Must be loads of tickets in the hands of Athletic fans, or even some rabid Bodo G supporters.
The 'How you getting to Bilbao' thread
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Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) discuss United's fantastic win away against Athletic Club in the semi-final of the Europa League.
They also pick out the positives of United's 4-3 loss away at Brentford, and Nik reviews a day out at Old Trafford watching Manchester United Women qualify for the Champions League.
Why?? They don’t have an allocation??
Who will you guys be rooting for? We used to have a soft spot for Athletic after you gave us the run around with that Bielsa team. Will the same hold and "the semi was the final"?
There's Ander as well, of course.
Or maybe you couldn't care less now and they are just guiris?
If you really look, you can still find tickets in places like Frankfurt, Lyon, Glasgow—basically any city whose team was still alive in the quarterfinals. The UEFA ticket ballot closed at the beginning of April.
It’s always like this with UEFA finals. Back in 2012, I got 6 tickets from Schalke fans.
In Bilbao, there was a huge number of registrations. Nothing to lose—it’s the final at home, you can always go anyway.
I read many posts and tweets from lucky people in tha ballot. I even have a colleague with 8 tickets.
The UEFA ballot for the neutral sections. That's where I'll be because I didn't get any through the club.
40 euro up to about 250.
That's not terrible.
I had 2 tickets won by a work colleague in the UEFA ballot. He offered them to me for face value €180 each. I can't make it as it's my 50th birthday the day of the final and we've booked a holiday going the next day. He ended up selling them for $1450 each! I think he was quite happy said no.
You guys doing it all wrong.
Get Tinder Premium, set your location to Bilbao
Get swiping, head out early and stay at your new senoirita’s place
Get Tinder Premium, set your location to Bilbao
Get swiping, head out early and stay at your new senoirita’s place
Hired a camper van in Manchester, 16 hour drive to Bilbao leaving Tuesday morning. £150 a man for 6 of us plus fuel. Least we’ve got somewhere to sleep!
I'll be setting sail from Calais in a boat.
Skateboarding it.
Couldn't pay me to go. It's on 't telly. Don't like that foreign food and they don't speak English.
Where are you seeing that? Anywhere I see is at least 1250
That's the resale market though, 40 - 250 is face value. Inflation gone crazy though, it was £500 outside the ground when we played Barca at Wembley in the UCL Final.
I second this question. Worth going without a ticket?
Can you maybe fly into madrid and get the train?
Just found out I got a ticket.
Will be flying from New York to Madrid, landing 9am on match day then planning on doing the drive up. Prices are crazy to fly to Bilbao.
Currently planning on drive back post game through the night for a 10.50am flight back to New York.
If anyone is planning on doing the drive at similar times from Madrid, let me know.
Will be flying from New York to Madrid, landing 9am on match day then planning on doing the drive up. Prices are crazy to fly to Bilbao.
Currently planning on drive back post game through the night for a 10.50am flight back to New York.
If anyone is planning on doing the drive at similar times from Madrid, let me know.
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Do people think it would be worth going without a ticket, just for the party?
I've been to Bilbao before. IIRC there's a warren of streets in the old town with lots of bars.
Thanks for that as we have actually now booked exactly this !
Depends what your idea of a party is. Will be chaos in Bilbao and hotel prices are mental. Police likely to be all over the English.
But I'm going
Absolutely yes - I've done Euroaways without any ticket, there are always other ticketless Reds around watching in bars
The match is often the worst bit of a Euroaway !
A mate ended up buying a ticket for 2500 for that Wembley final. I said feck that, not worth it to get in
Me and my brother got tickets.
He's considering driving all the way there
He's considering driving all the way there
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We were close to choosing to drive all the way - if you can get 2 or 3 of you to split the driving then it's doable
Having a car gives flexibility on where to stay too as no chance to find anywhere in Bilbao now
Respect for the effort.
Please say you'll sell it to a fellow red?
What if your kid does something amazing and you miss it?
To be on the safe side, maybe don’t go …. I’ll take your ticket off your hands to help you out.
I’m a very safe driver and fine with distances. Always done Cornwall in a oner (5 hours), no problem.
Just putting it out there…
Please say you'll sell it to a fellow red?
Yes it's going to my cousin that's been to every Europa League game this season - even I haven't done that so he deserves it more then me
I need your strong bladder!
Respect to that!
Are you gonna be wearing full united kit? With shin pads and all
We have settled on driving to Santander at this point, got an Ibis there from Tuesday - Thursday for £315 so it's not too bad, free cancellation as well so if the day trips appear we can jump on that instead.
Nothing under a £1K at the moment, same listing have been up all day as well so they're obviously struggling to shift rooms at that rate.
Nothing under a £1K at the moment, same listing have been up all day as well so they're obviously struggling to shift rooms at that rate.
Yes. Bilbao is an unbelievable place for just an ordinary day.
Seemingly 50,000+ reds going out there for a party is gonna be unreal. Get on it.
Was planning to go but missed out due to missing a game. 14k allocation is a joke. Was going to go via Malaga which has cheap connections
Most people will be rooting for Spurs. We’ve gone 40 years without a trophy, lost a bunch of finals… easy to feel for them
As for Herrera, he’s not exactly a uniting figure. People here still remember that failed transfer on deadline day in 2013—it felt like a shady move.We’re not really a selling club either. Our market is limited, so money doesn’t do much for us.
Walking up stairs and putting the telly on.
Adjacent to the thread - but I’m still seeing so many Bilbao fans in Piccadilly - they seem to be making the most out of the city - business is booming all over (also helps that the weather has been incredible)
I wonder if when our new stadium’s done if we’ll be hosting finals. The city seems to benefit from it.
I wonder if when our new stadium’s done if we’ll be hosting finals. The city seems to benefit from it.
But on the plus side, you disembark speaking like a pirate.
They kill the atmosphere by giving such small allocations. The stadium holds 53,000 ffs. It’s the same story at Wembley