WHAT a wonderful warm friendly place Kit Kat Crescent has become now York City is owned by its supporters.
For the last home game against Gravesend I was greeted with the club's traditional welcome - the collecting bucket.
This time it was to 'Save The Reserves' and involved four persons aligned in a staggered formation making easy access into the ground quite impossible.
After dutifully donating my loose change I then purchased a match day programme at £2.50 and proceeded no more than five yards before being confronted with yet another obstacle, this comprised a six-man line spread military fashion across the entire car park selling the club's 50-50 draw tickets.
Fortunately from the depths of my rapidly emptying pockets I managed to find a £1 coin and upon finally reaching the main stand entrance was mightily relieved that I had retained the sufficient revenue of £16 to obtain ground admission.
All supporters are fully aware of the club's need for revenue, but the methods currently used in targeting almost solely on the loyal 2,000 diehard fans, who already have raised thousands of pounds in saving the club from extinction in my view has reached total overkill.
How can the club possibly improve its support base when spectators are effectively having to run the gauntlet of two picket lines in order to view a game of football ?
Let us hope that City's defence can make it as difficult for the opposition to score as it is for the paying public to gain access to the club's turnstiles.
Martin Fowler,
Middlethorpe Grove,
York
Updated: 11:03 Saturday, April 16, 2005
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