When it was announced that there would be tickets at the gate for Dundalk’s Champions League play-off clash with Legia Warsaw, it should have come with a warning.
The queue to purchase tickets at the Aviva Stadium was lengthy and slow-moving due to the fact that there was a Ticketmaster system crash which, along with the bad weather, traffic and people arriving late to the stadium, causes issues for the thousands of fans who arrived to buy tickets for the 7.45 kick-off.
Supporters were seen filtering into the stadium as late as thirty minutes into the game which luckily started slowly so left little to miss for the victims of some shoddy planning.
And despite not missing much, fans were rightly pissed off at the organisation, or lack thereof, on what was a miserable evening to be waiting in a queue.
@FAIreland @DundalkFC thousands outside trying to get in… One ticket van.
— mark colfer (@mcolfer12) August 17, 2016
Great security at @AVIVAStadium. Take the feckin’ tops off the bottles of water but allow in flares?! @FAIreland pic.twitter.com/48ud4XZnzT
— Andy Way (@tarfandy) August 17, 2016
@FAIreland stewarding is a shambles lads
— Rory Gilsenan (@rorygils6) August 17, 2016
@FAIreland @AVIVAStadium cheers for not having turnstiles Y & Z open – great to miss start of match #onlyinIreland
— elfgagi (@elfgagi) August 17, 2016
Match day organisation of tickets from @FAIreland and @TicketmasterIre for the Dundalk game is fucking atrocious!!!!
— Mark O’Rourke (@Babbeller) August 17, 2016
Couldn’t walk behind the east to get to our seats, so had to take a 15 minute detour across the river and back. Shambles @FAIreland
— ryan (@ryanmcdyer) August 17, 2016
Horror show from @FAIreland on how they filled sections of the Aviva tonight. Typical. Always balls it up. #dundalklegia
— Trevor Carey (@trevorcarey1982) August 17, 2016
@FAIreland A disgrace of a set up tonight at the match , 7,43pm and still gates not open ? Excuse was didn’t expect such a big crowd ! Joke
— stephen shannon (@stephenshanno10) August 17, 2016
FAI incompetence strikes again. Turnstiles not open on the blue route and now huge queues. #Dundalk
— John Brophy (@jk001) August 17, 2016
Queue for tickets for the #dundalk game #ChampionsLeague pic.twitter.com/VeugA9OLOu
— David Crowe (@davidcrowe00) August 17, 2016
