I am not untypical of many season ticket holders. After years of flitting around Highbury I finally came to rest in the lower east in 1979, and have held the same seat since the 1981-1982 season, on the halfway line just behind the tunnel and players’ seats. My brother sits in the same stand but much closer to the pitch and a block nearer the Clock End. He received his appointment some two weeks before me and I decided to go along with him to get an idea of the process. We very quickly discovered that I could not replicate my current situation as all the likely seats had been sold. My brother was able to find a seat that suited his need to leave early at the back, and on the half way line. I asked how the visits were organised and was told that the lower east ticket holders were being called in row by row, rather than block by block. Not surprisingly someone with a seat in the pitch side rows, at either end of the lower east was getting the opportunity to upgrade before I and my neighbour had even had the chance to look.

I certainly don't begrudge these fans from taking the chance to improve their situation and view, but it seemed unfair on those of us further back. As it happens on my visit we decided to stay in the east, rather than follow the players tunnel over to the new west side, and ended up with seats on the halfway line near the back, although it was down to a choice of just five seats. It is difficult to tell but I think we have got very good seats, so providing we have lost the nutter behind me we may even be better off. "Nutter" as in blaming the referee if we lose the toss. His rantings have been known to start before the whistle is blown to start the game.

But my point is that we had wanted to stay near the players’ tunnel on the halfway line and we couldn't. Looking at your website and reading the piece on the process for the upper tiers it does occur to me that more imagination could have been used in the process. I accept that the many demands made in setting up a system were complex to resolve, but I do not understand why I had so little choice. And I assume that the rows behind me in block L are even less likely to replicate their current situations. However given the seats we always ended up with at the old Wembley during our futile chase for European Cup glory perhaps I ought to be happier than I feel. And hey I am expecting great things from the toilets. Like the chance to take a leak without being crushed to death, something not planned for at the almighty Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, built primarily for rugby fans who, guess what, tend to drink beer by the gallon.

Still the best fanzine by a mile, and the best produced. Keep it up.

(Has anybody read the godawful Manchester City fanzine. After all these years and they still take every opportunity to rant about Man Utd, using Munich as a term of abuse).