Menu
Franchises

ManU 'Slammed' For Offering Derby Tickets To Corporate Customers

ManU has been "forced to issue an embarrassing apology" after the club offered sought-after derby tickets as a sweetener to potential corporate clients, according to Mike Keegan of the MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS. The team contacted would-be customers via email and told them that if they paid upward of £1,539 ($2,480) for sought-after seats and exec boxes at Old Trafford for the rest of the season, they would "receive two tickets for the clash with City at the Etihad Stadium" in December. Derby tickets are considered a hot commodity. Around 2,600 were allocated to ManU last season -- there were 20,000 applicants -- and the incentive has "prompted a furious reaction from supporters." But the club said that although the offer was discussed, it was "subsequently scrapped and should not have been sent out to potential new customers." Team bosses added that the tickets that would have been used "would have come from the staff allocation" (MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS, 10/25).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2012/10/26/Franchises/ManU.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2012/10/26/Franchises/ManU.aspx

CLOSE