Charging child mascots

[Navin R Johnson]

On the way home from a Saturday game my son asked if I thought he'd get picked as a mascot (he was a Junior Spurs season ticketholder) as he felt he was getting towards the age where he'd be too old to be a mascot if it didn't happen soon, a few days later Spurs put something on their home page offering the chance to be a mascot against Krakow for £154. I jumped at it, for that money he got to walk out on pitch with Gareth Bale, meet the whole squad before the match, take one item for signing by the players he met, a presentation photo with the team on the pitch as they were lining up, got a full kit and we got two tickets in the West Stand. By the time I'd passed our usual North Stand tickets on to someone else the night cost me about £120 or thereabouts.

I was happy to pay a relative pittance to buy those memories for him and I'll be honest one of my favourite photos of him is a TV capture of him walking up the players tunnel hand in hand with Bale.

So yeah, maybe it's wrong to be able to get round the raffle system of mascots being drawn from a Junior Spurs pot by paying to jump the queue but at the same time is it any fairer than a kid who's never been to The Lane can be a mascot by virtue of being a JSM whereas my son hadn't missed a game in about seven years?

 

[DaSpurs]

On the way home from a Saturday game my son asked if I thought he'd get picked as a mascot (he was a Junior Spurs season ticketholder) as he felt he was getting towards the age where he'd be too old to be a mascot if it didn't happen soon, a few days later Spurs put something on their home page offering the chance to be a mascot against Krakow for £154. I jumped at it, for that money he got to walk out on pitch with Gareth Bale, meet the whole squad before the match, take one item for signing by the players he met, a presentation photo with the team on the pitch as they were lining up got a full kit and we got two tickets in the West Stand. By the time I'd passed our usual North Stand tickets on to someone else the night cost me about £120 or thereabouts.

I was happy to pay a relative pittance to buy those memories for him and I'll be honest one of my favourite photos of him is a TV capture of him walking up the players tunnel hand in hand with Bale.

So yeah, maybe it's wrong to be able to get round the raffle system of mascots being drawn from a Junior Spurs pot by paying to jump the queue but at the same time is it any fairer than a kid who's never been to The Lane can be a mascot by virtue of being a JSM whereas my son hadn't missed a game in about seven years?

Discussion aside, that is an awesome story. Thanks for weighing in.

 

[900triumph]

On the way home from a Saturday game my son asked if I thought he'd get picked as a mascot (he was a Junior Spurs season ticketholder) as he felt he was getting towards the age where he'd be too old to be a mascot if it didn't happen soon, a few days later Spurs put something on their home page offering the chance to be a mascot against Krakow for £154. I jumped at it, for that money he got to walk out on pitch with Gareth Bale, meet the whole squad before the match, take one item for signing by the players he met, a presentation photo with the team on the pitch as they were lining up, got a full kit and we got two tickets in the West Stand. By the time I'd passed our usual North Stand tickets on to someone else the night cost me about £120 or thereabouts.

I was happy to pay a relative pittance to buy those memories for him and I'll be honest one of my favourite photos of him is a TV capture of him walking up the players tunnel hand in hand with Bale.

So yeah, maybe it's wrong to be able to get round the raffle system of mascots being drawn from a Junior Spurs pot by paying to jump the queue but at the same time is it any fairer than a kid who's never been to The Lane can be a mascot by virtue of being a JSM whereas my son hadn't missed a game in about seven years?

When you consider the whole package, that's value. Surely the kit and West Stand tickets alone would have cost over a ton? If some were also offered charitably I would have no issue with it.