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Cheap tickets give us taste of the past

SOMETHING didn’t feel quite right as I hurried along a busy Seven Sisters Road on the way to the England under-21 match on Friday night.
Instead of shuffling past groups of men and women clad in football scarves, chatting animatedly about the game ahead, I skipped past groups of men and women holding hands with sons and daughters clad in football scarves, chatting animatedly about the game ahead.
It was like going to Bloomfield Road, Blackpool, in the 1980s, when kids were as much a feature as grumpy old men and wet behind the ears teenagers.
The reasons for all this inclusion? Once again, because you didn’t have to pawn granny’s wedding ring to buy the tickets and you could get them without having to have put your name down three months before you were born.
I’m told games are just as family inclusive over at matches featuring FC United, the disaffected Manchester United supporters’ team.
Their North West Counties league matches attract more than 3,000 fans aged from three months to pensioners in a mixture of seats and standing. It’s as good an advert for the game as Friday night was and proves there is a massive appetite for football in this country, just not as most of us currently know it.

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