Arsenal fans charged up to £1,700 for FA Cup Final tickets
Gooners are being asked to pay exorbitant amounts
of money to watch Arsenal in this weekend’s FA Cup
final, with some tickets going for close to £1,700.
The Gunners are aiming to end their nine-year
trophy drought at Wembley against Hull City.
They were handed an allocation of just 25,000 by
the FA – meaning thousands of fans have been left
scampering for over-priced tickets.
Some online vendors are asking for almost 40 times
more than the cheapest tickets available initially on
sale.
Forty thousand tickets have been given to Club
Wembley members and sponsors, among other
groups-meaning that supporters find themselves at
the mercy of inflated pricing.
Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis was less than
impressed at the number of tickets available for fans
– although that is not a policy that’s recently been
changed.
“We are disappointed many of our supporters and
also those of Hull City will be unable to get tickets
to the Cup final,” he said.
“The balance in the FA’s allocation isn’t right. There
will be many disappointed fans – who have
supported the club home and away for years – who
will be unable to get a ticket to this historic
match.’”
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