we had tickets purchased months ago too. We just managed to get into the stadium at 5.30pm. our tickets were for gate 17, we could see that they were closing the gates so asked at gate 24 if we could enter and walk around to 17 (they were telling us to do this for the semi final last week). Tonight we were told no we had to go to gate 17. As we approached gate 17 we were told to go back to the higher numbers. We persisted and then were told go to gate 15 all the other gates on the way were closed, security standing manning them. We were not allowed to sit in our original paid for seats we had to go above the VIP section ! Our friends were locked out and we told them to go to the gate 15. This was 10 minutes later. They were denied access ! It was truely a farce ! When we asked the officials inside the stadium they looked embarrassed.
we had tickets purchased months ago too. We just managed to get into the stadium at 5.30pm. our tickets were for gate 17, we could see that they were closing the gates so asked at gate 24 if we could enter and walk around to 17 (they were telling us to do this for the semi final last week). Tonight we were told no we had to go to gate 17. As we approached gate 17 we were told to go back to the higher numbers. We persisted and then were told go to gate 15 all the other gates on the way were closed, security standing manning them. We were not allowed to sit in our original paid for seats we had to go above the VIP section ! Our friends were locked out and we told them to go to the gate 15. This was 10 minutes later. They were denied access ! It was truely a farce ! When we asked the officials inside the stadium they looked embarrassed.