2 over 60 year olds go to watch their local football league team play a home game ..... admission £48, to sit in a freezing cold wind tunnel, in danger of contracting hypothermia, cheap plastic seats with limited legroom, and all for the dubious pleasureof 110mins of collectively a manager, playing squad and chairman who dont give a flyingfuck about the substandard fayre on offer.
Contrastingly
2 over 60-year-olds go to the cinema in Oxfordshire (Cineworld Witney)...... full admission for 2 adults £21.20, however, it seems if you're over 60 the cost for 2 over 60-year-olds is £16.20! , for 152 minutes, which were spent in comfortable seats, plenty of legroom, and a warm dry environment with clean facilities, and very helpful and informative staff
Both OUFC and Cineworld are UK owned companies, one has a strong emphasis on customer service ...the other has seemingly nothing but contempt for paying customers
one had a mere handful of (as in less than 10)empty seats the other had more than 3000 empty seats ( when playing at home against the very free-scoring league leaders)
In many regions of England, concessionary prices apply to over 60s.... even the bullies and Dick Turpin descendants that run Wembley Stadium for last seasons Shaun Harvey trophy final offered concessions for over 60s!!!!! ..... conversely Slippery and his henchmen prefer to try to scam every last penny off Oxford United's loyal supporters without giving, it seems, anything back, not even a smidgen in terms of anything resembling value for money
Contrastingly
2 over 60-year-olds go to the cinema in Oxfordshire (Cineworld Witney)...... full admission for 2 adults £21.20, however, it seems if you're over 60 the cost for 2 over 60-year-olds is £16.20! , for 152 minutes, which were spent in comfortable seats, plenty of legroom, and a warm dry environment with clean facilities, and very helpful and informative staff
Both OUFC and Cineworld are UK owned companies, one has a strong emphasis on customer service ...the other has seemingly nothing but contempt for paying customers
one had a mere handful of (as in less than 10)empty seats the other had more than 3000 empty seats ( when playing at home against the very free-scoring league leaders)
In many regions of England, concessionary prices apply to over 60s.... even the bullies and Dick Turpin descendants that run Wembley Stadium for last seasons Shaun Harvey trophy final offered concessions for over 60s!!!!! ..... conversely Slippery and his henchmen prefer to try to scam every last penny off Oxford United's loyal supporters without giving, it seems, anything back, not even a smidgen in terms of anything resembling value for money
..... I would seriously like to see even a few average performances as theyve been a bit thin on the ground this season! ..... what we were told the 20% hike in ST and matchday tickets was for , to improve the playiners/playing squad, has yet to bear any fruition, ..... comparing whats on offer under the (very loose when it comes to OUFC), entertainment description as in what you get for your hard earned cash in terms of facilities, between the breeze block and a cinema isnt a bad one in terms of time spent inside each, the qualityof facilities on offer and good old fashioned value for money .....granted OUFC pay an exhorbitant 'rent' to a moneygrabbing landlord- yet it seems OUFC ,in return for the rent, appear unable to even get the toilets there(breeze block) treated to an occasional splash of bleach, and maybe a mop n sweep once in a while for example! ..... the whole matchday experience, which was apparrently SO important to OUFC a few seasons ago to me is at an all time low. Personally I'd rather be stood on a terrace, than shoehorned into limited space seating areas, sooner safe standing makes a proper return to English football the better I believe. There again I believe football should be on a Saturday afternoon with a 3pm kick off, with no interfereance from Television tails wagging the dog.
