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At a news conference to discuss security at the games, the Home Secretary, Jack Straw said it would be impossible for the number of tickets to match demand.
"Even if we had been able to get a significant increase in the number of tickets for these games, the demand would still vastly outstrip supply," he said. And so the message - if you haven't got a ticket, don't travel - would still be as powerful even if there were double the number of tickets."
Football association officials also indicated that obtaining more tickets would be impossible.
"In all probability, there will be no more tickets," Pat Smith of the UK Football Association said. "If there is any change in the configuration [of ticket distribution], I fear it will only be a matter of a few hundred more tickets."
Foriegn fans will be allocated 20% of the tickets for each game.
According to Dominique Spinosi, the French director of security, that is equivalent to the number of seats that were allocated to foreign fans at other World Cup tournaments. In 1994, she said, the United States gave only 15% of seats to foreign fans because US stadiums were larger than French ones.
Nevertheless, British fans are unlikely to be appeased.
"They've obviously given up and it is quite a shame," said Jonathan Collett of the UK Football Supporters Association.
"It just shows what a shambles the whole arrangement has been," he added. "If there is one thing that has caused disorder at football games over the years, it has been poor ticket arrangements. It is a recipe for trouble."
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