Football Association short change fans

How disappointing, is the ticket allocation for the thousands of fans of Manchester United and Chelsea Football Club, who will due to the somewhat cranky, distribution of FA Cup final tickets, find themselves watching the FA Cup final on television rather than in the new £800 million football stadium.

I don't pretend to know Jack about football, but Mrs Me does, and I can well recall her language, when despite being a season-ticket holder, she learnt that she only had an 85 per cent chance of obtaining a ticket to see her beloved Chelsea, play in first the FA Cup final at the new Wembley.

As an outside observer, the Football Association, looks like any other monopoly business, ignorant of their customers (fans) opinion, and uncaring. To me it seems ridiculous that those who actually finance the game, get treated as an afterthought.

I've always held the view that at best, the people in the football business are talented amateurs, and the 23,000 tickets going to what the FA calls ''the football family'' is just plain old-fashioned patronage i e often these tickets end up with people who have no interest in football.

Anyway at the time of writing I understand that, Mrs Me is inside the stadium and very impressed toilets all clean and no queue! I just hope Chelsea win, I can't afford new furniture again.