19 May 2022 15:04:16
Wee question for John25.
How did you find the facilities in the stadium?
Lot of reports on social media they were very poor?
No kiosks selling drink etc
People drinking straight from the taps in the toilets.
Lot of dehydrated fans ( I know a lot would have been drinking all day ) .
Police heavy handed on the way in removing a lot of objects ( though the Frankfurt fans smuggled in flares? ) .

1.) 19 May 2022
19 May 2022 15:52:27
The stadium was nothing short of an absolute disgrace. No organisation whatsoever. A fan behind Rangers dugout collapsed had to be treated by our doctor.
Not allowed liquid into stadium. All kiosks we saw closed. Confiscate sun cream. Battery packe to charge phone etc. wanted my angina spray. I refused.

2.) 19 May 2022
19 May 2022 16:26:45
Just back from Seville MPH and attended the game. Heres my personal experience

Seville as a place did quite well leading up to the game. Loads of taxi's available to get people about yesterday, the fanzone for fans with tickets was good location wise, plenty of pubs, restaurants and shops for carryouts and food. Portaloo's installed and was all well managed.

The handling of events at the stadium and post match was poor, mostly at the hands of the local police who seem eager to be awkward and confrontation. They had 4 entrances for the stadium A, B, C and D (A and B was for Frankfurt end, C and D was for Rangers end) . Lots of streets taking you into the stadium were blocked off by police and they would only allow you into that street if you had a ticket for the entrance that it would lead to. I had my tickets in the UEFA general sale area which for me was Entrance B (which was also marked as a designated Frankfurt entrance. The police would not allow me to enter at least 4 streets to the stadium due to being a Rangers fan, even though my ticket was in that area and i couldn't get access to the Rangers end because my ticket was in the other section. We ended up buying Europa league final t shirts from the merchandise stand so that the police would let us enter a street to our entrance.

To be fair, once we got to the entrance it was mixed with fans wearing Rangers and Frankfurt colours and the stewards didn't bat an eyelid but the police some several hundred yards further back up the street leading onto the stadium were causing so much bother by blocking the streets off with these reasons.

In the stadium they shut the kiosks when the match was starting, no soft drinks or water available for anyone despite it still being in the 30 degree bracket. Some of the kiosks that were open before the game only had 1 person serving and not all of them were even open. So there was a lot of queues and then people gave up thinking they could try again after KO, but once they closed that was it. Someone else mentioned they had shut off the drinking fountains as well but i never even saw any of those. Left people soaking themselves or drinking tap water from the toilet sinks.

After the game again the police were being awkward, not letting you walk certain ways (was trying to meet up with people in our group that had sat in different end of the stadium) and the worst thing for me was there was pretty much no taxi's available to get anywhere. We wandered about the centre to various taxi ranks, phoned and tried online to secure a taxi and even tried Uber but none were available. Taxi drivers had basically just vanished from the city centre when lots of us were trying to get back to the airport for flights. After 4 hours we eventually managed to get a local guy who was going to his work to drop us off at the airport for 50 euro lol. Thankfully my flight had been delayed 2 hours or we would have missed it.

They did very well with all the fans before the game but they put little to no effort into facilities at the stadium and then post match for transport etc, i don't think the game going to pens helped the situation as most people had ended their shift for the night.

Had my daughter with me so didn't really want to be hanging about the streets all through the night but we weren't the only ones so safety in numbers was a bit more re-assuring.

3.) 19 May 2022
19 May 2022 16:40:52
And as John has said they were taking peoples battery chargers off them and smashing them into bins. They didn't take mine off me but the tried to take my insulin pen off me but when i told them i needed it as its vital medication they retracted that.

4.) 19 May 2022
19 May 2022 17:12:14
Great info lads.

5.) 20 May 2022
20 May 2022 02:18:57
Totally agree with what’s been said. Stadium a death trap on top of the nonsense with kiosks. Inevitably when we scored people fell forward. I grabbed my daughter just before an 18 stone local t*t behind her came tumbling by but he took out the guy next to her who got his leg trapped in between the seats and a few others. Awful awful stadium to hold a game like that, so unbefitting of the occasion. Sitting in Madrid airport, was talking to Frankfurt fan earlier who said they had none of this nonsense when they entered the stadium, barely searched…they had flares in the ground amongst other things but our fans are getting essential medication taken off them? The club needs to do something about this. Guy in front hurt his back before game so sat on the steps, seemed oblivious to the hundreds of fans charging down the stairs at half time, nearly caused a disaster as no one could see him til last minute, finally managed to get him to move. No stewards anywhere near us. Useless.