Like hens’ teeth

BY the very nature of the events tickets for premium, national or international, sports events are too often beyond the reach of ordinary sports fans.

Already there is a furore about tickets for the London Olympics which will not begin until next July. Many British people already feel excluded from what is planned as a great national event.

Tickets for next month’s rugby World Cup final in New Zealand’s Eden Park are already as scarce as a modest Australian and if the hosts are involved, as the script decrees, they will be even more difficult to get.