Finally got through after ‘only’ 20 minutes which seems an almost instant response compared to most on here. For the last few years, I and most of my immediate neighbours in 105 are scattered to the winds to make way for the ever growing throng of UEFA sponsor freeloaders. Every year without fail they re-allocate me to the very front rows of level 1, with the very worst view and zero protection from the autumn and winter weather, and every year without fail I have to call up and demand a seat further back in an adjacent block. A smart system based on machine learning would recognise this but City still appear to be using ZX80s and paper sheets.
The lady was as helpful as she could be in the circumstances - clearly working from home as I could hear young children playing and shouting in the background, not a problem at all. The problem seems to be that City’s IT systems sound incredibly antiquated given the amount of time it took her to register a change of allocated seat for the Leipzig game. And then the system l wouldn’t let me keep the same seat for all three CL games as in previous years, apparently because City haven’t yet ‘created’ the tickets for the remaining games. So I will have to go through the exact same rigmarole for each individual CL game.
It also suggests to me that the club are waiting to see exactly what they can get away with for PSG and Soriano is going to pull a horrible pricing stunt like the quarter final a few years ago. He knows tourists and plastics will pay inflated prices for that game at the expense of working class and ‘legacy’ fans.