Portugal versus Croatia, a pair of European heavyweights, featuring some of the biggest stars in the sport.
Given that there are large expat communities from both countries in the city, and the presence of famous football names like Luka Modric and Cristiano Ronaldo, and the fact that it’s a knockout match in the biggest sporting event in the world, demand for tickets is naturally high.
But given Doug Ford’s curiously anti-capitalist turn in the spring, when the premier adopted an NDP policy demand and banned the resale of event tickets in the province for any amount above the original cost, that must mean that interested buyers can find seats for around face value, right?
(Sound of crickets.)
Right?
(Door creaks on its hinges, tumbleweed blows by.)
Quite wrong, actually.
There were plenty of listings for Portugal-Croatia at Don’t-Call-It-BMO Stadium on various resale sites as of Tuesday evening, but none of them were for an amount even remotely
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