The resale portal was always going to be the saviour for Irish fans. Essentially, fans who applied for general tickets before the group stage games were decided are given the chance to resell their tickets. It's then first come first served in terms of fans logging in and selecting which tickets they want to buy.
In theory, it should mean that a huge chunk of Irish fans who missed out on tickets last month are given the chance to snap up as many as they can at face value. Fans had to log on to the portal at 11 o'clock and see what awaited them. Long story short is that it's absolutely soul destroying.
You head on over to the portal, stick in a captcha and then you get the progress bar of hell. At the time of writing, we had logged on 30 minutes ago, here's how far our progress bar has progressed, or not progressed as the case may be.
Even if you were one of the smart ones who logged on at 11 o'clock exactly, it really hasn't been any kinder.
@ballsdotie 2 hours later... pic.twitter.com/cCK3FgOQNJ
— ronan (@ronano83) March 9, 2016
It's tough going.
Here's an almost-live image of how the Euro 2016 ticket resale portal is coming along this morning... pic.twitter.com/NKn0chvvXJ
— Mark O'Haire (@MarkOHaire) March 9, 2016
@UEFA's resale portal is an absolute joke. Waited nearly two hours to get in and my session expired within ten minutes, farce
— Shane O'Brien (@shamob96) March 9, 2016
This UEFA Ticket Resale Portal is doing my head in. Anyone else been waiting the last hour to be redirected to the ticket site? #EUROS
— Sass Ni Chonchubhair (@__fuzzy__) March 9, 2016
Trying to get Euro 2016 tickets on the resale portal is proving to be an absolute nightmare!
— Barry McCann (@Bazzinho9) March 9, 2016
Then again, you could be Ross who, by his breezy nature, we're assuming is the master of the universe. Fair play Ross.
