'Neutrals' at Madrid game

[ianormondroyd]

6 hours ago, Ted Maul said:

The lad in front of me at the turnstile didn't know how to scan his ticket, so had obviously never been before. Unless a ST holder/member had flogged their ticket (even in that case, it's pretty infuriating for others who couldn't get hold of one), it's pretty suspect.

 

The way of the modern world, I suppose. Ticket touting at astronomical prices is almost encouraged, with legal websites dedicated to it.

To be fair I couldn't scan my ticket last night, I have a ST and have only missed 4 games all season and they were away! Sorry for the hold up!

[ianormondroyd]

If it was 25-27 and a fat bastard in a navy blue jumper it will have been me

[Guest Mee-9]

If you want to watch a game as a neutral, go watch bloody Hinckley. 

 

Not a champs league game where I wanted a pissing ticket. 

[Legend_in_blue]

5 hours ago, MC Prussian said:

We drew 1-1.

Always nice to go back and see Kasper score from a header.

 

I was going back to our League One season!  That was a 1-0 win.  Dyer scored.  2008-09 season.

[Ted Maul]

23 minutes ago, ianormondroyd said:

To be fair I couldn't scan my ticket last night, I have a ST and have only missed 4 games all season and they were away! Sorry for the hold up!

 mine wouldn't scan initially either, come to think of it... but this guy didn't know where to scan it- steward had to do it for him 

[MC Prussian]

8 minutes ago, Legend_in_blue said:

 

I was going back to our League One season!  That was a 1-0 win.  Dyer scored.  2008-09 season.

Ah, them League One days. Standing in the curve at Edgar Street, marveling at the concrete art.

[ianormondroyd]

Phew, it wasn't me after all!

[katieakita]

5 hours ago, MC Prussian said:

We drew 1-1.

Always nice to go back and see Kasper score from a header.

Pretty sure though Kasper wasn,t credited with the goal but it looked well over the line to me

[jayfox26]

6 hours ago, Yes N'Didi said:

I'm just playing devils advocate, but if your workplace offered you a ticket to the Champions League final between Juventus and Real Madrid, would you go?

I get your point. And ultimately, it's not the neutrals to blame, it's uefa. It is wrong though! 

[jayfox26]

6 hours ago, Realist Guy In The Room said:

'denying genuine fans'

 

If as a fan, you genuinely wanted to be at a game and I mean really wanted to be there, you'd get a ticket by hook or by crook.  I dont buy into this, 'my mate couldnt get a ticket yet these plastics could' bollocks.  If a plastic fan or neutral manages

to get themselves a ticket, its because tickets are out there and available so if you REALLY want to be there you would be.

 

Years ago when we were promoted under Micky Adams, the game that confirmed promotion was a home game to Brighton and it just so happened, the day after, I was leaving the country for a couple of years.  The game was sold out but as I REALLY wanted to be there, I found a way.

 

Giving up after ringing the ticket office and being told there are no tickets left for your membership type doesnt give you cause to grumble in my eyes.

Not everyone can afford to buy tickets off touts. If it was so easy for people to get a ticket, how did so many miss out? 

[HighPeakFox]

Grrr, overall.

[Guest Manini]

6 hours ago, Spudulike said:

My mate is a Man City fan and from what he tells me the Etihad is even worse for neutrals and hangers-on on Champions League nights.

Can vouch for this because I'm usually one of the neutrals on most of their champions league nights at home...

 

its just so bloody easy to get a ticket! I don't have to be a member, have a Manc post code or anything, general sale, every single time and I can just leisurely log on and get one. I think it's different for us because 1. We have a smaller stadium and 2. The novelty of the occasions in the champions league. 

 

If if I was stopping other man city fans from watching their team play then I'd hold my hands up, I wouldn't go out of my way to tout a ticket, obviously. But if they can't be arsed to go when the tickets make it to general sale every time then that's their problem. 

[Manwell Pablo]

 

 

Amazing, we had 100s in their end for the away leg but I guess that's fine.

[Realist Guy In The Room]

10 hours ago, jayfox26 said:

Not everyone can afford to buy tickets off touts. If it was so easy for people to get a ticket, how did so many miss out? 

Effort and priority basically.

 

Its easy to blame someone else but if you weren't there and really wanted to be, it's your own fault.

 

There will be some exceptions but generally not.

