Personal assistant tickets

[Southcoastfox08]

Does anyone on here have any experience with taking someone to a game, who requires a personal assistant ticket?  Was contemplating going to the West Ham game as we are near London, but not sure what to expect (ID required, that sort of thing). I appreciate the experience may well be different, depending on the ground.

[Drew Peacock]

1 hour ago, Southcoastfox08 said:

Does anyone on here have any experience with taking someone to a game, who requires a personal assistant ticket?  Was contemplating going to the West Ham game as we are near London, but not sure what to expect (ID required, that sort of thing). I appreciate the experience may well be different, depending on the ground.

If you are meaning in the Leicester end, the person in need of personal assistance needs to have a supporter account with LCFC and then register as a disabled supporter, providing proof. For example, a copy of the letter stating entitlement to Disability Living Allowance. Unfortunately, although there are still tickets available for this, I’m pretty sure they’d need to buy a LCFC membership first before they can buy tickets. All matches home and away are eligible for disability tickets with a free personal assistant, both wheelchair and ambulant supporters, subject to availability of course.

Anna Dickman, the disability liaison officer, is the person to speak to at LCFC and would be able to give you exact details.

Other clubs will have their own way of registering as a supporter and buying tickets, but the supporter + personal assistant free is standard in at least the top two divisions in England.

 

Edited 30 January by Drew Peacock

[glar84]

They won't check ID at the ground but you will need to have purchased the ticket through an account registered to someone with a disability. As the above post says you'll need to submit proof to the club when setting up the account. Then when you purchase tickets just add 2 tickets and 1 of those will be £0 at checkout as the PA. You'll receive 2 digital tickets as normal - one with supporter name the other saying personal assistant. Also, you still need to be eligible for the buying window as with any other fan. 

[Southcoastfox08]

Ok thanks for the replies. I've actually got it all set up and we are both members. It was more of the experience on the day of the game and what we would need to bring/show, but by the sounds of things, it seems pretty normal 👍

[FLAN]

I’ve been with my Dad as PA. No ground has asked us to do anything different to other fans. Not sure it even registers for the away ground 

[Drew Peacock]

11 minutes ago, Southcoastfox08 said:

Ok thanks for the replies. I've actually got it all set up and we are both members. It was more of the experience on the day of the game and what we would need to bring/show, but by the sounds of things, it seems pretty normal 👍

Ah ok. Same experience for me as Flan says above. With years of regular home and aways as the personal assistant, although always carrying ID just in case, nothing has ever been asked of us and you enter the ground normally. 
1 away ticket is issued for the disabled person’s age category and the 1 separate carer’s ticket is just a normal adult. 
Just scan at the turnstile as normal. If in a wheelchair there will be an accessible turnstile.