A Ukrainian football reporter in London has explained the build up to yesterday’s media question to Ange Postecoglou about ticket prices.
All away tickets for Celtic Park on Champions League nights are priced at £60 with non-season ticket holders in the home sections paying similar prices.
Real Madrid and RB Leipzig fans have paid that price but clearly there are different circumstances involved for Shakhtar Donetsk with thousands of Ukrainian’s arriving in the UK since the turn of the year.
Watching their team playing in the Champions League would be a welcome distraction but with tickets costing £24m more than Celtic fans were charged in Warsaw it seems that £60 was out of reach for some Shakhtar fans.
Celtic’s refugee initiative:
Celtic are handing out a few hundred tickets free of charge to some of the ?? refugee hotels in Glasgow whilst also donating £10,000 to the Scottish Refugee Council ??
Any other ?? refugees from across ??????? & ?? wanting to go though…Cough up £60 https://t.co/P9WMeMGMGH
— Zorya Londonsk (@ZoryaLondonsk) October 25, 2022
More detail on the issue are on the @ZoryaLondonsk Twitter account.
Ange Postecoglou has more than enough to deal with without getting involved in ticket issues but it seems that there wasn’t much response from Celtic- until the question went public.
Tonight many UK-based Shakhtar fans will be watching their team live in action for the first time in months.
CELTIC V SHAKHTAR TICKETING CONTROVERSY ????
During yesterday’s press conference we asked Postecoglou for his thoughts on away end tickets for Shakhtar fans costing UEFA cap price of £60 given the war / refugee situation
Our Q&A wasn’t widely shared anywhere so here it is ? pic.twitter.com/X7qB56PsWU
— Zorya Londonsk (@ZoryaLondonsk) October 25, 2022
I don’t see what that is to do with angi I know it’s bad what’s going on in Ukraine if it was my country I be with the men fighting the Russians not hiding in foreign countries what a man has to do
Take it the shaktar support is going to made up of women and children. And why is that ‘ reporter ‘here and not back home fighting the foreign invaders l. Hope there aren’t any men of fighting age in their support too .