Salomao in action for Real Mallorca against Cordoba. Though there were plenty of free tickets for the game, the stadium was far from full. | Miquel Àngel Borràs
Palma29/05/2016 00:00
Real Mallorca 0 - Cordoba 1
A sort of super Sunday for the Spanish second division. The penultimate round of matches and the games all kicking off at 8pm. Mallorca in seventeenth at home to play-off-chasing Cordoba, with main relegation combatants Ponferradina (eighteenth and same number of points, 46) away at Tenerife, who had nothing to play for, and Almeria (nineteenth on 44 points) at home to Mirandés, who likewise have no play-off or relegation issues.
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Thanks Mundella, I expect you're right. So much for our attempt at loyalty. And next year they'll want us to turn up and pay when they're in the schoolboys' league!
Sandyport, they probably only had 3 stands open, hence reduced capacity. Another theory is that 4,000 people "bought" free tickets, ate the free food outside and just left without watching the game as they knew it would be tedious?
The match was pretty dull. Mallorca showed no sign of panic at the thought of being relegated. No passion, no enthusiasm. The most excitement came after the final whistle when the players were fighting with each other. A pity they didn´t use this energy to score.
Sandyport, same happened to me. I am putting it down to the usual shambolic staffing on matchdays. Staff probably shut ticket office to sell sausages instead. We should be thankful we didn't get in. It would not have been value for money, even if it was free!
Can anybody explain the ticketing for last night's match? We arrived at early (so we thought) at 6.45 to find "sold out" signs at the ticket windows and were told by two ticket sellers that the ground was completely full. However, I see the gate was around 13,800 and I understand the capacity is 18,000 or 25,000. What did we miss about ticket sales? This was very disappointing as we have faithfully sat through matches with gates of 7,000 and 8,000. Looks as if this problem may be academic in the future but I would be interested to know what was going on. Thanks
Totally and utterly useless. No passion, no fight, nothing. So dull and boring. Totslly deserve to go down and hopefully go bust. Segunda B and crowds of 1-2k at best. I wont be going anymore, neither will anyone I know. The party is over, adios.