Anyone in Italy, 1990?

This is very good
http://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/italia-90-ireland-england-remembered/27591?utm_content=bufferf05c4&utm_medium=Social+organic&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

Of our group (6 or so) that went to 88 and 90, the ones that didn't marry have kids went to the USA.
The last few home matches I have been back for nearly all of the group meet up as they are all based at home. They don't travel so regularly (since Basle, Paris, Stuttgart).

Kevin Sheedy tweeting mad today as it is the anniversary of his goal against England.

How were tickets for that sorted? Arranged in advance for group stage? Bought through FAI? Was there a scramble for tickets or fairly easy to get?

I only went to the opening group games (much to my lasting regret, shoulda stayed on).  If I remember rightly, we went through the FAI a few months before we travelled, we booked our own flights/accomodation and didn't go through a travel company package deal.  Dunno what the knockout games ticket scramble was like. 

Edited by FREEWHEELER - 11 Jun 2015 at 4:37pm

gspain wrote: Tickets were a nightmare.  The mafia ran the ticketing.

Same as here then ?

Sham157 wrote: Gary McKay wrote: gspain wrote: Tickets were a nightmare.  The mafia ran the ticketing.  Same as here then ?

Tickets sorted in advance for Group games through connections. For Romania, got to Genoa on Saturday and queued for tickets. When the cheap match tickets ran out, I got a ticket/voucher for the next days queue and got a ticket for £30. After our game the Italians played Uruguay which we watched on the big screen in the main piazza.Most of us privately hoped for a Uruguayan win so we'd have a chance of getting a ticket for the QF. When Italy won a bit of panic set in. Still it was a great night dancing in the fountain with the Italian fans even if the price of drink on sale in the kiosks around the piazza went up by the hour. From 4,000 lira to 8,000 in no time for a bottle of wine. I woke up in a park by a bee buzzing around me,my head stuck to the ground and drooling like a baby. All around me irish lads dead to the world, sleeping in the park like the aftermath of a fight scene from Braveheart. When I can round and realised the score I legged to train station to get my knapsack which had everything in it - passport, money, interrail ticket and was retrieved by a tiny little ticket. Then headed to Rome and straight to a campsite where loads of our lads were. One enterprising lad who I think was from Galway went to the World Cup HQ in Rome and enquired about tickets for the match. Somehow they promised him tickets and gave him a desk to make a list the names and passport numbers of irish fans. Word of this got back to the campsite and we all headed down. I remember being one of early ones on the list. On the Friday morning we had to go to Stadio Flaminio for the tickets. There were different priced tickets. I was in the first 100 names on the list and so managed to get one of the £10 tickets. The ticket has a Swedish FA stamp on it and is safely in my attic. The joy on getting the ticket was unfounded and a decent session ensued back in the campsite. The campsites whole summer's stock of drink went in a few days and had to be replenished. The supermarket closed about 8, so we all stocked up with 2 litre bottles of wine. The bar closed about midnight and with last orders and the bottles of wine bought earlier we had enough to keep us going through the night until the supermarket reopened at 7. Crazy days indeed.

Edited by Cabra Hoop - 11 Jun 2015 at 10:47pm

I went to Italia'90 with my dad who travelled with Postal Celtic. Three great weeks, we stayed in Sardinia, Siciliy, Naples and Rome. We had had the usual hassle for tickets but always got sorted. The Italians were great hosts. We where due to stay for a 3rd week regardless of the Dutch result. With 20 minutes left in that game my dad says to me if we can get a flight home tomorrow will we go and I said ask me that question in 20 minutes. Next thing Quinn scores and needless to say my dad had no intention of going home early after that result.