[dalekpete]

As I remember this ran up St Margarets Drive, along Cross Street and down Compton onto West Street.

Where was the very end of it?

[moondog]

dalekpete, on Jan 12 2010, 10:40 PM, said:

As I remember this ran up St Margarets Drive, along Cross Street and down Compton onto West Street.

Where was the very end of it?

I remember joining the queue for Wrexham tickets where Saltergate joins West St

Also know cos I drove past to look, the overnight queue for semi final replay tickets ran down St Margarets drive and down Ashgate Road past Brockwell lane at about (I think) 8pm to 9pm

This post has been edited by moondog: 12 January 2010 - 10:52 PM

[martatcross]

I took my wife to work at 6am at the care home on sheffield road parked my car in there car park and promptly went up to the ground joining the queue 3/4 of the way down compton street at 10 am i was at the turnstyle on st margarets when Mr kenworthy told us the 22 quid tickets had gone seem to remember clutching my 36 quid ticket about 1 hour later

[Frank Thacker]

Does anyone have photos?

[JonB]

Someone else got my Old Trafford ticket for me but i remember going for the replay ones. Turned up the night before after hearing that the queue was already building clutching a chair, blanket and various refreshments. Queue ran down to Saltergate and across the front of the Kop where i joined it.

[clarevoyant.]

Queue? What queue?

The benefits of a season ticket

No half season tickets that season, no foresight

[Westbars Spireite]

I never queued for the replay tickets. Remember walking up from Newbold Community School's old 'upper' site and buying them late one morning during a free period.

This post has been edited by Westbars Spireite: 15 January 2010 - 09:43 PM

[JohnnyUtah]

JonB, on Jan 13 2010, 07:44 AM, said:

Someone else got my Old Trafford ticket for me but i remember going for the replay ones. Turned up the night before after hearing that the queue was already building clutching a chair, blanket and various refreshments. Queue ran down to Saltergate and across the front of the Kop where i joined it.

For the replay tickets, i did likewise the night before with a chair and blanket. We set up our "waiting area" in the queue on the grass of the old peoples home so i know it went further than that.

As an aside, after a while i nipped into Town to use a toilet only to find on my way back that they'd started selling tickets early and all my mates were already down St Margarets Drive and the police wouldnt let me join them prompting me to majorly panic!!! Fortunately some kind soul got me a ticket. Phew!!!

[Webster]

Stuart Basson, on Jan 12 2010, 11:34 PM, said:

Does anyone have photos?

There were photos in the programme and DT

[DIFH]

dalekpete, on Jan 12 2010, 10:40 PM, said:

As I remember this ran up St Margarets Drive, along Cross Street and down Compton onto West Street.

Where was the very end of it?

There was of course the 2nd queue when the 2nd batch of tickets went on sale. 2 queue's for that, one along cross st and the other down towards saltergate. I joined the Cross St one at 1am and remember them opening the ticket office early because of the numbers - much to the consternation of would be purchasers who intended queueing the next day.

[dalekpete]

A bit of research.

The big queue was for the replay as there were fewer tickets (initially) and there had been a controversial block booking scheme for the Old Trafford game.

The queuing started at 11am with the office due to open 22 hours later. The office actually opened at 9.45pm that evening at tickets sold out at 5am.

According to the Derbyshire Times the queue went "right around the stadium and down Ashgate Road". However a colleague of mine says he joined the queue at 7pm near the tennis club! He got his tickets at 2am, they were sold from the Cross Street turnstiles for the Stand.

[Town_Fan]

dalekpete, on Jan 20 2010, 07:26 PM, said:

A bit of research.

The big queue was for the replay as there were fewer tickets (initially) and there had been a controversial block booking scheme for the Old Trafford game.

The queuing started at 11am with the office due to open 22 hours later. The office actually opened at 9.45pm that evening at tickets sold out at 5am.

According to the Derbyshire Times the queue went "right around the stadium and down Ashgate Road". However a colleague of mine says he joined the queue at 7pm near the tennis club! He got his tickets at 2am, they were sold from the Cross Street turnstiles for the Stand.

They also sold tickets through the Centre stand turnstyles, I know this to be true because I was on one of them. It was genuinely surreal, I remember Jim at one point bringing me a can of lager.

I even ended up on the tele selling tickets. 6 gateman sold 400k worth of tickets that night and I remember being in the board room at around 6ish having a whisky with a beaming JNL.

I also heard that because the selling of the tickets early was so unexpected they didnt have any security and the head gateman took 400k to the bank in a large cardboard box.

[Frank Thacker]

Town_Fan, on Feb 26 2010, 09:33 PM, said:

They also sold tickets through the Centre stand turnstyles, I know this to be true because I was on one of them. It was genuinely surreal, I remember Jim at one point bringing me a can of lager.

I even ended up on the tele selling tickets. 6 gateman sold 400k worth of tickets that night and I remember being in the board room at around 6ish having a whisky with a beaming JNL.

I also heard that because the selling of the tickets early was so unexpected they didnt have any security and the head gateman took 400k to the bank in a large cardboard box.

Fascinatiing stuff... but are we really to believe that Norton would run the risk of some mugger going off with his cardboard box?

[Guest_freelander2_*]

Stuart Basson, on Feb 26 2010, 10:14 PM, said:

Fascinatiing stuff... but are we really to believe that Norton would run the risk of some mugger going off with his cardboard box?

Have you been in contact with the old devil for the book? Get yourself up there one afternoon, I am sure he would welcome the opportunity to chat.

Town_Fan, on Feb 26 2010, 09:33 PM, said:

I even ended up on the tele selling tickets. 6 gateman sold 400k worth of tickets that night and I remember being in the board room at around 6ish having a whisky with a beaming JNL.

Now that I do like!

[h again]

dalekpete, on Jan 20 2010, 07:26 PM, said:

A bit of research.

The big queue was for the replay as there were fewer tickets (initially) and there had been a controversial block booking scheme for the Old Trafford game.

The queuing started at 11am with the office due to open 22 hours later. The office actually opened at 9.45pm that evening at tickets sold out at 5am.

According to the Derbyshire Times the queue went "right around the stadium and down Ashgate Road". However a colleague of mine says he joined the queue at 7pm near the tennis club! He got his tickets at 2am, they were sold from the Cross Street turnstiles for the Stand.

Happy days - abd nights. I got over at 11 0'clock - thinking I was being stupid but not taking ANY chances after having to fork out 38 quid for Old Trafford. ( I was near the front of the queue when they announced there were only 38 quid ones left - an old chap behind me was nearly in tears 'cos he could only afford a cheaper one, but he pushed the boat out in the end).
Anyway, from memory the queue was about half way down Goldwell Hill when I arrived. At about 5 o' clock in the morning I was about 20 people away from the front when the tickets ran out.
We finally watched it on a big screen at Boythorpe Road leisure centre. It was almost impossible to see what was going on - awful picture - but you could see all the empty spaces that Middlesborough hadn't filled. It would have been quicker and easier to have driven up there and bought a ticket.