Basically someone in an office somewhere miles from these events takes a backhander of about 100,000 pounds. He writes a contract stating in simple terms that everything will work perfectly for every match going fan. However it will be worded in a gobbledygook language that no sane person could ever make sense off. It will be an official signed document but if anyone ever tried to trace the companys/people responsible for facilitating these events they would end up in a maze of incompetence. It happens at all major events and these charlatans are reaping in the cash and laughing at the thousands who spend their hard earned cash to be ripped off time and again.30 minutes? We queued for 2 hours for the only available food option.
The fan park at the stadium was split 80/20 in terms of beer and food respectively.
Absolutely no queues for beer all day, leading them to sell out at 6pm.
2 hour queues all day for food and soft drinks, absolutely ideal for kids in the sweltering heat!
I’m sure that 80/20 split had absolutely nothing to do with Heineken being a major UEFA sponsor.
How UEFA get these events so diabolically wrong time and time again is just utterly mindblowing.
I’d like to know how the street sellers were allowed inside the stadium to sell their wares (including alcohol and flares which were banned by UEFA)’at full time despite us all having to go through stringent security checksThey shut the bars at 7 so again UEFA not quite doing what they communicated to fans.
Yes but it stopped serving over 3 hours before kick off.The only thing I will back them up on about your post is they did say the fan zone would stop serving drinks 2 hours before kick off
The rest I agree with you
In a city like Istanbul the shuttle bus idea was absolutely stupid.I don't think the shuttle buses were a bad idea.
It makes sense to split the fans up to reduce the risk of trouble.
If they were organises much better it would have been fine. They needed more buses to reduce the numbers on them and some sort of bus lane that stopped them getting stuck with all the other traffic and it would have been fine.
A bloke on the row behind me lost consciousness. Loads of blues screaming for medical assistance and the stewards and other stadium staff and police on the running track area were all just looking over but not doing much.Did anyone witness a blue go down in the crowd loads were screaming for help the so called stewards were fucking useless it took ages for anyone to come and help if they’d had a heart attack they’d be toast. I hope they were ok, I said to my mate in the coach if something happens we are fucked there was no one around to help anyone. The press need to push this like the Liverpool thing last year because it could’ve been a lot worse had anything gone wrong.
I always like to give every foreign city I visit a chance, but I won’t be coming back to Istanbul again. Bar the general chaos, traffic, size of the city, etc, the theft and ripping people off has left a sour taste in my mouth. I’ve spent endless time checking my pockets to make sure my phone, money and passport haven’t been stolen. Not to mention being over charged for almost everything, taxi, beer, food, etc. I shouldn’t tar the whole city or the Istanbul people in general as many of them have been very friendly, and it’s obviously the way of life in Istanbul, but the trip hasn’t been great in that respect.