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There were over 10,000 empty seats at the Emirates last night, and it is estimated approx 10,000 Cologne fans got into the ground. Arsenal could have chosen to sell more seats directly to Cologne fans and had fans segregated if they wanted to. Apparently Cologne had 20,000 aplicants for their...

I agree with you. Genuine fans desperate to watch their own team in an important match for them do not deserve to be called idiots. Arsenal FC should have allocated Cologne fans more tickets in the first place.

Your point is well made but perhaps it is the club that is guilty of profiteering. If Cologne supporters could register as Arsenal members to buy tickets in the home end, then the club deserves all the critisism it will get (see post from dazzer6666 above).

Perhaps some Arsenal fans needed to buy tickets for a meaningless match just to get some more STH loyalty points. They then were presented with an easy opportunity to recover their costs by selling their tickets on to genuine fans who were prepared to travel many miles to watch their team...

For FA Cup games Arsenal should allocate a minimum of 15% of tickets to away fans at the Emirates (around 9000 tickets minimum). Instead of allocating just 3000 tickets to Cologne supporters for a Europa Cup match where Arsenal supporters knew they would pretty much be watching their squad...