UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski

[Luffbralion]

So, sold out before going to season ticket holders. Having booked my trip to Amsterdam, does anyone know if you can buy a ticket in the home end (tricky, I know) if you have a Netherlands address? I'm sure someone posted about this some time ago.

In principle yes you can but the match is already sold out, there are plenty of Villa fans based here who are striving for tickets and have had to go via AZ season ticketholders - And to repeat what I have previously said, given the issues around AZ right now I would advise against.

Thanks for the advice, guys. Not sure I'll ever get to see Villa play in Europe. (Ironically it would have been a breeze to get a ticket for Rotterdam in '82).  Rather than risk encountering the Alkmaar hooligans, I'll settle for the tranquility of the Rijksmuseum.
Whatever happened to the peace loving hippy culture the Dutch exemplified in the 1960s/70s?

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The Dutch Police look like massive twats the way the handled the Legia Warsaw team.

[CT]

[pauliewalnuts]

Fucking hell that is incredible.

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Banned the Legia fans from the town on the basis that there was some local commerative festival on, so they sent them an hour down the road to the Hague to collect tickets and drink there.

[AV82EC]

Bloody hell just watched that. Sounds like the Head of Security for Alkmaar completely over reacted to some perceived threat and the Mayor of Alkmaar is a xenophobic ******. I’m travelling on my own to Alkmaar and will be keeping an exceptionally low profile.

[Pete3206]

Disgusting

[olaftab]

So, sold out before going to season ticket holders.

That’s not strictly corrrect. All tickets were sold to ST holders but those that had also been to Hibs and Legia. I hope you find a way to get to the match🤞

[ADVILLAFAN]

Bloody hell just watched that. Sounds like the Head of Security for Alkmaar completely over reacted to some perceived threat and the Mayor of Alkmaar is a xenophobic ******. I’m travelling on my own to Alkmaar and will be keeping an exceptionally low profile.

Just do your best Steve McLaren impression and you'll be fine.

[Somniloquism]

Holding up a brolly and having an hair island?

[Axl Rose]

I'd just go and get tickets off touts.

Or at least I used to back in 2006 at the world cup etc etc. Don't know if that's still a viable way of getting tickets

[john e]

I will be there without a ticket
I’m looking at jumping the turnstile like I did at hillsborough in 1977 for the league cup final replay

Just got to get my leg over

[Brazilian Villain]

I will be there without a ticket
I’m looking at jumping the turnstile like I did at hillsborough in 1977 for the league cup final replay

Just got to get my leg over

You might be better off staying in Amsterdam.

[LeeB]

I will be there without a ticket
I’m looking at jumping the turnstile like I did at hillsborough in 1977 for the league cup final replay

Just got to get my leg over

You might be better off staying in Amsterdam.

Do not try and 'jump the turnstile' in those circumstances

[NeilH]

Neil H

I ask out of genuine curiosity - why are AZ so hooliganed up  - is it social, economical or are they just nutters?

Recently you had Ajax fans smashing up their own stadium - have they changed the drugs suppliers in Holland as i work for a huge Dutch company and used to visit many times a year and found all the regular blokes to be just like us - liked a beer, loved football and never came across as aggressive???

The irony with AZ is that they always used to be a family club but over the last few years the ultras there seem determined to compete with more notorious crews like those of Ajax,Feyenoord and ADO. The fuel for this seems to be copious amounts of coke being consumed by AZ ultras, to the point at which they have even managed to displace the family stand as families were getting their seats nabbed and altercations took place. My local lower division club was even impacted at the first game by AZ when the local police found internet talk of a planned mass brawl against Telstar fans being organised by Cambuur and Az, at which point online ticket sales were immediately ceased and a police cordon set up at the Telstar stadium; I’ve never seen anything like it there given that normally there are two local cops and that’s it (they are even twins so often mistaken for one cop).