Full? Count the spaces (From York Press)

Full? Count the spaces

11:48am Tuesday 5th March 2013 in Letters By Reader's letter

ON SATURDAY last, a friend from Leeds came with me to Bootham Crescent for the Bradford match.

He was told that though I, a season-ticket holder, could go in, he could not buy a ticket as the ground was completely full. My friend unselfishly insisted that I should still watch the match, yet I found myself at the kick-off, counting untaken seats.

Across my field of vision – half of one section of the Pop stand and half the next section across the aisle – I found 42 untaken. I could also see a block of perhaps 80 vacant in the main stand.

York City should have on screen exact, up-to-date information of how many seats have gone. Instead they rely on a plain wrong blanket claim that there were none left.

Visitors, keen to buy, were turned away unhappy and their money with them. Not clever, not good management.

Edward Pearce, Thormanby, York.