Champions League Final | Tickets - City Official Package + UEFA Tickets | 2022 Final (pg 1033)

SouthStandStander said:
A majority of the people with higher points have their tickets used by people in the same supporters club. I know as I have had access to these tickets over the years from various supporter clubs. It is a huge con and is a totally unfair system that is massively abused.
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Won't argue, but you can't tar everyone with the same brush.
I have never given up an away ticket in this way, and I'm not about to start. Neither did I buy tickets, for the points, for games I had no intention of attending.
I've accrued 19k points, and seen some great European cities
 
Fred_Quimby said:
So let's see. Fans are complaining because they booked flights and accommodation before any details at all (not one single jot) of the criteria for tickets. We still don't know and will not know until this evening. It makes no sense to me to have done any of that without knowing if you can get a ticket. Part of me says you deserve it. Let's face it, it could have been (and may well still be) a straight ballot. I suppose that is the problem with allowing a system whereby the lucky few can amass gazillions of points.
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Booking early has always happened because of the price and availability of flights.
 
SouthStandStander said:
A majority of the people with higher points have their tickets used by people in the same supporters club. I know as I have had access to these tickets over the years from various supporter clubs. It is a huge con and is a totally unfair system that is massively abused.
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I doubt the majority on higher points are in supporters clubs.
 
Another scenario - Due to the costs of PCR testing and the fact that most people who want to go have already booked their travel, quite a few of the c.3 to 5k tickets held back for the official day trip don't get sold, leaving people out in Porto without a ticket when the club's allocation hasn't sold out.
 
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GeorgeR said:
Why not give preference to people on the CL scheme who have bought an away CL ticket in the past?
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The way I see it is you (partly) join the cup schemes to enhance your chances of getting tickets for the finals if the club reach it. I don't think it'll need any further criteria and would be wrong - I'm guessing most who go away will be on the scheme anyway. If there's 12/13k on the CL scheme, just offer tickets to the first 6k, then what's left to the remaining on the scheme, as normal. There'll still be loads who don't want to travel so reckon most who want one will get one.

I'm not on the scheme so don't deserve a ticket. Might join next year though.
 
sktooblue said:
I wasn't.
What I said was that if the Portuguese government wouldn't shift their stance & the only option for the club would have been insisting fans get tickets only on the official trips. This would have gone down like a lead balloon with everyone. Agreed???
By announcing the free travel they have turned what would have been a negative into a positive (unless you've already booked).
Is that clearer?
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OK thanks.
 
willipp said:
I dont think they can do it that way. It will be tickets for the day trip package, then maybe a seperate ticket sale if there are any for the ticket only ones. Now how they will enforce that i don't know - tickets given out on the plane maybe? Otherwise you will get people buying a ticket for the day trip, getting their ticket and then going on their independent travel fo the weekend. The more you think about it, the more i feel this means it will almost all be day trip tickets and you get your ticket on the plane or in Porto at a fan park or something.
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Unless as suggested, tickets are sold the usual way but you either opt in to free travel or not, and if you opt in then like you say it's tickets on the plane
 
Here’s the thing
Portuguese wanted majority of fans in and out in a day
City realised this was impossible and knew loads of big points owners had already made arrangements.
compromise is City incentivise day trip by making it free (placating Portuguese) but tickets still done on points /CL scheme, so independent travellers don’t miss out.
Moaning about it being free is a bit like going into Curry’s after you’ve bought a TV to complain because it’s cheaper now than when you bought it.
 
JOGAMIGMOG said:
Hahaha so you expect me to be happy at splurging about £400 for fuck all? And then not ending up with a ticket.
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I am on Flight 3 with Spike. We could end up sitting next to one another. Who`s buying the drinks?
Once this all settles down, I think you will find that all is well and we`ll still be on our way.
It`s our time and our destiny. Life can often have a good way of working things out.
No one likes the unknown. In a few more days it will be clearer.
From the banks of the River Irwell to the shores of Sicily ...
 
Here’s my guess;

Portugal insist maximum of 2,000 allowed independent travel. They must arrive a clearing location 3 hours in advance of match, with a negative test result from previous 48 hours, and will have temperature check.

Other 4000 must travel in bubble by club arranged travel. I think Spikes same day package will be part of this.

4000 issued based on points/scheme and at same time 2000 issued on points/scheme. Supporters choose which package to apply for.

This is just my guess
 
Fantastic gesture, I don't see how you can spin the actions of the owner in to something negative on this.

Unfortunately, it seems likely that Portugal must be insisting on a high percentage, if not all attendees to the stadium must be in the official bubble.

Portugal have to make Covid decisions based on what they think is best for their country. It's shit for thousands of us fans, but I am sure they have their own legitimate reasons.

The same as our government has their reasons for not letting thousands of UEFA sponsors in without quarantine.

The villains of the piece are UEFA for me. They had the opportunity to move it to Wembley which would have been far better for the fans, but they've decided to put their sponsors first, which is a great shame.
 
FootballSense said:
I am on Flight 3 with Spike. We could end up sitting next to one another. Who`s buying the drinks?
Once this all settles down, I think you will find that all is well and we`ll still be on our way.
It`s our time and our destiny. Life can often have a good way of working things out.
No one likes the unknown. In a few more days it will be clearer.
From the banks of the River Irwell to the shores of Sicily ...
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Have they moved it again !?!?
 
Fred_Quimby said:
So let's see. Fans are complaining because they booked flights and accommodation before any details at all (not one single jot) of the criteria for tickets. We still don't know and will not know until this evening. It makes no sense to me to have done any of that without knowing if you can get a ticket. Part of me says you deserve it. Let's face it, it could have been (and may well still be) a straight ballot. I suppose that is the problem with allowing a system whereby the lucky few can amass gazillions of points.
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Thats not entirely true though is it. They announced the final was in Porto and each team would be getting 6000 tickets last thursday morning i think. Its natural that people then go ahead and book flights and accomodation based on that info. It was only Thursday evening i think that the portugese government started making noises about it being day trip only and in a bubble. Its the people who acted in that period who have been shafted really and totally understand their frustration (me being one of them). I was 50/50 if i'd got a ticket previously, now i have zero chance of getting one through City.

If at the time of announcing the final and the 6000 tickets they said 'This will be a controlled event and all travel and tickets will be restricted to official club travel', id totally agree people were stupid to book, but they didnt. Like with most things Uefa do, they get it hugely wrong and fuck over the people they claim to care about so much.
 
I hope there is a solution for the fans travelling independently. For starters, If Spike’s were offering a one dayer (I can’t remember) those flights might come under the Club umbrella, for eligibility for match tickets.

it’s pretty clear that the Club were trying to get the Portuguese authorities to be more flexible but hit a brick wall (and time has run out for negotiations£
 
jay_mcfc said:
You can simultaneously believe that it's a great gesture whilst also completely understanding that thousands of fans that (baring in mind it's 11 days away) had already made their own plans.

What I won't accept is people telling the independent travelers that they have no right to moan. Of course they fucking do, they're being shafted. Shafted by kindness but still shafted.
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I agree with you... IF I'd had enough points to guarantee I'd get a ticket then I'd have booked too.. Easy to say now but I'd like to think that if I was in a good hotel with good flights etc. I'd just crack on and wish those who get the day trip well... As I said, easy to say that because I haven't really got a hope of either on my points but shit happens... I couldn't justify a season ticket till I came out of the mob so always used OP's (other people's tickets) for the match before I had the season card.. so my points total is bang average
 
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