{"id":2691,"date":"2014-03-14T18:44:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T18:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2014-03-14T18:44:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T18:44:39","slug":"wigan-fans-pay-for-lack-of-support-as-gunners-receive-more-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/wigan-fans-pay-for-lack-of-support-as-gunners-receive-more-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Wigan Fans Pay For Lack Of Support As Gunners Receive More Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">Arsenal will receive almost twice as many tickets as holders Wigan Athletic for their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley on Saturday, 12 April based on the number of Wigan&#8217;s fans at last season&#8217;s FA Cup semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners have been allocated 42,882 tickets, while their Championship opponents have been given 22,807.<\/p>\n<p>For the other semi-final, which will be played at Wembley a day later, Hull will have 32,011, compared to 31,796 for League One side Sheffield United.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s game kicks off at 17:00, while Sunday&#8217;s tie starts at 16:00.<\/p>\n<p>Wigan agreed their share based on the number of fans at last season&#8217;s FA Cup semi-final and final, as well as the Community Shield in August.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield United have slightly fewer tickets than Hull because of the stadium&#8217;s segregation divide.<\/p>\n<p>Prices have been frozen at between \u00a330 to \u00a360 for the fourth season in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The final also takes place at Wembley and will be played on 17 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal will receive almost twice as many tickets as holders Wigan Athletic for their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley on Saturday, 12 April based on the number of Wigan&#8217;s fans at last season&#8217;s FA Cup semi-final. The Gunners have been allocated 42,882 tickets, while their Championship opponents have been given 22,807. For the other semi-final, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2693,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}