To blame Hereford is 'petty' says Turner

In his weekly audience with Jamie Griffiths, Hereford United manager Graham Turner has said he hopes the Bulls will have a terrific following at St Andrews on Tuesday evening. 500 extra tickets have been sent from Birmingham and will be on sale tomorrow at Edgar Street. However much of his interview was given over to off the pitch matters.

Turner spoke about the rules regarding ticket prices for the Carling Cup which were highlighted on Bulls News earlier today.

"I think the deal was that they wanted to charge their 13,700 season ticket holders £5 for adults and £2 for concessions. That I think is ridiculously low. We're not wanting to rip anybody off - we want to give value for money. But £10 and £5 I think is a very reasonable price.

"If Birmingham had wanted to do something for their season ticket holders they could have come to some arrangement with us. We did it with Leicester City when we played them in the FA Cup.

"But what it would have meant is that it would have cost Birmingham City some money. They would have had to compensate us for that extra fiver which wouldn't have been an awful lot.

"It has been easy for them to have blamed us and the Football League and I think it's interesting, I'm told, that Miss Brady has got a column in the Sun and I think it's a sad state of affairs that a column in a national newspaper has a pop at a small club like this.

"We didn't dictate to them what the prices should be - they could have done anything they wanted for their season ticket holders provided they did it right with us.

"To blame us and the Football League I think is petty."

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