Monday, March 20, 2006
Ticket Fiasco
The ticket situation for England fans is a disgrace. A huge number of fans who have travelled to away games haven't managed to get a single ticket for the finals. Naturally, there is uproar and its not surprising when you see the figures. Under 4,000 tickets have been made available to England fans (bear in mind we took 8,000 to Denmark for a friendly) with around 18,000 applications. The FA are coming under fire with the allocation to the so-called 'Football Family' but ultimately, FIFA must come under fire for firstly, giving such inadequate allocations to competing teams and secondly for refusing to switch venues so the better supported teams play in the bigger stadia as happened in Euro 2004.
This, of course, has created a huge black market which FIFA are doing nothing to control. In fact, they have even set up a procedure to allow people to change names on the tickets. Couple that with an easily accessible venue for the finals and you have a touts dream.
To give you an idea of the ridiculous prices being paid on the black market, look at this list
England v Trinidad and Tobago, 2x Cat 1 tickets €1,561
England v Sweden, 2x Cat 3 tickets €1,011
England v Sweden, 1x Cat 3 ticket €376
England v Paraguay, 2 tickets €506
It's a disgrace the way football is being taken away from the supporters.
B International
The FA have announced a 'B' international against Belarus to be played in/near London on 25th May. It's been a while since we had one of these. In fact it was also just before a tournament and it gave the fringe players a chance to stake their claim in the squad. However, this time, the fixture is to be played 10 days after the squad must be named so I have no idea what the point of this game is.
Wembley Stadium
This whole project is rapidly turning into a huge embarrassment. God knows when it will be finished. The lates incident was when a girder in the roof fell 3 feet causing the site to be cleared and a days work lost. We are due host a friendly on 16th August (rumoured to be Germany) and we kick off our Euro 2008 campaign at home to Andorra on 2nd Sept. You really have to wonder if the stadium will be ready in time.
// posted by Big Blue Marble @ 7:44 pm 
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