The Ultras ticket mystery

Posted Friday, April 17, 2015 by Marca.com

It turns out that members of the Ultras Sur managed to get tickets to see the Atletico-Real Madrid game: The police and Atletico are looking into how this was possible and where these tickets came from. It is thought that an Atletico extreme fan club, as a part of the inexplicable and weird relationships that football clubs' radical fan groups sometimes have with each other, managed to get some tickets for these individuals.

Before the game started, the police managed to identify around fifty Ultras Sur among the many Real fans that had arrived at the Caldeon with tickets. It was decided to seat them together to facilitate their control. Doing so has severely annoyed Real Madrid, who are set on not letting a single Ultras Sur set foot in the Bernabeu. They feel that the presence of these fifty individuals is nothing short of disgraceful.

For the return game, Real are determined that none of these people enter the stadium, even if they have a ticket. It wouldn't be the first time that ticket-holders have been turned away at the gate. At Valdebebas in a Castilla game and in the game against Rayo Vallecano in Vallecas, certain individuals with tickets in their hands were refused entry.

Such action caused the Ultras Sur to report Real Madrid and Rayo to the authorities. To avoid the presence of Ultras Sur in B-team games, Real have decided not to sell Castilla tickets to the general public. Only rival fans that identify themselves and Real members or fans with ID may access the Alfredo di Stéfano ground.