Cup semi-finals to allow spectators

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Only one semi final it has now been confirmed. Therefore I can't see actual fans attending the one semi final that has spectators.
 
Could be supporters of each club potentially. Think it'll be restricted to local people so not an allocation as such but there's bound to be some relatively local supporters of each club.
 
Libby said:
Could be supporters of each club potentially. Think it'll be restricted to local people so not an allocation as such but there's bound to be some relatively local supporters of each club.
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Good job United didn’t get through; there’d have been 70,000 “local” supporters just around the corner ...
 
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A Spurs fan at work told me that some spectators will be allowed in to the League Cup Final (last weekend in April) but no tickets will be distributed via either club. In which case it’s likely to be the same here.
 
If, as has been suggested, the fans will be drawn from people who live locally, I’m not sure what would be gained from having a small crowd of supporters, with no affiliation to the clubs playing, although it would be good to be proved wrong.

Football clubs have already shown that safely handling small crowds, during the pandemic, is doable so the issue is not with the ground managing the crowd but how the crowd travel to the ground.
Would a couple of thousand fans from Southampton and Leicester create a greater risk, given the numbers using the local transport during the working week and with those numbers due to increase with lockdown being eased?
 
Personally speaking I'm not particularly bothered about missing attending in person. Yes they don't come around often, but having them at Wembley takes away the excitement somewhat and that's without getting into the ridiculous pricing that we saw in 2018. I remember attending in 2003 vs attending in 2018 and it was a stark comparison in excitement levels (though maybe that's because in 2003 I expected we would win...).

I think what will be difficult however is if we get to the final (big if!) knowing that it really will be a lottery as to who can go. I'm a STH but having only been one for a couple years I can't see myself making it sadly.
 
BassettSaint said:
Personally speaking I'm not particularly bothered about missing attending in person. Yes they don't come around often, but having them at Wembley takes away the excitement somewhat and that's without getting into the ridiculous pricing that we saw in 2018. I remember attending in 2003 vs attending in 2018 and it was a stark comparison in excitement levels (though maybe that's because in 2003 I expected we would win...).

I think what will be difficult however is if we get to the final (big if!) knowing that it really will be a lottery as to who can go. I'm a STH but having only been one for a couple years I can't see myself making it sadly.
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If we get to the final I would expect any ST holders who haven't asked for and been given a full refund for this season to get priority. People who got a full refund no longer have a ST as far as I'm concerned and as such have forfeited their ST status. I reckon most people who held onto their ST ticket will get a ticket should we get there.
 
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