Cup semi-finals to allow spectators

BBC reporting some fans will be allowed into Wembley to watch the FA Cup semi-finals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/56566256

Good luck everyone.

edit: realise this has been mentioned in the General Football thread but thought it exciting enough to deserve its own.

 

Only one semi final it has now been confirmed. Therefore I can't see actual fans attending the one semi final that has spectators.

 

Wonder which semi they will choose...

 

Ours

 

He also said there would be fans there which is bollocks.

 

Fans, but not fans of Saints or Leicester.

 

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.

 

Good job United didn’t get through; there’d have been 70,000 “local” supporters just around the corner ...

 

Norwich is local to Wembley right??

 

As is Leidschendam.

 

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.

 

Can Covid be carried on prawn sandwiches?

 

Or cheesy uns to?

 

Not if the prawns are vaccinated

 

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?

 

Gouda consider all the possibilities of sandwich spread.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Hmmm....I live in London. Wonder if I can sneak in.