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Nail on the head. Obviously happy to pay the difference plus some for the trouble.

I doubt if the Arsenal stewards will notice/bother as it's almost certain to be unmanned gates. Give it a go if you haven't got an adult ticket.

If you're worried, get a mate to go directly ahead of you and shout loudly i.e "Red Army" at the moment the concession light flashes at your gate.

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Last season I had a spare kids ticket as my lad was ill and couldn't go so a mate used it instead. He decided to go to the Arsenal ticket office and explain what had happened and eventually they let him upgrade it to an adult one when he paid the difference. Good job he did as there were stewards on the gate who actually put the ticket through the scanner for you, so he wouldn't have got away with it.

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Last season I had a spare kids ticket as my lad was ill and couldn't go so a mate used it instead. He decided to go to the Arsenal ticket office and explain what had happened and eventually they let him upgrade it to an adult one when he paid the difference. Good job he did as there were stewards on the gate who actually put the ticket through the scanner for you, so he wouldn't have got away with it.

 

They do check at arsenal as I was stopped last year. They tried to say that my ticket had already been used. They sent me over to a guy with some sort of hand held unit, who scanned it and then accused me of having a forgery. After a couple of minutes argueing and a supervisor coming over they said it was because id stuck a pin through the ticket (I pin them to a notice board in my utility room). There was a tiny hole in the ticket, they said that the whole ticket is read at arsenal not like at other grounds where its the bar code only.. It was strange because I had 4 tickets pinned up and mine was the only one affected. The point is, they were stright on me, so like your mate did if i was the op id go to ticket office first.

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They do check at arsenal as I was stopped last year. They tried to say that my ticket had already been used. They sent me over to a guy with some sort of hand held unit, who scanned it and then accused me of having a forgery. After a couple of minutes argueing and a supervisor coming over they said it was because id stuck a pin through the ticket (I pin them to a notice board in my utility room). There was a tiny hole in the ticket, they said that the whole ticket is read at arsenal not like at other grounds where its the bar code only.. It was strange because I had 4 tickets pinned up and mine was the only one affected. The point is, they were stright on me, so like your mate did if i was the op id go to ticket office first.

 

Was this just after you'd gone through the turnstile or when they inspected it before?

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Was this just after you'd gone through the turnstile or when they inspected it before?

 

When I put it in the scanner it alerted a steward who came over. He then sent me to a guy with some sort of hand held scanner, he then rescanned the ticket. They didn't notice the tiny pin hole in the ticket until they acussed me of having a fake/used before one. I was adamant it wasn't so they started to look closely at the ticket and found the hole. The bloke with the scanner, then let me back in.

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When I put it in the scanner it alerted a steward who came over. He then sent me to a guy with some sort of hand held scanner, he then rescanned the ticket. They didn't notice the tiny pin hole in the ticket until they acussed me of having a fake/used before one. I was adamant it wasn't so they started to look closely at the ticket and found the hole. The bloke with the scanner, then let me back in.

 

Fair enough, sounds like it's next to impossible then. Looks like my first port of call will be their ticket office and some serious pleading!

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Fair enough, sounds like it's next to impossible then. Looks like my first port of call will be their ticket office and some serious pleading!

 

I would call the ticket office first thing fri.

 

Ive ne it on a train once by telling them that my nipper was ill, and his older brother is using the ticket. I said the older brother is 18 so needs an adult ticket. They were grateful for my "honesty" and upgraded it with no additional admin charge( I just paid the difference, and it was an advance so they could have whacked a load on) Never asked to see the 18 year old and my mate used the ticket.

 

You could even call them Fri and say my nipper is ill, if he doesn't recover can his 18 year old brother come and upgrade ticket. If they say yea, get to office early, that way if they ask to see this 18 year old, you can say he's travelling down from uni up north and won't arrive till 2.50pm. They won't want to be messing about with it that near kick off. Im sure they'll be ok, unless they've had issues before. But by contacting them first, you're acting like a reasonable person and not trying to get in on a nippers ticket ( in their eyes anyway).

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You could of upgraded at the arsenal ticket office as I sold 2 concessions and the ticket office at arsenal didn't have a problem with it. Although the saints ticket office instructed Arsenal not to do any upgrades apparently.

 

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You could of upgraded at the arsenal ticket office as I sold 2 concessions and the ticket office at arsenal didn't have a problem with it. Although the saints ticket office instructed Arsenal not to do any upgrades apparently.

 

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I wondered how they'd get on after you said they were probably going to chance it! Glad I took the risk and got away with it in the end, saved £15!

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