Blatter, Gaddafi – so that’s where the tickets went

And so the ticket stories rumble on. It’s all getting a bit boring, isn’t it?

Only this morning we have had reports that Colonel Gaddafi’s son will be getting tickets. A sure-fire way to stoke the fire of the 1m who got no tickets in the first ticket ballot.

Only a few weeks ago – when FIFA was in the midst of its own crisis – the press tried the same trick with Sepp Blatter. The public didn’t bite – and I’m not surprised. While no angel, why single Blatter out when MPs were getting 9,000 tickets, anyway?

The expenses scandal may be today’s chip paper, but we haven’t forgotten and we all know there will be controversial figures aplenty lapping up the luxury at the expense of the general public come next July.

However, while the Gaddafi story hasn’t resulted in too much criticism, we have already had a statement retracting his tickets. This makes me think two things:

Is this another piece of spin to keep a positive angle in the media as we go through a vital week in the ticketing process? Don’t forget – this time next week we will all be 24 hours from discovering our ticket fate.

Great – can I have his tickets, then?

It’s a big week for the ticket bods at LOGOC and they are playing the game well. First 10,000 tickets for the armed forces and now the public flogging of the son of a dictator.

They clearly know what’s coming next week. It doesn’t look good.