Whats the most you have ever spent on a Ireland Match ticket

**supasparx** · 07/07/2005, 9:53 PM

Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy

It's Friday and I'm in a good mood, so here's a story to warm the heart . . . . out of the despair of missing out on the Faroes (a very expensive fiasco I might add) there came a lovely little silver lining.
A man I had never met before, who also happened to be in the same boat as Peadar and myself, stuck at Dublin Airport, promptly offered me one of his tickets for the France match.
I was both surprised and delighted. Face value, needless to say - and he has met me once.
For every scumbag tout out there, there are a hundred decent Ireland fans.

I'll give you E200 for it!

**Feech** · 08/07/2005, 4:50 PM

Originally Posted by aidz1

see there lies the problem..

if all else fails, travel up to the game, saviour the atmosphere around and attempt to bunk into the ground.

Yes, just like in Hillsborough....

**Kingdom** · 14/07/2005, 5:23 PM

I paid �400 to a steward in Basle to let us into the ground. Money well spent.
P.s. Basle 03.

**Colie** · 18/07/2005, 5:54 PM

Originally Posted by Kingdom

I paid �400 to a steward in Basle to let us into the ground. Money well spent.
P.s. Basle 03.

Bribed your way in. Class, good effort mate.

**Kingdom** · 19/07/2005, 7:27 AM

Originally Posted by Colie

Bribed your way in. Class, good effort mate.

Unsure as to whether you're being sarcastic, a=it is 08.24 after all. It's a true story. Had bought two tickets from Euroteam(yes, those shower of backstards) and Jan didn't show up. Was frantically looking for tickets around the ground. This steward came up and said he could get us in for �600 each. Haggled down to �400 for the two. Probably could have done more but game had kicked off. Got to our standing seat right in time for Yakin to score. Terrible result, but a crazy fcuking day/

**jimbob117** · 19/07/2005, 2:19 PM

I work in an unnamed financial institute and manage to get the friendly tickets for nothing,and have so far managed to get to all the home competitive games for face value.(for the last 3 yrs,since i started.) I was obviously very worried this yr though when i heard it would be harder to get tickets for the isreal,french and swiss games. So i got talking to a customer of ours... he gets a few tickets to all the home games and has done for decades now, but doesnt have a big interest anymore.(more of a gaa man

) So he's told me i can take 2 of his tickets for all the home games in future(which started at the isreal game) and he's bringing the french ones into me next week. Whats more he wont even take any money from me!! What a gem eh!

**Don Vito** · 27/07/2005, 7:58 AM

Originally Posted by jimbob117

I work in an unnamed financial institute and manage to get the friendly tickets for nothing,and have so far managed to get to all the home competitive games for face value.(for the last 3 yrs,since i started.) I was obviously very worried this yr though when i heard it would be harder to get tickets for the isreal,french and swiss games. So i got talking to a customer of ours... he gets a few tickets to all the home games and has done for decades now, but doesnt have a big interest anymore.(more of a gaa man

) So he's told me i can take 2 of his tickets for all the home games in future(which started at the isreal game) and he's bringing the french ones into me next week. Whats more he wont even take any money from me!! What a gem eh!

Let me guess Jimbob-AIB.

**Tony Montana** · 03/08/2005, 4:22 PM

Ill have a guess at AIB as well....

**Junior** · 04/08/2005, 1:43 PM

Well Jimbo you won't ever want to leave that job!!!!!

For me the most expensive ticket was V Spain (S Korea) �165 stg (235euros) Face Value!!!!! These were the second grade tickets, couldn't get the cheap ones behind the goal!!!!

Imagine if we had won and got South Korea in the next round, those tickets would have been like rocking horse s**t!!!

Got 2 off ebay for the Swiss game in 03 for way over the odds (think it was around �150 stg each) but we got 8 tickets in total from various sources and we averaged out the price between us, so it wasn't that bad.

Got ripped off by a local scroat in Bucharest back in '97. Didn't have tickets and was chatting to this guy in a bar who said he'd get them for us. The locals were paying about 20 pence per ticket, the ireland fans paid something silly like �3 per ticket and this 'tout' mugged us for a �5 a piece