Well it seems the ticket office has continued with its draconian policy of separating mates at the match. After instituting a “no more than 4″ policy on the phone lines a few weeks back, they’ve now started implementing the same restrictions at the ticket office windows.

So now you can spend an hour queueing up outside the ticket office with 5 fan cards only to be told you can only buy four, and then have to return to the back of the queue and wait another hour to pick up the last ticket. In this extra hour you can spend time thinking of how best to decide who’s going to be the billy-no-mates at the game. Scissors, paper, stone? Drawing straws? Arm wrestle for it? Last one to down a pint?

And the solution to the “I want more than four” problem? You have to bring along one of the other fancard holders. Unless you want nine tickets that is, in which case you need to skip down Walton Breck Road hand-in-hand with two of your mates. Rumours are that people are starting to hire themselves out as surrogate mates - you’ll find their agent just outside The Albert.

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