Very much. I tried to kind of close the discussion down a few emails ago as I knew it was pointless, with points such as "Anyway, thanks for the reply, I realise you can't please everyone" etc but he just comes right back with screenshots of my purchase history saying I didn't even go to a game pre 2022 etc - prompting me to fish out my old client ref numbers and quote the years I had season tickets etc. Which I knew was totally pointless but his reply was quite antagonistic when it would have been easy just to leave it.
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Does Billy run the ticket office and ticket distribution policy? Because if not, I would share an old sales maxim with you: "never waste time negotiating with someone who is only authorized to say no".
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"We" could just watch Match of the Day to see that the goal was fine.
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The goal 'might' have been, but a large number of the decisions overall were crap or bent.
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Like our centre forward doing the imaginary card thing or studding Phil Foden’s knee?
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Honestly not quite sure what his role is other than replying to emails, which he does seem very fast at.
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Billy Bot.
You will note that just being crap is one of my possible interpretations.
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He's head of ticketing so you'd think he'd have some power. But I don't think a single off-field decision is made Trentside by anyone except the big Greek
(certainly that was Billy's defence in our "dispute", that the board hadn't made a decision yet). -
While looking back though emails I found a similar exchange I had with them over Derby away tickets in January 2010. Seems it was done via a paper application form (!) and supporters were called the day before the game to be told if there were successful in their application for a ticket. My beef was that telling me 24 hours before the game was shit when I had to make travel arrangements to get there from London.
Edit: seems it was this game. Honestly can't recall if I went in the end or not. www.espn.co.uk/football/match/_/gameId/268428/nottingham-forest-derby-county .
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I’d tell you to stop arguing with a webmong, but then someone is probably telling Billy the same thing.
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The customer service bloke, Will, also loves to keep going long after it could have finished. He even started following me on twatter after I’d made a comment about poor service. I assume he wanted me to follow back so he could DM me but I couldn’t be bothered to go through it all again for the same unhelpful response.
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You aren’t going to get your well paid gig in the Middle East if your start disallowing goals for clear fouls like that.
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Smart analysis (or you've been paying attention). If you don't understand something in football: think about the money.
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The lack of second yellow still baffles me. Apparently it was accidental not intentional.
Is that a rule that accidental fouls don't get yellow cards? And how do we ascertain accidental versus just very clever?
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Exactly. If someone accidentally trips someone up in the box through on goal you can guarantee it's a penalty.
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The goal was a goal, correctly officiated. The second yellow certainly has an argument but then so do the Jesus incidents, which I'm guessing we haven't raised in our letter. Is there a general bias towards big clubs? I can't prove it but I can absolutely believe it is there, and always has been. I also imagine a vociferous home crowd creates some bias in decision making. There is also a lot of attempting to con referees from all clubs, including ours, and that and all the whining isn't helping them do a good job.
