Watch out for the forgeries!
Liverpool and AC Milan are just starting up, the fans are singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and all that … but they’re hoping they didn’t pay for forged tickets!
Police have confirmed that some forged tickets are in circulation.
Clive Cook, 38, from Worcester, said: ‘I’ve paid 400 euros for a ticket but I’m a bit worried in case it’s a forgery. I don’t think they should hold games like this at a stadium which has only got a capacity of 63,000, it should be at least 80,000. And giving the clubs only 17,000 tickets each has made it worse.’
He said today: ‘I’m a realist. I’ve been asked for tickets while walking around. I expect the neutral east stand will be predominantly full of Liverpool supporters. But I would urge fans who cannot find tickets not to go to the ground, they make matters worse for those with legitimate tickets - they will create problems for their own kith and kin.’
I didn’t even know that was possible! Have you ever heard of this happening in America? I don’t mean that in a “America, Fuck Yeah!” way; I’m just pointing that in my whole lifetime of fandom, I’ve never heard of fake tickets being widely sold and distributed. I’ve never even heard of one fake ticket. The strange rolls on …
Oh, and go ‘Pool. That fanbase is too incredible.
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A group of us unknowingly bought bogus tickets to the Big East mens basketball tournament this past year. I guess it does happens in the U.S….and in New York of all places, who’d have thought.
I think there was a situation similar to this last fall with Notre Dame football tickets.
This happened to me at a Jimmy Buffett concert in Wisconsin about 5 years ago. We bought tickets in the parking lot and when we tried to go in, the scanner wouldn’t scan them. Luckily I kind of talked/forced my way past the confused teenage girl working the gate. On closer inspection, the ticket’s coloration was slightly off and the fine print on the back was a bit fuzzy. But it looked real.
Believe it or not, this was an issue a couple of years ago with Jacksonville Jaguar tix. During the ‘98 and ‘99 seasons there were quite a bit of counterfeit tix being sold. They had several stories on the local news about and what to look for when buying tix from a scalper.