Buy FA Cup Final Tickets by Richard Hull

Everton have finally done it, and reached an FA Cup final for the first time in 14 years, after a nervy semi final penalty shoot out against a weakened Manchester Utd team. After Chelsea defeated Arsenal in the other semi final, 24 hours before, it is the first time either club has met one another in the final. Chelsea are favourites, but that hasn't stopped Everton before as they have arguably had the hardest FA Cup run in history by having to take on the clubs in the top four positions of the top league in the world to get there. They defeated Liverpool, Aston Villa and Manchester Utd, all teams at the time in the top four, and for the final they must defeat Chelsea who currently are 3rd in the league table.

So, this years FA Cup Final of Everton v Chelsea, promises to be a good one (hopefully for me, as I'm an Everton fan!), but the question of buying tickets is going to prove very difficult for both Everton and Chelsea fans alike. To stand any chance to buy FA Cup Final tickets, you will need to be a season ticket holder of either Everton or Chelsea. The FA (Football Association), in its wisdom, has decided to give just 25,000 tickets to each team to sell to its fans. For a stadium that seats 90,000 and regularly sells out for FA Cup finals, it is somewhat sad that the majority of fans of the club will miss out.

Both clubs will try and ensure that their allotment of FA Cup tickets will be sold to their fans as fairly as possible. Both clubs have season ticket holders, that unfortunately has numbers that exceed the amount of tickets each club receives. This means that some genuine, regular supporters are going to sadly miss out and this is a tragedy for these true supporters of their teams. Both clubs regularly get close to 35,000 fans in their respective home games not including away supporters, and I am sure that the majority of those would die to see their clubs play live at Wembley in the oldest and most famous domestic cup competition in the world.

It seems crazy that there potentially could be only 50,000 supporters of both football teams in a 90,000 seater stadium. Wonder what the rest do? To make it fair, the allocation should be around 35,000 tickets in my opinion with 20,000 to non supporters, if the Football Association must insist on having some of these other people there.

Both Chelsea and Everton's boardroom staff have voiced their concerns over the low ticket allocation and this has been widely reported in the national press, but we all know deep down, that nothing will change. Wembley cost a fortune to build and this is some way of clawing back all the expense. It's just sad that those who genuingly love their teams are going to miss out.

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