chairman’s
column
As a keen football supporter I am aware of the thousands of
policemen who are employed at football grounds each week.
Football today has more of a carnival atmosphere and there
is likely to be more civil disobedience outside the average pub
where police officers are conspicuous by their absence.
One of the duties the police are tasked with is the
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apprehension of those who would seek to sell surplus match
Fifth Floor, 35-37 William Road tickets to willing purchasers.
London NW1 3ER
All season tickets are sold on the proviso that the holder 'shall
not resell, assign, transfer or lend the season ticket or the benefit
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of it to any other person without the express written consent of
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the club’. So there are no shortage of candidates for arresting.
An associate of mine was recently arrested and detained as the
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name on his ticket was not his own.
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Any individual who may find themselves in possession of an
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extra ticket is committing an offence even if he may have been
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given the ticket as a gift.
editor in chief John Griffin With the increase in the number of people who are too scared
editor Emma-Lucie Keyne
to venture outside their front door should we not consider new
art director Andy Gray
and more useful ways of deploying an understaffed police force?
art editor Clare Showell
Having recently bought a ticket for the Tina Turner concert from
American Express for £150 a ticket with a face value of £60,
I wonder what sort of double standards we are employing here.
Are American Express touts or is that a description saved for the
lesser sophisticated purveyors of commodities in short supply?
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AEG Live, the company behind the Michael Jackson concerts has
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agreed with Viagogo, an online ticket reseller, to sell hundreds of
addisonlee.com premium tickets for each performance at the 17,000 capacity O2
arena at about £500 per ticket compared with their face value of
We may occasionally use material we
£50. What sort of double standards are we indulging in here and
believe has been placed in the public
domain. Sometimes it is not possible to
what is the difference between being tucked up online and someone
identify and contact the copyright holder.
who offers to make my day by selling me his surplus ticket in a
If you claim ownership of something
published in Add Lib, we will be pleased public place at a price I agree to? Surely it is time for the keepers
to make a proper acknowledgement.
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of law and order to arrest everybody involved in the practice of
for publication unless otherwise stated.
raw capitalism or find more useful employment in matters more
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important to those paying for all this nonsense.
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