So I went to the Riverside and bought the amazingly low priced international tickets: £10 adult and only £1 under 18s.
The under 18 tickets are advertised for £1. They show £1 on the ticket. But they can only be bought with a "booking fee" of £1.50 applied by the Football Association (FA), thus raising the price by 150 per cent.
The low ticket price for an international match is amazing but why is it that when a ticket is advertised at a given price and has that price printed on it, it cannot be bought for anything less than 150 per cent of its face value? Surely this contravenes all advertising and trading standard regulations?
Oh, and the FA, it appears, has secured all the better seats, no doubt for it's corporate clients – and guess who is subsidising them!
Archie Currie, Marton, Cleveland.
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