Champions League final: Kiev hotels scare away Madrid fans
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liverpool chief executive peter moore said he was still hopeful a favourable solution can be reached to help those left behind1 real madrid fans have returned 1000 tickets for saturdays champions league final against liverpool as spiralling accommodation and travel costs deter supporters from travelling to kiev1 as anger mounts over the rocketing prices and cancelled bookings with some hotels charging up to 100 times their standard rates liverpool said they had complained to the highest levels of european footballs governing body1 ukrainian uefa vice-president grigoriy surkis criticised the behaviour of hotel owners looking to make a quick buck for the clash between the two european giants who have won the competition 17 times between them1 i am not disappointed i am furious he told afp. i think it is a disgrace for the capital where individual hotel owners did not give everyone a chance to come here by raising the prices not ten-fold the way it happens in other cities but nearly a hundredfold1 around 1000 liverpool fans also face the prospect of being stranded in england after a number of charter flights were cancelled due to a disagreement between a travel company and aviation authorities in kiev over the size of the aircraft1 uefa president aleksander ceferin said the tickets could not be resold to liverpool fans for security reasons but they would instead be put on sale for local fans in the ukrainian capital1 however moore criticised the infrastructure in kiev which hosted the euro 2012 final as not fit for purpose1 they just dont have the airport infrastructure and the hotel capacity to cope with an event of this size and there isnt another major city within real hitting distance of it he told the liverpool echo newspaper1 its not only affected liverpool fans but real madrid fans too. there will be lessons learned from this. rest assured ive raised this at the highest levels of uefa1 the decision to award the final to kiev was made before ceferins election as president in 2016 and the slovenian has already reintroduced a tender process with evaluation reports on cities bidding for finals1 istanbuls 76000-capacity ataturk olympic stadium was named as the host for the 2020 final on thursday while next seasons final will take place at atletico madrids wanda metropolitano1