Wembley will host its first FA Cup final since 2000

Thousands of flyers were handed out before Chelsea's home match at Stamford Bridge and Manchester United's match at Old Trafford, both on Sunday.

Fans are also angry at the lack of tickets for the Chelsea v Manchester United Cup final at Wembley Stadium.

But the Football Association says the ticket allocation is not low.

'Miniscule allocation'

It says more tickets have been allocated for next Saturday's FA Cup Final - 25,000 tickets each to supporters of the two participating teams - than for finals at the Millennium Stadium, Wales' national stadium.

But campaigners of the Wembley boycott say an allocation of 50,000 tickets out of a total 90,000 tickets is "pathetic".

A spokesperson for the FA confirmed that 17,000 tickets had been allocated to Club Wembley holders, 11,000 to County Football Associations, 2,000 to full member clubs, and 10,000 to other clubs, FIFA, FA, UEFA, Wembley and Corporate and others.

Campaigners are also angry at the "miniscule" allocation of 4,000 tickets priced at �35 for both sets of supporters and the "extortionate cost" of the other allocated tickets, priced at �60, �80 and �95.

Ticket prices

Supporters say they are also "disgusted" at the price of the programme, the merchandise and the refreshments.

Kelvin Barker, one of the fans who spearheaded the Chelsea end of the Wembley Boycott, told BBC London 94.9FM: "We probably could have swallowed the ticket prices.

"Because it is the FA Cup final and everybody wants to be there you expect to pay way over the odds to go to a Cup final.

"But when you get another slap in the face when you find that you are having to pay �8 for a burger meal and I believe in the region of �10 for a programme we are unhappy about that really and we think that something needs to be done."