Like many others, Per-Vidar Lind was ready when Glimt released the tickets for the European Games at the end of August. He still had to see that the tickets were missing just before he had to pay. – It was completely hopeless. I got in line and got some tickets, finally. I was well into the payment process, it was just the final touch to get everything ready. Lind says that he was thrown out of the queue and into a new queue with 6,000 in front of him. Then he gave up. After the ticket sale, a great deal of criticism was directed at the TicketCo ticketing system: Curtain stairs and lift Although he is thus left without a ticket, Lind makes the trip to the county capital from Myre in Øksnes municipality. The meeting against Arsenal is simply too big to travel. – Arsenal, or English teams in general, is one of the biggest things we can get on Norwegian soil. English teams have always been popular in Norway – since the tipping match in the 70s and beyond. Per-Vidar Lind and his wife Lisbeth Stoltz travel to Bodø on Thursday morning without a ticket for the big game against Arsenal. They have several emergency solutions in store if there is no battle at Aspmyra. Photo: Privat Now he, his wife, cousin and her husband travel to Bodø with the hope of a miracle. – We will watch the match anyway. Whether we end up in a bar or a hotel room, the gods know if we manage to sneak into the apartments located at the stadium. Avisa Nordland has also spoken to Per-Vidar. – We have talked about getting hold of curtain stairs and sneaking over the fences. At the latest today, we considered renting a lift down there. Whether we get permission to do so is another matter, says Lind with a twinkle in his eye. – Hope people have clean flour in their bags. news has confirmed that English supporters have also traveled to Bodø without a guarantee to watch the match from the stands at Aspmyra. Events manager in Glimt, Ørjan Heldal, tells news that the club is prepared for several scenarios. – There may be tickets that are fake, people who have resold a ticket to several people. Then the first person who uses the QR code gets in, while the rest are rejected. Heldal says that they are trying to communicate this to the public on their channels and by sending out e-mails to everyone who has a ticket. Ørjan Heldal says that they hope people have good intentions when they resell tickets. Photo: Bjarne Brandal / news – How much information does the club have about the black market sale? – We try to keep up with it. We see that there are many people who have resold tickets, and we also hope that most of them have clean flour in their bags and do so with good intentions. The club is also in dialogue with the ticket supplier TicketCo to improve the sales system to avoid black market sales – We hope and believe that this and much else will be improved, especially towards the 2023 season. The police are prepared – We are aware that there will be supporters, both Norwegian and English, who do not have a ticket. It’s a battle with a lot of attention and pressure around, says operations manager in the police, Mari Lillestø. She says that they have not invested more resources than in other European matches. – The police are well prepared for most scenarios that may arise and have allocated sufficient resources to deal with whatever may happen. At Myre, Per-Vidar Lind had hope when Glimt announced the sale of the remaining 300 tickets the day before the match. But with 10,000 others in the queue, there was no ticket now either. – I came in to choose a section and seat, only to be thrown out again, says a disappointed Lind. “Anyone who runs a lift rental in Bodø who can help us?”, Lind wrote on Facebook shortly after the ticket defeat.
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Supporters travel to Bodø to watch the match against Arsenal without a ticket – news Nordland
