FAO Denver

[matty]

Did you make it to the Inter/Napoli match at the weekend?

[denver]

Well we were nearby, but no.

 

We got in late Friday night, after the ticket office was closed, and went out for dinner and a few drinks. Saturday we got up bright and early at about mid day and made out way to the ticket office address from the website. Initially they told us they didn't sell them. We pointed to the big sign saying they sold them, and they said oh, but they couldn't today, the system was down or something, and we'd need to get them somewhere else like the stadium.

 

No worries we think, a bit of a stroll and all that. We get to the stadium and the ticket office has a closed sign up, so we ask some of the police standing around when it opens, and they tell us about 5pm. It's around 2 at this point so we figure, what the hell, we can kill a few hours at a nearby bar, which we do. At five it is still shut though, and we're told to try at 6, and at 6 it is still shut. And at 7pm we are told the police have banned them from selling tickets on the day because of Napoli fans! So we spent the whole day waiting around for nothing.

 

We ended up seeing the game in a bar. A couple of us had been really looking forward to it and were pretty gutted. Standing outside the stadium as the crowd were going in, and hearing the noise ramp up, and then finding out we'd to walk away...

 

Ah well. Wouldn't have been so bad if they had at any point just told us we wouldn't be able to get the tickets!

[matty]

Sorry to hear that. I'm not that surprised unfortunately, you'd probably already left the country by the time I posted the message in the other thread.

 

Fairly standard practice for Italy, really. Nobody knows what's going on. Plus they often make or change decisions at very late notice. Anything could have happened.