England fans left out in the cold as standard tickets for Euro 2016 Iceland clash top £1,800
Real supporters fear most seats will now be snapped up by corporate schmoozers
BASIC tickets for England’s Euro 2016 knock-out clash with Iceland are being offered for sale at a whopping £1,800 - 43 TIMES face value.
The huge price hikes have left most England fans out in the cold as they scramble to find a seat ticket for next Monday's all-important game.
Real supporters now fear the tickets will be snapped up by corporate fans looking to schmooze their clients.
Roy Hodgson’s men take on football outsiders Iceland in Nice on Monday after the smallest country in the competition scored a late goal in their final group game to set up the England clash.
But with only three days to go until the round of 16 match, prices for seats online were rocketing for tickets that should cost just £42.
Four category 3 tickets were being offered on secondary ticketing websites for up to £7,255 — equivalent to more than £1,800 each — nearly 43 times the original asking price, reveals the .
“A number of tickets have been cancelled where the applicants have acted in breach of the ticket terms and conditions.
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"Due to the entry mechanisms at the venues, any tickets which have been cancelled will not gain access to the stadium.”
The organisation has been investigating at least 30 ticketing websites it believes have been set up to con fans out of millions of pounds and expects there to be hundreds of victims.
Even if fans do get into the stadium, they were warned to be prepared for “travel hell” for their journey home as French unions are planning yet more industrial action for Tuesday.
Last week the Sun Online revealed how England fans were being made to pay a fortune to find flights and hotels for the game in the exclusive resort of Nice.
Within minutes of the final whistle blowing at the end of last week’s match with Slovakia, prices to get to and stay in the southern coastal city had shot through the roof.
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