article_snippet.sent: Fill World Cup seats or face fan fury .
article_snippet.sent: Is anyone really surprised that trying to buy Fill World Cup tickets is such a drawn-out ordeal?
article_snippet.sent: For those without the benefit of a corporate invite (or a media pass, before anyone pipes up), securing entry to a modern sporting showpiece is as appealing as a morning of root-canal treatment and as likely to deliver the desired outcome as a lottery ticket.
article_snippet.sent: Fill World Cup are in the cost-cutting age of do-it-all-online, so thousands of wannabe spectators were forced to endure endless hours of staring at a seemingly frozen screen on Monday.
article_snippet.sent: At least the old-fashioned system of queuing in person could foster a certain collective spirit, as so wonderfully evident at Wimbledon tennis down the years.
article_snippet.sent: Ultimately, Fill World Cup will be a sell-out, but organisers better be right when organisers say there wo
article_snippet.sent: n’t be the empty seats which blighted the Olympics.
article_snippet.sent: As if being stuck on the outside with noses pressed against the glass is not bad enough, those denied tickets will be apoplectic if hordes of
article_snippet.sent: guests’ can’t be bothered to leave those denied tickets plush marquee and venture into the arena, or even turn up at all.