The government, I mean, LOCOG, has withdrawn 500,000 Olympic football
tickets from sale that have not moved. They will,instead, reduce the capacity
of the grounds. That will make a huge difference! I am concerned that the
capacity of the match I am watching, between two less well known footballing
nations, will be decreased to two – my mate and I. Unless you lop half the
stands off and slap a roof on what’s left, the referee’s whistle is going
to echo around the ‘reduced capacity’ ground for infinity – he/she will only
have to blow once for kick off and the players will stop every 10 seconds thinking
he/she has blown for yet another free kick.
Fill the grounds instead! Be bold! They are plenty of people
who have been excluded from these games, deliberately or otherwise: the urban poor who won’t get near a visa card
in their life; the ‘immigrant population’ everyone likes to blame for
everything and who probably don’t feel too welcome but do the shit jobs; youth clubs
etc, etc. Why not distribute these tickets to them so that the grounds get full
of excitement and apprehension and awe! Make everyone feel included instead!
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