European Sports News
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 World Cup organizers said on Friday that half a million tickets remain unsold and fear that empty stadiums will prevail at football’s showcase global event. FIFA said tickets would go on sale over the counter to the general
public in South Africa on April 15 and they will then have less than
two months to sell nearly a quarter of the tournament’s total match
tickets to avoid ghostly stadiums.
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|  Tottenham Hotspur football supporters are being charged booking and postage fees for the FA Cup semi final at Wembley with Portsmouth on April 11. Season ticket holder Steve Wheeler, told UK paper, The Mirror:
“Back in the old days we would go and queue up at the ground for cup final tickets, have a bit of a laugh and it would be part of it. The clubs could handle it then, so why not now? But they’ve farmed out the tickets to Ticketmaster who are charging postage and a booking fee for every ticket. We are going as a block of 12 tickets so why is it that you should have to pay £2.50 (€2.80) booking fee for each ticket. Surely it’s only one booking? Loyal supporters like myself are being ripped off as soon as we begin to get a bit of success and are back at Wembley.”
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 This final phase of ticket sales for European Athletics' flagship event will run until the championships, which take place 27 July to 1 August. Multi-day tickets have been on sale since September for six or three days with more than 8,000 passes already sold.
As with the multi-day tickets, prices for daily tickets are very affordable. Full-day tickets for the morning and evening sessions start at 10 euros.
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| South African Airways (SAA) announced yesterday that it was killing its contract with Match, the official ticketing agency for FIFA due to a reduction of seats requested - from 45000 to 1000 by the ticketing company.
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|  The Rugby Football Union (RFU), the national governing body of the game in England, has once again come down hard on clubs, organisations and individuals found to be selling tickets on the secondary market.
RFU on Tuesday announced sanctions on 17 clubs, organisations, schools and individuals for misuse of tickets, including their sale on auction websites such as eBay, Seatwave and Viagogo.
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