Warning if you're planning on travelling to PSG

I can imagine there will probably be 4/5,000 blues travelling to Paris. Tickets will be like gold dust, but even if you don't get one it will be a laugh. We'll all congregate somewhere and watch the game on tele.
 
on eurostar myself, tuesday night to london, eurostar at 5am, avoiding " the roast beef bar " know a few bars by gard du nord " a shithole "
anyone know when criteria for tickets to be released ?
 
Phoned ticket office this afternoon. No info yet. Can't help but feel they will delay things a few days until the fallout from Brussels becomes more clear.
 
AsaMac said:
Phoned ticket office this afternoon. No info yet. Can't help but feel they will delay things a few days until the fallout from Brussels becomes more clear.
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They can't really delay given the fact some fans are setting off in 12 days!
Only acceptable reason for me to have no info yet is if city are arguing for the full allocation
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I received this from a Chelsea fan after their visit last month. My guess is that it will be the same for us. It puts me off going to be honest: everything that is wrong with trips to Europe condensed into one match:

"Football...fucking hell.

So...along with a thousand or so others, I travelled to Paris to watch Chelsea play PSG.

I travelled on Eurostar, which was enjoyable and cost £ 150. 2 nights' accommodation was about the same in a tiny hotel near the stadium. The ticket for the match was £ 71.

I don't want to think too much about the cost of food and booze...bollocks, it was a couple of days' holiday.

I'm not too bothered about Chelsea's performance. It's not about that.

It is the actual match-going experience which pisses me off.

You have to collect your match ticket at a central point, identifying yourself with your passport.

Then, incredibly, you are fitted with a wristband. I can only assume the reason for this was to ensure that the match ticket couldn't be given to a rogue fan.

Anyway...fast forward to the game.

To enter the stadium, we had to pass no fewer than four checkpoints. Ticket and wristband inspected at the first three...a thorough (very) search by an unsmiling French Robocop at the fourth.

There are spartan facilities inside, and of course, you can't relax with a beer, unless you enjoy the non-alcoholic variety. Which I don't.

You don't sit in your allocated seat.

The game passes and Chelsea lose 2-1.
Apparently, in the lower tier (I was in the upper) fans were sprayed with pepper spray for celebrating the Chelsea goal. Seriously.

At the final whistle, we are kept in the stadium for a good half hour, before being allowed to gather on the exit concourse.

There, a line of 30-odd French police, reminiscent of psychotic Thunderbirds puppets, perform some sort of military routine as they block our exit.

Frankly, they are gagging for a row.

Once on the street, we are pushed and prodded by these twats as they try to herd us all into the Metro station, regardless of where you want to go.

I've had all this before so it's not a surprise.

But, I do wonder if there is any other situation where a paying customer is treated like this.

I didn't see him, but apparently Bruce Buck was outside the entrance area before the game, talking to fans.
Fair play, but instead of paying this scant lip service before scurrying off to his VIP area, perhaps he should have joined us for the full "Match Day Experience"."
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To be fair, this is pretty much how I felt after our away games a couple of years ago. I felt we were treated like shit. Barcelona was crap, shit stadium, shit view behind netting, shit seating arrangements as you couldn't sit in your allocated seats, all round a poor match day experience and I vowed I would not go to any more UCL matches, home or away.

As paying patrons we are treated like shit, the tickets are overpriced, the competition is bent and UEFA are corrupt.

Never again. However that is not to say I wouldn't travel to the host Cities and enjoy the pre match drinks but I will NEVER pay to watch a UCL game again. I enjoyed the experience at Amsterdam, Dortmund, Madrid, and even Poznan in the Europa was good but at every ground as away supporters were treated like trash.
 
Saw this on a website. Hope our supposed ticket collection point ain't gonna be the same place!

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When Chelsea go to Paris, a year minus a day from their last trip, supporters will find their liberty is curtailed. They will have to collect tickets in person in the French capital, from a location 40 minutes from the Gare du Nord and 50 minutes from the Parc des Princes. They will have to wear a wristband with matching number to the ticket at all times, or be denied entry to the match. They will also be depleted in numbers, with a severely reduced ticket allocation—this and the other points having been insisted upon, at least partly as a result of the Metro incident of 12 months earlier.

