Mansfield Town tell fans: 支払う／賃金 what you like at our next home game - let's just fill Field Mill

By Sportsmail Reporter
Updated: 13:51 BST, 2 February 2010

It's th e 井戸／弁護士席-worn gag ... a bloke （犯罪の）一味s his 地元の football team and asks what time the match kicks off.

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'What time can you get here?' is the punchline.

Now Mansfield have taken that one step その上の 許すing fans not to dictate kick-off times but something far more important - the flow of hard cash.

The Stags are 現在／一般に fourth in the Blue Square 首相 League - that's 分割 five in real money - and ten points behind leaders Stevenage.

But with （人が）群がるs dipping below 3,000 at Field Mill, chairman Andrew Perry is looking to make this 週末's match against Gateshead a 10,000 sell-out by 許すing fans to 支払う／賃金 what they feel is 権利 .

Perry told BBC Sport: 'Let's pack the ground for this match and roar the team on to victory.

'This is a gesture to the whole town and 辺ぴな 地区s - the town has supported us since the 引き継ぎ／買収 of the club and we are now giving something 支援する to the community by 許すing people to come to the match for a price which they decide.

FIVE THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT MANSFIELD TOWN

Fan: Stardust

1. They have played at Wembley just once - in 1987 - when they （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Bristol City on 刑罰，罰則s in the Freight Rover トロフィー final
2. 1970s pop 星／主役にする Alvin Stardust is one of their few celebrity fans.
3. In 1969 they （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 a West Ham 味方する 含む／封じ込めるing? Bobby Moore, Trevor Brooking and ツバメ Peters in the FA Cup
4. Their 77-year stay in the Football League ended in 2008.
5. In 1994 they （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 首相 League 物陰／風下d 1-0 at Elland Road in the League Cup

'We want to make it as 平易な as possible for the people of Mansfield to get behind the 経営者／支配人 and players in our 企て，努力，提案 for 昇進／宣伝.'

Perry clubbed together with fellow fans Andrew Saunders and Steve Middleton to buy out 人気がない owner Keith Haslam in 2008 but they still rent the ground from Haslam.

The play-as-you-earn 計画／陰謀 also 適用するs to away fans while home fans will be able to sit where they like except in seats reserved for season-ticket 支えるもの／所有者s.

This is the first the 支払う／賃金-what-you-want football match to be played in England and 経営者／支配人 David Holdsworth said: 'Let's hope the town comes out to support the boys. Playing in 前線 of a large （人が）群がる would be brilliant for the team.'

Just how much 英貨の／純銀の will make its way to the Mansfield treasurer remains to be seen but as long as they are not 申し込む／申し出ing refunds they will be all 権利.

They got their way: Mansfield fans managed to get rid of the previous owner and now they need to start filling Field Mill

A home fan 普通は 支払う／賃金s £16 for a ticket, children 老年の 13-16 支払う／賃金ing £8 along with other 譲歩s with under-13s 解放する／自由な with a 支払う／賃金ing adult.

And 非，不，無 of the 正規の／正選手s will want to shortchange their club, and there should be plenty of tenners and fivers doing the 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs from 'first-timers'.

But if discretionary match admission should ever catch on and the 35,078 people that watched Sunderland v Stoke in the 首相 League last night turn up for the same fixture next season, 推定する／予想する everyone to be asking for change of a 続けざまに猛撃する coin at the Stadium of Light...