A lot of pressure on tickets and a lot of chaos one day before the final of the seventh Swedish championship.
Then Linus Omark comes up with a strange proposal: remove all the chairs – and make a sitting room for the whole yard.
– I don’t think there would have been any problem at all to sell ten thousand more tickets, he tells nsd.se.
6,150 tickets have been sold out for tomorrow’s decisive seventh final of the Swedish Championships in a jiffy.
Lulia has a chance to secure the club’s first Swedish Championship gold in 26 years, at home, and the demand for tickets has been phenomenal. Today, tickets circulating on the black market, sold for thousands of kroner, have been discovered, putting Luleå up and running.
“We are now beginning to cancel tickets for those who have sold or attempted to sell tickets at a higher price,” the club’s director of communications, Robert Hedlund, wrote.
“No problem at all”
In order to allow as many people as possible to watch the match at the Coop Norrbotten Arena, Luleåstjärnan will Linus O’Mark With a suggestion:
Disassemble all the chairs – and turn the yard into one large room for standing.
– I wish they could remove all the chairs, so we can squeeze more. I don’t think there would have been any problem at all for selling ten thousand tickets, Omark tells nsd.se.
“Be a complete mess”
But Lulia tickets manager, Joachim Darhamar, thinks the idea is not feasible.
– The municipality has only given us permission to allow in a certain number of spectators, and this is not something you can solve overnight. Unfortunately, he tells the newspaper and also tells about the stress of hard tickets – and all the emails he actually received yesterday.
– It was a mess. Chaos. I have 170 emails left to answer.