Football League Getting City Fans Fury

Last updated : 04 April 2012 By Covsupport News Service

Covsupport News Service understands that the Football League has received a number of complaints from Coventry City supporters.

The complaints follow the Sky Blues selling out their allocation of around 2,300 tickets for the vital game at Ashton Gate on Monday for which supporters paid up to £25 per ticket, only for Bristol City, on hearing news that City had snapped up all their tickets, issued a local promotion whereby home fans can get in for £10.

There is actually little that the Football League can do as clubs are entitled to have four local promotions a season, which means for four  games they are able to circumvent the rules preventing differental charging of prices for the same areas.  

The Football Supporters Federation are campaigning for Football League rule 31.2.11* to be changed and an end put to local promotions which are unfair to supporters. 

You can read more on their campaign by clicking on http://www.fsf.org.uk/news/Local-promo-rule-is-not-a-Bulls-hit.php

* Football League Rule 31.2.11

" discounts or special promotions (in each case for one match only) made available to supporters of the the Home Club must also be made available on a similar basis to visiting supporters provided always that each Club shall be permitted to designate four (4) matches per season as 'local promotion' Matches where this regulation shall be deemed not to apply."