[MC Prussian]

9 hours ago, Manwell Pablo said:

 

 

Amazing, we had 100s in their end for the away leg but I guess that's fine.

I see where you're coming from, but it's not quite the same comparing the situation at the KP with a 54'000-seater stadium.

[HighPeakFox]

2 hours ago, Realist Guy In The Room said:

Effort and priority basically.

 

Its easy to blame someone else but if you weren't there and really wanted to be, it's your own fault.

 

There will be some exceptions but generally not.

Yes, it's definitely my fault that the capacity is 32,000, and I'm not willing to piss money up the wall. What do you stand to gain by making such a divisive post?

[Thracian]

Not sure what this entire debate is going to solve. 

 

In the end, the real fans will defend their standpoint and the "plastics" will make their own case.

 

So,  like I've said on other subjects, there's no right and wrong just the outcome you want to achieve.

 

Immediate answer in theory:

 

Bigger ground, more capacity.

 

Seemingly inevitable consequence though:- two more tickets for real fans. Thousands more for the plastics if the game's a good 'un.

 

Actually there is a solution.

 

It just requires the right attitude but that'll be hard to find in anything to do with mankind where there's a lucrative  flanker to be worked.          

[Grewks]

My brother got offered £300 for his ticket.

 

It doesn't make me any 'less of a fan' to suggest that i'd have taken it.

 

Football, to me, is a hobby. A fun one at that....and one i love. But £300 is worth more to me that any 'footballing memory'.

[Manwell Pablo]

12 hours ago, MC Prussian said:

I see where you're coming from, but it's not quite the same comparing the situation at the KP with a 54'000-seater stadium.

 

It is. Tickets got snapped up for the Calderon sharpish how many Atletico fans do you think missed out and couldn't afford the 160 euro price of the remaining tickets.

 

Those inclined to pipe up about it wanna have a go at the city fans who decided to tout them out at 500 quid a piece which is what they were going for on ticketbiz instead of going themselves or selling at face value to real fans If anyone

[Matt]

7 minutes ago, Manwell Pablo said:

 

It is. Tickets got snapped up for the Calderon sharpish how many Atletico fans do you think missed out and couldn't afford the 160 euro price of the remaining tickets.

 

Those inclined to pipe up about it wanna have a go at the city fans who decided to tout them out at 500 quid a piece which is what they were going for on ticketbiz instead of going themselves or selling at face value to real fans If anyone

Tbf I got a 70 euro ticket on the morning of the game and there were plenty of them left, i'm not getting into the arguement here just pointing out that the cheaper tickets were still widely available.

[Manwell Pablo]

21 minutes ago, Matt said:

Tbf I got a 70 euro ticket on the morning of the game and there were plenty of them left, i'm not getting into the arguement here just pointing out that the cheaper tickets were still widely available.

Well fair play I couldn't get one for that through the avenues I went down,

 

point still stands we only sold sold to members and st if non city fans were anywhere bar UEFA area they'd bought off Leicester fans

[Matt]

Just now, Manwell Pablo said:

Well fair play I couldn't get one for that through the avenues I went down,

 

point still stands we only sold sold to members and st if non city fans were anywhere bar UEFA area they'd bought off Leicester fans

I just walked into the ticket office on the Wednesday morning.

 

The night before I checked on my phone and 70 euro ones kept popping up, went to the ticket office Wednesday morning and they only wanted to sell me 190 euro tickets, it was abit much for me so went out the ticket office abit disappointed but thought i'd check on my phone see if I could still see the 70 euro ones and there were loads left so questioned them on it and eventually they sold me one.

 

Think they were offering me the 190 euro ones as they thought me and my mate wanted to be sat next to each other, but we weren't too bothered and it turns out we were only 2 rows away from each other anyway.

[Manwell Pablo]

47 minutes ago, Matt said:

I just walked into the ticket office on the Wednesday morning.

 

The night before I checked on my phone and 70 euro ones kept popping up, went to the ticket office Wednesday morning and they only wanted to sell me 190 euro tickets, it was abit much for me so went out the ticket office abit disappointed but thought i'd check on my phone see if I could still see the 70 euro ones and there were loads left so questioned them on it and eventually they sold me one.

 

Think they were offering me the 190 euro ones as they thought me and my mate wanted to be sat next to each other, but we weren't too bothered and it turns out we were only 2 rows away from each other anyway.

 

Ah there we go, I got two together.