Aberdeen have sold less than half their ticket allocation for next week’s League Cup semi-final against Rangers at Hampden, prompting the SPFL to take back 5000 briefs for the fixture, as reported by Sky Sports.
Rangers later confirmed in a statement that more tickets will be made available to Rangers fans for the occasion, which will no doubt be snapped up in no time at all.
It’s a rather embarrassing situation for the Dons, who had insisted on an equal distribution in tickets. Sky Sports report they’ve sold just 9000 tickets of their 20,300 allocation.
For an outfit that likes to call itself a big club, they could and should be doing a lot better, despite the multitude of excuses they’ve hit out with over the last couple of weeks.
Hopefully we embarrass them on the pitch as well as off when the two clubs meet to determine who will face Celtic or Hearts in the League Cup Final.
These fans have taken to Twitter recently to mock Abedeen’s lack of support…
more rangers fans going to vienna than aberdeen taking to a semi final😂😂😂😂😂
— Sean Brady (@sb72__) October 18, 2018
Aberdeen FC:
Demanded a new kick off time -Got a new kick off time
Demanded extra tickets – Got extra tickets1 wee later….
Returned tickets
😂😂😂😂😂
— Ross Hannah (@RossHannah2) October 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/RangersFACTS/status/1052921638872903680
Aberdeen showing once again their tin pot mentality as they defy instructions to sell scattered tickets & potentially cost thousands of Rangers fans access to the semi final
Hampden will most likely have thousands of empty seats & £250k of lost revenue split between 4 clubs
🤦♂️
— Four Lads Had A Dream (@4ladshadadream) October 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/RangersObserver/status/1053002925331673089
Aberdeen have taken around the same tickets for a national Semi-final as we took for a friendly in January in Leipzig 😂
— David (@_DP1872) October 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/bobmcphail/status/1052652308050239488