Uefa admit they will be unable to satisfy fans' demand for tickets for the UEFA Champions League final.Liverpool and Milan will contest a repeat of the 2005 final at the 72,000-capacity Athens Olympic Stadium on 23rd May after winning through their respective ties this week.
Each team will receive an allocation of 20,000 tickets but Uefa's director of communications William Gaillard concedes that that will leave many fans disappointed.
"We know that however many tickets we provide it would never be enough - we could probably sell out a stadium with a million seats!" said Gaillard.
Gaillard advised fans without tickets to attend a fan park in the Greek capital.
"Our advice to fans is always not to travel without a ticket because we do not want them to be exploited by ticket touts, but of course people are free to travel if they wish.
"If they just want to savour the Athens experience then they can use the fan park in downtown Athens."
Gaillard does not expect English-Italian hostilities to be resumed in Athens.
"There is no history of hostility between the fans and it gives us an advantage that we have the experience of the two sets of fans in a final in similar circumstances two years ago."
By:Chris Stanton
Date:3 May 2007
Credit:www.skysports.com
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