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Dilemma about the match against Villa. (OAP)

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Brennan

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I've managed to convince my Dad to come with me to the match against Villa for only the second time since 1978. Yeah, that long. Anyway, he's 62 turning 63 in June and i see on the Everton website that you get a nice discount if you're over 65. So i have two questions:

1) Is it morally justifiable (in your opinion of course) for me to buy my Dad an over 65 ticket ? He has trouble walking and age hasn't been kind to him, let's put it that way. He would never want to have to admit needing a disabled pass however. He's not working either, which i imagine is one of the main points of offering a discounts to over 65's.

2) If you would say it's acceptable on this one occasion, what are the chances of the club actually checking this up ? I haven't seen anything in recent visits that would suggest he'd need to worry.

Apologies in advance if anybody is annoyed by me even asking if it's okay to 'cheat' the system like this.
 
Simple answer is no, mate. I fully see where you're coming from but I'd be surprised if you get away with it/they don't mind if they find you've got the over 65s ticket.

I can certainly see why you'd want to try it though. 2nd time since 1978 is quite something.
 
Lien said:
Simple answer is no, mate. I fully see where you're coming from but I'd be surprised if you get away with it/they don't mind if they find you've got the over 65s ticket.

I can certainly see why you'd want to try it though. 2nd time since 1978 is quite something.
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Tell me about it, the first time was against Reading so you can imagine how depressing that was. He used to be a die hard supporter back in the day, went to pretty much every single game but just got frustrated with what he saw when he finally gave up going. He still talks about the club being the school of science with regard to the way they used to play.
 

spikeman said:
The club needs any money that they can get. Just pay up. Treat your dad to a great time.
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He's already threatened that if Villa lose he won't bother going again, i said 'oh, the team will be more worried about that than finishing higher than Liverpool !' Safe to say he was not impressed.
 
Brennan91 said:
He's already threatened that if Villa lose he won't bother going again, i said 'oh, the team will be more worried about that than finishing higher than Liverpool !' Safe to say he was not impressed.
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who exactly does he support ?

given it's 2nd time in 33 years, I think the "won't go again" is a touch ineffective, you never know though ? maybe if he goes in the sheds and does a James Cordon type teamtalk with that as his closing line ?
 
Fcuk the club. Get the over 65s ticket mate. It'll be £20+ they wouldn't have gotten if he didn't go. You dont have to justify yourself or your old feller to anyone...least of all the corrupt bastards who 'run' Everton.
 
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian said:
who exactly does he support ?

given it's 2nd time in 33 years, I think the "won't go again" is a touch ineffective, you never know though ? maybe if he goes in the sheds and does a James Cordon type teamtalk with that as his closing line ?
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Just because he doesn't want to spend £35 a pop to go and see a team who are rubbish compared to when he used to watch them doesn't mean he doesn't support the club. If Evertonians weren't so readily accepting of mediocrity and did the same thing maybe Kenwright would have done something by now.
 

Brennan91 said:
Just because he doesn't want to spend £35 a pop to go and see a team who are rubbish compared to when he used to watch them doesn't mean he doesn't support the club. If Evertonians weren't so readily accepting of mediocrity and did the same thing maybe Kenwright would have done something by now.
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Think you intimated he wanted a Villa win mate...we are easily confused on here
 
davek said:
Fcuk the club. Get the over 65s ticket mate. It'll be £20+ they wouldn't have gotten if he didn't go. You dont have to justify yourself or your old feller to anyone...least of all the corrupt bastards who 'run' Everton.
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great post lad
 

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