akibun 0 Posted June 2, 2002 Share Posted June 2, 2002 I wanted very much to get a ticket for World cup match, but just couldn't. But I see every stadium does not seem full with quite a few empty seat. WHY?!?!?!? Link to post Share on other sites
akibun 0 Posted June 2, 2002 Author Share Posted June 2, 2002 And also. I notice the commentary on NHK in English is different people than the English commentary on channel 141 Sky. Which is best to listen to? Thanks Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted June 2, 2002 Share Posted June 2, 2002 I noticed that too. The Argentina match (watching as I write) has quite a few empty seats going on. I wonder why. And more to the point, WHY? I want them. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted June 2, 2002 Share Posted June 2, 2002 Japan blames FIFA ticketing for thousands of empty seats; fans enraged Japan's organising committee for the World Cup, JAWOC, said Sunday that FIFA mismanagement of ticket sales may be responsible for thousands of empty seats on the first day of football action in Japan. Some 19,000 seats in total were vacant at the Ireland-Cameroon and Germany-Saudi Arabia matches on the first day of World Cup action in Japan, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported. "We were told that the unsold overseas tickets would be sent to us for sale in Japan, so we regret that they were not," JAWOC spokeswoman Yukiko Koike said. When asked if the unsold tickets caused the great gaps in attendance, Koike said "it is a possibility." While FIFA has attempted to respond to the shortfall through ticket sales through their Internet site, enraged fans said the system was permanently jammed. "I think it's a complete shambles," said Neil Rowe, a 27-year-old pilot from England, outside the stadium in Saitama, some 50 kilometers northwest of Tokyo, who had managed to get tickets to Sunday's England-Sweden match. "We spent three days trying to get through (to the FIFA website) and it kept on crashing," Rowe said. The fiasco follows the late printing of a batch of tickets by British-based company Byrom Inc. that left some overseas fans ticketless. Junji Yoichi, a 36-year-old Japanese fan, said his group of four friends were forced to split up outside the England-Sweden match. "We all tried again and again to get through on the website but it kept timing out," he said. "Only one of us got tickets. We wanted to go to other games but we couldn't get through." Japanese police were meanwhile cracking down on scalpers. In northern Sapporo, which hosted Germany's 8-0 rout of Saudi Arabia on Saturday, a 56-year-old German man and a 53-year-old Japanese woman were arrested for allegedly scalping World Cup tickets, police said. The couple was caught in the act selling two tickets for 8,000 yendollars) each to a male and female resident of Sapporo around 7:20 pmbefore the match near the Sapporo Dome, police said. Other scalpers in Saitama, holding up a sign in English and Japanese saying "I need a ticket," were selling tickets for 20,000 yen per seat. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted June 2, 2002 Share Posted June 2, 2002 Thousands of seats will be left empty for England's match against Argentina in Sapporo on Friday as part of a deliberate policy by World Cup organisers. Sightlines in some parts of the Sapporo stadium in the far north of Japan are so bad that organisers have made a decision not to sell them to supporters. At the match between Germany and Saudi Arabia, there were 7,000 empty seats in the 55,000 capacity stadium, most of them due to seats left empty on purpose. FIFA communications director Keith Cooper said the reason for the problem was that Sapporo is a revamped baseball stadium, with a high wall around the pitch. Link to post Share on other sites
rajeem 0 Posted June 3, 2002 Share Posted June 3, 2002 This makes me so angry seeing all of those empty seats for these big matches. Grrrr. Link to post Share on other sites
danz 0 Posted June 3, 2002 Share Posted June 3, 2002 so I heard as a result of this embarassing mess, you will be able to buy tickets on the day of a match...(the ones that were not sold of course..) is this true?? can anyone verify?? danz Link to post Share on other sites
spired 0 Posted June 3, 2002 Share Posted June 3, 2002 theoretically yes...but you still have to buy them on the web. it's http://www.fifatickets.com but you perennially get errors trying to access the thing Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted June 4, 2002 Share Posted June 4, 2002 Is there such thing as a World Cup without a ticket fiasco? Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted June 5, 2002 Share Posted June 5, 2002 Was it full for the Japan match - I didn't notice empty chunks like i did in other games. Link to post Share on other sites
HoTRoD 2 Posted June 6, 2002 Share Posted June 6, 2002 What is the situation? Are there any tickets available if we turn up at the stadium? Anyone know?? Link to post Share on other sites
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