ronan_cov
New Member
Last night at Coventry's win over Sheffield United, i, along with about 1000 other fans missed the first 10 minutes because not enough turnstiles were open. I don't know why but they closed the telegraph stand for the last couple of games which meant closing the turnstiles. When i got off the mini bus i seen hundreds of fans outside the stadium, i thought it was some part time supporters coming to watch a quarter final but i was wrong. I walked round looking for a turnstile but just seen massive ques, when i eventually got into one i got near the front and heard someone say this was a cash only turnstile. I did not see one sign telling me that it was a cash only turnstile so that was a waste of time. I then got into another Que which was joining another going into 1 turnstile! 100 people going into 1 turnstile at kick off. i asked a steward why it was so busy and he said 'its your own fault, everyone turned up late' if he didn't notice a whole stand was shut. What was stopping them using one of them metal barriers that people were hopping anyway and closing off the stand behind the telegraph turnstiles so people got in the stadium faster? People were just hopping the barriers anyway that were stopping them spill onto the road. However, I was put in a good mood when a big man in a Santa hat shouted at the ref during his poor performance, 'Your going on my naughty list!' Cramming everyone into the east stand did create a better atmosphere. To be fair to the stewards i don't think anybody was expecting such a big crowd!