Well done LCFC

[leicesterlass]

Leicester City are offering a goodwill gesture to help the families affected by the collapse of the Christmas savings club Farepak. More than 150,000 people are thought to have lost about £35m when the Swindon-based Farepak crashed last month.

Retailers have weighed in with contributions and Foxes club officials have followed suit and pledged their support to members.

The club are therefore offering a pair of free tickets to those affected by the collapse to City's Christmas Community Fixture against Barnsley on Saturday, December 16.

To claim tickets, clients should visit the Ticket Office at the Walkers Stadium with their Farepak documentation by Friday, December 1.

Chief Executive Tim Davies said: "As a community-based football club we are very concerned about the impact on those affected at such an expensive time of year.

"We wanted to offer our support and we hope that this goodwill gesture will reach out to Farepak customers as Christmas approaches."

Tickets for the Christmas Community Fixture are now on general sale and can be purchased on line using the club's e-ticketing facility, in person at the main Ticket Office, by e-mail at [e-mail] or by telephone on 0870 499 1884.

Supporters are advised to purchase early in order to avoid disappointment as demand for this fixture is expected to be very high.

[festerroyalblue]

you that desperate to fill your ground that your offering tickets to the morally crushed .........
seriously tho, good gesture from the club

[GeoFox]

I think its just a bit of a gimmick really. Can't say I'd ever heard of 'em ....how many of these 150 000 nationwide Farepak peopleare Leicester fans and therefore likely to take up this offer? A handful at most. Tonnes of companies go bust all the time, and the sorta people who spend £30 on a hamper from them probably can still afford to go to the games if they want to. Personally if they are gonna give away free tickets I'd prefer it if they went to the local orphanage (if there is one? ) or schools/sports teams in deprived parts of the region.

TD sez in that quote that its about the club being part of the community. Thats crap in my opinion, not too many years ago you used to see in the programme features of them visiting the childrens wards in hospitals, now its a bloody interview in fusions restaurant. The club should be more of a part in the community but not through gimmicks such as this...a couple of hours a week they should be visiting hospitals, training kids at schools and local sports clubs and get back to what a football club in the community should be about. At present you pay your £22 or whatever, and go watching a collective group of individuals masquerading as Leicester city football club. The only community thing about it is that it happens to be in Leicester. The football club can't just take from the community, it has to give, and whats more it has to in the right way.

rant over

[leicesterlass]

geofox said:

I think its just a bit of a gimmick really. Can't say I'd ever heard of 'em ....how many of these 150 000 nationwide Farepak peopleare Leicester fans and therefore likely to take up this offer? A handful at most. Tonnes of companies go bust all the time, and the sorta people who spend £30 on a hamper from them probably can still afford to go to the games if they want to. Personally if they are gonna give away free tickets I'd prefer it if they went to the local orphanage (if there is one? ) or schools/sports teams in deprived parts of the region.

TD sez in that quote that its about the club being part of the community. Thats crap in my opinion, not too many years ago you used to see in the programme features of them visiting the childrens wards in hospitals, now its a bloody interview in fusions restaurant. The club should be more of a part in the community but not through gimmicks such as this...a couple of hours a week they should be visiting hospitals, training kids at schools and local sports clubs and get back to what a football club in the community should be about. At present you pay your £22 or whatever, and go watching a collective group of individuals masquerading as Leicester city football club. The only community thing about it is that it happens to be in Leicester. The football club can't just take from the community, it has to give, and whats more it has to in the right way.

rant over

In some ways I do agree Ash but to be honest I think what the club has done is an excellent gesture. Stop being baa humbug!

[GeoFox]

Hope you're not accusing me of sheep-like tendencies there!! Especially this week!!

No I mean, I seriously think that the only reason they've done it is to get that type of reaction, knowing too well that in reality it won't cost them much.

Are they going to do the same thing every time a company goes to the wall? No. Did they give free tickets to people who had ordered sofas when Courts furniture shops went to the wall? No. How about when MG Rover factories closed in the Midlands? Thought not. Leicester Uni laid off over 150 people in 2004, free tickets.....no! Leicester city council announced job losses for teachers in 2002. Free tickets from the football club? no. But then you wouldn't expect them to at all, in the same way you wouldn't expect Sainsburys to give them free food or M and S half priced clothes. Will they do it next time a people lose money when a company goes bust? No. Perhaps they should consider giving people free tickets who chucked over £20 per person away for the dross of the Preston game or high amounts for the Wednesday away game which were both dismal performances. Course they won't and they shouldn't coz thats not the way stuff works.

There are much more sincere, genuine and deep-rooted ways the football club should involve itself in the community.