That's the obvious conclusion to be drawn from a recent incident in which a ten-year-old Stoke City fan was convicted to the police by the club secretary for trying to sell a ticket for a match he couldn't attend via an advert in the local paper. The ticket was worth £11, he was asking £7.It seems that a lot of fans still don't know about the requirements of the Criminal Justice Act that can be applied to football spectators, and are suffering as a result.
The new laws have been used to justify the arrest and conviction of fans who are clearly not touts, caught trying to sell on their own tickets at cost price. Two recent incidents exemplify the problem.
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