But the CRS, backed up by UEFA, will be permitted to take any action they like against fans, regardless of their behaviour, and have no fear of the consequences. In such circumstances, it is easy to see why so many supporters can see little but darkness ahead of their return to The City Of Light.'
 
BigJoe#1 said:
To be fair, this is pretty much how I felt after our away games a couple of years ago. I felt we were treated like shit. Barcelona was crap, shit stadium, shit view behind netting, shit seating arrangements as you couldn't sit in your allocated seats, all round a poor match day experience and I vowed I would not go to any more UCL matches, home or away.

As paying patrons we are treated like shit, the tickets are overpriced, the competition is bent and UEFA are corrupt.

Never again. However that is not to say I wouldn't travel to the host Cities and enjoy the pre match drinks but I will NEVER pay to watch a UCL game again. I enjoyed the experience at Amsterdam, Dortmund, Madrid, and even Poznan in the Europa was good but at every ground as away supporters were treated like trash.
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I thought the treatment at Dortmund was fine. Even went in the same turnstiles as Dortmund fans.
 
Having had a few days to reflect on the fact that if this system becomes the norm I will not get to see my club play away in Europe again, it strikes me that on the whole, the 2.5 hours of football (the game plus being kept back for an hour) is usually the worst bit about a 3 day foreign jolly.
No beer, shit view, normally getting beat. And paying €90 for the privilege.
I'll still go. Still book flights straight after the draw. Still get pissed. Just not see the game.
Life could be worse.
 
BigJoe#1 said:
Actually, you're probably correct there, I think I was over generalising..... Still on the whole UCL games are IMO a very poor match day experience and are not worth the money.
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One was enough for me. Done it now and won't be doing it again. It was a good trip via Amsterdam but to be honest as I get older, It doesn't have the same appeal as it would have done had I been in my 20's.
 
jimbo101 said:
Having had a few days to reflect on the fact that if this system becomes the norm I will not get to see my club play away in Europe again, it strikes me that on the whole, the 2.5 hours of football (the game plus being kept back for an hour) is usually the worst bit about a 3 day foreign jolly.
No beer, shit view, normally getting beat. And paying €90 for the privilege.
I'll still go. Still book flights straight after the draw. Still get pissed. Just not see the game.
Life could be worse.
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Not a bad shout!

I've often said, though more tongue in cheek, that the game gets in the way of a good trip. But sometimes it isn't far from the truth. If this ticket system becomes the norm then I'm fucked for most Euro away days.
Force of habit means I'll still probably end up booking flights though, it's like the crack cocaine of football.
 
The English still hasn't shaken off the hooligan reputation. The police all expect us to start throwing the plastic chairs at any second so treat normal, law abiding match goers as scum.
 
AsaMac said:
Phoned ticket office this afternoon. No info yet. Can't help but feel they will delay things a few days until the fallout from Brussels becomes more clear.
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Some talk in the press today about the Euros being played behind closed doors. Perhaps we might not get any tickets on the grounds that they cant divert police resources from anti terrorism to policing a football match?
 
StrangewaysHereWeCome said:
I strongly recommend any of you going resist the temptation to wear striped jumpers, a curly false moustache and a row of onions around your neck all the while bellowing "AWWWW HEEE HHAWWW HEEEE HAWWWW"
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Haha. And there was me thinking 'what has donkeys got to do with France! It is early :0)
 
I did Sevilla this season and had the trip ruined when our bar got attacked by yobs. The Spanish press wrongly attributed the blame for the trouble in Manchester to us when it's well known to have been Slask Wroclaw fans. I'd say the match itself was fine. We took taxis to the ground and got in ok following standard searches / ticket check. We were held back afterwards for a short while and then released to make our own way back to the centre of Seville. I will go again but won't bother with PSG. It's a shame because the Eurostar there would've been cool.
 
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