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Nobody, it’s always been the case. For a while now anyway, it’s frustrating and must be annoying for fans of those clubs.
It doesn’t make any sense to me in some ways; those ‘general release’ or ‘neutral tickets’ are the same price as club tickets, they’d sell them if they handed them to the clubs so I don’t see the point. Corporate I get, they make a ton of cash from corporate but the others, just sell them to fans.
I guess they’re not really arsed and atmosphere means nothing to the big wigs.
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Entitled: "The closer your football team gets to glory, the less likely you are to get a ticket. That can’t be right." https://www.theguardian.com/fo.....eutral-adrian-chilesWho cares enough about the real fans for this to change?
I always think that there's a touch of naivety or trying to turn back the clock to a sepia tinted past in these kinds of articles. In modern football money talks and the higher you go up the louder it shouts.
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A bit like all major cup finals, FA Cup, European ones and world cups etc, the clubs involved are lucky to get about 50% of the ground because the rest goes to corporate advertisers etc, but come the actual game the ground is full of the 2 clubs supporters, someone is making a nice little earner, and as usual the true fans have to pay.
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Entitled: "The closer your football team gets to glory, the less likely you are to get a ticket. That can’t be right." https://www.theguardian.com/fo.....eutral-adrian-chilesWho cares enough about the real fans for this to change?
Agree with the sentiment of the article, but you can tell it was written before last night's match in Seville because it was rammed with Rangers and Frankfurt fans. They must have found ways of getting their hands on those corporate tickets somehow. Probably by paying through the nose.
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I went to the FA Cup final last weekend. I felt like a right fraud.
It was a decent spectacle and the standard of football was very high however there was something not overly pleasant about sitting in a neutral area while so many proper fans missed out.
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Classic "Football Family" rhetoric approach
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Haven't watched a Cup Final in years or a whole Premier League game. I've watched more football minutes on TV (League 2 on ifollow and National League on BT) in the last 2 seasons than any football on TV in the previous 20 years put together. Even if we go up I think I'll be tuning into the National League - hopefully Scunthorpe's Braintree moment will be televised...
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Back in Euro 2004, I went with some friends to Portugal for a couple of weeks. We'd got tickets for 3 games in the ballots and, while we were there, bought another 3 tickets outside the two grounds in Porto (the Police weren't bothered about the touting going on). The additional games involved Denmark, Greece and Sweden and all the tickets had the names of those respective Associations stamped on them as the owners. We bought them from Portuguese people on the streets so somebody at those F.A.'s had sold off their courtesy tickets earlier on. Not sure if the same thing would go on in the modern era given the anti-corruption stuff which has gone on within UEFA and FIFA, but it makes the Corporate stuff seem almost honest in comparison.
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Back in Euro 2004, I went with some friends to Portugal for a couple of weeks. We'd got tickets for 3 games in the ballots and, while we were there, bought another 3 tickets outside the two grounds in Porto (the Police weren't bothered about the touting going on). The additional games involved Denmark, Greece and Sweden and all the tickets had the names of those respective Associations stamped on them as the owners. We bought them from Portuguese people on the streets so somebody at those F.A.'s had sold off their courtesy tickets earlier on. Not sure if the same thing would go on in the modern era given the anti-corruption stuff which has gone on within UEFA and FIFA, but it makes the Corporate stuff seem almost honest in comparison.
I think you know the answer to this…
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