I put in for England v Ghana, tier 3, $220 a ticket, and for Germany v Ivory Coast, same cost. I looked at Canada tickets for Toronto, tier 3 is $1,000 lol. They’ll get the best fans at that rate.
England because I’d love to see them in the WC, and the Germany game because it’s probably the pick of the games in the city closest to me (that doesn’t cost $1,000 a ticket). It’s super expensive but I remember my dad bringing me to games in '94 and my kids are about the same age as I was in 94 and I think it would be great, but I won’t be horribly disappointed if the tickets don’t come through and I don’t have to pay out the nose. But I gotta try.
The amazing thing is the bid included ticket price projections and what they are now doing is completely different. Kind of like making a bid that promised a summer a tournament only to a year or two later acknowledge it is bullshit and the entire football calendar had to be fucked up for 2 years to accommodate a winter version. The bids have become such a farce that Saudi didnt even really have to put one together last time.
I saw an article on the BBC website, with Steve Clarke urging the Scotland fans not to take debt in order to get tickets. The prices cited in there are completely nuts:
Scotland allocated less than 4000 tickets for a game in a stadium that holds 65000.
I’ll assume this will be across the board.
If all the various FA’s of the participating countries got together they could maybe do something about it but that would mean taking their snouts out the trough.