The UCL final is a weekend festival of football, people travel from all over the world to attend. It wasn't when we went to Porto, but I went to Milan when Real played Athletico, and they had three fan zones, one for each team and one for neutrals. Throughout the city centre they had events on. It really was a great weekend.
I'll rephrase - You said that people need to secure tickets before being able to make travel plans. You also said that everyone is guaranteed a ticket. If people are therefore guaranteed a ticket, what is to stop them making travel plans now?
I'm sure you know best, but you're not going to the EU, it's the developing world, the middle east etc and children at 13/14 are often considered adults.
I bought an E bike during Covid, went on it a few times but last outing a hooligan driver doing about 70 miles an hour missed me by no more than 6 inches, so it’s been in the shed since, flogging it and will pay for my once in a lifetime trip with three of my good friends one of who has cancer so he’s taking the opportunity as well.
a supporters club member can request a ticket and get allocated one, without needing to be a season tik holder never mind being in the cup scheme. Thats the way it is and always has ben. As Didsbury has stated - everyone who wants a tik (or can afford one) will get one.
Because we let them! Those who control and supply the game, whether governing bodies or TV companies, have managed to package and market a sport that just 30 years ago was on its arse, and turn it into a world's most globally addictive drug! Even if those who were there years ago didn't attend, then the day trippers, who view their own presence at matches as a fashion accessory, would buy those tickets anyway.
If what you say is true that’s a fucking scandal. Why the club thinks a City fan in an SC is any better or worse than a City fan who chooses not to be (and vice versa) is fucking disgraceful in the extreme