Great gesture Phil. If your obvious forecasting skills enable you to win two tickets for the Final please let me know. I can't make the semis but my flight is already booked to see us win the FA Cup. Personally I think you should give them to someone in their 70s (like me). Those young fellas will probably have other opportunities in their lifetime to see City achieve Cup glory. Not sure that we will.
I agree great gesture, like CANADATIGER can not make it over for the SF but will be there for the Final I had a spare Ticket for the CL SF at Old Traford Man U V Arsenal, got 3 free ones. Walked into the nearest pub and said best story can have it free, was offered £300 but refused to sell it!
See the thread I started earlier, if you've already gambled on paying for flights, you may as well complete the gamble and get your tickets now whilst they're still available. If Arsenal win on the Saturday I'd bet there wouldn't be a single ticket available by Sunday morning. I couldn't think of much worse than having bought your flight and then not getting a ticket.
In that situation it wouldn't even need to be a real story, and rather than use their imagination they resorted to money.
I think I should deserve the tickets and the following is the reason why. Well, to be put it bluntly, this is a story about how my life got flipped-turned upside down. It all started when I was born and raised in West Philadelphia, on the playground is where I spent most of my days, you know, chilling out maxing relaxing, shooting some basketball outside of the school. Disaster struck and a couple of guys who were up to no good starting making a ruckus in my neighbourhood, I thought, I have seen enough and unfortunately I got in one little fight and my mum got scared, so she said I had to move in with my auntie and uncle! As much as I begged and pleaded with her, day after day, she packed my suitcase and sent me to them. She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my train ticket, but I thought was kind of negligent of her due to the fact I was only a teenager and I had to make my way to a new town I didn't know of. Anyway, it turns out it was first class and I thought, damn this aint bad, drinking organge juice out of a champagne glass. Is this what the people in this new town are living like? Yeah I thought this would be alright. But wait, there's more, I didn't think this was the type of place they should send me, but I thought I would see when I got there. Well. The train arrived and when I came out there was a shady looking fellow standing there with my name on a piece of card, and I thought I am not trying to get arrested yet as I just got here. I thought well my mum always told me not to speak with strangers so I ran away like lightening and disappeared. So the reason I think I deserve the ticket is because, as you can see I have evidently not lived the best of childhoods, being forced out of my neighbourhood, and I thought I would never see my beloved Hull City from the Club Wembley seats. Thank you for taking the time to read my plea.
I managed to run away, and kept running until I couldn't see him anymore, I am not sure if he chased after me but paranoia sometimes get's the better of you. Why was I so paranoid at such a young age? Well the people in my neighbourhood were not very nice, and when I tried to stand up for the 'hood (I was so street back then!) I got shipped away to my Uncles and Aunty's house! I couldn't believe it, taking about 1 mam (or boy rather!) against the world, I thought the whole world was out to get me, just for doing such a good deed. Anyway, I managed to find a taxi rank at a different train station and I whistled for a cab, when it came near the license plate said "fresh" and had one of those fluffy dice in the mirror. If anything I can say that taxi was very rare, imagine how much a registration plate would cost that just said the word Fresh? Incredible. I got in the taxi and he said where to? I gave him the address and said Yo Homes to my new house!! We pulled up to the house at about seven or eight, and I yelled to the taxi driver "Yo Dude, smell you later!" I didn't have enough for the Taxi fare as it was further than I thought but he was a nice taxi driver and didn't exactly depend on the fare, I mean come on, he has a registration plate that said Fresh for goodness sake! I waved him off, and then I look at my house, I was finally there, I could sit on the throne... I was busting after all this travelling and running malarkey.
What a great gesture I want these tickets not because my sob story is better then any others just that I want to go put can't afford it. I use to be a season ticket holder the first year I didn't renew (money and family commitments) was our promotion to the Prem under Brown, so if anything Im the opposite of a glory supporter. I still try to get to 3 or 4 games a season but its getting harder with less free cash each year as the cost of everything goes up
I am going to close this in 24 hours.....talk about a bloody dilemma. Thanks to all that have requested including the PMs...wish I had won more tickets
Nice thought, I'm going to be queuing up early in the morning to hopefully get a ticket. Anyone any idea what time the que's will start at? Or are they already started?
Firstly what a very generous offer. I would like my Mum to get one ticket . She has been going to City since she was a little girl. She stood on bunkers with her Dad and Grandad ,then sat in the south stand with us . She has been going all her life but since my Dad died , he got flu after a sheff utd night game a few years back , She is now a poor pensioner 63. She cant afford a ticket but my sister and nephew are going so can take her and if there is free booze she likes gin. Some of you might remember my Dad Big Mick (Mike) hee wore a black and amber suit on bunkers in the 60,s and organised an away coach. I live abroad and cant afford the plane ticket back. Anyway well done Phil for winning and whoever gets to go get behind the lads. Oh and whenever Mum goes to big games we win .
I hope Ricardo gets one of the tickets for services to the board. Would be terrible if he doesn't get to the game IMO . Nope I don't know him, have never met him but he seems to do a lot on here
If you give them to me I'll offer the other one as a peace offering to one of the many members who dislike me in the hope that we can get make up and be BFF's.
This throws up an interesting point. There's a few people who are going to the game saying about having one ticket for relatives who couldn't go in the general areas for health reasons or what ever. Phil could of course have 2 people going together, or 2 in that position get a ticket each and be getting ready to go and buy a new hat for the wedding of the two old wrinklies (no offence to fullcircle's mum intended) he plays Cilla Black to. If however he's got one person in that situation and one that's perfectly able to go in the normal crowd but has other reasons for deserving the ticket would anybody think it was better both tickets go to the one person so they can attend with their family member, on the basis that the family gave their ordinary match ticket to Phil's other choice? I'm not suggesting I'm one of the ones getting a ticket (I can only see what's on this thread and I'm a good example of the situation), but if it were me and fullcircle's mum that got the tickets (or someone mentioned a granddad above), as much as I'd like to experience Club Wembley it'd feel weird going in there with her knowing her family members were sat somewhere else in the stadium. It'd seem much more logical for her to go with her daughter in Club Wembley, with me then going in the standard seats on her existing ticket. It'd still be a free ticket for me or who ever it was but you wouldn't have her going alone/with a stranger. (I am of course assuming that the nephew is old enough to not need to be with his mother for the day, but it's maybe something to check)
