Manchester United manager Mark Skinner has criticised the English Football Association (FA) for only allocating 7,500 tickets for his side’s women’s FA Cup final clash with Chelsea at Wembley on May 14.
United booked their place into May’s final with a 3-2 win over Brighton while Chelsea will take part in their third consecutive final following a 1-0 win against Aston Villa.
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The final is set to break the domestic attendance record after last year’s final between Chelsea and Manchester City was played in front of 49,094 fans but Skinner hit out at the FA for their ticketing allocation for the final.
“I don’t know how many it is in the men’s game, but to give clubs like Chelsea and Manchester United 8,000 tickets to sell, it’s just crazy in my opinion,” Skinner told a news conference on Tuesday.
“I don’t know how it works in all honesty, I haven’t really looked into it but to give two massive clubs 8,000 tickets is, as I say, crazy — that is as simple as I can put it.”
