QUOTE (jugeshm @ Thu, 8 May 2014 - 12:39)
I am only querying whether it is legal or not, as I am completely unsure. I'm not saying I had a divine right to park there and demanding this is outrageous.
Yes, I was wrong in parking there.
But when you go to a football match, and there's 100's of cars parking the same, and there's a guy in a high-vis jacket pointing at the empty spot saying "park there", you do just that. You don't think twice.
Only when I got back to the car, most other cars had gone, the guy in the high-vis jacket had disappeared and I'm left with a ticket.
This is the basis of grounds for an appeal, but you need to find who was marshalling the parking, maybe the football club know. Was it an afternoon match ? I suspect, looking at your PCN time, that enforcement was suspended during and for a period after the match. So you do have the grounds for an informal challenge, based on what you have described here. What you do after they respond to your letter depends on what they say.