Totally agree - I'm one of the people who use that loophole (as I said above), and had Inter not been checking passports, my Brother would be travelling to this match on my membership - he's working under the Alps for 6 months doing physics, so it's a short journey for him & I can't make it. We read the rules, realised it wasn't going to work so I didn't buy a ticket. He's checking his other options instead - it wasn't hard to not buy a ticket.
At the time of your mates trying to buy those tickets there were only 5000 available with a real chance of them being sold out. What your mates were doing was trying to jump the queue ahead of other Saints fans with the possibility that some eligible ones wouldn't be able to go. Obviously cheating people out of their rights doesn't play on their (or your) conscience. And you feel angry and disappointed at the club!
I do have concerns about the gate prematch. I mentioned earlier that this doesn't even account for the people who have matched the names up but are just hoping Inter are slack. I can see it being a nightmare to be honest. Gonna get there as early as possible. Also there will be no 'cancelled' tickets as they won't have been sent out yet.
Think it was a United fan and don't they do id checks at away games now? Know they have had big problems for a long time with away games. There was a fan on ja606 who has held a ST for 10 years and applied for every away game in that period and never got a single ticket
On another note does anyone know why Saints have put in the purchase history requirement for only last 2 seasons? Seems a bit silly to me when we won't sell out.
It was. The only thing that was ever unclear was, would anyone from either Saints or Inter spot the loophole and attempt to close it.
Not CERN, but under a different mountain collecting neutrinos rather than smashing things together; part of this project: https://www.theguardian.com/science...ney-from-the-surrey-hills-to-the-cottian-alps
Someone earlier in this thread had received The Call...the club are cancelling the tickets and refunding the money....so anyone affected will have to apply for a new ticket.
I received the call so I'm speaking first-hand on this. The only people who will lose out are those that don't have a purchase history.
Are you talking about when they updated the system and said all previous history was erased? Thought that was 2012 but not 100%... My point really was that why is there these restrictions when we won't sell out? I understand it for home domestic games but just seems a bit needless for this one. The only thing I can think of is if it's something Inter insisted on.
Why is it silly..? I think its a good idea. You want the rest of the tickets sold to anyone just to fill out our allocation?
I'm pretty sure the whole name matching the passport is an Inter or maybe UEFA thing, not a Saints one. The easiest way to counter anyone lying about it is to match it to purchase history.
What you're talking about is as Inter/Italian law thing for sure but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about how your purchase history HAS to be from LAST season or this, even if already registered on database. I don't understand why.
Not ANYONE no, where did i say that? but there could be plenty of reasons that genuine Saints fans didn't attend a game last season or yet this. So I'm not saying open it up full general sale I'm asking why the limit on the purchase history? Different thing entirely.
