West Ham ticketing decision displeases Eintracht Frankfurt chief
West Ham United have released 5,000 tickets for their German counterparts Eintracht Frankfurt for their Europa League semi-final first leg on Thursday.
That leaves 55,000 seats available for Irons fans and the game has now been sold out just less than one week ahead of the game.
It isn’t an unusual ticketing split for a European game but Frankfurt’s sporting director Markus Krosche isn’t happy with that nor something else the Hammers have put in place.
After Frankfurt had more than 30,000 supporters at the Nou Camp for their quarter-final against Barcelona with the majority buying tickets off home fans and sitting among the Spaniards.
As a result, West Ham have increased their security and policing for the semi-final which seems to have touched a nerve in Germany.
“The English want to be tough there. I hope that there are still more in the city. This feeling does something to us,” Krosche said to Hessenschau (a German media outlet).
Get over it
Stereotypically, Germans like to follow the rules so what Krosche is complaining about when being forced to do so is anybody’s guess.
It is honestly laughable that they are up in arms over increased policing at the ground after what their supporters did in Spain in the last round.
You could argue that the Bundesliga side are fortunate to be allowed fans at all after so many of theirs infiltrated the home end at the Nou Camp to see a famous victory for the football club.
They will still have 5,000 raucous fans in the London Stadium and many others may make the trip too in faint hope but they can’t expect to get in.
Even if they do, English football fans won’t just sit there and let you celebrate in the wrong end like Barcelona fans might, you can expect a beating.
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