Two representatives of Coventry City, who attended the Supporters Consultation Group meeting last night have confirmed that it was a "commercial and financial decision as to why the Sky Blues did not take up Arsenal on the offer of a second allocation of tickets.
City, who have been allocated 5,186 tickets for the Fourth Round game a week today, were told by Arsenal that they had to pay in advance with no buy back facility if the tickets were not sold, for tickets in the upper tier, a practice commonly used by a number of Premier League clubs.
With the game being on a Friday night, live on television, tickets dearer than for the League Cup tie sixteen months ago, where less than 8,000 City supporters attended etc and after checking social media, forums, websites etc to gauge opinion, the club decided that that they would not be able to sell over 8,500 tickets for the game and on a commercial and financial decision, turned down the extra tickets.
Arsenal have subequently now sold the tickets for the upper tier and are reporting that they have sold out of their entire allocation of tickets.
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