UEFA Super Cup - Aug 12 - Red Bull Arena Salzburg

[Proposition Joe]

I work for an Austrian company - the main guy their told me that and I quote “ if you get the train from Munich to Salzburg, you stop at every shit hole in Germany”

As he is Austrian and regularly has to do that journey to get to the Head Office - I am sure he knows what he is talking about

That's rude! Rosenheim is a nice place, and you also have Chiemsee on the way.

[wozwebs]

Considering the process for ticket collection against your passport reference (saw this on Villa on tour) i was told there were touts selling in Istanbul

Can anyone confirm this?  If so how did they get around the process?  I mean the buyers using it at the stadium not the touts

What are you talking about? All tickets for Villa fans were delivered by the UEFA app as were tickets people purchased from UEFA or 3 parties as far as I’m aware. Any touts in Istanbul would have been selling tickets they could forward from the UEFA app to your own UEFA ticket account. So no one got around any process.

Not necessarily Istanbul but i was under the impression for the other Euro away games you had to appear at a predetermined location and show your passport and if it corresponded with the booking ref you were handed a ticket

Or is that wrong?

I assumed it was same for final - if not then my bad

Yes it was wrong hookey but ticket pick up is now not a thing, they only did it once last season as someone said at Go Ahead Eagles and I suspect that was because they only had 400 odd tickets to hand out. I think feedback they’d had from the FAB was it was seen by most of us as a right pain the arse and meant the club had to ferry half the ticket office staff out each time to deal with it as well. I imagine they may do a cursory ticket pick up for European games maybe once a season to check people aren’t selling tickets on but I get the impression unless a host club/police specifically ask them to do it they won’t bother.

I think, like the Premier League, UEFA want all tickets to be digital anyway so that may be a factor also. Saves all the faffing about too

[Chris Stares]

How are you getting back to Munich after the game? Trains won't be running I don't think. I know Goughy's coaches are over there running a Munich > Salzburg coach so may be a possibility. Our flight back to Brum from Munich doesnt leave until 17:20 on Thursday so will have some time to get the train over although I read no need to go back into Munich HBf, can change on way and head to airport.

Google Gemini tells me that trains run through the night:

The 03:39 AM train from Salzburg is arguably the sweet spot for your strategy:
    00:00 – 03:00 AM: Celebrate the match, experience the late-night fan atmosphere in Salzburg's city centre, and slowly wander back to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof.
    03:39 AM: Board the direct EuroCity/EuroNight train back to Germany.
    05:28 AM: Roll into München Ost.
    05:35 AM: Hop straight onto the S8 S-Bahn heading to the airport.
    06:05 AM: Arrive at Munich Airport terminal.

I hope that this isn't one of those cases where AI got it wrong.  Further investigation and confirmation is needed, methinks.

[Goldenballs]

Anyone heard of any more codes going out recently, or are we now assuming it's all done?