Costello Refuses To Reimburse Fans For Late Gig

[SaxLix]

What if the soccer game fans had to wait two hours for the game to start because the soccer players were attending a concert instead?

Exactly Coda.

[Eric in Long Beach]

I don't think you all understand the magnitude of the match he was watching. It's like the Super Bowl times ten.

[Bud]

I'm not sure what to think about this anymore - I can see both sides of the story.

I wonder if he would have been better off cancelling or postponing the concert?

[imnoangel1975]

Well, I for one, think it's extremely bad form. Superbowl magnitudes or not, you just don't keep your fans waiting for 2 hours. Tivo was invented for a reason.

[Eric in Long Beach]

You know, I think in hindsight Bud's suggestion of postponing the concert would have been the better part of valor. The final had been on the calendar for a couple weeks and he should have seen the potential for conflict.

Still, as a football fan, I wouldn't have faulted him for starting late if I had been in attendance.

[Bud]

I went back and reread EC's account. I guess he tried to reschedule - but I can 't tell how far ahead of time he worked on it...

I had tried everything to re-schedule the concert, remembering what Paul McGrath had once told me about an Albanian trip with Ireland: “I might pull a hamstring . . .” I had suggested a teatime show or even a late-night show but the best we could manage was to announce through the local radio and newspapers that the start would be delayed until the end of the 90 minutes. This way I would still have sufficient time for a complete set. I had remained quietly confident that it would not take very long for Liverpool to subdue an overconfident AC Milan. That was until I heard the team news