Irish rugby fan Rose Waldron was so desperate to see Ireland play England at Twickenham that she paid seriously over the odds for a ticket on website Viagogo. €449 over the odds, in fact.
A ticket with a face value of €85 cost her €534. But that was not the most remarkable thing about it, the had originally been allocated to England out-half Owen Farrell.
Quoted on Independent.ie, Rose Waldron said:
I'd tried every other avenue and at 10pm on Friday night I decided to buy a ticket online. What a surprise when I received my ticket to find it was allocated to Owen Farrell of the England rugby team.
She also tweeteed a picture of the ticket of the ticket after the game on Saturday night.
Guess how much this ticket was on Viagogo? #OwenFarrell
#Hardtimes #Shameful #ENGvIRL pic.twitter.com/QlYtCONJAA
— Rose Waldron (@theirishflag) February 22, 2014
According to the Indo, the RFU are looking into the matter and Farrell says the ticket had been originally intended for a relation of a friend.
