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TRAVEL &
TICKETS
Updated 14
April
Travel news: next
travel
********New arrangements for booking your Branch travel for the 2012/13 season...
CLICK HEREAnd
please note that from 29th December (Spurs home game) onwards our Saturday departure time from Kings Cross
will be 08.12 *********
TBC
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ENDS.
Ticket
News:
Tottenham Hotspur v. Sunderland Sunday 19th May 2013; kick-off 16.00
hours. Season card holders have until 5.00 pm
on Thursday 2nd May to
apply. General sale will commence from
9.00am Thursday 9th May - subject to
availability
Prices are
:
Adults:
£37/£41
;
Over 65s
:
£21/£24
and Under 16s
:
£19/£22
Applications
for tickets can
be made by
using the
online system
at
www.safc.com/page/tickets
or by
contacting the
club on
0191-551
5161.
Visa,
Mastercard,
Delta and
Switch cards
are
accepted.
Alternatively,
tickets can be
obtained from
the Stadium of
Light ticket
office, by fax
on 0191 551
5150 or in
writing to
'Sales, PO BOX
165, Sunderland
SR5
1WF'.
Non season card
holders wishing
to apply for
tickets through
the Branch for
this game
should do so no
later
than
Monday 29th
April.
An
open (because
of the two
prices) cheque
payable to
SAFCSA (London
Branch) and
stamped
addressed
envelope should
be sent to
:
SAFCSA Travel,
42 Norfolk
Road,
BUNTINGFORD,
Herts.
SG9
9AN.
The
envelope will
be used to
return the
match ticket/s
if successful
or the cheque
if not.
Please note
electronic
payment is not
available for
this
service.
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As previously advised, Sunderland will be taking part in the
Barclays Asia Trophy in Hongkong in July. The 4-team knock-out tourmament, which also
features Machrster City, Tottenham Hotspuir and South China FC will take place over two
matchdays on Wednesday 24th and Saturday 27th.
The Premier League’s travel partner, TMG Leisure, is offering special
packages for supporters wishing to travel to Hong Kong, details as listed
below:
Flight details: July 20th from
Newcastle to Hong Kong (arrives July 21st) via Dubai, with Emirates returning July
28th.
Seven nights at the Cosmo Hotel including breakfast and return shuttle transfer
Cost: From£1270 per person, includes airport transfers and breakfast (from £1199pp
without transfers and breakfast).
Supporters
wishing to book this, or any other travel package, should call TMG Leisure on 01926
332223.
Packages do not include match tickets for which information will be confirmed by
the Premier League in due course. Opportunities to watch Sunderland AFC train or any
additional events for supporters during the tour will also be confirmed once the final
schedule is agreed by the Premier League. SAFC will advise supporters through its official
websitewww.safc.comof any such information when
available.
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London Branch Travel & Information Service
NEWSLETTER:
Dear All,
The deadline for your submissions for the next issue of Wear Down
South is:
Well the vast majority of you who either plumped for mid-table or a top half finish couldn't
have been more wrong. Let's see if you fare any better with this one:
Our chances of staying up under Mr Di Canio
are:
GET YOUR
FOOTBALL ECHO
DELIVERED
We annually remind members of the availability on subscription of the Football Echo. Sunderland is
now almost alone in England in still producing a Saturday evening paper dedicated to football and
we must hope the Echo continues to thrive. It may be of particular interest to those who only
occasionally get to see games as its full match reports, player interviews and a thriving letters
column keep readers well informed about goings-on at the club and also in local senior and junior
sport.
Happily, the season-long subscription, starting on 11th August until the final week-end in May 2013
has been frozen at £50. For a further £15 subscribers will also receive midweek editions of
the Sunderland Echo which contain match reports of games played at other times than on a
Saturday.
Payment can be by cheque to Northeast Press Ltd. or by credit card to :
Subscriptions
Northeast Press Ltd.
Echo House
Pennywell
Sunderland
SR4 9ER
or phone 0191-501 7127.
Standing at
games
Lord Justice Taylor's report on the Hillsborough
disaster, whilst excellent in many respects, made one assumption which has proved utterly
false. He argued that the provision of stadia seating would, over time, encourage
spectators to adapt to a normality of sitting rather than standing to watch football. 23
years on a significant proportion of fans still prefer to stand even in all-seater stadia and
match-day stewards have an impossible task in attempting to impose sitting on a large mass
of fans. Why is it, legislatively, safe to stand at a League 1 ground but not in the
Championship and at a pop concert at the SoL but not a football match?
Over the years various organisations, both
locally and nationally, have campaigned for nothing more than the availability of choice and,
even if you are not a member of the Football Supporters' Federation, you must surely be
aware of its work on this issue. If you prefer to sit, how often are you irritated by
those in front of you blocking your view? If you prefer to stand, how often are
you branded by those behind you as selfish?
Governments of all political hue have
firmly resisted the challenge of solving this problem, fearful of being blamed for another
disaster. But Hillsborough wasn't caused by standing as the recent independent report
has shown and stadia are so much safer now in many respects anyway. There are signs that
the politicians are at least now prepared to enter into the debate on solving this choice
issue. You can help to support those who have taken up the cudgels in a number of ways,
all of which are explained on the FSF's website at :
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