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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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I think it says more about the increase in popularity in the past twenty years as anything. It was a niche sport even in places it was popular then. There are all sorts of reasons for that, but that's another matter entirely.
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Het-field
Roy Keane By Appointment to His Majesty The King Joined: 08 Mar 2016 Status: Online Points: 10345 |
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There has been a major upswing in popularity. No doubt about that. But my vague recollection was that tickets started at £30 or something like that, and those were the cheap seats. People just weren't willing to pay that to watch Georgia v Romania at Lansdowne Road, notwithstanding it was one of the best games of the tournament.
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Territorial
Jack Charlton Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Status: Offline Points: 5817 |
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With more recent tournaments, loads of tickets are distributed to Corporates and Sponsors etc. Usually they never fill their allocation, nor do they go back onto general sale.
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Het-field
Roy Keane By Appointment to His Majesty The King Joined: 08 Mar 2016 Status: Online Points: 10345 |
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I vaguely remember back in 1994 if you had contacts with major sponsors it was easy to get tickets to the World Cup. If you didn't have contacts you needed a wedge of money to buy a travel package.
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Territorial
Jack Charlton Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Status: Offline Points: 5817 |
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I was in Genoa before ROI's game vs Romania. Hadn't a ticket, so went out to the ground a couple of hours early to see if I could find one. Saw a crowd milling round some oul fella, so went to take a look. He had scores (hundreds?) of tickets which he was literally giving away. Still no idea who he was, but I remember he had an FAI badge on his blazer. I was out in Italy with a couple of Scottish mates. But 3 or 4 weeks before the tournament began, I went out on a recce to Milan for a long w/end with the g/f, to see if I could get some tickets for Scotland's games. I asked around and eventually was directed to a clothes shop(!), where they sent me down to the back. There were 2 fellas sitting at a desk that had been wedged in beside the changing rooms, I told them what I wanted, they opened a drawer, handed me the tickets without comment and swiped my credit card. I'm not sure, but I think the tickets were only just over face value. I also went to Bologna for the England v Belgium game, again without a ticket. Went to the stadium an hour or two before k.o. and saw that the touts were doing good business - they all seemed to be Dutch. Anyhow, I was just figuring out how I should approach them, when all Hell broke loose: the Carabinieri suddenly turned up in vans and waded in with sirens, batons and dogs etc, to arrest the touts, while everyone else scattered. I ended up having to watch the game on a big screen in the centre of town. I've since been told that local organised crime had been controlling ticket sales and touting etc- who'da thunk it in Italy - and they got the cops to intervene when they saw the Dutch muscling in on their patch.
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Paul McGrath Hmmm, Goodness, I must say Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Location: Tibet Status: Offline Points: 15686 |
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Terrie i recall in Palermo before the Irland V Holland game , it seemed that the Italians were the lads people were looking for when i came to tickets , then saw some Dutch lads seeling them and the police wading in and took the Dutch lads away and the Italian lads carried on selling them .
I turned up without a ticket at the start and ended up getting all the Irish games a Semi Final and the Final , hey if you put yourself out there you always have a chance .
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Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days .
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Denis Irwin
Robbie Keane Stay Home & watch Lethal Weapon Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Location: Ath Cliath Status: Online Points: 37886 |
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Fair chance it was JD Snr
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To give the FAI some credit on the ticketing front. I got a ticket for the QF in 1990 for a tenner. They subsidised 600 tickets for a tenner each, tickets had a higher face value.
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Territorial
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Sounds right.
Right again. Reminds me of Euro96. I heard that the different teams had all set up offices in Wembley Arena to sell/exchange unsold tickets, or act as collection point for pre-solds etc. Myself and some mates wanted to go to the England v Germany game. Obv England tickets were scarcer than hens teeth, but I had an idea. I had a client who was German, but not interested in football, so I got her to fax me a photocopy of her Passport. I took it to the German FA desk at the Arena, told them I had four clients flying in from Germany the next day, who were wondering could they get a ticket for the game while they were in town. They sold me four tickets there and then, no further questions asked! Of course, me and my 3 English mates ended up in the German end, but it was still a great experience, with no blood spilt or teeth lost! Sadly, however, they've tightened up ticket distribution at tournaments a heck of a lot since those days.
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I booked it all myself. Return flights to JFK 30 Day Standby pass with Delta worked out at $50 a flight. All hotels etc. Had a fcuking ball.
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