And now for the continuing adventures of Penfold of the WPL……..

What has the ex-communications magnate and football club owner been up to now? Well, here’s something that’s hot off the presses!!!

“THE New Saints have made their final Welsh Premier League game of the season, at home to Bangor City, an all-ticket affair.

With City and TNS currently separated by just a point at the top of the table, there is every likelihood that the game – on Saturday April 21 – could be a repeat of last season’s title showdown at Farrar Road.

TNS have fixed the admission price for the game at £13, but a special early-bird ticket offer has been made available which offers away supporters a £2 discount on the admission price for Bangor’s last visit to Park Hall and a £7 reduction on the ticket for the season’s final game.

“There was some confusion over admission prices for away fans when we last hosted Bangor,” says TNS owner Mike Harris, “so we are please to offer them a discount this time around.”

Tickets can be ordered online from www.saints-alive.co.uk/shop or by postal application (details below) but must be purchased before February 4.

Cheques payable to TNS FC should be sent with a stamped addressed envelope to:
The New Saints FC
The Venue
Burma Road
Park Hall
Oswestry
SY11 4AS”

Look at this part again;

“TNS have fixed the admission price for the game at £13, but a special early-bird ticket offer has been made available which offers away supporters a £2 discount on the admission price for Bangor’s last visit to Park Hall and a £7 reduction on the ticket for the season’s final game.”

I read the first sentence and something inside my head fell on its side. For the last game of the season it will cost £13 to watch a Welsh Premier League match. Penfold of the WPL actually thinks that he can charge £13 to watch a Welsh Premier League match. THIRTEEN POUNDS, THIRTEEN FUCKING POUNDS. That’s three more pounds than a tenner, I could buy a couple of good world cinema DVDs for that!! I could pay for two people to go to see two films on Orange Wednesdays with that amount of money!!! I checked the figure, I checked the paragraphs four times in fact,  I hadn’t misread it and neither have you;  it still said £13.  They only charge five pounds usually but they want to charge thirteen fucking pounds for the visit of Bangor City.

I re-read the whole paragraph after the initial shock subsided. It was a totally confusing paragraph, the numbers threw me. Where did the £2 discount figure? How did the £7 discount come in to it? It wasn’t until  I clicked on the link to their shop and that the tickets cost £6 if you buy them early. You’d think that someone would proof-read stuff that appears on official club websites.

I think Penfold of the WPL works for DFS – He must like initials or something!!!.

- His tickets are actually worth £5.

- Before the last match he tried to tell us they were worth £8.

- Now he’s trying to tell us they’re worth £13.

- DON’T WORRY ABOUT THIS!!! If we buy early we can have a massive saving of £7!!! Yes, we’re getting something that’s worth £13 for £6!!!

The whole thing is a shoddy piece of marketing. On the most basic level it sounds fantastic. It sounds like the bighearted communications magnate is making a fantastic gesture. It appears that we’re getting something that’s worth £13 for £6. Just listen to the philanthropic heartthrob;

“There was some confusion over admission prices for away fans when we last hosted Bangor,” says TNS owner Mike Harris, “so we are please to offer them a discount this time around.”

I hate to go over old ground here but if they was any confusion last November it arose because TNS decided to charge Bangor City fans nearly twice as much as the home fans without any notice whatsoever, but let’s not allow the truth get in the way of another grasp for extra publicity. As I’ve already hinted, that’s another story anyway.

To return to the matter in hand, in reality we’re not getting something that’s worth £13 for £6, we’re getting something worth £5 for £6. Even with the discount he’s still making at least an extra £1 from each person that turns up.

Some people wonder why Penfold of the WPL  is disliked. If you say you don’t like him they call you bitter and jealous, they say you hold a grudge, they say you’re the irrational one around here. These people are idiots, do not trust them. Penfold of the WPL is not to be trusted. If people don’t want Penfold of the WPL to be criticised then these people should tell Penfold of the WPL to stop acting in this way.  To say ”Hey, that offer is presumptuous!!!!” doesn’t cover the  jaw-dropping gall from Penfold of the WPL , mind you jaw-dropping gall seems to be a default setting with him. Why does he assume that Bangor City and TNS will be the two clubs in first and second places on the last day? There was absolutely no need to make any sort of announcement about a match that’s 3 months away, let alone an announcement like this.

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