Well in a way you have answered your own question. If we take 15'000 glory hunters, as things stand their will be 2,500 genuine week in week out Latics there.

Your initial gripe was my reference to Manchester United fans as Red Scum. I have to ask this but do you ever get to games? It seems to have by passed you that insulting the away fans before and during the game is part and parcel of the afternoon. Why weren't you on here decrying our supporters a couple of weeks ago. Did the chanting of. Sheep Sheep sheep sh***ers. A staple insult for any Yorkshire club infact, pass you by? We told Black pool some years ago to stick their tower up their bottoms! And Wrexham to put their lager with it?

Were you not there when we played Bristol City and Kevin Osei-Kuffour Amankwaah was warming up at the Chaddy end? It's generally light hearted.

Now, you seem to have altered slightly the original discussion. The use of the term Red Scum. But never offered your preferred description.


!5,000 might be rather optimistic. There is a difference.

The big team glory hunters wear the shirt, talk the talk about 'we this, we that'. They can name the players and the watch them on tv. They support the team but they only supported them in the first place because they won trophies. Also their allegiances can change annually. You know exactly what I'm getting at.

Next Sunday will see people that can't name a player, will probably have to ask which team is 'us' because one will be in the away kit, and despite living within sight of the ground they haven't been for years. They may have been fans years ago but as we declined, so did their support. They won't go to BP on a Saturday but Wembley? Oh yes. Less a case of glory hunting but not bothering with the club in the season but come the biggest game in 31 years.

If the figures quoted late yesterday, 10,000, are correct, we have already equalled the biggest home crowd of the season. So probably ours are worse.

And before you say it, I know it's supposedly ST holders that have bought tickets so far. Certain stories contradict that, and I cannot be critical of them. Though I think I'm right in saying an ST meant nothing for the Halifax game?

As far as tickets go, at the moment I'm annoyed about the entire situation. The treatment of both clubs, the mishandling of the match, the restriction place on two non league clubs. Often railwork is carried out on Bank Holidays. Yet the l2 final tomorrow is un affected. There's an all London final today. They can handle a crowd all coming from South East and East London, no problems. And a quick glance at getting there by train suggests, both sets of supporters will arrive at Wembley Stadium Station!!!!

Sorry folks that this has turned into a long and rambling rant, but I feel we are being fed load of bull by one or several parties. Who I suspect, have rung somewhere like Dulwich Hamlet, and asked. "You are a non league club, what's your average attendance mate?" And based the match on their numbers.