"The tie may be behind closed doors and out of bounds to supporters of both clubs...." it says on the club website.
I think this means that anyone who doesn't need to be there shouldn't be there. The club isn't obliged to take ten guests.
Let's try and remember why games are being played behind closed doors, and what it is intended to achieve.
Selling the spare places doesn't fit right to me.
I would like to say I was working at the club on Sunday, but I’ve never seen that many from the media before.
How many reports from all these media people have we seen on T V , papers etc.
If we are allowed, go for it.
I was very disappointed to see a fair few bloggers manage to get an press pass into the game. Twitter accounts with only 1000 followers with little interest in our team before today getting to watch live was disappointed.
Hopefully we set a better criteria should we host s final.
No need to be disappointed, there weren't any bloggers at Sunday's game.
Neither were there any twitter accounts. If there had been, then the number of followers is irrelevant anyway & wouldn't have been one of the criteria used to decide if anyone could attend.
Happy to hear your thoughts on a better criterion or better criteria, should we host the final.
NL Full Time, the twitter account and podcast, were live-tweeting the game from the main stand, Brian.
I understand there'll be much interest from all "levels" of media, especially given the lack of live sport, from the true amateurs to the BBC and media. However, I would have thought given we were behind closed doors, that we'd have some minimum level of coverage (See BD40's point about articles) we'd expect to receive for the additional spot in the ground.
I can imagine that York fans are equally cross that we can offer entry to two fans, whilst many of their home and away regulars will potentially their final competitive fixture at their ground.
On the whole, I'm glad so many of our deserving volunteers, who by continuing to do their jobs, got the witness the game live in some capacity. In fact, Mr Ford's early cameo just before kickoff spraying the net (a sign of the times) provided some much need light relief as the tension before kick-off.
At least a raffle prevents friends of the club talking about their invitation to a behind closed door game on Twitter, whether they attended or not.