I suspect the HDM editor didn't like being told they could be liable for facilitating illegal ticket touting
The problem is that even threads on here for fans offering to get tickets for other fans, even at face value (or for that matter below face value or free) is by the letter of the law considered touting. Legislative Background 4.1 Section 166(2A) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (as amended by the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006) empowers the Secretary of State to make anorder designating football matches forthe purposes of Section 166 of the Act. 4.2 This is the first use of the new free-standing power for the designation of matchesunder Section 166(2A) of the amended 1994 Act. Previously a designated football match for the purposes of ticket touting legislation meant a football match of a description, or a particular football match, for the time being designated for the purposes of Part I of theFootball Spectators Act 1989 or which was a regulated football match for the purposes ofPart II of that Act. 4.3 This instrument is being made to establish the specific criteria of a designated association football match for the purposes of the football ticket touting legislation. Theinstrument replicates the existing designation of a regulated football match for the wider purposes of Part II of the Football Spectators Act 1989. 4.4 Ticket touting legislation makes it unlawful for an unauthrised person to sell a ticket for a designated game, or otherwise to dispose of such a ticket to another person. Reference to selling a ticket includes a reference to offering to sell a ticket, exposing aticket for sale, making a ticket available for sale by another, advertising that a ticket is available for purchase, and giving a ticket to a person who pays or agrees to pay for some other goods or services or offering to do so.
Isn't the club causing this though by allowing season card holders to get 2 tickets for the game because the 'other' ticket must be for someone else? the above clause even includes "or otherwise dispose of such a ticket to another person" i.e. give it as well as sell it for any price.
Somewhere along the small print I think the club probably state that the option for a second ticket is purely for those who have need of an extra seat due to their size, or those unsociable types who detest sitting next to strangers. Also makes provisions for women etc. to use a seat as storage place for say a handbag and a coat.
