The conversations on NUFC ticketing and membership show no signs of abating NUFC
The recent spate of articles concerning Newcastle United ticketing and memberships show now sign of abating this week, so here’s another one.
Jamie’s point takes us back to the 1980s, a truly dark era for association football after years of greed and incompetence by those in charge of running the game. Fewer people were attending games than ever before, while lurid press reports of fan violence would have led anyone who didn’t attend matches to think that football stadia were life-threatening environments, teeming with drunken, dart-throwing maniacs.
One of the worst prime ministers this country has had in the modern era Margaret Thatcher, believed football fans were as much of a menace as striking trade unionists. The right-wing media gave the impression to anyone who didn’t attend matches, that to do so was inherently unsafe. The post-Heysel resolve to “do something” about football hooliganism led to a proposal that would see fans having to produce ID cards to gain admission.
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