The Aberdeen ticket fiasco hit peak Scottish football earlier today when the North East club were ordered to hand tickets back to Rangers.
Aberdeen had demanded 20,000 tickets from the SPFL. Despite making a big song-and-dance about it, they’ve struggled to sell even half of them. The club and its supporters have since been left rather red faced.
Aberdeen will now have their total ticket allocation reduced. As a result Rangers fans will also get more tickets than previously anticipated. We should find out tomorrow how many.
Rangers fans have also been enjoying the entire debacle from the sidelines.
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND – AUGUST 25: Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes looks on during the Scottish Premier League match between Hibernian and Aberdeen at Easter Road on August 25, 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Mark Runnacles/Getty Images)
Aberdeen were adamant they could sell the seats but haven’t been able to. Rangers fans are sitting in their numbers desperate to snap one up. There have been cries of “tinpot” aplenty as fans bicker over the final outcome.
What’s more, despite Rangers releasing a statement saying they’d find out tomorrow the full total of tickets, Aberdeen could yet get the chance to sell them. Aberdeen claim they’ve been given extra time to do so.
However, it looks very unlikely they will.
Here’s a selection of some of the best Twitter responses to the entire Aberdeen ticket fiasco.
Aberdeen have taken around the same tickets for a national Semi-final as we took for a friendly in January in Leipzig 😂
— David (@_DP1872) October 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/RangersObserver/status/1053002925331673089
https://twitter.com/RangersFACTS/status/1052921638872903680
more rangers fans going to vienna than aberdeen taking to a semi final😂😂😂😂😂
— Sean Brady (@sb72__) October 18, 2018
Aberdeen FC:
Demanded a new kick off time -Got a new kick off time
Demanded extra tickets – Got extra tickets1 wee later….
Returned tickets
😂😂😂😂😂
— Ross Hannah (@RossHannah2) October 18, 2018
getting a phonecall from the ticket office trying to punt tickets for a semi final against rangers really sums up how tinpot we are
— Aberdeen Away Days (@aberdeenawa) October 17, 2018
Aberdeen showing once again their tin pot mentality as they defy instructions to sell scattered tickets & potentially cost thousands of Rangers fans access to the semi final
Hampden will most likely have thousands of empty seats & £250k of lost revenue split between 4 clubs
🤦♂️
— Four Lads Had a Dream (@4ladshadadream) October 17, 2018
Ajax/PSV/Feyenoord agree to share their Champions League £ with rest of Eredivise to help take it to higher level.
Aberdeen sell tickets they were asked not to, to stop Rangers fans getting to the game & deprive the 4 teams some £ in doing so!
Scottish football in a nutshell! pic.twitter.com/pdo43zuF6L
— Rangers History 🏆 (@RangersFACTS) October 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/RangersFACTS/status/1052921638872903680
to aberdeen🐑…. from #rangers🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/RibKuXjV6Y
— CallumHowes🃏 (@Callumhowes34) October 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/bobmcphail/status/1052652308050239488