Afternoon, we did indeed give freebies away at Upton Park and I would like to share with you an experience when I was stewarding,Newmarket wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:08 pmAn excellent suggestion I must say .Whiskyman wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 4:46 pm
You asked me what I'd do. If I ran a lower league club I would hand out free tickets every week to local schools and kids football clubs. If seats are going to be empty you may as well try to get a few arses on them even if you don't raise any money directly by doing it. You never know that might start a relationship with the club that could develop in the same way that people of our generations developed their affinities with clubs back in the day.
And not just for lower league clubs . It’s something all non Sky 6 clubs should do even if it’s just a few hundred .
If it gets the club just 10 new young fans a week it’s a start and 10 young fans that don’t dream of old Trafford or the Bernabau .
I worked the Trevor Brooking lower, sometimes the away section but on this occasion I was given the task of looking after 50 asian teenagers and 10 adults who were supposed to be chaperoning them in the home section, our opponents that day was Man City.
City scored after 10 mins and to my and 3,000 other fans horror they jumped to their feet celebrating, now I have to calm every cunt down which I managed to a certain degree, then after another City goal 10 mins before half time they all got up go downstairs, me thinking they were going to the toilet, oh no, I was asked by a chaperone if I would take them all to the prayer room, they looked at me in disgust and said we will have to pray here then, can you shut the bar please, I said I couldnt but they still all got on their knees to the disbelief of our own fans coming down for a drink, songs were sung at them, insults followed, it was beginning to get naughty, thank fuck the chaperones showed good sense to go and pray outside like I suggested.
When the 2nd half started I went to collect them and they had gone.